Edward Mullany is the greatest living writer of the 20th century.

Whenever I see people talk about how they hate two spaces after a period, I kind of wonder what the big deal is because with Find/Replace it takes less than 15 seconds to fix in Word or InDesign. Over at Dark Sky, Gabe Durham walks us through this complicated procedure.

“Poetry is nothing but a certain astonishment before the world and the means for this astonishment.”

Andre du Bouchet, 1954

So Ben Gazzara and Zalman King both just died on the same day? Ouch.

Tell me the last time you quit a job. That’s a tough thing. You have to look at yourself and suck up and do it. Paint it for me. Then you must  look at “that person” when you quit. Tell me how/why. I bet there are “hell yes I quit” and “why did I quit?” and the other thing, the space between the two.

Tell me how you felt. I mean this could be good. I’d like to hear your stories. I will NOT rip them off for my fiction, until I DO.

BONUS: Ever been fired? I was fired twice. Both lovely stories.

Bateau Press is sorry they lost all of your shit. It happens.

Is it the fall of the roman empire for litblogs? Has the empire already fallen? When did it fall?

“. . . Then submit your finished work to the iBookstore with a few simple steps. And before you know it, you’re a published author.”

Sometimes I feel like Poetry wants to kill me. Not in a malicious way, but in an ambivalent way. Like it wants to siphon my life off, little by little, until there’s none left. Sorry, I guess that’s not a question.

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

Hey, what do you all think about me maybe naming my next cat “F. Purry Abraham”?

lmfao if you still think you are a beautiful & unique snowflake

Who’s a better writer,
Blake Butler or Tao Lin?

Would you, too, wear a dress to the ball?

My favorite childhood jingle was “Good mornin’, best to you each mornin’, K-E-Double-L-O-Double-G, Kellogg’s best to you. And YOU.”

What’s yours?

Do you think a blog without comments loses its readership a) quickly or b) slowly?

Who makes more money from publishing a book, the author or the publisher?

Why do writers love being self-destructive and excessive?

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

“Creative writing is not literary writing as has been understood for all of the history of writing. Creative writing is a subset of therapy, with the same essential modalities — except, like everything else in our culture, it comes in a stripped, dumbed down version that partakes little of the rigors of psychotherapy.” -Anis Shivani