February 2012
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Technoccult: The Rise of the Hactivist →
technoccult:
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Barney Rosset, one of the most significant publishers of the 20th century, editor of Grove Press and The Evergreen Review, who fought censorship in famous legal battles over the publication of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Tropic of Cancer, is dead at 89. Rosset introduced American readers to…
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Then came old February, sitting
In an old wagon, for he could not ride,
Drawn of two fishes for the season fitting,
Which through the flood before did softly slide
And swim away; yet had he by his side
His plough and harness fit to till the ground,
And tools to prune the trees, before the pride
Of hasting pride did make them burgeon wide.
— Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
January 2012
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July 19, 1967. 12:01 pm.
Hendersonville,...
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“Sir: In the Daily Mail report of the inquest on the sad death of the lady who...”
– Alfred Rowley
Honorary Secretary of the Serpentine Swimming Club
A letter to the editor in the Daily Mail of London, January 21, 1907
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Then came old January, wrapped well
In many weeds to keep the cold away;
Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell,
And blowe his nayles to warm them if he may;
For they were numbed with holding all the day
An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood,
And from the trees did lop the needlesse spray;
Upon an huge great Earth-pot Steane he stood,
From whose wide mouth there flowed forth the...
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Katherine
Macromere: And then we came to the end.
David: Of another dull and lurid year.
M: That may be true, but we meant the end of He Who Shall Remain Shameless, specifically the final episode in the novel, “Katherine”, which takes place on New Year’s Eve and continues to New Year’s Day.
D: The continuation to New Year’s Day is debatable, but I thought an end-of-year...
December 2011
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Radu
Macromere: Merry Christmas.
David: Merry Christmas. We’re okay saying that?
M: After reading “Radu”, we’d say we are.
D: It does take place on Christmas Day….
M: And this—the thirteenth and penultimate episode in He Who Shall Remain Shameless—has some religious overtones, we feel. There is, for example, that arresting line the Meritocrat has:...
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Kordula (? - ?)
Macromere: We’re just about done with these interviews illuminating He Who Shall Remain Shameless, aren’t we?
David: That we are. We’ve almost run out of spirits.
M: So “Kordula”, the twelfth episode in HWSRS, starts off with the sentence “I was hiding out somewhere in the Czech Republic”. We take it you spent time in the Czech Republic…
D: I did....
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September 8, 1994. 7:03 pm.
Hopewell...
November 2011
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Arthur Conley (1946 - 2003)
Macromere: Like King Aegeus (“Aegeus”, the sixth story), Arthur Conley, the title character of the eleventh episode in He Who Shall Remain Shameless, is something of an anomaly. David even says at one point that this singer who made his mark with his one hit “Sweet Soul Music” in the late ’60s is “certainly the most well-off spirit” he’s...
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September 12, 1980. 8:59 pm.
Atlantic...
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Leo Ryan (1925 - 1978)
Macromere: What’s most striking to us about “Leo”, the tenth episode in He Who Shall Remain Shameless, is that the title subject seems to take a back seat to the increasing tension between David and the Meritocrat. It seems really that the Meritocrat is a stronger presence than Leo Ryan in this story.
David: That’s true to an extent. The story is still...
New Design!
We here at Macromere Press could no longer tolerate the Minimalist theme, so we went ahead and upgraded. The best thing about our new Tumblr theme is that the apostrophes missing from previous posts are now in place. Oh for joy!
The sidebar on the right should be filling up with Macromere Press’s tweets anytime now….just you wait. In the meantime while waiting for that bug to work...
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“Great success is not possible without a certain degree of shamelessness, and...”
– Stendahl, Memoirs of an Egotist
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We Have a Winner!
It’s November 1st, All Saints’ Day, which means it’s time to announce the winner of the He Who Shall Remain Shameless Coffin Hop contest!
Congratulations go to our winner, Elizabeth Twist, who submitted the following entry:
“As for a real historical figure whom I would like to see as an apparition in [He Who Shall Remain Shameless], my recommendation is Bernd Jürgen...
October 2011
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Alice Scribner (1907 - 1933)
Macromere: In “Alice”, the ninth episode in He Who Shall Remain Shameless, it seems that one of the major themes driving the novel in stories is fully realized. You have a real-life flight attendant, possibly the first ever killed in a plane crash in America, but so little is known about her, or available about her on the Internet.
