Sunday, May 4, 2014

The funk is your brother, hell is my maximum

the funk's your brother by richard chiem on Grooveshark



IT'S COOL TO FEEL A little defeated. Wake up ass crack early, find your eyes walk barefoot in the dark naked in endless tandem. Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and say, The fuck you know. Give a little love today, more than you like, again and again. And more, again and again. Something nearly wells up inside and reaches a threshold of overwhelming clarity, waves and waves of this passes through me when the cat starts pawing at the door. If I cry it's because I am on the verge of something good and ugly. I want to die in a hundred thousand painless ways to return to bed so I don't have to go to work on Monday. Feeling bled out is normal right before I meet the carpool at six a.m. on the button and it's my time again. It's my time to rage in a quiet I wish you not know.

The funk is your brother, hell is my maximum. If I could be doing anything right now instead of going to work, I would be flying over all these cars in traffic, the higher I go the more life I would feel, the louder the thunder. Because of how they suffer, I am bound to these people. I pack peanut butter and honey sandwiches and bite my pear without looking at it. Beautiful light reflects off every useless surface, the highway dips and rises.

Waiting for coffee in the break room, I leave my mouth a little open. There is the center at the center if I can tap into whatever I tap into the right way and breathe out. It's usually the same: I almost lose it. I come this close to losing it and the difference is a hair's breath. But there it is, arriving, a little calm. I fall in love with every asshole that comes near me, every single person.



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Books I've read and loved in April:

I Await the Devil's Coming by Mary MacLane
No Real Light by Joe Wenderoth
Coeur de Lion by Ariana Reines
Letters from a Seducer by Hilda Hilst
Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson, edited by Laura Sims
Partial List of People to Bleach by Gary Lutz
The Weaklings (XL) by Dennis Cooper
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
India Song by Marguerite Duras
Rough Day by Ed Skoog
Karate Chop: Stories by Dorthe Nors


Monday, May 13, 2013

people w/ ypp

People w/ their copies of YPP from top to bottom: Cassandra Nguyen, Alexander Allison, Paul Dedalus, Spencer Madsen, Mira Gonzalez, Elizabeth Ellen, Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket, Hannah Fantana, Roy Marin and Billy Valentine, Matt Nelson (Mellow Pages Library), Dan Magers, Kirsten Felicetti, Anonymous, Emma Silvers, Grant Maierhofer, Katherine Sullivan, Dave Shaw, Hannah Lee, Natalie Chin, Jeremy Bauer, Michael Seidlinger, Lauren Walsh, Heiko Julien, Jayinee Basu, Lexi Roberts, Matthew Sherling, Matthew Simmons, Anonymous, Max Pray (Powell's Books), Chris (Mellow Pages Library), Alex Lenkeit, Kellen Braddock (of APRIL), Jordan DeBor (at Mellow Pages Library), Michael Tesauro, Johnny Bryan (at Mellow Pages Library), and Cosplay Woman.





thank you so much

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Sunday, December 23, 2012

3:am magazine published a piece by me // people w/ ypp

3:am magazine published my short story titled 'sky up.' it is an except from a novel I am currently working on, tentatively titled WORST KEPT SECRETS.

red lightbulbs published my comic (w/ Jessamyn Bateman-Iino) titled 'new monkey.' much thanks and gratitude to Russ Woods.

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Other things:

1 // Luna Miguel profiles me and 9 other writers for Spanish Magazine Playground Articulos here.
2 // Michael Davidson reviewed my book of short stories, YOU PRIVATE PERSON, at The Open End here.
3 // Sam Moss reviewed YPP here.
4 // YPP was one of Dennis Cooper's favorite books of fiction of 2012 here.
5 // YPP was one of Chris Dankland's favorite books of fiction of 2012 here.
6 // Christopher Higgs recommends YPP on HTML GIANT here.

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People w/ their copies of YPP from top to bottom: Cassandra Nguyen, Alexander Allison, Paul Dedalus, Spencer Madsen, Mira Gonzalez, Elizabeth Ellen, Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket, Hannah Fantana


YPP is available directly from Scrambler Books here.
Amazon page is here.
SPD page is here.
Goodreads page is here.

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Friday, November 2, 2012

you private person // published by scrambler books


YOU PRIVATE PERSON, my first collection of short stories, published by Scrambler Books, is now available. 

Stephen Tully Dierks interviewed re my writing, my life in Seattle, my life in San Diego, and movies I liked growing up on HTML GIANT here

Much thanks and eternal gratitude to my publisher, Jeremy Spencer. He is a master.

Much love and thanks to Dennis Cooper, Kate Zambreno, and Blake Butler for their wonderful blurbs, and to Mark Leidner for the perfect cover. I owe you people everything.

The book is for Frances Dinger.


YPP is available directly from Scrambler Books here
Amazon page is here.
Goodreads page is here.

Soon to be available from Small Press Distribution here.

Tonight Frances and I are going to play video games all night and finish all the wine.

Thank you, everyone.

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