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"The Knife Block" at ManArchy Magazine
ManArchy Magazine has published my story The Knife Block in the exciting and highly anticipated debut issue. Read here. Like the magazine here.
I also recommend: Misty by Richard Thomas, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Well, 5) by Amanda Gowin, Dispatch From a Lot Lizard: Car Buying 101 by Bob Pastorella, and the Total DANarchy column by Dan Donche.
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Happy New Year
Welcome to the new website.
—PV
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December 27th 2011
2011 website fake cover art
2011 website fake cover art
2011 website fake cover art
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In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words
My story ‘Bathhouse’ is included in the new anthology by ThunderDome.
Inspired by photographs taken around the Los Angeles area by Michael Paul Gonzalez, the book features short stories from 26 authors—each asked to select a photograph and write a story of precisely 1,000 words inspired by what they saw.
The result is quintessential LA. I’m thrilled to be part of it.
(available through ThunderDome and Amazon)
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October 24th 2011
El Topo photos
El Topo photos
El Topo photos
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Dispatches from Thunder Road: Pela Via by Mlaz Corbier
In the wake of the Warmed and Bound release, the generous and elusive Mlaz Corbier interviewed a few very lucky people for Thunderdome, mine found here.
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Interview on Booked Podcast
Literary podcast duo Livius Nedin and Robb Olson tackled a plethora of Warmed and Bound contributors in their series The Warmed and Bound Sessions. My interview is available for download and streaming here.
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Warmed and Bound: On Sale Now
Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology
Edited by Pela Via, Foreword by Steve EricksonVelvet Press 2011, Available now in Paperback (408 pages), Kindle and Epub
“The writers of the Velvet are contemporary fiction’s most effective and least self-conscious aesthetic guerrillas … The result is fiction at once conceived from high artistic intent and executed with depraved populist energy.” —Steve Erickson, author of ZEROVILLE
With stories by Matt Bell, Tim Beverstock, Blake Butler, Vincent Louis Carrella, Craig Clevenger, Craig Davidson, Chris Deal, DeLeon DeMicoli, Christopher J Dwyer, Brian Evenson, Sean P Ferguson, Amanda Gowin, JR Harlan, Gordon Highland, Anthony David Jacques, Mark Jaskowski, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Nik Korpon, Gary Paul Libero, Kyle Minor, Doc O’Donnell, J David Osborne, Rob Parker, Bob Pastorella, Gavin Pate, Cameron Pierce, Edward J Rathke, Caleb J Ross, Bradley Sands, Axel Taiari, Richard Thomas, Brandon Tietz, Gayle Towell, Paul Tremblay, Pela Via, Craig Wallwork, and Nic YoungFrom the heart of The Velvet—a writing community built around the fervent love of neo-noir fiction—comes an original anthology. Stacked with brilliant emerging writers alongside some of the strongest established voices in contemporary literature, WARMED AND BOUND crosses literary boundaries on all sides, to deliver an altogether unique reading experience.
Through seemingly opposed conventions, beautiful prose makes a hard impression on the short story form. From a scary love story to a nostalgic thriller, a hardboiled pursuit of salvation to the black humor that is existentialism, WARMED AND BOUND is rogue humility and lovesick noir, where humanity is a dirty puzzle.
It’s Velvet Noir. Welcome.
