Nick Antosca
http://brothercyst.blogspot.com/
Nick Antosca is the author of two novels: Fires (2006, Impetus Press) and Midnight Picnic (2009, Word Riot Press). Antosca was born in Louisiana and currently lives in New York City.
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Do you have a literary agent? Do you think you want/need a literary agent? Has a literary agent ever sold anything for you? Are agents a good thing for literature or just a necessary element of publishing?
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Nick Antosca—
How come we never have writer sex tape “scandals”? That could actually be great promotion. (Cue release of Tao Lin “sex tape.”) I suppose it isn’t prudent to list writers whose sex tapes I’d like to see. I’ll do it in my head.
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Tyrant Books gets a writeup. Check out that list. Thus far, he has scheduled for fall publication How Much of Us There Was by Michael Kimball, which was originally released in 2005 by HarperCollins UK; and for spring 2011, Read the Child This Book or He Will Suffer by Blake Butler. Lincoln Dahl by Sam Michel will be published in either spring or fall 2011.
ON BITTERNESS & HOW TO LIVE
good in Greenberg
This article about hipster darling Greta Gerwig made me think about the unfortunate and sometimes very talented actors and actresses I know who look very much like other breakout stars. I went to school with an actress who looks like Greta Gerwig. I wonder if Greta Gerwig’s success helps or hurts this other actress. Probably the latter. The guy who I’d consider the best actor I ever saw in Yale drama bears a strong resemblance to Johnny Depp. He used to enjoy the comparison, I think, but not so much now, although he’s a working actor in L.A. (Skeet Ulrich managed to get roles looking just like Depp. There’s worse people you could resemble.) …And then that guy used to date Zoe Kazan, a suddenly ubiquitous actress who I think was a year or two behind me in school but who I didn’t know at all. And I briefly dated an actress a few years behind Kazan who strongly resembles her (same looks, same education, no Hollywood royalty background–that kinda sucks) and (an older version of) Dakota Fanning. I’d find that kind of vexing if I were in her situation.
But I guess I have been. READ MORE >
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Obama drops into Prairie Lights to browse. I’d like to see a picture of Obama and Paul Ingram hanging out.
PLASTIC BAG WITH VOICE OF WERNER HERZOG
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDBtCb61Sd4
This is awesome. Seriously. Watch and be changed a little.
THIS HEALTH INSURANCE SHIT
can't go to emergency room, too expensive
After I lost/left my old job last summer, I went on COBRA for health insurance, which costs me a burdensome $200 a month. When my COBRA stuff expires later this year, it’ll go to a blistering $600 a month, at which point I’ll have to drop it and get something else. Or maybe circumstances have changed now that THIS HAPPENED. (Did you think it would? I didn’t.) Here’s a rundown of changes that go into effect immediately.
As a writer who had a day job for a long time and will have one again and hates the idea of it, I’ve been waiting for “universal health care” for a long time, and fervently, and I fucking hate insurance companies. This is how I would like to see the folks who run insurance companies end up:
Nick Antosca—
If you could live one writer’s life instead of your own, whose would it be? (My picks: Nabokov and James Salter. Despite Salter’s melancholia over having missed out on going to the moon by quitting flying.) Alternately, whose life would you least like to live? (Malcolm Lowry. Alcoholic. Wife attacked by dogs.) Typing this just reminded me of that old list of 5 Writers More Badass than the Characters They Created.
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“I packed, my feelings taking on such mass that I felt them jutting horn-like from the space between my eyes.” I love Helen Oyeyemi. I love that the Times online publishes short fiction. And I love this story.
BOARDWALK PLEASINGNESS / THE HOME OF LONG-FORM STORYTELLING
And here’s the glorious second, extended trailer. I may be more excited to see this than I am to see almost anything else on the horizon.
I don’t think it’s at all a stretch to argue that since the early part of the past decade, dramatic television has been the healthiest artistic medium around. READ MORE >