David: It’s true....
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Linda Gary (1944 - 1995)
Macromere: Linda Gary….
David: Linda Gary, “sometimes miscredited as Linda Gray.” She died sixteen years ago today, October 5th, of brain cancer.
M: And her ghost is the eighth David encounters in He Who Shall Remain Shameless.
D: “I was in Los Angeles to get her to sign the contract….”
M: Why Linda Gary?
D: For me, Linda Gary took on a mythic...
September 2011
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Andrew Kehoe (1872 - 1927)
Macromere: Why Andrew Kehoe, the seventh ghost encountered in He Who Shall Remain Shameless?
David: This particular story went through a lot of changes. A whole slew of rewrites. Two things remained constant, though: the opening sentence—“I was on campus to stop a massacre”—and the fact that the story takes place at the end of September,...
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King Aegeus (1200s BCE?)
Macromere: Thoughts on “Aegeus”, the sixth episode in He Who Shall Remain Shameless?
David: “It was sunny mid-September….” is how David Michael Ewald puts it, but this is really just speculation. The narrator of HWSRS successfully calculates that King Aegeus died in September, but to be honest there’s actually no proof that it was September. It...
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Christopher Coe (ca. 1953 - 1994)
Macromere: Since today, September 6th, is the 17th anniversary—or deathiversary, as we should now be calling it—of Christopher Coe’s passing, would you mind telling us about “Christopher”?
David: Not at all. “Christopher” was one of the early ones in the genesis of He Who Shall Remain Shameless. It was written after “Chris” and...
August 2011
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David Michael Ewald (ca. August 14 - 18, 1954)
Macromere: The fourth episode in He Who Shall Remain Shameless takes place on August 18th, and it centers on, of all ghosts, a four-day-old baby named David Michael Ewald. You say this baby actually existed….Who was he?
David: I really don’t know all that much about the David Michael Ewald who was probably born on August 14th and definitely died on August 18, 1954, only four days old...
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For those who prefer Kobo...
may we point you to the Kobo page for He Who Shall Remain Shameless:
He Who Shall Remain Shameless available on Kobo eReader
Just one more format for David Ewald’s paranormal adventure novel in stories!
July 2011
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Ai'dah (? - ?)
Macromere: Unlike Harriet Quimby and Christine Chubbuck, the title character of “Ai’dah,” the third story in He Who Shall Remain Shameless, did not actually exist, is that correct?
David: That’s correct. No dates of birth and death can be found on the Internet whatsoever.
M: In the story then, can Ai’dah be considered a ghost, or something else?
D: The narrator...
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He Who Shall Remain Shameless Kindle Mojo Promo! →
Here at Macromere Press we, like many publishers, don’t always have the time we’d like to promote our authors’ works, so we’re happy when others are willing to pick up our slack. Enter Tom Hobbs, who runs Kindle Mojo (http://www.kindlemojo.com/), which lists indie authors and their books. David Ewald’s He Who Shall Remain Shameless has just been listed. Check it out...
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Christine Chubbuck (1944 - 1974)
Macromere: Today, July 15th, is the 37th anniversary of the death of Christine Chubbuck, whose ghost happens to be the second the hero and narrator of He Who Shall Remain Shameless encounters. To give us some insight into this story, we talked to the author himself….
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Macromere: This is the one that started it all.
David: That’s right. I wrote “Chris”, the second...
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Harriet Quimby (1875 - 1912)
Macromere: Today is July 1st, the 99th anniversary of Harriet Quimby’s death and, not coincidentally, the day He Who Shall Remain Shameless really begins. Any thoughts on Harriet—and “Harriet”?
David: “Harriet” was the second story I wrote for what would eventually become He Who Shall Remain Shameless. At that time I didn’t know I was putting...
June 2011
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Who is David Michael Ewald?
Macromere: The protagonist of He Who Shall Remain Shameless is named David Michael Ewald, which just happens to be your name too. From the outset did you intend the novel to have this metafictional aspect?
David: It’s not really metafiction, because I’m not the David Michael Ewald in this novel. The David Michael Ewald in this novel is younger than me, for one, and he has more hair...
