What: Better Living Through Xeroxography, A Small Press Expo
Where: Ilyong’s Kalantiaw, Project 4
When: Dec 7, Friday, 8 pm
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The six primary texts in this collection were conceived around a seventh, unwritten text; the order of experience or the sequence in which they are read (including the choice of texts to include/exclude in the sequence) is intended to determine the (hidden) meaning of the whole.
MARIENBAD suggests one possible sequence; the reader is invited to find others.
Limited copies available at BLTX on Dec. 7! To make sure you get a copy, pre-order online! Pre-ordered copies may be picked up at BLTX or shipped anywhere in the Philippines!
“Ang mga puwang sa isipan ang pinupukaw ng unang aklat ni Christian Tablazon. Hinahayaan niya tayong manahan, nang hindi napapalagay, lagi sa pagi-pagitan: pagitan ng imahen at wika, pagitan ng mga basag na pahayag, pagitan ng mga salita, pagitan ng paghinto at pag-usad, pagitan ng pagkakabuo at pagkabasag, pagitan ng mga kategorya. Sa ganitong paraan at pagpaparaan, napaparanas niya ang pagiging nasa bingit ng hindi ganap na maalala ngunit tila pamilyar, laging nasa bingit ng pag-unawa. Mabisa niyang kinakasangkapan ang katahimikan at patlang para maipahiwatig ang kakanyahan at kabuuan ng bawat tipak, may sapat na pwersa ang bawat isa na nagtutulak pasulong upang makahulagpos sa pigil ng pagsasaaklat.” —Allan Popa
Limited copies available at BLTX on Dec. 7! To make sure you get a copy, pre-order online! Pre-ordered copies may be picked up at BLTX or shipped anywhere in the Philippines!
Christian Tablazon was born in Manila and raised in Tarlac. He is an instructor at the Department of Humanities of the University of the Philippines Los Banos and a graduate student at the UP Film Institute.
Gender Politix Pulp Fiction. Four variations on homosexual relations interrupted by autobiographical musings on Madonna’s 1990s music videos and coffeetable book SEX interrupted by a fumetti featuring a leatherette-clad femme fatale trannie spy with a revolver stalking motel corridors and kicking down doors.
Limited copies available at BLTX on Dec. 7! To make sure you get a copy, pre-order online! Pre-ordered copies may be picked up at BLTX or shipped anywhere in the Philippines!
Si Julian Pascual ay ipinaglihi sa balot at tunay kung magmahal. Siya rin ang awtor ng Hindi Barbra Ang Ngalan Ko.
The Youth & Beauty Brigade books may now be purchased online.
Available now:
A Catalogue of Clothes for Sale from the Closet of Christine Abella–perpetual student, ukay fan, and compulsive traveler by Delilah Aguilar, Chingbee Cruz, and Adam David
Coming soon:
Marienbad by Chiles Samaniego
5EX by Chuck Pascual
fled, their faces turned by Christian Tablazon
These are the first four books of the Y&BB’s Documents series. To read more about Documents, click here.
Books may be shipped or picked up personally. Books ordered by November 30 will ship by December 15 / may be picked up at BLTX on December 7.
“This is an unusual, vividly imagined pairing of richly textured images with dense, sharply observed, often wryly humorous miniature and smaller-than-miniature stories: my favorite may be ‘On Spelunking’ (why is our mysterious narrator wearing ballet flats in a cave?). Then again, maybe it’s the Thomas Bernhard-like, breathless ‘On Exercises in Futility.’ Very enjoyable.” -Lydia Davis
Words and Pictures by Delilah Aguilar, Chingbee Cruz, and Adam David
Published by the Youth & Beauty Brigade
P300
Pre-orders accepted until November 30
Books available for pick up at BLTX on December 7
Books shipped by December 10
Here’s how to pre-order:
1. Email us at ybb.orders@gmail.com. Specify the number of copies in your order. Let us know if you want your book/s shipped of if you plan to pick them up. Shipping costs (LBC) are P150 for one book and P200 for 2-3 books.
2. We’ll send you an email with your total amount due and our BPI account information.
3. Deposit your payment and email us the following information: amount deposited, date, time, BPI branch.
A Catalogue of Clothes for Sale from the Closet of Christine Abella—perpetual student, ukay fan, and compulsive traveler is the first book to be published by the Youth & Beauty Brigade as part of its Documents imprint. New titles to be published under the Documents series will also be announced soon. For those interested in submitting manuscripts, the call for submissions is available here. Documents will be launched and books will be sold at BLTX (Ilyong’s Kalantiaw, Project 4) on December 7.
Save the date! The third Better Living Through Xeroxography a.k.a. BLTX, a small press expo, will be held on December 7 (Friday), 8 pm onwards, at Ilyong’s Kalantiaw, Project 4, Quezon City.
If you are interested in books and comics and anthologies and zines by young and sort-of-young Filipino authors; if you are wondering what Philippine writing not published by mainstream presses and not carried by National Bookstore or Fully Booked looks like; if you have a thing for limited editions, handmade books, and strange/useless/lovely/artsy trinkets and objects; if you are in the mood for free beer (first 100 beers free!), free chicken lollipops (first dozen plates free!), and free videoke (no judgment!), then see you on December 7!
If you are in any way involved in Do-It-Yourself publishing or art-making efforts, you might want to join BLTX 3. All you need to do is get in touch ASAP (or no later than November 23) with BLTX organizer Adam David at juncruznaligas@gmail.com.
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