September 2nd, 2009 / 1:00 pm
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Hate Mail
Ed Champion has started this new series on his blog where he does dramatic readings of user-submitted hate mail. Who here has gotten (or sent) hate mail? You should send it along.The new one he posted is really funny. You can hear it here.
Tags: ed champion, hate mail
Hey, sweet. Good for him. I’m working on a post right now about one of The Apocalypse Reader’s Amazon reviews. That’s like hate mail delivered Legend of Zelda style: A SECRET TO EVERYBODY.
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September 2nd, 2009 / 3:14 pmDrew—
You should write a review of the Amazon reviewer’s book.
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Here’s one I received last spring after In the Devil’s Territory was published:
Kyle,
I couldn’t find your book in the library…so I ended up buying it through Amazon. I read the first 3 stories and couldn’t go any further….This is a hard email to write because I absolutely dislike being critical..but I want to be honest. I was not shocked…not much shocks me any more….but disappointed. The stories were sad as the characters were left with no positive resolution in their life…What disappointed and surprised me the most was the obscene language…the “F” word, etc…and the explicit sexual content. I guess I was left thinking that this was NOT the Kyle Minor I knew 10 years ago…but then again…perhaps I really didn’t know you. But it’s not the person I thought I knew as I worked with you in the youth group. Do you think your book brings honor to the Lord? Does it matter to you?? Could you picture Jesus promoting your book?? I would love to hear your point of view in your motivation in writing the book…really I would. I would love to know where you stand spiritually these days. I guess I think of the youth you worked with years ago and what their impression would be in reading your book. Would they get drawn into the sexual content of the book and be left feeling hopeless and craving for the lust of the world and the eyes?? What kind of people are you drawing toward you?? What kind of testimony is it to see a review of your writings on a site called “bookslut?” I am guessing that all this is ok with you…even as I read a portion of your blog and see how you swear so freely and am enjoying what the world has to offer for excitement….
Please know that I am not writing this in a “judgmental atttitude”…but out of concern and full of questions….After reading some of your book and even seeing where you don’t post any religious views on your facebook…etc…I’m wondering if you have become disillusioned with Christianity? Are you angry with the church at large?
I hope and pray that if so, this is just a season in your life that you will get through and come out the other side with your Faith in Christ strengthened!
If there is anything I can specifically pray for you, please feel free to let me know.
Your Sister In Christ,
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September 2nd, 2009 / 5:05 pmJustin Taylor—
Yeah, you and the F word, Minor. It’s enough to drive a good nun to the bottle–and then to drunkenly throwing that bottle, once emptied, across the muddy expanse of a state fair parking lot, in the direction of an ill child. Question: ARE you, in fact, the Kyle Minor she knew ten years ago? Did you kill that man, eat his heart, brains and liver, then assume his life? Also, how much fun is it to picture Jesus promoting your book? I find that unlike with heroin and internet porn, repetition dulls the pleasure-charge NOT. AT. ALL. Here’s to life everlasting!
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September 2nd, 2009 / 5:14 pmCatherine Lacey—
“Are you angry with the church at large?”
Of course. … and this is shocking because…?
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September 2nd, 2009 / 7:06 pmLincoln—
Jesus didn’t turn water into short stories, people
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September 3rd, 2009 / 9:10 amdavid e—
ha!
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September 3rd, 2009 / 12:19 amMichael Schaub—
That lady seemed pretty shocked that Bookslut mentioned your book. She should be glad Jessa didn’t go with the site’s original name, Bookfuckjesusseriouslyfuckjesushard.
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September 7th, 2009 / 9:37 amCuauhtémoc Cortés Corrado—
I wouldn’t call this hate mail.
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I wish Jesus would come back and promote my book. There’s a lot of money in the Jesus business these days.
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Thanks for the link. Mr. Minor, your email has been dramatized and should be posted in the next few minutes.
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September 2nd, 2009 / 5:54 pmKyle Minor—
You’ve got my blessing, Ed.
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[...] few hours ago, a writer posted an email on the website HTML Giant. It appears that someone familiar with the writer Kyle Minor’s work appears to have become [...]
I once sent a guy two rejection slips on accident and he wrote back:
You already sent me one but thanks for nailing it the barn door in case I missed it.
Kind of made me feel bad. For a second.
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September 2nd, 2009 / 8:41 pmAmelia—
and then you sent him a third rejection slip, folded into an origami paper crane
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[...] Up from Our Own Comments Threads- Ed Champion’s Hate Mail Dramatic Reading Project now includes the letter Kyle Minor posted yesterday in the comments on Catherine Lacey’s post about said project. [...]
Bad-ass letter! Fuck. You let the Lord down, dude. Shame!
See you at the Heorot.
Sean
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Sean,
I look forward to the next Heorot.
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