December 2012
70 posts
Watchmuumuuhouse:
Mira Gonzalez reading poems by Tao Lin at $ YOUNG MONEY POETRY $
“The poem […] as a piece of literary art that encourages us to be sympathetic and...”
– line from an essay by sian s. rathore on sometimes my heart pushes my ribs by ellen kennedy. (via altlitgossip)
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saturday nights are like monday nights except i...
seemstween:
When I am sad, I masturbate.
It feels pathetic for about 10 minutes and OK for about 30 seconds.
Not because of the sensations
but because my hand is in my pants and I am pretending
it’s your hand (even though you are right-handed and I use my left) and you see, still confusing your hand for mine is an embarrassing thing to do,
even in the dark
Then there is the guilt of...
review of airplane food by gabby gaby
marcusslease:
this was written from the outside. Still sort of outside. But didn’t know anything about the whole Alt Lit thang. Just reading it and making connections to other thangs i’ve read/watched etc.
Now I could say a lot more of course.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-new-poetics-of-confession/
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Same fuckin kid
cunny4:
Still same dumb fuckin kid w drug ravaged 80 year old body Fuckin birth defects fuckin face
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Watchcuttyspot:
[ELAINE SUN VIDEO RESPONSE INTERVIEW]
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here are my favorite moments:
‘In the fifth grade I wrote a chapter book in a spiral notebook . It was about a lonely girl who had a garden and she planted vegetables to make salads. It didn’t get published but my parents liked it.’
‘I wouldn’t want to be alive before 1900 at all’
‘Ideally I could believe that everything written was...
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altlitgossip:
ORDER IT HERE... seriously NOW it’s xTx’s new book. NOW
Good Friday by Samantha Conlon
twentysomethingpress:
leaning over to touch you at the art exhibition, some butterfly paintings or Rothko, you flick me away awkwardly, hit my palm and thumb, a signal of my failing walk in silence to a cafe with blueberry or just berry in the title, order muffins and coffee, also sit in silence, both looking distantly out the window, you pay $10 for it, comment on how Europe is cheaper, it...
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Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N":... →
roxanegay:
First read this awesome rant at Melville House. Then read the editorial that spawned the awesome rant about shoddy writing about American poverty.
Here’s are my favorite parts.
First, the safety net works too well:
This is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a…
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