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GeneralBooks and writing, music, sports, coffee, food, comedy, old people, young people, slow movies about people, surprises!
MusicMates of State, Richard Buckner, Pixies, Regina Spektor, Yo La Tengo, Prince, Solex, Beastie Boys, Menomena, Kings of Leon, Holy Sons, Vic Chestnutt, Beat Happening, The Kingdom, Belle and Sebastian, Dressy Bessy, Bob Wills, Nation of Ulysses, Os Mutantes, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Robyn Hitchcock, Arcade Fire, Old Time Relijun, Queen, Uncle Tupelo, Whale, Fiery Furnaces, Dolorean, Joggers, Rainer Maria, Feist, Hefner, Peabo Bryson, The Smugglers, Caribou, The f'in Wedding Present, Reclinerland, The Go-Betweens, Public Enemy, Gang of Four, Weakerthans, Lionel Richie, Guided by Voices, Home, Black Flag, Spoon, Pavement, LCD Soundsystem, Heavenly States, The Fall, Grandmaster Melle Mell (lots of old school hip hop), The Standard, Junior Senior, The Cars, The Hold Steady, New Edition, both Elvises, and endless others...
MoviesBlue Velvet, Capturing the Friedmans, All the Real Girls, Children of Men, the Monty Python movies, No Country For Old Men, Ghostworld, Badlands, Man On Wire, Faces of Death, Exotica, Karate Kid, The Iron Giant, Squid and the Whale, Highway 69, Juno, Last American Virgin, Leolo, Keane, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Brown Bunny, Stand By Me, Harold and Maude, some Woody Allen stuff, any movie with a sasquatch...
Television30 Rock, MILF Island, Nightline, Friday Night Lights, The Shield, anything with Charles Barkley on it.
BooksToo many to mention, but...Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz is my all-time favorite. Runners up: A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews, Homeland by Sam Lipsyte, Cruddy by Lynda Barry, Larry Brown, Gordon Lish, Kevin Keck, Mike Daily, Harry Crews, Dave Eggers, Ben Marcus, William Gay, Lewis Nordan, Barry Hannah, Derek McCormack, Kevin Canty, Beth Lisick, Mary Gaitskill, Mark Leyner, Dan Clowes, Mark Jude Poirier, James Tate, Michelle Tea, Willy Vlautin, Donald Ray Pollack, Monica Drake, George Saunders, Diane Williams, Jami Attenberg, Jonathan Ames...oh, so many... Visit my Goodreads page for a peek:
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Hometown:Kennewick, Washington
Ethnicity:Other
Zodiac Sign:Pisces
Children:Proud parent
Occupation:Book Pusher and stuff

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Kennewick High School
Kennewick, WA
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Professional
Major: Editing
Minor: Stapling
Clubs: Equipment Manager, Varsity basketball team, President of Geriatric Club
 

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About me:
Future Tense Books is a Portland, Oregon micropress that has existed since 1990. My name is Kevin Sampsell and I'm the editor and publisher. I publish two or three exclusive chapbooks every year along with a full-length book on my series through Manic D Press in San Francisco.

I've published everyone from Lyn Lifshin, Susannah Breslin, and Richard Meltzer to Zoe Trope, Sarah Grace McCandless, Mike Topp, Elizabeth Ellen, Gary Lutz, and Suzanne Burns. Our newest releases are the mini-chapbook, Our Beloved 26th by Riley Michael Parker, and two paperbacks--Embrace Your Insignificance: Lessons Learned Teaching English in Japan by Bob Gaulke, and Everything Was Fine Until Whatever by Chelsea Martin.

I live with my girlfriend (the lovely Frayn Masters) and fifteen year old son in an upstairs apartment in Northeast Portland. I've been working at Powell's City of Books since 1997, where I coordinate events and run the small press and zine sections. I've written a few books myself. And I've written about books for Associated Press and other publications.

My collection of stories, Beautiful Blemish was published by Word Riot Press in 2005. I also edited The Insomniac Reader that same year (Manic D Press) and I guest-edited issue 4.3 of Spork Magazine in 2006.

My newest book is my longest collection of fiction yet, entitled Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus Press, 2008). It is personally recommended by fine writers such as Sam Lipsyte, Jami Attenberg, and Davy Rothbart. I recently finished a longer version of my memoir, A Common Pornography. It will be published on January 19th, 2010 by Harper Perennial. Akashic Books just published Portland Noir, an anthology that I edited (featuring a bunch of cool Portlanders). There will be a bunch of readings for that collection in June and July.

The image on this profile is by Ivan Brunetti, from my chapbook, Etiquette For Evil (published by Kapow! a few years ago).

