Have you seen this Milos Formon Movie, Taking off?
This is a clip from it.
I’m taking off too. For my first AWP, the launch of my first book, my first reading.
See you there. And watch the whole movie. I worked for a while as a blurb writer for a cable station. I had to write up classic movies. Had to think of a million different words for ‘hilarious’ and a million for ‘heartbreaking.’ This is a two million word movie.
I wrote a piece on rejection inspired by a student who has, by way of their first rejection slip, joined our family of the damned. You can read it at Vol.1.Brooklyn, a great little lit mag taking lollipop steps all over the intersphere. For TW and RN.
I woke up late this morning. To bird song. And if you’ve ever woken up to birdsong in Australia, you know that it never fucking stops. It’s not like birdsong in America, which politely diminishes by mid-morning, and by noon is just a distant memory. No, over here, it’s a constant, euphoric shake rattle and…
The Bridge, picked up by one of my favorite mags, Spinetingler.
The most important life skill is to learn to be loved. If, like me, life has taught you otherwise, and that you are unlovable, you had better unlearn in three, two, one. We’ll do it together. Now. Today is the day. Whatever it takes. I am with you. Fight Club, Glee Club. I’ll be over…
So I’m at the supermarket and there’s this mother and two little girls ahead of me in check-out line and mom’s unloading her stuff from the cart. And her two little girls are super cute, one a little older and chubby, maybe eight or nine, and the other maybe six or seven. Both in matching…
So here’s a link to the event at Stories Bookstore in Echo Park. Here’s the blurb, put together by the host, Ben Loory It’s a reading! People will read. The following people: Ben Loory Jim Ruland Zoë Ruiz Cecil Castellucci John Skipp JS Breukelaar It will be good! JS Breukelaar will be here all the…
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