News and Reading April 08:

Masha Tupitsyn is the featured writer on KQED in San Francisco’s distinguished weekly radio show The Writer's Block:
http://www.kqed.org/arts/writersblock/

Veronica Gonzalez's twin-time: or, how death befell me was recently selected for the Premio Aztlán Literary Award for 2007. The National Latino Writers Conference described Gonzalez's novel as an "enticing, beautifully written, lyrical and poetic" work, whose creative use of narrative uncertainty, séance, and intuition went "beyond technique" in tracing the author's fractured cultural roots to currents in both America as well as her native Mexico. Veronica will accept the award, with a discussion of her novel, on May 23rd in Albuquerque.

News and Reading January 08:

Veronica Gonzalez will be reading from her critically acclaimed debut novel, twin time: or, how death befell me at the reading series Vermin on the Mount, held at the Mountain bar in Los Angeles’ Chinatown on this Sunday, January 13 at 8pm:
http://www.vermin.blogs.com/

Veronica Gonzalez will be reading at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena on Friday, January 18 at 7:00 PM: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&eventId=366185

Veronica was the featured writer on KQED in San Francisco’s distinguished weekly radio show The Writer's Block:
http://www.kqed.org/arts/writersblock/episode.jsp?id=20971

Author of Torpor, I Love Dick, and Video Green, Chris Kraus has been awarded the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism from the College Art Association, one of the highest awards in art criticism.
Chris will also be participating in the traveling Sex Workers Art Show. Tour dates and venues are available online:
http://www.sexworkersartshow.com/tourschedule.html

The European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies and the 16 Beaver Group will be hosting Gerald Raunig to give a presentation of his recent book, Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century: Saturday, January 12 at 7:00 PM:
http://www.16beavergroup.org/events/archives/002426.php

Veronica Gonzalez on Bookworm

Veronica Gonzalez's debut novel, twin time: or, how death befell me was featured on the November 1 episode of KCRW's Bookworm, hosted by Michael Silverblatt. You can listen to it here:

http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw071101veronica_gonzalez

Readings 2007:

Sunday, Oct 21

HAMMER Readings: Veronica Gonzalez & Masha Tupitsyn

Semiotext(e) authors Masha Tupitsyn and Veronica Gonzalez will be doing an appearance to read from their new books at the UCLA/Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Masha's collection, Beauty Talk and Monsters, has received widepsread reviews in The Village Voice, Make/Shift and Bookslut, as well as garnering the author a nomination for the prestigious Young Lions Fiction Award.

Veronica Gonzalez's debut novel, twin time: or, how death befell me, has already began receiving acclaim and will be featured on the November 1 episode of KCRW's Bookworm, hosted by Michael Silverblatt.

The reading is Sunday, October 21 at 6 pm as a part of the "New American Writing" series curated by Benjamin Weissman at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Information can be found on the museum website at:

http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/calendar_full_Oct_2007.htm#day21

Friday, Oct 19

LA-Lit interviews Masha Tupitsyn

Masha Tupitsyn will also give a reading and discuss her book on LA-Lit on Friday, October 19th at 8pm. LA-Lit is a interview show that showcase writer and poets and is recorded in Betalevel (behind 963 N. Hill St. in an alleyway in Chinatown, Los Angeles) in front of a live audience. More information can be found at:

http://la-lit.com/

AUGUST 2nd

Veronica Gonzalez & Masha Tupitsyn
Thursday, August 2 @ 7pm Bluestocking Bookstore, NYC
http://www.bluestockings.com/events.html

AUGUST 14th

Masha Tupitsyn & Veronica Gonzalez
KGB Bar, NYC
http://www.kgbbar.com/event/2007/08/23/month/all/all/1
Aug 14 2007 - 7pm-9pm

Come hear Semiotext(e) authors Masha Tupitsyn and Veronica Gonzalez take on the movies, fairytales, and cultural fabulations. Tupitsyn reads "Beauty Talk and Monsters" in which she moves fluidly through space, time, and a range of cinematic frameworks. Gonzalez' "twin time: or, how death befell me" is poetic, sensuous and witty.