If you want to email me the old fashioned way: futuretense@q7.com

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Michael Dhillon

Michael Dhillon



Sep 15 2009 6:27 PM

Hi there!
My debut novel, The Cuckoo Parchment and the Dyke, has just launched. If you get a chance I'd be grateful if you'd go to my profile to find out more. The story's about Dada, art and artists, and the attempt to instigate revolution by means of art.
Thanks and take care,
Michael
David Rowe

David Rowe



Sep 15 2009 6:26 PM

Thanks for the add, y'all.

davIdiot RAw.
"If you can't beat em: Poem."
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Aug 18 2009 7:33 AM

I raise a glass, pour it over my eyes, down my trousers...
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Jul 24 2009 2:56 AM

Thanks for joining our Myspace, but be sure to check out our website at www.HailMaryPublishing.com for this weeks Homework assignment, and your chance to become a Featured Artist, or participate in the revolutionary new program entitled Fabric Fiction. Thanks once again, and happy writing.

Talia Berliner

Talia Berliner



Jun 24 2009 1:04 AM



Thank U 4 the add!

T.B.
Mr. Viced Honest

Mr. Viced Honest



May 1 2009 10:16 PM

graffiti

I was the featured
guest on a college
radio show hosted by
G. Murray Thomas
at California State
University of Long
Beach last year.

some of the men’s
rooms at CSULB
have chalkboards
(with chalk on the
trays) mounted
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all I saw was one
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Mary Van Note

Mary Van Note



Apr 28 2009 2:58 AM

damn... didn't get your message until now.
next time!
Unlikely Stories

Unlikely Stories



Apr 15 2009 5:01 AM

Thanks for the add!
Doc Huckster

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Mar 17 2009 10:03 AM

happy birthday and on this day..we are closer and closer to being awake..eat your cake and taste the wine..and say to yourself it is divine..the beautiful way we get home..and let today be another happy steppingstone.
ARTGAL

ARTGAL



Mar 17 2009 1:19 PM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY & ST.
PATRICK'S DAY!!!
the smartestest ideeeutt

the smartestest ideeeutt



Mar 17 2009 11:33 PM

Happy Birthday!!!!!!
joshu.A.BEAR.andon

joshu.A.BEAR.andon



Mar 2 2009 3:35 AM

dear FTB corporation,

you should add Chelsea Martin to the /authors.
html page because she is awesome!

love josh
Charles

Charles



Feb 6 2009 2:38 AM

Hi Kevin! Long time no speak. I'm only about ten years late on the MySpace thing, but thank you for adding me now that I'm here. Please take care not to catch a cold.
Mr. Viced Honest

Mr. Viced Honest



Feb 6 2009 10:04 PM

Samps K, I just ordered the Brautigan Tribute mag (Torpedo Vol. 4 shown below), directly from the comment.


Technology.


The exchange rate for the purchase was 1 USD = 1.44816 AUD.


Mr.
Viced Honest
2HB de Trolllandt

2HB de Trolllandt



Feb 6 2009 9:10 PM

Hallo, bedankt voor de vriendschap
Merci pour lui amities
Hello, thanks for the friendship
Hallo, danke for ihre freundschaft

falco, a reader and dreamer from Haaksbergen, the Netherlands
The Sound of Drowning

The Sound of Drowning



Jan 27 2009 7:11 PM



Torpedo fiction quarterly mark the 25th anniversary of the death of author Richard Brautigan with a special tribute issue co-edited and with a foreword by Richard Brautigans daughter Ianthe Brautigan.


The special issue features Brautigan inspired fiction from 30 writers, a section of Brautigans own writing in the middle plus a specially designed envelope containing 8 full colour A5 double-sided prints featuring artwork based on his stories. One of which prints is a comic strip by myself, using Richard Brautigans own text, called 'The Library'.


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Jan 4 2009 6:34 AM

Dear Sampsell, Kevin,

My new thing is making videos.


Run time: 10 seconds.


Daily, M.


"Schizophrenia" by Pecos B

Excerpt from RETURN OF THE DANGARANG: "Schizophrenia" by Pecos B. Video filmed and produced by Mike Daily on January 3, 2009. Portland, Ore.
C.P. Kaestner

C.P. Kaestner



Jan 1 2009 3:10 AM

Hey Kevin, thanks for the add. I'd like to read more of your work when I get some free time, I am working on several new projects for 2009 ! No rest for the wicked. Hve a Happy New Year.

Cheers
C.P.
Kaestner
Author and Artist
Hank K

Hank K



Dec 21 2008 7:32 PM

Photobucket
Thank you for adding me.
Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt



Dec 19 2008 6:09 PM

Happy Holidays, Kevin.
Trevino

Trevino



Dec 18 2008 10:11 AM






Shedding Skins Four Sioux Poets

Published by Michigan State University Press, American Indian Studies

Edited by Adrian C.
Louis

Featuring Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Luke Warm Water.



Buy your copy today at your local bookstore or order online at any book dealer.
Suzanne Burns

Suzanne Burns



Dec 13 2008 1:32 AM

Ahh, It's snowing right now and BURRR it's cold!!! Thanks for the comments about the book cover.
I'm pretty excited!
Bob Gaulke

Bob Gaulke



Dec 12 2008 11:16 PM

I'm loving the people that are loving the new book!
Girl vs Bear

Girl vs Bear



Nov 8 2008 1:10 AM

Thanks! Have a good weekend.
sean reddan

sean reddan



Oct 31 2008 2:25 PM

Thank you for the add!
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