FUTURE TENSE BOOKS
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"Fine stapling since 1990"
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41 years old
PORTLAND, Oregon
United States
Last Login:7/24/2008
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| General | Books and writing, music, sports, coffee, food, comedy, old people, young people, slow movies about people, surprises! | | Music | Mates of State, 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, The Cars, The Hold Steady, New Edition, both Elvises, and endless others... | | Movies | Blue Velvet, Capturing the Friedmans, All the Real Girls, Children of Men, the Monty Python movies, No Country For Old Men, Ghostworld, Badlands, 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... | | Television | 30 Rock, MILF Island, Nightline, The Shield, anything with Charles Barkley on it. | | Books | Too 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...
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| | Heroes | AKA Inspirations: Steven Jesse Bernstein, Devo, David Lynch...
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Not Sure | | Ethnicity: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Pisces | | Children: | Proud parent | | Occupation: | Book Pusher and stuff |
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FUTURE TENSE BOOKS's Schools
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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, and Elizabeth Ellen. Our newest books are Myriam Gurba's Dahlia Season, (published with Manic D Press), Gary Lutz's Partial List of People to Bleach, and Double Header (a flipbook with two stories) by Oregon author Suzanne Burns.
I live with my thirteen 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 also written a few books myself. And I write 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 brand new book is my longest collection of fiction yet, entitled Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus Press). It is personally recommended by fine writers such as Sam Lipsyte, Jami Attenberg, and Davy Rothbart. I'm also working on an expanded book of non-fiction that will include all the flash memoir stories from A Common Pornography, a book that went out of print much too quickly. In 2009, Akashic Books will publish Portland Noir, an anthology that I'll be editing for the next few months.
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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