Black Clock

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Black Clock
DisciplineLiterary journal
LanguageEnglish
Edited bySteve Erickson
Publication details
History2004-2016
Publisher
FrequencySemi-annual
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Black Clock
Indexing
ISSN1941-9465
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Black Clock was an American literary magazine that lasted twelve years and twenty-one issues. Edited by Steve Erickson and published semi-annually by CalArts in association with its MFA Writing Program,[1] the magazine was "dedicated to fiction, poetry and creative essays that explore[d] the frontier territory of constructive anarchy."[2]

According to the magazine’s editorial statement during its lifetime, "Black Clock is audacious rather than safe, visceral rather than academic, intellectually engaging rather than antiseptically cerebral, and not above fun. Produced by writers for writers, Black Clock encourages risk and eschews editorial interference."[2]

From its inception in 2004 until its demise in 2016, Black Clock featured work by Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, Lydia Davis, Richard Powers, Joanna Scott, T.C. Boyle, Miranda July, Jonathan Lethem, Rick Moody, Dana Spiotta, Samuel R. Delany, Mark Z. Danielewski, Aimee Bender, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Greil Marcus, Susan Straight, Geoff Dyer, Brian Evenson, Maggie Nelson, Geoff Nicholson, Howard Rodman, Darcey Steinke, Geoffrey O'Brien, Heidi Julavits, Maureen Howard, Robert Polito, Lynne Tillman, , Janet Fitch, Michael Ventura and William T. Vollmann among others.[3]

Work appearing in Black Clock was anthologized in best-of-the-year collections, nominated for O. Henry and Pushcart prizes, and two excerpted novels went on to win National Book Awards.[3] The short story that served as the basis for Samuel R. Delany's novel Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders was first published in Black Clock 7.[4][5]

