BANG OUT Volume XI: The Social Network
from “fault tree” by kathryn pringle
“The Big Tweetback” by Lee Stegner
“Social Network” by Marc Olmsted
“HOW JESUS SEEKS INTIMACY THROUGH ONLINE CONNECTION” by Jesús Ángel García
“Sarah Mertleton Likes This” by Ashley Brim
“In A Relationship With Gary Andersen” by Ezra Fox
Visit our Video Library to watch our readers’ performances
Identity constructs, dilemmas of modern technology, Facebook romance gone bad! Join us on April 16th at Amnesia in San Francisco for BANG OUT Vol. XI: The Social Network to hear tales of woe and hilarity written on the theme “The Social Network.”
kathryn l. pringle is an American poet living in Oakland, CA. She is the author of RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY (2009, Factory School), The Stills (Duration Press), and Temper and Felicity are lovers.(TAXT). Her work can be found in the anthology I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (2011, Les Figues).
Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals by the age of 25. He has also written for AlterNet, The Bold Italic, McSweeney’s, and Mother Jones. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus.
Lee Stegner’s stories have appeared in The Madison Review, Cream City Review, Crate, ZYZZYVA, and Franzine online. She received her MFA at San Francisco State University and now lives and writes in Pasadena, CA.
Allen Ginsberg said “Marc Olmsted inherited Burroughs’ scientific nerve & Kerouac’s movie-minded line nailed down with gold eyebeam in San Francisco.” His book, WHAT USE AM I A HUNGRY GHOST? – POEMS FROM 3-YEAR RETREAT (Valley Contemporary Press, 2001), has an introduction by Ginsberg. For more of his work, visit Olmsted’ s website: http://www.marcolmsted.com/
Jesus Angel Garcia is the author of “badbadbad,” a transmedia novel coming from New Pulp Press & PostPulp Productions on May 20, 2011. http://badbadbad.net/
Ashley Brim has lived in eight states and 10 cities and has finally found home in the Mission District of San Francisco. She is currently writing a short story collection and a novel and is trying to find redemption for at least one of her characters.
Ezra Fox is an MFA Fiction student at SFSU working on a humble novel about the end of all time. He enjoys sandwiches and long walks on the beach that result in eating sandwiches. Ezra’s work has been published in New Jersey Devil Press, Blue Moon, ezrafox.com, Precipitate. He enjoys writing in third person is the founder of the resume-bolstering blog “Legitimate Literary Journal.” In his free time he reviews the worst books, movies, and TV for http://read-weep.com/. He has reviewed Twilight and Jersey Shore, and they have both ripped away a part of his soul that he’ll never get back.