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Matt Bell is the author of How They Were Found, forthcoming from Keyhole Press in October 2010. His fiction appears in literary magazines such as Conjunctions, Hayden's Ferry Review, Willow Springs, Unsaid, and American Short Fiction, and has been selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories 2010 and Best American Fantasy 2. He is also the editor of The Collagist. For more information, click here.

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Thursday
02Jul2009

July Hobart: Jones, Piazza, Harper, and Dressick

The July Issue of Hobart is now posted and available for your reading enjoyment, including new stories from Stephen Graham Jones, Jessica Piazza, Baird Harper, and Damian Dressick, as well as interview with Larry Fondation by Brian Allen Carr.

To get you started, here's the first paragraph of Baird Harper's "Garbage Day":

Debra Jims dreams of Kool-Aid. The juice leaves a red mustache above her lip. Men around her have mustaches too, real ones, thick and masculine. Her husband Todd rolls over and tries to stoke her fire. "I'm still in my dreams," Debra Jims mumbles. Later, in the bathroom mirror, as he shaves his face clean, Todd says, "Deb, why are you so frigid?" Debra Jims' eyes go dim on her husband. She turns, walks to the window, looks out onto the street below. Today is garbage day.

This issue is one of my favorites that I've been able to put together as a web editor for Hobart, and I'm very proud to have it as my last issue with the magazine. It's been great working with Aaron Burch and Jensen Whelan on the website, along with the rest of the Hobart family, including Elizabeth Ellen, Matthew Simmons, Ryan Molloy, and Sean Carman. I really appreciate the opportunity I had to work beside such great people, and wish them all the best of luck with Hobart going forward. Andrea Kneeland will be replacing me as web editor, and is someone I think will do a really amazing job-- I'm already looking forward to reading her own first issue with them in the next couple of months.

Thanks again, Aaron and everyone else at Hobart! It's been a lot of fun.

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Reader Comments (3)

Great issue, Matt. I especially enjoyed the writer whose stories are about the piano thief and the hamster runaway. I went to his site but he seems like a horror writer?!? I got scared and left.

July 2, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMolly Gaudry

Molly,

While Stephen has been called a horror writer at times, he's also written a great road novel, a ton of great short stories, some dabbling in horror, some might be called sci fi, some realist, he's also written a great novel that I won't really try to describe from Chiasmus. If you do want to read a horror-based novel though, and one that is literary as hell, buy his Demon Theory from MacAdam/Cage. It's a tour de force.

July 2, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDan Wickett

It's a great issue, Matt. We're sorry to lose you, but can't wait for the Collagist to come online. Going to be great stuff, for sure.

July 3, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJensen
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