Issue Season Contributors
1 Summer 2004 Wearing Not My Veil, Arielle Greenberg; Modernhaus Projekt-H, 1933 (Unbuilt), Peter Gadol; Rules For Flagellants, Rick Moody; The Eternal Helen, Heidi Julavits; Rain On Concrete, Joanna Scott; Tsunami, Bradford Morrow; 'T Zuid, Nicholas Royle; A Conversation, Samuel R. Delany; Charting The Sensual And Cerebral Worlds, Or A Samuel R. Delany Pantheon, Anthony Miller; Dark Afterthoughts On Fiction And The Self, Rebecca Goldstein; Debbieland, Aimee Bender; Toyota Widow, Mary Caponegro; And The Word Was, Bruce Bauman; Oblivion, David Foster Wallace; The National Anthem, Jonathan Lethem; Private, I, Arielle Greenberg.
2 Fall 2004/ Winter 2004 Mariana's Song, ; Masked Marauders, Greil Marcus; Perfidia, Lewis Shiner; Damballah Rising, Michael Ventura; The Magnetic Field, David Toop; Revolution Blues, ; Another Lost Angel (Is This Thing On?), Samantha Dunn; Otis Redding's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Jonathan Lethem; The White Albums, Heidi Julavits; Zimmerman's Last Dream, Bruce Bauman; The Fear Of God Sessions, Rick Moody; Direction (While Listening To Bob Dylan's Desire), ; The Dust Blows Forward 'N' Sand Blows Back, Geoff Nicholson; Here Is The Church, Shelley Jackson; Crashing, Chris Roberts; There But For Grace Is God, Sean Howe; Later, Lynne Tillman; Bon Scott: The Choir Years, Brian Evenson; The Young Untold, Miranda July; John Cage's Secret Halls And The Human Beat Box, Ben Marcus; Aurochs And Angels, ; Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, ; Bones Of The Back, Darcey Steinke; Unmasked Marauders, Greil Marcus; Critical Karaoke, Ange Mlinko, Greil Marcus, Daphne Brooks, Joshua Clover, and Ann Powers; Paul Is Dead, Steve Erickson; The City of the Dead Girl, .
3 Spring 2005/ Summer 2005 Everyone In The Room Is A Representative Of The World At Large (The Siamese Sextuplets), Catherine Wagner; Cranes, Richard Powers; Milk, Darcey Steinke; Searching For Emily, Lee Montgomery; Jumper Cables (Back Story): The Marigolds, Ron Loewinsohn; Endangered, ; Girl In A Blue Chair, Maureen Howard; Celestial Militia, Larissa Szporluk; Terra Pax, Joanna Scott; Some Language, Some Nudity, Geoff Nicholson; Operation Hagen, William T. Vollmann; ___________-American, ; The Girl And The Fire And The Buick, 1954, ; The Shadow Upon Us, ; Redeemed En Route, Ben Ehrenreich; Annals In Plagiary, Joseph McElroy; Impending And Oncoming, ; The Third River, ; Alien Encounter, Janet Sarbanes; The Orange Eats Creeps, Grace Krilanovich; The Other Mary, Michael Ventura; Everyone In The Room Is A Representative Of The World At Large, Catherine Wagner.
4 Fall 2005/ Winter 2006 Floating Wick In Petrol, Rachel Zucker; From The Vaults, Richard Meier; Guilty Pleasures And Lost Causes, Steve Erickson; A Strange Up-Flinging, Michael Ventura; Prog Rock Confessional, Rick Moody; An Orchestra Of Light That Was Electric, Jonathan Lethem; Humiliation, Tom Lutz; The Futile Charm Of The Bob-Oisie, Glen David Gold; The Friday Nights Of Terry Melcher, Sean Howe; Remembering Andrea Dworkin, Joanna Scott; Hot Pussy And The Cool Of The Innocent, Albert Mobilio; A Memory Of Columbo, Geoffrey O'Brien; Woman In The Distance, Don DeLillo; The Powell Divide, Geoff Nicholson; The Cake, Chris Roberts; Hurdy Gurdy Man, Steve Erickson; An Enthusiasm (Grentheos, Possessed By A God), ; The Vidiot, and ; Narrative, After Buñuel, Janet Sternburg; This Corrosion, Howard Hampton; Damn It, I'm A Doctor, Anthony Miller; Kabloona, Kenneth Turan; Broken Seashells, Ron Drummond; How Can I Tell You, ; The Imaginary War, Grace Krilanovich; Reptile Pleasures, ; The Nine Billion Songs Of Pop, Eric Weisbard; A Made Man, ; Shame, Robert Polito; Sudor, Samantha Dunn; Joe Meek And The Twelfth Of August 1966, Jon Savage; Without A Trace, Howard A. Rodman; On A Realization: Music, David Toop; Monogamist, Rachel Zucker; Looking At The Law, Richard Meier.
5 Spring 2006/ Summer 2006 Below The Line, Dwayne Moser; For Guadalupe (And For Michael): One, ; Theseus At Los Angeles, Yxta Maya Murray; My Cruel Summer, ; Modus Operandi, Lisa Teasley; Good Life, Howard A. Rodman; The Victor Muet Mansion, 6601 Callia Lily Canyon Road, Brentwood: A Brief History, Tom Carson; Off Ramp, ; The People Upstairs, ; Touching Tables, ; Monster Eyes, Jonathan Lethem; Alt.Country, Alan Rifkin; Broken Sleep, Bruce Bauman; Cowboys, ; The Moon Reaches Down For Me Like The Fist In A Siquieros Painting, Lou Mathews; Her Royal Highness, Susan Straight; Nicola, ; Mr. Peanorse And The Nice Family, ; Sway, ; Los Angeles By Gaslight, Carlos Ruiz Zafón; Welcome To Esplandian, ; American Modern, Peter Gadol; Writing About LA And Why I Failed, ; In Her Own Words, Francesca Lia Block.
