“you’re glad to have a uniform, right? / cool. / find another. some of us live in this one.” – Brandon O’Brien, “the repossession of skin”
Various Writing Mysticisms
“Ever consider the scripture never meant the glories? That maybe we’d be prey to the gods?”- Alex, ‘No Gods For Drowning’ by Hailey Piper
Friday Links: Reading When The Gods Have Abandoned The World Edition
“But there was no goddess of mercy, and Lilac had no time to waste on made-up gods when she needed the real thing.” – Hailey Piper, ‘No Gods For Drowning’
The Legend of Jimmy Butler
“and so Doc leapt, / he left his feet,” – Ross Gay, ‘Be Holding’
Friday Links: Catching Up Edition
“he will struggle / with demons. He prays but / could continue forever with” – Maya Williams, “A Facebook Message From My Stepmother”
What I've Learned Treating Writing As A Job
“Jimmy Butler just wants to work hard and be the man” – Trey Kerby, on the founder of Big Face Coffee
Friday Links: I Am In The Best Mood Edition
“…you will say, ‘Kris, I’m not dead, see? I’m right here, buying deodorant without antiperspirant again.'”- Marisa Crane, ‘I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself’
Southern California, Literary Paradise
“I’ll tell you what – after seeing Los Angeles…well, I guess I seen something every bit as stupefying as you’d see in any of them other places” – The Stranger, ‘The Big Lebowski’
Friday Links: A Bunch Of Stuff I'm Late To Reading Edition
“I said that there are prayers even to say upon witnessing lightning.” – Chloe N. Clark, “We Who Vanish”
RIP Martin Amis, My Literary Nemesis
“There’s only one rule I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” – Kurt Vonnegut, ‘God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater’