Look at that sexy nag. #horse (at San Diego Writers Ink)
Foxtrot Tango November, aye. (at 3rd Space)
Coincidence? I think not.
How writers get their ideas.
AWP Swag #2: Dear Lil’ Wayne
In the tradition of Letters to Wendy’s, poet Lauren Ireland composed a series of short letters to Lil’ Wayne while he was in incarcerated in 2010. Razor sharp and funny as hell, Ireland’s aphoristic missives are barbed with surprises:
“Spirit animals are bullshit but I have one—it’s a big huge knife.”
Dear Lil’ Wayne isn’t out yet, but you can get a sweet deal from Magic Helicopter Press if you pre-order now, plus a chance to win even more swag from the cover designer Krysten Brown. Win/win and you don’t even have to submit to a body cavity search.
I took this photo of the pot yards during my trip to Dutch Harbor last year. Each crab pot is eight feet tall, weighs about 800 pounds and when fully rigged costs about $2,000. When the pots are not being used they’re stored in stacks that resemble ruined cities, ghostly and beautiful.
Geek Love at 25: How a Freak Family Inspired Your Pop Culture Heroes | Underwire | Wired.com
Geek Love at 25: How a Freak Family Inspired Your Pop Culture Heroes | Underwire | Wired.com
It hardly sounds like mass-market material. But Geek Love has been a perennial bestseller for 25 years, and its cultural influence has been prodigious. The book has inspired and moved writers, artists, and performers to tell their own wild stories.
Get on the case. vermin.bigcartel.com
There’s been a ton of great writing about True Detective and its influenes in the weeks leading up to it finale on Sunday night. Here’s a closer look at the ur text of True Detective source material, Robert Chambers’s The King in Yellow.
An element of the supernatural hangs over the stories like black stars over Carcosa. These elements do a marvelous job of distracting the reader from the fact that none of the narrators can be believed. It matters less that their sanity has been compromised than the fact that their accounting of events is highly suspect. If you’ve been paying attention to True Detective, you know that the detectives’ unreliability is crucial to the how the story-within-the-story unfolds.