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He Who Shall Remain Shameless now available in the... →
Macromere Press is pleased to announce that David Ewald’s He Who Shall Remain Shameless is now available as a Google eBook, for purchase in, of course, the Google eBookstore. Clicking on the title of this post will take you to the Google eBookstore page for HWSRS. Right now Google appears to have discounted the book slightly…so for those readers who don’t want to pay full price,...
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Nook edition of He Who Shall Remain Shameless now... →
For those readers with a Nook, may we direct you to the page for He Who Shall Remain Shameless now up on Barnes & Noble’s website. Simply click on the title of this post (“Nook edition of…”) and you’ll be taken to the B&N page. Alternatively, you can click on the Books link that’s below the Macromere Press header.
The B&N Nook page includes a...
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The Release Date has arrived! →
We at Macromere Press are pleased to announce the release of David Ewald’s novel in stories, He Who Shall Remain Shameless, now available on Amazon’s Kindle at the link above (just click on “The Release Date has arrived!” and you’ll be taken to the book’s Amazon page). The book sells for $2.99, and if you’d like to sample for free before you buy, simply...
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Audio Reborn!
Macromere: Um…We see the Audio page is back up on your website.
http://davidmichaelewald.com/audio.html
David: It’s back all right. My wife, who reminds me often of why she’s my better half, asked me why I’d taken the page down in the first place (she doesn’t go to this site). I explained to her that almost all the stories had undergone significant...
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David Ewald’s thoughts on June 30th, and beyond….
Macromere: Now that it’s looking like the release date for He Who Shall Remain Shameless will be moved up just a little, will you be okay with the book not coming out on June 30th? Why June 30th for the release date, anyway?
David: Call me crazy, which you would be entirely justified doing because I am, but I had this idea when...
May 2011
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Post-Memorial Day Post
Here at Macromere, we celebrated Memorial Day the old-fashioned way: by watching our neighbors raise the American flag outside their front door and stand before it with their hands held proudly over their hearts, John Philip Sousa pounding over their heads, their standard poodle wagging by their side….The American flag was upside-down, but since they didn’t notice, we decided not to...
“The digital word is okay. But at a certain moment, you’re fed up. You want to...”
– In Maniz, the hometown of Johannes Gutenberg, Germans face their digital future. Read the whole story at The Atlantic (via theatlantic)
Note from Macromere Press: As much as we would like to be Cormac McCarthy, the lack of an apostrophe in ‘youre’ is unintentional; again, The Minimalist...
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Surfacings
Here at Macromere Press we’ve done a bit of poking around the internet and found, much to our surprise, three sites that have posted the book trailer for David Ewald’s He Who Shall Remain Shameless. The sites are
NME
Movieteaser
LearnaboutKindle
We are flummoxed. We don’t understand the internet, even though our first book is very much about the internet. What are these...
April 2011
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He Who Shall Remain Shameless on Facebook →
Macromere: This has been Facebook week for you.
David: It has. Two reasons, really: One is that BULL, the magazine of Men’s Fiction, is in the running to win $100,000 in the Dockers’ ‘Wear the Pants’ contest. It’s a pretty big deal, since BULL published one of my stories last year as a print-only version, and then re-released it online this year, around the time of...
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“The dead have nothing to say to us….It’s our own narcissism that...”
– - Janice Soprano
The Sopranos, “Calling All Cars” (season 4, episode 11)
Macromere: Why this quote?
David: I feel this quote says a lot about He Who Shall Remain Shameless. I don’t really see the book as having an epigraph, but if it did this would be it.
M: Context?
D: To...
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Follow-up on Audio with David Ewald
Macromere: You’ve taken down the Audio page on your website. Why?
David: As you know, the book is going through revisions as it nears e-publication. Recently I went through “David” again, the fourth story, and made some significant changes that would have to be added into the recording I already have to justify keeping it up on the Audio...
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First Interview with David Ewald
Macromere: Tell us about the audio files you’ve made available on your website for He Who Shall Remain Shameless. Is there any logic to them? Why, for example, is story number four in the book available to listen to but not the first three stories?
David: The stories you see now on the Audio page of davidmichaelewald.com were recorded without having first...
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