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Lindsay Hunter’s Daddy’s
Today marks the release of a book I’ve been waiting for itchingly for a good long while now: Lindsay Hunter’s could-not-be-better-titled collection Daddy’s, new from Featherproof. If you’ve ever seen Lindsay read live, you already are probably pressing buy: she slams heads. The book is shaped like a tackle box and guaranteed to be stuffed full of more freak than you might be able to handle in one read. She kind of makes Harry Crews and Angela Carter look like Jerry Seinfeld.
“In Daddy’s, babies mean blood, and nipples are like “lit match heads.” Lindsay Hunter transgresses where others fear to tread.” —Terese Svoboda, author of Pirate Talk or Mermalade
“Each tiny, diamond story—precise, comic, poised at the edge of surreal—contains one brutal life force tearing itself off the page. You can hold Daddy’s in your hands and feel it breathing.” —Deb Olin Unferth, author of Vacation
“Lindsay Hunter won’t be caught lie-telling in the name of nice. The miniature stories in Daddy’s are fierce and unapologetic. When the We’s she voices say the axblade was bloody with dirt, what they mean is the neighbor’s swingset creaked and moaned next door and we heard a child’s voice say Never ever. When I’m looking again for my next undoing, I’ll crack open Daddy’s, and get the true news they tell us we’d be better off not hearing.”—Kyle Minor, author of In the Devil’s Territory
For a taste, here’s one of the stories from the book, about a messed up baby: That One.
Get a further peek inside and place your order here.
Tags: Daddy's, lindsay hunter
YES
Wow, “That One” is a fucked up story… great stuff.
You should read this one also, because it is not in the book and it is amazing: http://www.eyeshot.net/meat.html
sweetness. i would also like to say lindsay hunter is a very nice person IRL. as is blake.
I agree. She is nice. And those words be wicked.
Tim, there’s so many great lines in that piece its hard to choose, but:
“I’m going to deliver your birthday cake out my womb. It’s a marble with buttercream frosting and its name is Anything Goes.”
…is right up there. I’m a fan.
Very excited for this. So bummed that I was/am sick and couldn’t make it to the Hideout last night, was planning on going. I’m definitely picking up a copy and will have LH sign it next time I see her at Quickies or something. Congratulations, Lindsay.
SO EXCITED FOR THIS THAT I CAN’T STOP TYPING IN CAPS. Lindsay Hunter is a-fucking-mazing.
that bitch is sexy
specially guzzling milk.
(you also)
I want Lindsay Hunter to fuck me with a strap on.
YES
fuck yeah. just ordered. except why does it say, deliver in 1-4 months? cmon amazon. still 4 months from now, this shit’s going to be ill.
Wow, “That One” is a fucked up story… great stuff.
You should read this one also, because it is not in the book and it is amazing: http://www.eyeshot.net/meat.html
sweetness. i would also like to say lindsay hunter is a very nice person IRL. as is blake.
I agree. She is nice. And those words be wicked.
Tim, there’s so many great lines in that piece its hard to choose, but:
“I’m going to deliver your birthday cake out my womb. It’s a marble with buttercream frosting and its name is Anything Goes.”
…is right up there. I’m a fan.
Very excited for this. So bummed that I was/am sick and couldn’t make it to the Hideout last night, was planning on going. I’m definitely picking up a copy and will have LH sign it next time I see her at Quickies or something. Congratulations, Lindsay.
SO EXCITED FOR THIS THAT I CAN’T STOP TYPING IN CAPS. Lindsay Hunter is a-fucking-mazing.
that bitch is sexy
specially guzzling milk.
(you also)
I want Lindsay Hunter to fuck me with a strap on.
fuck yeah. just ordered. except why does it say, deliver in 1-4 months? cmon amazon. still 4 months from now, this shit’s going to be ill.
Amen.
I am a Lindsay Hunter fan.
Amen.
I am a Lindsay Hunter fan.
Lindsay Hunter never got the deserved props. What a beautiful 3 point shooter!
I’m fired up about this, planning to review it in a few weeks alongside Amelia Gray’s Museum of the Weird (for Vol. 1 Brooklyn). Quick funny story: when I picked up Daddy’s at the pobox the other day, I was so excited by the book design and the first few sentences that I walked home with visions of publishing and writing possibilities in my head, neglecting to stop at the grocery store for dinner essentials. A block from my apartment I realized my DUH and turned around. I blame Featherproof and Lindsay for the excess exercise.
Lindsay Hunter never got the deserved props. What a beautiful 3 point shooter!
I’m fired up about this, planning to review it in a few weeks alongside Amelia Gray’s Museum of the Weird (for Vol. 1 Brooklyn). Quick funny story: when I picked up Daddy’s at the pobox the other day, I was so excited by the book design and the first few sentences that I walked home with visions of publishing and writing possibilities in my head, neglecting to stop at the grocery store for dinner essentials. A block from my apartment I realized my DUH and turned around. I blame Featherproof and Lindsay for the excess exercise.
oh man… um… yeah…
oh man… um… yeah…
My review of this is now up at TNB:
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/rthomas/2010/11/daddys/
SPOILER ALERT: Loved it.