June 2012
13 posts
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Anonymous asked: what is your perception of the 'new sincerity' AKA everything by AD Jameson at HTMLGIANT?
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I AM ALT LIT interview '#2' :: walter mackey
here are some ‘questions’:
1) where are you answering these ‘questions’? what are your ‘surroundings’ like? i am laying on my left side on my bed. my bed is made, for once in my life and it seems good. my hoodie and hat are at the good of my bed and my tv is switched off. there are a bunch of books scattered across my dresser and clothes on the floor (most of...
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67.2 :: 'lk shaw vs lk showbiz (great wall of...
‘lk shaw vs lk showbiz (great wall of china)’ by lk shaw // self published, 2012
67.2
‘How’s your poetry life?’ I think
Poetry is a distraction
I’m in love with poetry. Oh god.
My alarm just went off
I woke up before my alarm and started writing this
I don’t want to impress anyone
I don’t want to affect anything
I get satisfaction from standing near water falls
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100.00 :: 'i am my own betrayal' by guillaume...
‘i am my own betrayal’ by guillaume morissette // maison kasini, 2012
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i read this book like all wk
in my kitchen
in a chair
in a whirlwind
in yr arms
as you ‘cradled’ your copy
b/c you read it too
b/c you know this, you’re already living yr lief
and we’re living together
in ‘interconnected’ random tweets
in nonsensical tech jobs
in...
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livemylief asked: do you hhave any response's to the dierks/cicero/hinton interview at Vol 1 Brooklyn that discusses alt lit? do you have a stake in a particullar definition of "alt lit"?
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80.6 :: 'thee obscures thee' by nathan masserang
‘thee obscures thee’ by nathan masserang // self-published, 2012
80.6
i almost went to art school for this
show me truer words and i’ll show you a dad in a Land’s End collared shirt [[MORE]] seems good that nathan masserang wrote this slingin the art ‘allusions’ and growin the alt lit canon let’s all sell bait now and die in a silo let’s all...
Anonymous asked: Why is iamaltlit so EPIC? Why is it so amazing? --Scott McClanahan
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46.9 :: 'sad robot stories' by mason johnson
‘sad robot stories’ by mason johnson // self-published, 2012
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i was on a road once
there was a ‘choice’ to turn left or right i chose the ‘left’ seems like it made a ‘difference’ or something [[MORE]]
go left w/ this ‘story’ seems better over there the other side, idk perhaps ‘overbearing,’ too ‘overt’
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I AM ALT LIT interview '#1' :: gabby gabby
here are some ‘questions’: 1) where are you answering these ‘questions’? what are your ‘surroundings’ like? i’m in the kitchen in my parents house. it’s quiet. i was listening to ‘boyfriend’ by justin bieber via youtube but it’s off now. the lights are off. i’m eating a tofurky brand pizza. i’m the only one in my...
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65.1 :: 'sadcore dadwave issue 2' by various
‘sadcore dadwave issue 2’ by various // sadcore dadwave, 2012
65.1
stuck
seems like i couldn’t get in the ‘flow’ with ‘sadcore dadwave’
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like it took ‘infinity to beyond’ to load in the tumblr grid format
listicle is the way to read this
that said, i generally ‘appreciate’ the tumblr way of life
trying to figure...
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51.0 :: 'sadcore dadwave issue 1' by various
‘sadcore dadwave issue 1’ by various // sadcore dadwave, 2012
51.0
some men are dads others… are ‘just men’ i guess i read this through a couple times ha no not really
tl;dr
[[MORE]] besides, beach sloth was ‘blog eons’
ahead of me on this one figured i’d skim it ‘a bit’ make sure it was sadcore and that there were...
Anonymous asked: how can i submit to you a few things that i'd like to see reviewed?
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90.3 :: 'am i cool' by heiko julién
‘am i cool’ by heiko julién // self published, 2012
90.3
umm
yes you’re cool
heiko julién
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i looked at this
read it, thought abt it
thirty chapters
this ‘micro novel’
the ‘perfect’ micro-novel
while reading i:
//lost track of
///the gender of the author
////the fact that i was reading
something
/////lost track of my emotions
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