Janey Smith is a writer.
Janey Smith’s collection of stories Very Ape, will be published before the next failed apocalypse. Promise.
The title of Janey Smith’s collection of stories is taken from the title of a song by rock band Nirvana. Nirvana liked to make music that rocked. They sang songs, played guitars, beat on a drum. Then everybody listened. “What’s that?” “I don’t know, do you want to dance?” “No, I want to destroy.” “Me, too!” That’s what Nirvana’s music did. It made you want to destroy, which is very much like dancing.
Janey Smith’s collection of stories, Very Ape, feels like it is as ‘anarchic’ as Nirvana’s rock music. Like Nirvana’s rock music, Janey Smith’s collection of stories is tight, violent, fast and cute.
Janey Smith has already released a number of singles from her collection of stories, Very Ape. The stories “Stay By Me” and “In the Shadows of Disney’s Dream, Debased” were released on Roxane Gay’s PANK in January, 2010. Later that month, Reynard Seifert released “The Shit Storm” on HAHA Clever. Keith Nathan Brown championed Janey Smith’s story “I Want To Be A Camera” on Big Other. After which Kate Zambreno put out Janey Smith’s “Vignettes: Short Fictions on My Life as a Cheerleader” on Everyday Genius.
Then, Blake Butler, who’s famous, put this one story “Total Retard” in the final issue of LAMINATION COLONY.
Also, look what Carolyn Zaikowski and Mike Young did with “Everything Britney Spears” at Dinosaur Bees.
Stories from Janey Smith’s Very Ape are forthcoming in PANK 5, Artifice Magazine 3, Sententia 2 and Stymie Magazine.
Start acting funny, we need revolution now.
Janey Smith has been interviewed in Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine.
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