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Comment on Serafini 2nd Edition – Fancy Copy NOT FOR YOU! by admin

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:09:26 +0000

I was going to get an R2880, but a photo printing enthusiast/acquaintance of mine said that they’re not THAT much better than the R2400, and there are good deals to be had now with prosumers jettisoning their old models in favor of the latest greatest.

Comment on Serafini 2nd Edition – Fancy Copy NOT FOR YOU! by mjp

mjp — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:29:00 +0000

Carol has the Epson R2880. They are beasts, but they do nice work.

Comment on Small Press vs. Fine Press – More rumination about what I hope to accomplish as an independent publisher by drp

drp — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:51:30 +0000

Dear Exclusionary Bastard,

I agree wholeheartedly about balance. I think the Chance Press books I have bought so far have been very balanced and I have enjoyed them all. There is only one I would have seen changed in any way, and only because it seemed a little too ambitious, not because it was poorly done. Please keep up the great work, and I’ll keeping buying it.

–drp

Comment on Introducing CHANCE PRESS RESEARCH (CPR) by Dave Donovan

Dave Donovan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:14:11 +0000

Wow ! Congrats on the deal with Abel. That’s quite a score.

Put me down for a deluxe hard-copy.

And don’t forget the secret, members-only, magnifying thingy so I can figure out which numbered edition of Hoochmonkey’s book I have.

Thanks,
Dave

Comment on No. 2236 Flying Wedge Photo Gallery by Carol’s Bloggie

Carol’s Bloggie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:13:05 +0000

[...] In the meantime, he bangs out little stories like “No 2236 Flying Wedge,” paints little sketches on the special parts of the edition in a day, and it’s whipped together faster than you can say to yourself, “I wonder if I [...]

Comment on No. 2236 Flying Wedge by Carol’s Bloggie

Carol’s Bloggie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:10:59 +0000

[...] by Chance Press in Oakland, Ca. It is a little hand-sewn chapbook about his first guitar entitled, “No. 2236 Flying Wedge.” If you are not familiar with MJP’s (AKA Michael Phillips) writing, this would be a good [...]

Comment on A Common Thread by HTMLGIANT / The Codex, the Hurders, and me: a new book, an old book, and two years of intermittent emailing

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:54:40 +0000

[...] together in the US–have started their own small press, Chance Press, whose second book (after a Bukowski tribute anthology) is a revised and expanded version of Jordan’s “Worlds of” essay, now entitled [...]

Comment on Confronting and Collecting the Works of Luigi Serafini by HTMLGIANT / The Codex, the Hurders, and me: a new book, an old book, and two years of intermittent emailing

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:54:32 +0000

[...] If I had to pick the single piece of my own writing that has generated the most reader responses, I would without hesitation name “The Codex Seraphinianus: A Fragment of the Complete History of an Unknown Planet,” an essay about Luigi Serafini’s hallucinatory faux-encyclopedia which The Believer published in May, 2007. (Aside: I’m hoping to meet or beat this record with “A Figure in the Distance Even to My Own Eye,” my new essay in the current issue of The Believer.) Two years out, the Codex essay continues to bring me new and interesting correspondence, to the tune of at least a letter or two per month. People write to say they enjoyed the piece, to thank me for turning them onto the Codex, or to share their own stories about when they first discovered it, or what they think it all means. Sometimes they want to know if the text has been “deciphered” yet, or if I personally think it can be deciphered at all. Often, they just want to know if I can send them the full text of Calvino’s introduction (it isn’t available in English, so I commissioned a translation from the French version, but it was only briefly quoted in the essay). Anyway, today I’m thrilled to share with you all news of a new Codex-related publication: Confronting and Collecting the Works of Luigi Serafini, available as a severely-limited edition (100… [...]