Rather than commissioning pieces, the fourth issue of Beat the Dust was open to all writers to submit work. No theme – anything was considered. So, expect blasphemy, a gravedigger in Disneyland, Mark Ronson having sex with Lady GaGa on a piano, a dwarf pissing on dolphins, an actual message in a bottle thrown off the Isle of Wight Ferry and a child killer. Yep, it's creamy literary goodness, folks.
1. Do They Owe Us A Living? - Crass 2. Can You Do Without? - The Meters 3. Vertigo - Screamers 4. Room Without A Window - Operation Ivy 5. Batty Rider - Buju Banton
Mike Title’s Top 5 Protest Songs:
1. Whitey To The Moon - Gil Scott-Heron 2. How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today? - Suicidal Tendencies 3. Fuck the Police - NWA 4. What's Goin On - Marvin Gaye 5. A View to A Kill - Duran Duran
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Interview
In Chap-book
Title:
Ben Myers interviewed by Mike Title of Dead Kids
Excerpt:
Ben Myers is a novelist and journalist. Mike Title has been the raucous frontman of bands including Dead Kids and Sona Fariq and has published his fiction. The pair have been friends for over a decade, after Ben first interviewed Mike for a magazine. Ben’s new novel, Richard, about the life and disappearance of Manic Street Preachers’ guitarist, Richey Edwards will be published later in 2010 by Picador. Dead Kids’ debut album Dark Party is available to download for free here.
Beat the Dust decided to reverse the roles of interviewer and interviewee and asked Mike to interview Ben...
1. American Soldier - Mark SaFranko 2. Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman 3. The Luck Of The Irish - John Lennon 4. Galveston - Jimmy Webb version 5. Hell's Half-Acre - Robbie Robertson
Steve Hussy’s Top 5 protest songs:
1. Pull My Strings - Dead Kennedys 2. My Part - Minutemen 3. This World Is Too Crowded - Show Business Giants 4. Heaven Is The Dust Beneath My Shoes - Nomeansno 5. Thinkin' Some More - Cheater Slicks
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Interview
In Chap-book
Title:
Mark SaFranko interviewed by Steve Hussy
Excerpt:
With the impending launch (1st June 2010) of Mark SaFranko’s third Max Zajack novel, God Bless America, a new issue of lit mag, Savage Kick and an updated Murder Slim Press (MSP) website, we asked head honcho of MSP, Steve Hussy to interview Mark SaFranko...
Dan Fante began his writing career in his mid-forties after many years as a drunk. “I went to a Christmas party in 1964 and sobered up sometime in the first week of January 1986,” says Fante. He writes poetry, plays, short stories and novels, his most recent being the latest in the Bruno Dante series, 86'd, which came out on Harper Perennial in 2009. Read it, it’s worth it for the superglue incident alone…
Submission Date:
15 Jan 2010
Category:
Interview
In Chap-book
Title:
Dan Fante interviews Tony O’Neill
Excerpt:
DF: Franz Kafka once wrote: "A good novel should have the same effect as a blow to the head." What is your goal as an author? What is your message to the reader?
TO: My goal is always to make the reader feel something. A lot of stuff bothers me about literature and the scene right now – a lot of the new stuff coming out is all tricks, and no soul. I suppose I write for the people who don’t want their books to be perfumed and sweet, and aren’t afraid to get some dirt under their fingernails...
Jeff Aubert mini-interviews Mark SaFranko and Dan Fante
Jeff Aubert’s playlist prompted by seven words selected at random from Protest!:
P: Nature - Joga by Bjork R: Adrift - Piano Concerto n°2 by Shostakovich O: Face - Bomber by Motorhead T: Happy - 9th Symphony by Beethoven E: Vagrant - My Way by Sex Pistols S: Sea – Sea and Sand by The Who T: Nothing - Silence by Loneliness
Submission Date:
06 Nov 2009
Category:
Interview
In Chap-book
Title:
mark safranko mini-interview
Excerpt:
Life: Ferdinand Celine said somewhere, I can’t remember where now, that when you look deeply at life all you see is mystery upon mystery upon mystery. There’s a lot of truth in it. Our only course of action is to roll with the waves. Much easier said than done. Most of the time it’s the waves rolling over us...
