It’s infuriating to watch my peer group become less intelligent and more certain as time winds on. It’s supposed to go the other way. The more reality you experience, the less certain you should be.
Amber beads, electric blue billowing, jasmine. Here comes Louise, here she comes, into the kitchen.
Isn’t that what every artist wants? To do the thing in the way they want to do it and have everyone they care about want that for them, too?
The more of Elaine he had had, the less it felt like she belonged to him at all. Besides, he said, I have learned that even possession is a kind of disappointment.
A shocked reaction to this work really just makes my point about why I wrote this novel. It’s all so obvious, and I’m bored to death.
The rocking horse was hideous, though. It was the eyes. Wide open and vacant, set too high on that giant head. The foot-pegs had snapped off on Black Friday.
I find that autofiction writers tend to have great senses of humor, because without one they’d be too horrified to tell the truth.
Perfect bound | 100 pages | Paperback | Die-cut matte cover | 6×6″
OUT AUGUST 22, 2023
Read a page before sleep and thou shalt dream insanely.
–Alex van Warmerdam
Director of Palme d’Or nominated film ‘Borgman’
This talk will distill how and why a devotion to the sentence can open up the possibilities of one’s writing, while sharpening one’s focus and turning the writing process into a more fulfilling, directly expressive act.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
10 AM PST, Zoom
$25-75 (sliding scale)
