November 12th, 2010 / 2:14 pm
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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.

10 Comments

  1. gene

      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.

  2. Ken Baumann

      Mike killed it. Great.

  3. drewkalbach

      whats a friend-of-giant anyway

  4. efferny jomes

      like sophie to the BFG

  5. jesusangelgarcia

      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…).

  6. Peteyboymarkus

      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.

  7. gene
  8. jesusangelgarcia

      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…).

  9. Mike Young

      wait, she actually likes oroville the city? but she doesn’t like desperate, hopeless, pointlessness? har har har.

      seriously tho, thanks man.

  10. jesusangelgarcia

      She says, “I like the scenery!” She’s a good girl.