January 2013
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“The shorter answer to your question, the answer that doesn’t make my mind cramp...”
– No Gothic Excess: A Between Books Conversation with Jac Jemc | Vol. 1 Brooklyn (via vol1brooklyn)
we love Jac! and are lucky to have her on the team.
“I’m always curious to hear how something was made—though I have no interest in...”
– Soderbergh, hero extraordinaire (via vinylisheavy)
hmmm.
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Dog Shit/Rocket Fuel: How Watching Too Much... →
dogshitrocketfuel:
Stowed a bottle of Wild Turkey under the checkout counter despite daily reprimands
Repeatedly launched hardback bestsellers at unsuspecting patrons, shouting, “Fire in the hole!”
Kept grumbling that Barnes & Noble’s Internal Affairs division had you on speed dial
Audibly classified…
4 Poems by Donora Hillard at Hobart →
ratrapss:
i guess i’m just really feeling Hobart tonight/today. here are four poems about Jeff Bridges by Donora Hillard (sampling the second of four):
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“You talk to Jeff Bridges about the blood behind your eyes. He tells you that this is how things got done in the 1990s.”
3 poems by Sasha Fletcher at Hobart →
ratrapss:
these three are great. here’s the last one. it is short & fantastic.
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i have often thought of you as a sort of mountaintop or peak
I know that you have got a switchblade for a heart but listen that’s just fine with me because I don’t even have a heart so there is no basis for comparison in this situation.
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“It has to start with you having a passion to get ready in the off-season. That...”
– Paul Konerko (via mightyflynn)
Konerko ON WRITING, yo.
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“There’s only one rule that I know of, babies. God damn it, you’ve got to be...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via andrewgibby)
every time i read this quote, i feel like Mitch Hedberg, at the Monster Magnet concert, cheering after being asked “how many of you feel like human beings?” not knowing that there was a second, “how many of you feel like animals??” question.
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Bicoastal bookstore/tumblr lurve, plus antlers
Customer: Did you used to work at Powell's, or do you just have a t-shirt?
Jenn: I just have a t-shirt! Because it's a great bookstore.
Customer: Definitely, I have one too.
Jenn: And they have a really good tumblr. Do you know about tumblr?
Customer: I do! I just got back from a road trip actually, from Montana to here, with elk antlers, that I documented on there.
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“Some days it was all I could do to keep my eye on the ball and swing.”
– B. J. Hollars, “Indian Village”
“Go to the fucking yard sale, buy a fucking guitar, start a band with your...”
– Dave Grohl (cf. “Little Room”)
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“At the end of the school year, several of us began passing around a dog-eared...”
– B. J. Hollars, “Indian Village”
there’s something kind of perfect about this, that mix of adolescent searching for both sexual intrigue and also just answers about the world and how to live.
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love and Paul Thomas Anderson
Boogie Nights:
I love you, Mom. I want you to be my mom, Amber. Are you my mom? I’ll just… I’ll ask you if you’re my mom, and you say yes, okay? Are you my mom?
Magnolia:
I don’t know where to put things, you know? I really do have love to give! I just don’t know where to put it!
I loved her so. And she knew what I did. She knew all the fucking stupid...
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“You don’t want more makers than takers, I mean, have you been on Etsy lately?”
– Jon Stewart (via austinkleon)
see, also: at least one problem with lit journals
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friday reads, 1.25.13
aprilfestseattle:
“The Legend of Troy Cartwright” by Patrick Somerville at Hobart
“A life ago, I was a lake” by Danez Smith at The Collagist
And in case you missed it, Kate Zambreno’s live tweeting of the 50 Shades of Grey series. (You might have to scroll down a little, but it is worth it. Trust us.)
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also, there’s this:
Rob Schrab (pronounced “SHROB”) is a comic book creator, actor, comedian, writer, and film and television producer. Schrab grew up in Mayville, Wisconsin. He is known as the creator of the comic book, Scud: The Disposable Assassin, co-writer of the feature film Monster House, the unaired pilot Heat Vision and Jack, competitive film festival Channel 101 and...
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“The intensity of my sentence fixation varies from piece to piece. In drafting...”
– Dylan Nice (via mttbll)
Reading interview excerpts like this makes me proud we got to publish Dylan’s book, but is also a frustrating reminder that I myself am not very smart and just can’t talk awesome about writing like this.
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It's all in the game, yo. →
All of the following scenarios are ascending levels of amazing to me:
Someone heard of my book
Someone bought my book
Someone read my book
Someone read my book and hated it
Someone read my book and loved it
Seriously.
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“There’s no excuses. No one has ever paid admission to see an excuse. No one has...”
– Mark Borchardt, American Movie (via aaronburch)
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“A guy comes up and starts telling me he’s a fan,” he recalls. “I say thank you,...”
– Profiles: Secrets of the Magus : The New Yorker (via aaronburch)
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a kinda dumb question / is it even worth asking and thinking about stuff like this?
thinking about (finally) starting a personal tumblr, instead of everything i do just being for hobart. should i just “create a new blog,” or is it worth the hassle of having it be a totally different login (w/ diff email, i guess?) for small, silly reasons, like when i follow (like/comment on/reblog,...
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“The reader’s been left behind. Everybody talks about the writer’s feeling and...”
– Mary Fucking Karr (via austinkleon)
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Photo Essay up on HOBART →
delaney-nolan:
Hobart does this cool thing where they run online bonus features to go along with their print issues: things like alternate endings, fake interviews, outtakes, etc. i’ve got a photo essay up to go with my story “We Shall Fill Our House with Spoil.” the photos are all about southern louisiana, because the world down there was such a huge influence on that story.
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