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Today at Coop’s place: a post about wrecking your couch (also, Bookforum)
So I thought it was long past time we checked in with Dennis Cooper’s blog, and it just so happens that today there’s a guest-post by Steven Trull, who is also something of a somewhat regular reader/commenter on this blog. Trull presents “The Kill Your Couch for No Reason Post.” As you’ll notice when you get over there, the title is preceded by “Steven Trull presents (part one)” which seems to me to suggest that there will be more Trull posts coming, possibly on topics unrelated to couch-killing. But for now: COUCH-KILLING. Click on over and watch the YouTube-culled videos of couches being burnt, run over with a station wagon, and otherwise KILLED.
So that’s all well and good, but else has been going on at Coop’s?
Well yesterday we looked at Notable Male Escorts of the World for March 2009
And the day before that was a Varioso Day (#18), which contains–among other things–an animated adaptation of James Tate’s poem “The Search for Lost Lives.”
And this picture of a Tom Friedman piece:
And a link to this Mary Gaitskill interview in the new Bookforum. It’s a short interview, but a good one, and it contains the possibly news-to-you that MG has a new collection out (it was news to me). So once I had clicked over there I got to browsing, and have the following further Bookforum recommended readings: William T. Vollmann on the ethics of photography, David Gates reviews the new Antonya Nelson, David Haglund reviews Andrew Porter, Mark Sarvas on John Haskell, and Wendy Lesser takes on both the O’Connor bio AND the Library of America Collected O’Connor.
Tags: Bookforum, Dennis Cooper
I kind of love this line from the Gaitskill interview:
“I always used to hear: “She’s writing about bad sex.” I actually went through my stories, and I think there’s only one story that I would characterize as having bad sex, and that was “A Romantic Weekend.” I would describe that as awful sex. Somebody might look at “Secretary” and say it’s bad sex because it’s violative and it isn’t actually even sex. But to the man, it’s not bad sex. And not for the girl, either; she’s going home and masturbating about it. How can you say that’s bad sex?”
I kind of love this line from the Gaitskill interview:
“I always used to hear: “She’s writing about bad sex.” I actually went through my stories, and I think there’s only one story that I would characterize as having bad sex, and that was “A Romantic Weekend.” I would describe that as awful sex. Somebody might look at “Secretary” and say it’s bad sex because it’s violative and it isn’t actually even sex. But to the man, it’s not bad sex. And not for the girl, either; she’s going home and masturbating about it. How can you say that’s bad sex?”
Yeah I’m with you, T J-Y. It’s a funny little interview, isn’t it? I like how she just tells him she disagrees with him in a few spots.
Yeah I’m with you, T J-Y. It’s a funny little interview, isn’t it? I like how she just tells him she disagrees with him in a few spots.
i like that friedman
i like that friedman
I can’t wait for the new collection. The story in the new yorker “don’t cry” and the story in zoetrope “the arms and legs of the lake” were both truly great. I worship her ass.
I can’t wait for the new collection. The story in the new yorker “don’t cry” and the story in zoetrope “the arms and legs of the lake” were both truly great. I worship her ass.