Martin De Leon

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Jane Jacobs, 89, has died

Urban theorist, philosopher of cities and brilliant thinker, Jane Jacobs passed away today in Toronto. Known for her groundbreaking book from 1961, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, still widely read today. Having influenced everyone from egghead DJ's to hipster academics, she'll be missed.

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Hello. I'm a writer, editor and music journalist living in New York. I'm currently a fiction student in the MFA Program at Syracuse University. I used to live in Austin, work for The World Almanac and wear more Geto Boys T-shirts. I'm working on some short stories and a novel. Contact me via e-mail here.

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Beasts
(Flash Fiction)
Wonder Showzen Interview
(Blank Screen)
J Penry Interview
(Blank Screen)
Canadians Die, Too
(The New York Press)
Tomorrow Rap: Saul Williams, Rob Sonic and Busdriver
(Signal to Noise)

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I do band bios, press releases, editing, Spanish translation, copywriting, music and film reviews. Contact me for rates.

Works

I'm working on a novel. Houston, in the year 2024, is filled with rappers-as-sorcerers and a 33-year-old Mexican-American DJ named Juan who lives with his parents. What is more sci-fi than rich Mexicans? Living in River Oaks while a mysterious red Buick Regal roams the neighborhood and a pint-sized Rhodes Scholar rapper who is obsessed with Schopenhauer. A part-satire, part-thriller, part-naco science-fiction novel where David Foster Wallace meets UGK? Look for it on bookshelves in 2093.

Fantasma Press is an indie publishing house based in Brooklyn, NY. Genre stories, weird stories, avant-garde/experimental fiction, Spanish-language fiction and dope drawings and essays are forthcoming in the future. I also use it to publish tiny chapbooks of shit I know would never sell anywhere else. Give me your $$$.

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