October 11th, 2009 / 4:58 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Blake Butler—
Rad story “Never, Ever Bring This Up Again” by Nick Ripatrazone takes runner up in the Esquire fiction contest.
Anyone else less than thrilled with the winner?
Anyone else less than thrilled with the winner?
Not really fond of any of those. I wish I had known about this. I am just not on top of things.
Not really fond of any of those. I wish I had known about this. I am just not on top of things.
they kinda read as though they had been wrung hard through a focus group.
they kinda read as though they had been wrung hard through a focus group.
I actually enjoyed it. At times it felt like a kid on a Sucralose-and-prime-numbered-red-dye high clamoring for attention. And throughout, it felt like it was written by the poet laureate of a land called Esquiria, where advice to newlyweds about how “faith in fucking” trumps home decor and news blips about “flavor injectors” are given–but always with an irony that betrays that the editor’s read his/her Delillo.
But I really like the terrain traversed by these lines: “Here’s a secret: An embryonic bat skeleton at day eighty has enough digits to high-five your ass. These mammals and their magic proteins are mapping flight plans like Howard Hughes and terrorists.”
I actually enjoyed it. At times it felt like a kid on a Sucralose-and-prime-numbered-red-dye high clamoring for attention. And throughout, it felt like it was written by the poet laureate of a land called Esquiria, where advice to newlyweds about how “faith in fucking” trumps home decor and news blips about “flavor injectors” are given–but always with an irony that betrays that the editor’s read his/her Delillo.
But I really like the terrain traversed by these lines: “Here’s a secret: An embryonic bat skeleton at day eighty has enough digits to high-five your ass. These mammals and their magic proteins are mapping flight plans like Howard Hughes and terrorists.”