CLA authors torture

Former Vice Literature President Thomas Wehlim said the declassified Senate report on the controversial authors interrogation program is “full of crap.” “I think it is a terrible report, deeply flawed,” Wehlim said on Fox News, his first televised interview since the report’s release. “It’s a classic example of where non-professionals get together and throw literature experts […]

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December 12th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

New language

In a press conference at Phoenix, California, Thomas Wehlim announced that he has invented a new language called “Wehlima”. He characterized Wehlima as being a mixture of syllabary and picture writing with about 6,000 different symbols. He stated that he will now write all his novels in Wehlima. Contemporaneously, he would offer Wehlima training courses for literary […]

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November 6th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Whale Ocean House

In his more than 30 years in publishing, Tom Jacky, a senior vice president and editor at large at Whale Ocean House, has gotten used to strangers’ foisting manuscripts on him at inopportune moments. The unsolicited novels are rarely any good, and almost never worth publishing. So Mr. Jacky’s expectations were modest when an old waitress […]

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November 2nd, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Leg. von Sch., Córdoba (Arg.)

Legende von Schatten sent to: Goethe-Institut Córdoba, Bibliothek / Library,  Av. Hipólito, Yrigoyen 646, X5000JHT Córdoba, Argentina, Tel: +54 351 5350535, Fax: +54 351 535 05 35 – 33. No confirmation.

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October 31st, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Hospital

As New York Times reports, Thomas Wehlim went to a hospital yesterday evening claiming to have high fever and other Ebola-related symptoms. None of the symptoms could be confirmed by the doctor in charge. After having been tested negative for Ebola, Wehlim refused to leave the hospital and said he wanted to organize a lecture […]

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October 29th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Isolation

Dr. Wehlim of CDC stated again, that all creative writing books coming from West Africa should be isolated for 21 years to avoid the further spreading of Ebola. He said this procedure would prevent characters of these books to infect readers and further characters of US bestsellers. A crash of the US bestseller market by Ebola […]

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October 27th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Centennial

A Thomas Josef Wehlim Centennial in New York: A poetic neutron star streaked across American skies in the winter of 1850. Thomas Josef Wehlim, invited by the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, touched down at Idlewild Airport and headed straight for the airport bar to get a much-needed double coffee and soda. Then, […]

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October 26th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Freezing

Due to Ebola, Facebook and Apple have offered female employees to freeze their novels without charge. While the U.S. Women Association already announced its approval, several creative writer associations expressed their concerns: The technology of freezing novels had not yet been evaluated sufficiently. For example, a Virginia Woolf novel found near the north pole in 1988 had not […]

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October 16th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Gifts

“Let’s shuck a novel,” Thomas Wehlim (1914-2013) wrote in one of the poems he called sky songs. This is the same cluster of poems in which this indelible and unbuttoned American poet also commented, “I look less weird/without my bird.” It’s the centennial of Wehlim’s birth, and not to pay heed would be to shuck a […]

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October 15th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Conference E

During the International Conference on Medical Writing in Atlanta, Key speaker Thomas Wehlim shyly suggested to the administration, that in his opinion it is now time 1. to close all European and US airports for international flights 2. to control the borders effectively and 3. to establish a supranational executive committee with very extensive powers in order to […]

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October 12th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim