What was it, three attempts. It’s like I’m living on fucking Neptune.
What was it, three attempts. It’s like I’m living on fucking Neptune.
The new episode of Writing the Rapids is out now! I'm rejoined by the one and only Shane Jesse Christmass to talk about the reissue of Yeezus in Furs (Modern Alchemy Press), learning about yourself as a writer, how deranged america looks to non-americans, and more!
#OtD 28 Dec 1931 Guy Debord, revolutionary Marxist writer, filmmaker and cofounder of the Situationist International, was born in France. The SI were to become extremely influential following the May 68 rebellion in the country. Learn more about him here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
"The danger of being overlooked is inseparable from the potential of being recognised..." Jaimee Frances Edwards on the work of @sjxsjc.bsky.social sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/irri...
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we have a badass book recommendation article by Shane Jesse Christmass @sjxsjc.bsky.social !!
he shouts out books by Danielle Chelosky, Thomas Moore, Édouard Levé, Derek McCormack, & Kate Durbin
check it out !
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Temptation of St Anthony
Temptation of St Anthony
Everything on the FL website is 20% with the code filthcult.
Just saying.
Surprise release! The Mattress Grave soundtrack to @sjxsjc.bsky.social's Latex, Texas is a must for t/he full experience!
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Today on Writing The Rapids, another great chat with the master of modern delirium @sjxsjc.bsky.social about the reissue of his book Latex, Texas (@filthyloot.bsky.social)
“Writers only know how to return to things, over and over, the sadness, the disappointments, like a dog to vomit.” Estelle Hoy, PISTI 80 RUE DE BELLEVILLE, @after8books.bsky.social
How come there's no mailboxes in the Bible?
do you call it the The Avignon Papacy or the The Babylonian Captivity?
"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish." - Federico Garcia Lorca....
Would you sign up for my StubSack?
"Be willing to be blind, and give up all longing to know the why and how, for knowing will be more of a hindrance than a help." - The Cloud of Unknowing
Strange spells by Edwin Callihan. A pin that says filthy loot and a yellow sticker with a pink book that has legs and arms, with its tongue sticking out, holding a knife. Says books are evil, filthy loot. Misfit fictions est. 08.
Book mail from @filthyloot.bsky.social! Strange Spells by Edwin Callihan.
spent the late afternoon and early evening swimming in a big lake.
Fave Small Press Books Read in 24 +Hank Jost's Aquarium
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Thai poster for TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD (1972)
Nikki Giovanni
We’re saddened to hear about the passing of poetry great and Black Arts Movement icon, Nikki Giovanni.
According to NPR, she passed away today, following her third cancer diagnosis.
She was 81 years old.
Rest in power, Nikki Giovanni ✨
Some shit I read in 2024 that was the duck’s nuts:
After fucking around and staring at it for a couple of days, just cut the first 14 pages of my new novel. Now the novel begins…
Good news. @sjxsjc.bsky.social appeared to me in a dream. I put a hand on his heart and one on his forehead and felt the spirits that animate him. Then he walked back into the sea.
The manuscript is complete.