August 2012
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HELLO
grayamelia:
WORLD
psssst. Amelia Gray is on tumblr.
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WISHLIST:
something about what it means for kanye now that borders has closed.
submit.
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taking a bunch of Hobarts to the post office...
postal employee: what kinds of books are these
me: uh, collections of short stories, basically
employee: oh yeah? hm... i read this one story. in reader's digest. forever ago. probably the late 70s then, like ten years ago, a friend was telling me about a story he'd read, and it was THE SAME ONE!
me: (nodding) wow.
employee: it was about this kid that didn't have any arms or legs. and then his uncle... i'm gonna tear up just saying it... he builds this kid a whole house, adapted so he could do everything he needed.
me: wow.
employee: did you read that one?
me: um. no. (wanting to say, but biting tongue: it sounds kinda like something i'd publish though. except, you know, without any of those uplifting parts)
Michael Robbins: Some dopey kid said I have... →
michaelrobbinspoet:
Some dopey kid said I have “shitty taste in music” because I love Taylor Swift & Pink. It’s good to be reminded that some people haven’t figured out that their distaste for pop is simply—I insist it is simply—a class marker. If you want to live in an aesthetically foreclosed world where your love…
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We Were Buffalo.: Breaking Bad →
wewerebuffalo:
I found a major plot hole in the first episode in the cold open. The scene in this episode where Skylar made a tiny 1 from a half piece of bacon got me thinking about the cold open. Walt rips his bacon in half and makes a 52 without any leftover bacon. But to make a 52 with bacon, you need 10 half pieces, 5 for the 5 and 5 for the 2. But Denny’s breakfast comes with 4 slices of...
oh shit hey also i reviewed Dylan Nice's OTHER... →
delaneynolan:
it’s a beautiful collection out from Short Flight / Long Drive. Seriously check it out. You can find some of the stories online— I fucking love “Their Health,” which will take you about 60 seconds to read. Go do it. Right now.
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We’re working on this Hobart web relaunch and… I’m currently looking for the most Hobart-y photo possible. This could be photoshopped, or a bunch of things compiled and actually photo’d together. I’m assuming it would include some combo of buffalo and baseball and fireworks and bourbon and…? But maybe not? Maybe that’s too obvious? Send my way (via photo...
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CONDALMO.: Wells Tower on Mitt Romney →
one of my fave passages:
The fund-raiser is taking place at the home of one Harold Hamm, an oil honcho who is the energy chairman for the Romney campaign. Harold Hamm holds the number 30 spot on Forbes magazine’s inventory of the most loaded Americans…
The surrounding area of the Hamm home isn’t superfancy. It’s a zone of brick ramblers and nonbrick ramblers, but...
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dispatches: How to be awkward at an 826LA reading... →
southroyalty:
25. Think about Elizabeth Ellen’s words. Find it strange that the audience will laugh at the funny parts, but not have any outward reaction to the more devastating bits.
26. Be the only one who has a throat born physical response to her sentences. Hear your own reaction cut through the silence. Feel less awkward. Be amazed.
27. Finally see Amelia Gray in person and think...
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“Some books have a colour palette. Certain colours tinge the prose, or give the...”
– My review of Elizabeth Ellen’s Fast Machine is up at PANK (via othernotebooksareavailable)
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notes on writing
Both upcoming Hobart 14 contributor (and Buffalo Prize Winner!) Courtney Maum’s “How to Stay Sane While Querying Literary Agents” and Hobart 12 contributor (and soon to be reprinted in Best American Short Story!) Roxane Gay’s “How to Be a Contemporary Writer” are pretty great and worth your time and we maybe even encourage you to highlight and print out excerpts...
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Watch“Last pitch!”
(texted to me by my buddy at the game)
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“(7) I have the cashmere coat that my great grandfather, Charles Dwight Curtiss I...”
– Excerpt from “A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us” by Caleb Curtiss, as published in PANK magazine. (via bostonpoetryslam)
I missed this when it it went up in June, but it’s easily my fave poem/personal essay (?) in quite a while. (Ever? Have I ever read anything quite like it?) The above...
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The Two-Thousand Dollar Popsicle →
newyorker:
“The Two Thousand Dollar Popsicle,” a story of summer doldrums, familial mishaps, and strange redemption by Thomas Beller: http://nyr.kr/PVGyvn
I’m by no means the “truth police” (I think that was Karl Taro Greenfeld’s phrase in his Other People podcast?), but… I don’t get why the first two tags on this are “essay” and “short...