B: No Fun – The Stooges L: Yma O Hyd – Dafydd Iwan A: People Who Died – Jim Carroll Band C: The End – The Doors K: Gloomy Sunday – Rezso Seress H: I’ll Be Your Mirror – Velvet Underground E: (Thinking of You) Broken Pieces – The Prisoners A: This Land is Your Land – Woody Guthrie T: Desolation Row – Bob Dylan H: Orgasm Addict – Buzzcocks
Submission Date:
07 Oct 2009
Category:
Interview
In Chap-book
Title:
interview with geraint hughes of blackheath books
Excerpt:
Steve Hussy of Murder Slim Press asks: “Why the name Blackheath Books? Any particular reason why you chose that name?”
Blackheath is the name of our house. We bought it fifteen years ago from a friend in the pub. I used to write a lot of Haiku poetry and got really into a ‘sense of place’ and belonging. Our family moved around a bit when we were kids. Modern life often divorces us from places. The local graveyard has all the old families who have lived in our house over the years. The gravestones have ‘of Blackheath’ on them. I like that and wanted to develop a sense of belonging with the books. I want people to be able to recognise a Blackheath book and have a sense of where it was produced, and produced by hand with some integrity and purpose.
Heidi’s novella, The Mesmerist's Daughter was published by Apis Books in July 07. Her novel Carbon will be out on BLATT later this year and has been published in Spanish by El Tercer Nombre. She has collaborated on projects with numerous artists, including Delaine LeBas, Marisa Carnesky and Tara Darby. Her essays and stories have appeared in various publications and anthologies, including Dazed & Confused, Brand, 3:AM Magazine and pulp.net. She is currently studying for a PhD in London on the poetics of autotrauma as parenthetical gesture.
Lee Rourke’s novel The Canal is due out later this year on Melville House and follows on the heels of his anthology, Everyday published by Social Disease.
Submission Date:
03 Jul 2009
Category:
Interview
In Chap-book
Title:
the same fake snow – Lee Rourke’s interview with Heidi James
Excerpt:
Heidi James: I wanted to create something exultant, in a language that exceeds that which it describes. It's an attempt to exploit idiom, but not a pastiche. I hope its hyper aesthetics attempt a move, a dynamic....
Michael Curran identifies the things he’d like to hear read/sung on his deathbed:
Song: Road - Nick Drake Poem: How Beautiful It Is - Robinson Jeffers Play: A Lie of the Mind - Sam Shepard Novel: The Poor Mouth - Flann O'Brien
Alan Kelly identifies the things he’d like to hear read/sung on his deathbed:
Novel: Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann Film Script: Pink Flamingoes – John Waters or Play: Festen - Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov Song: Mysteries of Love - Julee Cruise Poem: Shy - Ani Defranco (Okay, this may be a song, but I always think of it as poetry.)
Submission Date:
07 Jun 2009
Category:
Interview
In Chap-book
Title:
The Michael Curran Interview
Excerpt:
Alan Kelly (AK): Michael, first off I’d like to ask how and why you set up Tangerine Press?
Michael Curran (MC): I learnt to bind books by hand about 5 years ago, Alan. I had no real plan back then. But I did know I wanted to produce tactile, hardcover books using the best materials available. I was waiting, I suppose, for a writer to come along and inspire me.
Steve Hussy died in 1962. After his death, he found success in zombie movie classics such as 'Night of the Living Dead', 'Grapes of Death', 'Zombie Flesh Eaters', 'Dawn of the Dead', 'Return of the Living Dead', 'The Omega Man' and 'Day of the Dead'. After a downturn of roles during the early '90s, Hussy turned to writing stories and publishing. An upsurge in work caused by 'Ghost of Mars', the new 'Dawn of the Dead' and 'I Am Legend' allowed Hussy to fully devote his energies towards Murder Slim Press. He continues to write, design and co-edit.
Submission Date:
10 Jan 2009
Category:
Interview
In Chap-book
Title:
Steve Hussy, writer, editor and founder of Murder Slim Publications and The Savage Kick Literary Magazine, is interviewed by Joseph Ridgwell.
Excerpt:
Joseph Ridgwell: When and why did you did you decide to go into the publishing business?
Steve Hussy: Myself and Richard White had been talking about the state of online literary sites and magazines for a few years. Almost without exception, we were appalled by it. Awful writers...
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