My New Book Is Out! I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur from Mud Luscious Press

My second book, I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur, is available now from Mud Luscious Press.

You can, if you want, order it here: http://mudlusciouspress.com/books/svalina/i-am-a-very-productive-entrepreneur/.


The book is a series of absurdist business plans. And it's a novel(la).


You can read excerpts from the book here, & here.





Here's what some people said about the book:


In this joyful critique of a Randian, post-industrial society, Mathias Svalina comments on both the compulsive desire to make the inconsumable & the often intangible recalcitrance of our attempts to create something useful in a world increasingly characterized by a manufactured sense of lack, anomie & disaffection, where we are daily beset by ‘a kind of numbness, a shadow of desire or fear offset against a blank world.’ Svalina refuses this numbness & offers something else, something completely stunning, in its place.
Gabriel Gudding



This is a subversive & necessary book: the quixotic entrepreneurial spirit of individualist American capitalism is revealed as an inherently poetic construct, one that rests on theater, liminality, imaginative drive, contradiction, & failure. I AM A VERY PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEUR is poignant & brilliant; it’s worth the investment.
Christian Hawkey








If you buy this book & you don't like it I will give you one gram of my blood.

Bitchin Bajas

Thanks to Nate for turning me on to these guys.

Me On Reading

http://laughingyeti.blogspot.com/2011/07/mathias-svalina-on-reading.html

Thanks to Shome Dasgupta for asking me to contribute to this interesting blog.

"The Pregnant Couple" on Matchbook

My story "The Pregnant Couple" is now up on Matchbook: http://www.matchbooklitmag.com.

Maybe you want to read it. I already read it, so I'm not going to.

Blackbird: A reading by me & Allison Titus

If you like such things, you can listen to a reading that Allison & I gave at VCU in Dec of last year on Blackbird. Here's the link: http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v10n1/features/svalina_titus/reading_page.shtml.

Her reading is killer, of course. Mine is half from Destruction Myth & half from Hosanna Mansions, a mostly unpublished manuscript of poems that are about my dad & me during his struggle with the cancer that ended his life.