"when i wake up i am going to bury you in a parking lot"
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Sasha Fletcher
by
Sasha Fletcher
Philthy Blog Presents: Sasha Fletcher from Philthy Blog on Vimeo.
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"If theory is not understood also as a practice, it will often make the mistake of confusing itself with knowledge, and will then cease to be theory."
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"If Samuel Beckett was a recluse, as most of the world liked to think, then he was surely the most garrulous recluse ever."
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German photographer Karin Apollonia Müller:
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JS: Does food ever inspire you to write? Do you think there is any connection between being a writer and being an eater?
JSF: There are a lot of ways to think about that. First of all, literally what you eat affects how you write. If I drink coffee before I write I'm going to write very differently than if I drink beer, or eat a very heavy meal.
Jena Steinbach interviews Jonathan Safran Foer
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Dante's Inferno, the video game
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Q: Why don’t your stories have . . .
KL: Endings? Sorry about that. I like to think of the places where my stories stop as more of a jumping-off place. What happens next is probably interesting, but if I’ve written a successful story, you’ll go on thinking about what happened next and maybe you’ll come up with some interesting ideas on your own. Besides, endings are a bit too much like tails on people. Attractive, maybe, but usually not all that convincing.
Kelly Link, Frequently Asked Questions
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"It's a signature of youth to want to make a place for oneself by destroying the old guard. Perhaps, as Freud-tinted Harold Bloom has spent a career arguing, it is the anxiety of influence that impels poets to kill off, by "misreading," their artistic fathers in order to establish a place for themselves in the world."
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New Directions has a blog.
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American artist Kevin Brannaman:
