Blake Butler

http://www.gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideandsowilldrphil.com/

Blake Butler lives in Atlanta. His third book, There Is No Year, is forthcoming April 2011 from Harper Perennial.

Harmony Korine Q/A

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Film / 18 Comments
March 6th, 2012 / 6:52 pm

3 New from Action Books: Burning City, Cronk, Hyesoon

If you don’t own every title Action Books puts out, I’d say you’re slipping. Here are three new just released units for that library of teeth:

Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity ed. by Jed Rasula & Tim Conley [like 400 pp full of insane shit discoveries]

Skin Horse by Olivia Cronk [I've already read this twice, it's wow]

All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi [Which after Hyesoon's first book, Mommy Must Be A Mountain of Feathers, also from Action, I'm ready to be killed again]

Eat!!!!!!!!!!!!

Presses / 5 Comments
March 6th, 2012 / 3:20 pm

What did you do this weekend that was good? What did you buy this weekend that you think will be good?

RiFF RaFF SODMG & Zachary German Related?

You can try to tell me these two bros don’t share blood, but I won’t believe you.

Behind the Scenes / 8 Comments
February 26th, 2012 / 10:15 pm

What’s the best book you’ve read so far this year?

RIP William Gay [1943-2012]

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Author News / 8 Comments
February 24th, 2012 / 8:44 pm

Socrates Adams’s Everything’s Fine

Everything’s Fine

Author Spotlight / 2 Comments
February 21st, 2012 / 2:56 pm

Aase Berg’s Transfer Fat

Now available from Ugly Duckling, translated by Johannes Goransson. !!! Hyper-compressed gasoline language. !!! Hungryx99999.

Joyelle McSweeney on Transfer Fat.

Author News / 2 Comments
February 20th, 2012 / 1:01 pm

“Las Casas” by Patrick Somerville

Two men sit in a booth at a bar.

They’re talking.

One’s a little older than the other.

The older one says: “Have you ever heard of a man named Bartolomé de Las Casas?”

The other says: “I don’t think so.”

“Dominican monk named Bartolomé de Las Casas, writing in the sixteenth century, Bartolomé de Las Casas. Okay. No. He was Spanish. He came over to see the New World. And he was totally and immediately fucking horrified by what he saw the soldiers and the conquistadors doing and so he just went right to the notebook and tried to record as many of the atrocities as he could? Just knee-jerk This is what I can do. Someone needs to remember this. Someone needs to see it and remember it and bear witness. READ MORE >

Excerpts / 15 Comments
February 14th, 2012 / 12:44 pm

RIP Mike Kelley (1954–2012)

Mike Kelley at UBUWeb

Blind Items / 3 Comments
February 1st, 2012 / 6:03 pm

Melissa Broder’s Meat Heart

Available for preorder today! Melissa! Melissa!

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Author News / 11 Comments
February 1st, 2012 / 12:54 pm

RIP

[via Vanessa Place's facebook]

Film / 26 Comments
January 29th, 2012 / 1:20 pm

Gertrude Stein Bro Reaction Triptych

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Random / 9 Comments
January 26th, 2012 / 1:11 pm

Tao Lin & Giancarlo DiTrapano read “Andrew”

Read “Andrew”: A Dialogue of Texts in the Year of Drugs and Kindness

Film / 10 Comments
January 25th, 2012 / 7:26 pm

Most compelling and/or fucked up sounding contemporary classical compositions, anyone? I need some space.

Shitty emails trying to solicit posts on a blog

I keep getting these emails from people run by bots or corporate whoevers trying to “place” an article here, I have no idea how these things get shat into the world, why there is a world at all for it to be shitted into, can you look at this email and think about it for me and think about it for me, who writes this, why they write this and sends it out hoping for what, why people are alive, what could come of this in any fashion anywhere and online, how this is different from any other kind of writing:

 

from Ginny Grimsley newsandexperts2@newsandexperts.com
reply-to ginny@newsandexperts.com
to blake@htmlgiant.com
date Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:27 PM
subject Article: Romance of Traveling Gone

Hi -

If you would like to run the below article, please feel free to do so. I am able to provide images if you would like some to accompany it.

If you’re interested in interviewing Henry Biernacki for a feature/Q&A or having him write an exclusive article for you, let me know and I’ll gladly work out details.

Thanks,
Ginny

Ginny Grimsley
National Print Campaign Manager
News and Experts
3748 Turman Loop #101
Wesley Chapel, FL 33544
Tel: 727-443-7115, Extension 207
www.newsandexperts.com

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Random / No Comments
January 19th, 2012 / 1:26 am

Sean Kilpatrick’s fuckscapes

This is a book you need. Language reset. Guidebook.

“The violent, sexual zone of television and entertainment is made to saturate that safe-haven, the American Family. The result is a zone of violent ambience, a ‘fuckscape’: where every object or word can be made to do horrific acts. As when torturers use banal objects on its victims, it is the most banal objects that become the most horrific (and hilarious) in Sean Kilpatrick’s brilliant first book.” – Johannes Goransson, author of A New Quarantine Will Take My Place

“Pregnancy dream of poetry has this Sean Kilpatrick book by the fist. You learn to signal to others from the woken state, here, line-by-line. Do you have any extra money? Buy this book! If you have to skip lunch, buy THIS BOOK! “I held my breath so hard I ended up in the country.” Some poetry you read is forgotten, and never remembered. Some poetry, this poetry, Sean Kilpatrick’s poetry, is a manual for exciting the engine to throw you out of the vanquished pleasures. Here is your I.V. drip of sphinx’s blood.” – CAConrad, author of The Book of Frank

TAKE EAT

Author Spotlight / No Comments
January 16th, 2012 / 3:56 pm

What’s your favorite thing you’ve ever written, hmmm?

Steve Roggenbuck on Misspellings

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Craft Notes / 14 Comments
January 15th, 2012 / 5:30 pm

Fund Mark Baumer’s 50 Books in 1 Year

The first and only Kickstarter I’ll probably ever pledge to fund:

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Web Hype / 21 Comments
January 14th, 2012 / 5:59 pm