July 2012
42 posts
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Little Rock
mybedisapoolandthewallsareonfire:
Her apartment began to take on a claustrophobic quality, and she retreated daily to a nearby park where she watched people walk their dogs. Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.
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Megan Boyle
http://muumuuhouse.com/mb.fiction4.html
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sheilaheti:
A podcast interview in which Brad Listi interviews Sheila Heti for his show, Other People (59 mins).
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The Situation in American Writing: Blake Butler →
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“i want to kill everyone you know and then myself
stop staring at me
my body...”
– Ellen Kennedy (via grilledcactus)
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"Nice" by Tao Lin via Thought Catalog →
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“Just pretend my writing is like somebody else’s
What things are important to...”
– Matthew Rohrer, Second Poem for Theodore (via grammatolatry)
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Writers sure are a moody bunch.
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Here are some books about death, written by people who committed suicide.
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“I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted...”
– Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
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Joy Williams interview by Tao Lin →
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“It’s like, the first person to draw a picture of a fire ended up with a picture...”
– Sam Pink, No One Can Do Anything Worse to You Than You Can (via popserial)
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Megan Boyle’s Plausible Conspiracy Theories →
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Who Wrote Ulysses
Ulysses is approximately 270,000 words of content generated by a spambot from the year 6018. Due to a programming error, it was accidentally transmitted to what could best be explained as a “local area network,” but what James Joyce identified as “something rectangular under…
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“In outer space, there is a lost manatee orbiting the earth, free from sharks,...”
– Ellen Kennedy
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“someone should make a “30 likely to die before 30” anthology.”
– Sam Pink
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“Is the meaning of life to get excited about someone, genuinely feel interested...”
– Megan Boyle
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“Godzilla let out a soft roar, which sounded more like a depressed and...”
– Godzilla by Brandon Scott Gorrell
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"So What If Buddha Knew" by Matthew Rohrer →
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Does the novel have a future? →
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reddit re "My Experiences on Bath Salts by Mallory... →
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“i will probably have negative thoughts if you ‘slip in’ information that you...”
– my personal ad from the stranger’s dating website is entirely unsuccessful by Brandon Scott Gorrell
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“I fell asleep and woke up and got a bottle of wine and took a shower while...”
– Ellen Kennedy | Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs (via elanormcinerney)
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“Although each human’s world of noumenon is unique and private–direct access by...”
– Does the Novel Have a Future? The Answer Is In This Essay! | Observer by Tao Lin
(via bicycleklub)
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My Experiences on Bath Salts by Mallory Whitten →
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Mallory Whitten dream →
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Stephen Tully Dierks re 2008-2012 →
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"Two and a Half Hours of Sleep" by Noah Cicero →
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Steve Roggenbuck re "shared memes"/community →
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Homage to Attila Joszef by Matthew Rohrer →
My back hurts. On one side.
Also I feel that I am simply too large a creature,
that I am spindly. I have lost certain abilities.
I used to be a better driver.
Most of my pleasure comes from eating.
Eating fulfills more than hunger.
Carmina Burana touches me for personal reasons
related to performing it in high school; in other respects
I know it is worn and trite.
I am slowly wearing down...
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