July 22nd, 2010 / 12:13 pm
Roundup
Richard Yates | Story Prize | Fence
1. Tao Lin is hosting a huge Richard Yates contest at his blog, with cash and books and other things to win. I am reading Richard Yates right now. It’s kind of crushing and insane. Emotional-minimalist brutalism? It’s good.
2. The Story Prize has a blog, where they are hosting authors talking about their nominated books. Our man J.T. is all up in it, as are several others. Do a look!
3. New issue of Fence is out, and as always looks amazing. Checking my mailbox daily as I do during this time. My local homeboy Chris DeWeese has some poems in it from his Alternative Music series, wherein he tries to remember the lyrics to rad songs from the 90s without really relistening to the songs. I am ready to see that project become a book that I can hold.
Tags: chris deweese, Story Prize, Tao Lin
“emotional-minimalist brutalism” yeah, it did seem emotional, minimalist, and brutal to me, too, at times.
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July 22nd, 2010 / 12:20 pmstephen—
lol re the Chris DeWeese poems. i remember hearing “freshmen” on the radio entirely too much growing up in milwaukee.
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July 23rd, 2010 / 10:26 pmsteve—
how is everyone on the internet reading this book already?
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I feel a little confused about Tao Lin’s contest re Richard Yates. I’m unsure what people will talk about for “1000+ words or 500+ ‘Gmail chat lines’” without having read the book. Seems like it will be weird.
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July 22nd, 2010 / 2:39 pmtao—
i have expanded the ‘tips’ sections
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July 22nd, 2010 / 3:19 pmmarshall—
oh
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Two questions for you, Blake:
Are there times when you don’t check your mailbox daily?
During this time, do you also check your mailbox on Sunday?
[/smartass]
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July 22nd, 2010 / 2:43 pmBlake Butler—
i don’t check my mailbox daily when i know you’ve sent me something. then i hide and shoot mailmen.
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July 22nd, 2010 / 3:06 pmMatthew Simmons—
gonna get my ‘ass’ ‘fired’.
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July 22nd, 2010 / 3:16 pmAdam R—
Are you drunk commenting?
July 22nd, 2010 / 4:25 pmMatthew Simmons—
Woo!
No.
Adam Fagin.
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just finished RY—it was really easy to get lulled into thinking “there’s nothing going on in this book” then to realize all of the stuff going on, the pile mounting & mounting, only I’m reading at the top of the pile & finally i look down to see what RY & Tao really built.
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What happened to hipsters being all apathetic n’ shit. He should, like, make “neutral facial expressions” while metaphorically uppercutting the “establishment” via subversive . . . something or other. Not blogging about some one-thousand-word-essay-contest shit. Man, everything is changing. Never thought Tao Lin would say, “judging seems ‘objective,’ to a large degree, I feel.” To a large degree Tao Lin feels “objective” about something, e.g., judging. Dude. Like, what? Fuck. No, man. No! Everything is changing. Fuck. The apathy is overwhelming.
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July 23rd, 2010 / 2:36 pmmarshall—
Shit done changed.
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Blake, I feel like you would appreciate this entry in Tao’s contest, by Erik Stinson: http://www.vimeo.com/13567871
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July 23rd, 2010 / 10:32 pmsteve—
yeah @ this
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