make sure it spins

Friday, 31 December 2010

Today's the official release date for Look! Look! Feathers, which I celebrated by cooking some eggs. A really insightful and generous review of the book by Chris Vola went up yesterday at The Rumpus: check it out. Today of course also closes 2010. It's b

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"Stealing From Yourself"

Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Stealing From YourselfIt would appear that past endeavorshave left you with an empty stomach.Tis true that guilt is greedyand there's no satisfying this lummox.You tried your best to hidebehind the fairy tales and fables;but guilt devoured your prideleaving no scraps at your table.Stolen kisses....

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thanks

Monday, 27 December 2010

Thanks Dennis Cooper for putting We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough on your list of favorites from 2010!

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obviously janelle monae is better than both of them

Monday, 27 December 2010

Hey, have you ever imagined the William Penn drawing from the Quaker Oats box getting into a anamorphic romantic and activist relationship with a tiny Santa Christmas ornament? So have I! Luckily Metazen was kind enough to collect my enactment of this im

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Happy Christmas 25 December 2010

Friday, 24 December 2010

Met natal buat yang merayakannya yah....have fun n great time with all your fams ^,*

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slightly stranger versions of what you already know

Monday, 20 December 2010

A person named Emily Temple wrote a nice little crinkle of columns about L!L!F for the Dec/Jan issue of Nylon Guys. Check out a screenshot on her blog. She says: "The collection is a lesson in opposites, in both its push-pull between youth and age and it

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mastadon in a tar pit

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

A story from Look! Look! Feathers is newly live at the lovely Collagist: "What the Fuck is an Electrolyte?" Thanks to Matt Bell for publishing this. This story features VHS workout tapes (stomped), checkerboard Vans, a cockroach running away from milk, p

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score one for the home team

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Though I dispute the way the origin story excludes how Cheney and I made up doo-wop songs on the balcony outside the apartment, the rest of Rachel B Glaser's intro to this conversation is factual in spirit and zest. Check it out for our thoughts on every

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we predict a seasonal suspension of suspicion spit

Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Sky too stubborn to snow. Has decided to shave our faces via wind. What else is new? I did an interview as Ada Lovelace. Feel like I might be the only fan Dale Earnhardt and Ada Lovelace have in common. Like I want to wear practical shoes and fancy umbre

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"The Company You Keep"

Friday, 3 December 2010

The Company You KeepOne afternoon, the young Pastor of a well known local church locked up his building after replacing a few fixtures inside. He then headed down the sidewalk about a block or two to the parking lot where his car was parked. He would make this walk every two or three days per week

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"The Kitchen Table"

Thursday, 2 December 2010

The Kitchen TableI'm reaching for my cupsitting high on the kitchen table.You refused to help me upbecause you knew that I were able.You would greet me with a kissas you gently stroke my hair;then you'd smile with confidenceas you point towards the chair.It's like you were everywherethat I ever nee

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Friday, 26 November 2010

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NOÖ [12]!

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

If I haven't already told you about this somewhere else, check out the new NOÖ. Lots of awesome stuff.

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keeping busy like a gift i can't give back

Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Hey y'all, three weird and never before seen little pieces are online at Used Furniture Review, a new online lit mag. Thanks to David Cotrone for asking me to send him stuff. Subjects include tennis, cigars, cake bully God figures, and fair rides. In oth

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"Vanessa"

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

VanessaThere was once a very busy man who worked for a law firm. He worked long hours and his boss gave him a hard time on a regular basis. His mainstay is usually that of a very relaxed, mild-mannered person; but after months of stress and pressure from his job, he felt as if the weight of the wor

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Vitamin D for darkness, Publishers Weekly for self-esteem

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

Here's Publishers Weekly's review of Look! Look! Feathers:'Young hits the mark in this smart, quirky debut collection, where base humanity—like the macho behavior of a high school gym teacher who is revealed to have only one testicle in "The World Doesn'

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reformed turnpike bully

Saturday, 6 November 2010

Hey, the cool and enthusiastic Tyler Gobble interviewed me for Small Doggies and included a review of We Are All Good. I talk about Christmas bags and know-what-I-mean versus no-I-don't, and also I nonsensically talk shit on Tony Hoagland. Check it out.

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Friday, 5 November 2010

Let's recap: gypsy Halloween singalong, Pet Semetery, cheap gyros, matching b/f, g/f taco costumes, blue jumpsuit, motherboards dangling from neckties, parties of social coincidences, a perilous van ride singalong.Then the Barry Hannah tribute on Wednesd

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"Pink Passion Fruit"

Monday, 1 November 2010

Pink Passion FruitI long for the taste.I still remember the sight.I lust after it so much,I can hardly sleep at night;and it truly never fails.Every time that I close my eyes,I still think of that moist confectionresting within her candy-coated thighs.I want it so muchthat mere words fail to measur

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