Jun 20 2008
About
Who We Is:
TheHuChron is many things to very few. It is, at some level, about writing and literature and reading, and may occasionally serve as a tool for connecting like-minded creatives. But it also takes an entropic approach to cultural criticism—meanderings, rants, hallucinations and digressions, mojo, metaphysics, piracy, journalism, cyber-tech, hegemony, dandyism, and escapism to name only some of what you might find. We are not accountable for what we post.
Above all, The Human Chronicle is self-indulgent and always mercenary. I’d like to think I’m strong enough to resurrect literature as a contact sport, but I’m too frail and weak, and my bones rattle under my skin like loose gravel. Too, we’re not above taking a few cheap shots, whether to drum up publicity or sell ad space. (In fact, that’s our only goal—sensationalism and libel designed-to-sell, and enough advertising to keep our “baby mamas in juicy-couture.”)
None of that is true. No one makes it out alive here. And so, in the end, TheHuChron is a collection of hiccups and false starts, maintained, in all seriousness, out of a room at the Bel Air Motel in Austin, Texas, among the freeloaders, derelicts, and by-the-hour patrons who populate the aphotic zones of civilization.
What happens from here is only speculation, though we think our theory is solid. We can promise you, however, more of the same, with something a bit more light-hearted now and again. We are the good guys, after all, the heroes and survivors of 80s decadence and 90s apathy. At the very least, I hope The Human Chronicle might provide you with a little constructive entertainment—well written stories by men and women with nothing to lose.
Good luck and God speed.
William LaPage (editor, writer, and publisher)
As a philanthropist, marauder, and author of numerous books, including Truncheon and the Bastard (2000) and Fifty-Dollar Bang (2003), his most recent book, The Vague Terrain (2008), won critical acclaim for its uncompromising and darkly humorous investigations into the lives of men and women existing on the margins of society. This collection gathers from the past five years his bestselling fiction and was the final publication of Guerrilla Ink Press—a company LaPage co-founded at age nineteen. He is currently Writer-in-Residence at the Bel Air Motel in Austin, Texas, where he is contributing editor and Master of Hegemony of The Human Chronicle’s Global Affairs Desk.
On-going Projects:
THC is proud to present Michael Langley’s first novel, which explores the themes and issues of our modern culture in a lightning-paced, cut-throat thriller. At a time when the U.S. government outsources its intelligence operations to private firms, Langley’s novel tracks the exploits of “information liaison” and former counter-terrorism expert, Paul Levin. This novel finds Levin forced back into a world of corporate espionage and bioterrorism when one of the world’s largest bio-tech corporations, TriVesta, loses contact with an American hospital deep in the Bolivian jungle. Hired to investigate, Levin uncovers a private war between TriVesta and the Bolivian cartels and discovers a conspiracy involving a secret that may prove to be humankind’s greatest revelation.
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