MAY 7th

Eldon Garnet
will be reading from Lost Between the Edges May 7th at McNally Robinson in New York City.
http://www.mcnallyrobinsonnyc.com/2007/02/19/upper-north-side-canadian-author-series-desperate-times-desperate-measures/

MAY 3rd

Chris Kraus at CUNY: Gravity + Grace, Writing + Film

New Titles for Fall 2006:

Utopia Deferred - by Jean Baudrillard

Tale of 2Cities - by Heather Woodbury

David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the
Lower East Side.
Interviews by Sylvère Lotringer.
Edited by Giancarlo Ambrosino. Co-Edited by Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus and Justin Cavin

New Edition of I Love Dick - by Chris Kraus
Forword by Eileen Myles, Afterword by Joan Hawkins

Reviews and Interviews:

David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the
Lower East Side is reviewed in the new issue of Bookforum:

"...the collection makes for a gripping read, packed with emotional intensity and interspersed with amazing photographs by Andreas Sterzing, Clayton Patterson, Scemama, Goldin, and others." --LIZA KIRWIN, BOOKFORUM SEPT/OCT/NOV 06

Chris Kraus is to be interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on KCRW's Bookworm to appear on October 12, 2006

She is also interviewed by Gary Indiana in the Fall/Winter issue of Purple Magazine

Reviews of Kraus' newest novel, Torpor, have been springing up all over the place, with coverage in The Toronto Globe & Mail, The Believer and Rain Taxi. It was also chosen by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore as his night table reading in the September issue of Vanity Fair.

An interview with Sylvère Lotringer appears in The Brooklyn Rail in the September issue.

Performances and Readings:

Performances of Heather Woodbury’s A Tale of 2Cities are commissioned by UCLA LIVE on Sept 30 – Oct 8, 2006 and PS122 on October 12 – 29, 2006 in honor of her recent Spalding Gray Award.

Chris Kraus Readings Around These United States:

Wednesday, October 11: St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York, NY

Friday, October 13: Bluestocking Books, New York, NY
(with Semiotext(e) authors Masha Tupitsyn and Ann Rower)

Wednesday, November 1: California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Friday, November 3: LA Lit Interview at Beta Level, Los Angeles, CA

Friday, November 6: San Francisco State University. San Francisco, CA
(hosted by Robert Gluck)

Wednesday, November 8: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2006 Spring Release:

Torpor - Chris Kraus

Two Regimes of Madness - Gilles Deleuze

The Anti-Oedipus Papers - Félix Guatarri

Jean Baudrillard's Conspiracy of Art was recently featured both in the New Yorker and the New York Times.

Maurice Dantec's Babylon Babies recently reviewed in Bookforum, Booklist, Sci-fi.com, Emerald City, and Publisher's Weekly . Babylon Babies was referred to as "an intense, intellectually labyrinthine ride" by Publisher's Weekly and as featuring "memorable characters, a speedy plot, and a visionary glimpse of a world on the brink of cosmic transformation" by Booklist.

Venusia by Mark von Schlegell is receiving excellent reviews from Maxim (pdf), Emerald City (pdf), Booklist (pdf) and SFCrow's Nest (pdf).

Booklist calls Venusia "...cutting-edge sf that never fails to entertain and proclaims von Schlegell to be a promising new voice in the genre(s)." read more (pdf)

Paul Virilio's Accident of Art made John Kelsey's Artforum top ten in this month's The Best of 2005 issue.

Reena Spaulings collective author, The Bernadette Corporation, has been selected for the 2006 Whitney Biennial (pdf).

Reviews of Reena Spaulings in, Frieze, Artforum, the Village Voice (pdf) and Goon Magazine (pdf).

Reinhabiting the tradition of the philosophical and political fable, Semiotext(e) is introducing a new science-fiction series under the Native Agents imprint. Debuting with Maurice Dantec's futurist-noir epic Babylon Babies and Mark von Schlegell's dystopian fantasy novel Venusia, these books speak to the present demise by assembling radical models for unlikely futures. Speculatively accelerated, Semiotext(e) Sci-Fi presents exciting new models for living the deterriotorialized life.

Recent Author Activity

Semiotexte is pleased to announce the Barnes & Noble Classics publication of a new edition of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling with an introduction and notes by Chris Kraus.

Prize in Reportage to be announced in October 2004    

Maurice Dantec's Babylon Babies is being adapted to film, slated to come out in 2007 the film by Gothika director Mathieu Kassovitz will be titled Babylon A.D. 20th Century Fox and Canal Plus have reached a deal to co-finance the feature.