6 Fall 2006/ Winter 2007 Too Little, Michael Burkard; Interview Nineteen: A Very Small Casket, ; Paradoxes From Leona's/I Love You To Death E Pluribus Unum, ; Off Into The Sea/The Waste Land, Aaron Belz; Dear Inaudible, Laynie Browne; The Sun Is Shattering/The Found Face Girl, Michael Burkard; Trapeze Act/Can You Die Of Eating Pancakes, Mairéad Byrne; Moon River Anthology, Tom Carson; Thanksgiving/The Decorating Issue, Shana Cleveland; A Heap Of Triangles, ; Postcard To December/Postcard To Assonance, Sean Cole; Dear Twin Falls — (1)/Dear Twin Falls — (2), Ryan Collins; The Magic Mountain, ; Threnodies, ; Diminishing Emergence, ; The Third One, ; Dusk, Annie Finch; Spilt From / Split Form Of Teaching "Tintern Abbey" (2 Poems), ; Three Grotesques, Richard Foerster; Echo Light, Kate Gale; Cinderelly, ; Scrape Grace, ; I Step Into My Thoughts Of Death/Deer Sonnets, Chris Green; The Girl With The Map To The Stars/Traif, Arielle Greenberg; Sappho's Fragments, Eloise Klein Healy; Once More, This Time With Feeling..., Jen Hofer; Instrumental, ; Fablesque, ; We Are Walking Into The Sunset, Joy Katz; Goth Plaint, Caroline Knox; Faust's Dog/Urinals, Wayne Koestenbaum; Truth #73, ; Insects, Vermin, Pests, Patrick Lawler; Haven't You, Haven't You/Bad Dream, Lyn Lifshin; [And He Sees Me Fostered, Forced.], ; From "So I Began", Lisa Lubasch; 64, Sarah Manguso; From Tsim Tsum, ; With The Moon, Heather McHugh; Innocuous/The Nature Of New Noises, ; Eruch Jessawala Says, Stephen Paul Miller; Art Hotels And The Global Café, Ange Mlinko; Emergency Ruin, Albert Mobilio; Swimmeret, ; Hope Of Understanding, ; Insomniac, Brighde Mullins; Blue Poems, Maggie Nelson; Wherein A Surrogate's Amelioration/Wherein A Surrogate's Fruition 2, Danielle Pafunda; Dreams Involving Euthanasia, ; Confidential/Paris Hilton Calls On Jesus, Robert Polito; Sense, Kristin Prevallet; From The World, Srikanth Reddy; Red, ; Poem For The Brooklyn Bridge, Matthew Rohrer; Stoic Wreck, James Shea; Poem With A Line From James Dickey Near The End, ; Dear Bruce Springsteen,, Laurel Snyder; Song Of Tom, Janet Sternburg; Scholar/Where Geography Stops,, Stephanie Strickland; Soapsuds Slid Off, Novica Tadić; One Story And A Slap/O Give Me A Home, ; Slavic Skin., ; Turning As A Kind Of Shouting, Tom Thompson; Buell Wesley Frazier, ; James Schuyler/To Tim Dlugos, David Trinidad; The Door Is Fallen Down, Jean Valentine; Christine, ; From Working Stiffs, Michael Ventura; For Alan Dugan, Rebecca Wolff; Before Your Death, Jean Valentine.
7 Spring 2007/ Summer 2007 On Typing (After Rachel Zucker's "Sunday Morning"), Arielle Greenberg; More Sex, Lynne Tillman; Blindfold, Matias Viegener; A Girl Called Casanova, Yxta Maya Murray; On A Saturday Afternoon, Aimee Bender; My Mother, Marie Christ (b. Hope Springs, TN, 1951 - d. Memphis, July 4, 1985), Tom Carson; Ice Cream, Sandi Tan; Howlin' With The Woofdog, Wanda Coleman; Room 721, Janet Fitch; Late Blooming, Lisa Teasley; Durga Rising, John Mandel; Respect, Seth Greenland; Manson Girl, ; Warlock, Grace Krilanovich; Evening At The Cryo-Crystal Circus Hotel, ; Sex And The Spirits, Francesca Lia Block; Your Filthy Mouth/What Not To Say When Asked Why You Are A Lesbian, ; Here I Come, Arielle Greenberg; Apology, Tara Ison; Pretending, John Haskell; Invisible Box, Brian Evenson; Gothic, ; Billy Jean And Connie Cheaters, ; In The Valley Of The Nest Of Spiders, Samuel R. Delany; Responsible Hedonism, Janet Sarbanes; Menagerie, ; Index For A Lost Autobiography, Geoff Nicholson; Sunday Morning, Rachel Zucker.
8 City Center, ; Mook, Michael Ventura; A Walk Around The World, Geoff Nicholson; The Dark Ride, Alex Austin; I Once Was Lost, ; The Best England Ever, Yxta Maya Murray; The Messenger (The Crossing), Geoffrey O'Brien; What Happened Was, Chris Kraus; Heathen, Lisa Teasley; Katmandu, Tom Carson; Keep The Change, ; Bad Science, Mark Bibbins; Lillian Lakes Loop, ; Piercings, Mary Miller; Wonderland, Lewis Shiner; The Buchanan Museum, ; Pursuit Of Happiness, Gregory Hayes; Night In Ypsilanti, Christine Hume; Berserkers, ; The Messengers (This Will Never Return), Geoffrey O'Brien; Archaeology, Susan Straight; Big Pickle, ; The Sting Of Irrelevancy, Joanna Scott; The Turtles Swarmed Beneath Me, And Everything Was Green, .

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References[]

  1. ^ CalArts Writing: Publications
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Black Clock: Editorial Statement Archived February 18, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Archive from Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - Reading and lecture by award-winning novelist Samuel Delany, 10/29 - News - Info - Vassar College". info.vassar.edu.
  4. ^ Review of Black Clock by Peter A. Balaskas

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