Evelyn Hampton's Blog

My short book MADAM is now available from Meekling Press.

MADAM is an account narrated in brief episodes of a realm called The Academy where a personage named Madam emerges. Read an excerpt, "Grammar Lesson," online at Entropy.

“In relation to love, a person stands as a symbol does: one’s own meaning depends on another, who is the more real, to vivify it. One waits on a page; one is finally seen; and reality, which one has been devised to point to, comes alive—it means.” – MADAM

48 pages
5"x8"

The first fifty copies of this book include a limited edition centerfold with an illustration by Stephanie Brachmann.

Letterpress covers and laser printed pages, on French paper.

The editor of The Cossack Review, Christine Gosnay, recently asked me some questions about writing, meditation, and discomfort. The interview was posted on The Volga today.

Issue 6 of The Cossack Review has been printed and is now shipping. You can read the entire story I have in the issue by downloading an excerpt. You can also buy the issue and then you will get a lot more. I'm fortunate to have worked with Christine Gosnay, TCR's fiction editor -- my story is stronger thanks to her patience and care.

An interview I did with Black Sun Lit was posted today. Thank you to Jared for questions that got me thinking about forts, horror movies, deterioration, and my dread of gloves.

Here's another way to get a copy of Discomfort (AND a copy of This Boring Apocalypse, a novella by Brandi Wells): find one of the books' ghosts and send a photo of it. More information here: http://thisboringdiscomfort.tumblr.com/

Shouldn't be too hard to find a ghost. After all, it's February.

Giving away two copies of Discomfort through Goodreads. You can enter the drawing through Discomfort's page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Some of my writing was published recently in The Collagist, NNATAN, and Reality Hands. I was happy to see Providence friend Nick Francis Potter has a story in The Collagist. Go and see Paul's Tomb! p.s. It's illustrated.

I made a small book of stories.



They're from a longer manuscript that I recently (last week) finished. The long one is titled DISCOMFORT. This shorter one is 4 Stories, and you can have one of 5 copies by sending $2 via PayPal to evelynh at gmail dot com. I will accompany your book in the form of a poem written by me, for you, that I have tucked inside your book.

There's a new issue of New York Tyrant coming out and I have a story in it, "Boy". Here's now it starts--

He'd found something blue to use as a voice, and soon the entire sky was implicated by him: there were no edges to its or his accumulation. For a time in the presence of what I took to be his mood, I was confused—uncertain what was or wasn't an aspect of his identity, I thought everything was or wasn't, a back-and-forth of consecration and profanation that included in their extent the realm of all things and all people, living and dead. And so at both ends of my existence I butted up against him, and unable to live or die I became a thing that only slowly, after much time, is no longer associated with any idea. As an artifact of a time in which I had lived, I did not live, I persisted—if form were given to the shape I made, that form would coincide precisely with Earth's revolutions, and from a space dislocated from ideas I would appear no different from any mystery caught in the pull of another mystery's gravity.

Here you can preorder the issue.

GIRL is in the July/August issue of The Brooklyn Rail. The story is here; the extent of the issue's fiction--stories by Can Xue, Lewis Warsh, Laird Hunt, T. Motley; a translation of Stendhal by Brian Evenson; chapters of a book by Jason Flores-Williams--is here.