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.
http://www.gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideandsowilldrphil.com/
Blake Butler lives in Atlanta. His third book, There Is No Year, is forthcoming April 2011 from Harper Perennial.
Everyone, please help us welcome our last 3 new lovely contributors: Sean Lovelace (author of How Some People Like Their Eggs), Matt Bell (editor of The Collagist and author of, among many things, the forthcoming How They Were Found), and Lily Hoang (author of Changing, Parabola, and about 50 others). We’re busting up!
Of course ‘Best Of Year’ or ‘Top Ten’ lists are stupid: does that mean they have no value? Do you yell at Polaroids?
These are too incredible not to repost, from Bright Stupid Confetti, considering I’ve watched them each 5x now. Created by Niles Atallah, Cristobal Leon, & Joaquin Cociña.
LUCIA
LUIS
A new ebook has been posted at Lamination Colony: Georgic, With Eclogues for Interrogators by Mark Cunningham, available in HTML and PDF. Please enjoy.
No such thing as great writing advice from writers. I learned most from candy and smothering and sitting on my ass.
As well, Mike Tyson’s got some knowledge:
“My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.”
“There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That’s okay. Just spell my name right.”
“One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile retard.”
“I really dig Hannibal. Hannibal had real guts. He rode elephants into Cartilage.”
“I try to catch him right on the tip of the nose, because I try to push the bone into the brain.”
“I could have knocked him out in the third round but I wanted to do it slowly, so he would remember this night for a long time.”
“I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating.”
“I’m on the Zoloft to keep from killing y’all.”
– I never read philosophy.
– Why not?
– I don’t understand it. […]
– Why did you write your books?
– I don’t know. I’m not an intellectual. I just feel things. I invented Molloy and the rest on the day I understood how stupid I’d been. I began then to write down the things I feel.
– Beckett
[Thanks Jon Cone]
This beautiful little collage video is a section of Mathias’s book-length poem Above the Fold. Another section is available as the chapbook The Viral Lease from Small Anchor Press. Feel that.
“and now this headache is getting stronger.”
David Lynch explains why he turned down George Lucas’s offer to direct Return of the Jedi.
Please welcome three new Giants to the fold: Brian Foley (who made his guest-posted debut below, and more forthcoming); Alexis Orgera (author of Illuminatrix and all around rad woman); and Nathaniel Otting (proprietor of Schoen Books, publisher, translator, and much more). We’re thinking they’re going to help us squawk more about poetics, translation, language, and a whole lot of else.