November 12th, 2010 / 2:14 pm
Random
Kyle Minor
Random
Ride, Fly, Penetrate, Loiter
Mike Young and Askold Melnyczuk at RIDE, FLY, PENETRATE, LOITER: A Barry Hannah Tribute, November 3rd, 2010, organized by Friend-of-Giant Gene Kwak, at Newtonville Books, Newton, MA.
thanks Kyle! Mike killed it as did Askold as did everyone who read that night. Amy Hempel, Sven Birkerts, Jennifer Haigh and James Parker, writer for the Atlantic. shit was beautiful to behold. also, mad thanks to Jon Papas for filming the thing.
Mike killed it. Great.
whats a friend-of-giant anyway
like sophie to the BFG
This was incredible. My gf says, “It was a well-written story about desperate, hopeless pointlessness, but I don’t like this stuff all the time. I do like Oroville.” She just grilled me on why I like this kind of writing. I said b/c it’s strange and intense and funny and sick and twisted, i.e., it feels real to me: the desperate desire for connection and failing miserably, acting out, checking out, self-destruction. She asked me if I always liked this sorta stuff and if I was always going to like it. I said I don’t know about always. There is no always. I enjoyed this conversation (thanks Barry, Gene, Mike, Kyle…).
Nice. The video of Hannah in the classroom talking about home… Where might others see that? Thanks if you’ve got a link to that.
Peter, they were posted to Electric Lit’s blog: http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/04/15/remembering-barry-hannah/
This was incredible. My gf says, “It was a well-written story about desperate, hopeless pointlessness, but I don’t like this stuff all the time. I do like Oroville.” She just grilled me on why I like this kind of writing. I said b/c it’s strange and intense and funny and sick and twisted, i.e., it feels real to me: the desperate desire for connection and failing miserably, acting out, checking out, self-destruction. She asked me if I always liked this sorta stuff and if I was always going to like it. I said I don’t know about always. There is no always. I enjoyed this conversation (thanks Barry, Gene, Mike, Kyle…).
wait, she actually likes oroville the city? but she doesn’t like desperate, hopeless, pointlessness? har har har.
seriously tho, thanks man.
She says, “I like the scenery!” She’s a good girl.