new story published on Banango Street

titled 'Partial Transcripts Of Selected Phone Calls To London Metropolitan Police Force, 12 November 2012'

you can check it out HERE

The Prodigal reviewed on i am alt lit

Confusing review can be read HERE

Extracts:

the formatting was ‘fun’ and ‘interesting’

really made things pop,

especially changing fonts in dialogue

‘great job’

and

enjoy that it was ‘open’ ended

leaves ya thinking

‘well what now, pal?’

which is always a great way to ‘end’ a novel

just enough ‘satisfaction’ for it to be enjoyable

and still leave ‘something to be desired’ 

The Prodigal is reviewed on HTMLGiant

Check it out HERE

Frank Hinton says: "Allison’s story plays like a great hand. He flops a pair of failed suicides, bluffs his parents on money, runs away from his life without anything in the pocket. There’s an eloquent poker story here about a poker player and a dark little kid without nuts."

Thank you, Frank. ily

Dazed Digital covers The Prodigal

and other Civil Coping Mechanisms stuff

check it out HERE

Thank you to the genius, Sam Riviere

final stories in the reading series

Philosophy / Science Of Man / Ethics / General / General Science Of Good and Evil. Of Duties in General. Of Virtue. Of the Necessity of Being Virtuous, etc., by James Tadd Adcox

Water, by Blake Butler

May We Shed These Human Bodies, by Amber Sparks

videos stories genius

Go Like This, by Lorrie Moore

The Worst (1960-1971), by Dennis Cooper

 
I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur, by Mathias Svalina

16:PM, by Amelia Gray

three more stories

Standoff, by xTx

Sun Girl, by Frank Hinton

Chicken Father, by Sarah Rose Etter

three more stories I read

The Prisoners, by Scott McClanahan

Old Tampons, by Richard Chiem

 Voodoo Child, by Roxane Gay

Review of The Prodigal on Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Read it HERE.

'Allison’s evocations of poker — whether online or in unseemly casinos; whether enmeshed in a game or simply obsessing over particular players — is skillful and immersive. There is much to admire in this novel, and even more promise for the books that will follow.'

more pictures

The beautiful Hannah Lee with my book

The beautiful Giles Ruffer with my book

new published story and a video project

A story by me was published in Untoward

Check out the beautiful artwork comissioned to go with it:

I am doing a project where I will be reading a short story out loud every day for two weeks

Here is day one: Signifying Nothing, by David Foster Wallace

interview at the mancunion wrt The Prodigal

check it out HERE

I constructed a five part course

Hopefully there should be a balance between criticism/fiction/poetry on each. This is an incomplete version of the course. I hope to receive suggestions on more selections for each section. I also plan to add specifics and aims for each section. I would like the course to run from the start of May. It will be free to anyone who wishes to participate and will be conducted over Spreecast for two hours, once a fortnight. Feel free to come into the Spreecast even if you haven't read all/any of the books.

The links provided below are all mainly for Americans.

Coverage on Alt Lit Gossip

Virtual Ontology

A course by Alexander J Allison

Course Book

Web Aesthetics – Vito Campanelli

Context as the New Content – Hyperreality and Virtual Space

Non-Places: An Introduction to Super Modernity – Marc Auge

Simulacra and Simulation – Jean Baudrillard [particularly the chapters on Las Vegas and Disneyland: http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/articles/disneyworld-company/]

There Is No Year – Blake Butler

The Marbled Swarm – Dennis Cooper

The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail – Gregory Sherl

The Helmet of Horror – Victor Pevlin

Method and Anti-Method – The Construction of a Possible Literature

Architectures of Possibility - Lance Olsen

The Map of the System of Human Knowledge – James Tadd Adcox

The Age of Wire and String – Ben Marcus

Octet – David Foster Wallace [in Brief Interviews With Hideous Men]

The Garden of Forking Paths/The Library of Babel – Jorges Luis Borges [in Fictiones/ Labyrinths]

An Unkept Person – The Limits of a Virtual Identity

In Great Company – Michael J Seidlinger

I Don’t Respect Female Expression – Frank Hinton

You Private Person – Richard Chiem AND/OR AM/PM – Amelia Gray

Appropriation and Salvage – Blasphemy and the Uncreative Act

Uncreative Writing – Kenneth Goldsmith

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - Jorges Luis Borges [in Fictiones/ Labyrinths]

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein AND/OR Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer – Gabriel Blackwell

Download Helvetica For Free – Steve Roggenbuck

Transgression and Pathology – The Repressed as Creator

Heroines – Kate Zambreno

Interior Chambers: The Emily Dickenson Homestead – Diana Fuss [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/differences/v010/10.3fuss.html]

Dora: A Headcase – Lidia Yuknavitch

Person – Sam Pink [particularly focus on the ‘Other Version’ Chapters: 3/4, 10/11, 15/16, 22/23, 25/26, 27/28, 30/31]

Fuckscapes – Sean Kilpatrick

another beautiful thing

Chris Killen wrote a poem called 'A Dog Will Appear'

Click refresh for a randomly generated line

http://www.todayadogwillappear.com/

on my obsession with exploiting medium

here's a review that abuses virtual architecture in wonderful ways

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/reviews/infinity-blade/

ouevre

Everything I write is about deceit in some form. Mainly self-deception. I am fascinated by delusion; by the discrepancy between how one views the self, and how the self is viewed by the other.

bits and pieces on The Prodigal

Trailer for The Prodigal

The Prodigal is out now from Alex Allison on Vimeo.

Really well considered review and interview on PokerNews HERE

Chapter from The Prodigal available to read on Extract(s) HERE

Really odd/bad review here on Alt Lit Press by a guy who clearly didn't finish reading the novel

+ more lovely people with the book

i took part in a podcast

with Sadcore Dadwave

it's called Two Joke Girls

check it out HERE

Now available through Barnes & Noble

If you don't wish to support Amazon, The Prodigal is available through Barnes & Noble HERE

Early coverage & Artifice 5

Artifice 5 is available to preorder HERE. It includes a story by me called 'Past the End'.

The Prodigal news

On Alt Lit Gossip, Frank Hinton says:
  
"Alexander J Allison writes quite unlike anything earthly, his prose is so rich it might be fattening…"

Thank you, Frank.

A photo of Kate Boyes with my book: