HOBART

kinda love how read that Fast Machine looks.

mybrotherbecamedependent:

There is a Excel spreadsheet somewhere in my computer that lists every story in Fast Machine (Short Flight/Long Drive), and then in the following columns, different aspects or classifiable elements: age of narrator, age of other characters, animals (?), themes, locations, happy/sad (?), types of sex, etc. See, I wanted to do a book report, but instead make different mix-tapes using 15-20 stories. See, I sent a message to Hobart promising that I’d write a review if they sent me a copy. I never wrote that review. Until now, kind of, maybe.  See, when I read Elizabeth Ellen for the first time, it wasn’t really my first time. She came out with a chapbook on Future Tense called Before You She Was A Pit Bull. Many of the stories in the chapbook are in the big book. I was rereading a part of my life when I was happy, ensconced in a Seattle forbidden to me previously but now/then open and bleeding like warm concrete in summer. Elizabeth’s stories dance with each other. I was reminded of William Gay and Sugarbaby. My idea of making mix-tapes of the stories was almost more for me to figure out who these people were. Like Chloe, like herself, Elizabeth writes truths.

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emscreams:

which means I can die at any moment
which means I am the most graceful thing at the grocery store

I have several beautiful heads
I have all the body parts
and people hunt me

I lounge with decent posture
I am attached to a rod with a hair clip

love me and don’t be afraid of me
love me because visually you cannot not love me
unless I am yellowed or weak

take me from the supermarket and make me the fanciest part of your lame living room
show everyone you are responsible
that you have a lover
a tall feminine plant

fuck me when no one’s looking
if my manual tells you to
if we are both high on plant food
if your girlfriend’s on her period

I have the knowledge of the creator and of the future
but I don’t tell secrets
I am like the mean queen in a movie
but also the only beauty left in the world

                                                          rachel b. glaser @ hobart

Saw Gatsby last night. Already looking forward to the DVD release, which I can only assume will (finally) include the deleted hydroplane scene.

tsflynn:

“The missing hydroplane creates a lacuna,” said Dr. William Mays, professor of literature at Tucker-Hayfield College.

“Is that like a fissure? Or rupture?” I asked.

“A lacuna is a hole,” Dr. Mays said.

“A hole in the novel?”

“A hole in American letters.”

Read the full story here.

(Source: hobartpulp)

babiesandangels:

an artist named dan bejar (who is not the dan bejar from destroyer, but looks kinda like him) recreates photos of dan bejar (the one from destroyer) that he finds on google. this is ridiculous and i love it. here is artist daniel bejar’s explanation.

“These Are the Fables” originally appeared in Hobart…

Amelia Gray, what-what. Everyday, she’s hustlin’.

recommendedreading:

Vol. 13, No. 3

EDITOR’S NOTE

If I’m the first person to tell you about Amelia Gray, we obviously don’t have any Facebook friends in common. More than a few CLMP members have published her: Tin House, Guernica, DIAGRAM, American Short Fiction, to name some. And…