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Kevin Sampsell
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Wordstock, Portland’s huge yearly literary festival,recently announced that I’m their guest curator for this year’s festival (October 3rd-6th). I’ve always been a fan of the festival, so I’m excited to be a part of the planning process this time around.
I’m working closely with an awesome duo there–Sara Guest and Jeff Alessandrelli–and we’ve already made a few changes. We’ve invited many many...
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A Common Pornography
— published 2010 — 4 editions |
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Portland Noir
by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads Author) , Karen Karbo (Goodreads Author), Bill Cameron — published 2009 — 2 editions |
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Creamy Bullets
— published 2008 |
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Beautiful Blemish
— published 2005 — 2 editions |
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The Insomniac Reader: Stories of the Night
by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads Author) , Jonathan Ames, Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author) — published 2005 |
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The Patricia Letters
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How to Lose Your Mind With Lights On
— published 1994 |
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Haiku Inferno
by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads Author), Frank D'Andrea — published 2007 |
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Invisible Radios: re-mixes, statistics, jokes, etc.
— published 1998 |
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This Is Between Us
— expected publication 2013 |
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| More personal and sedate than his short stories, Crapalachia still slays your heart with McClanahan's personal tales of family and death and sadness. | |
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| Besides some interesting personal notes and song details, Toure's Prince study comes across way too dry and like he's trying way too hard for some insight. For a long stretch at the beginning I felt like I was reading Freakonomics. I feel like this b...more | |
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Five stars for sheer audacity and fearlnessness. This book has some issues but Nutting has completely committed to her premise of a hot, twenty-something female teacher/pedophile. People are going to have LOTS to say about this book. There are goi...
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It's inconceivable to me just how good this book is. Not just destined to be one of my favorite novels of the year, but quite possibly one of my favorite novels of life. I think Celeste Price would approve of my thinking that I haven't wanted to t...
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| Holy mother of teenagers! This book is smokin'! Nutting's unapologetic narrator tells of her obsession with fourteen-year-old boys and their undeveloped bodies. It's cringe-worthy but somehow seductive like a modern-day Lolita. It's sometimes laugh-o...more | |
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| I wanted to like this more than I did. She obviously has some great influences (and teachers) but this collection ultimately seems unfocused and messy. I really liked the affair stories and the weird story about the marathon runners as well as "Bette...more | |
“I realize that nothing is really normal. All it takes to alter normalcy is a death or a birth. Or just some misguided fear, love, or loneliness that never goes away.”
― Kevin Sampsell, A Common Pornography
― Kevin Sampsell, A Common Pornography
“I think if you tell someone that you love him or her, (especially a person that once screamed, “I’m not gonna love you ever!”) and that person says “duh,” then I think that means you have done something right.”
― Chloe Caldwell, Legs Get Led Astray
― Chloe Caldwell, Legs Get Led Astray
“Mr. Pappadakis smells like Just for Men peroxide dye and eucalyptus foot unguents. He has a face like a catcher's mitt. The whole thing puckers inward, drooping with the memory of some dropped fly ball.”
― Karen Russell
― Karen Russell
“They weren't hours, these classes; they weren't even forty-five minutes--they were "periods," which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it.”
― Gary Lutz
― Gary Lutz
“My mother wanted to be Betty Boop. Betty Boop was independent. Betty Boop was sexy. Betty Boop really had her shit together, you know?”
― Chloe Caldwell, Legs Get Led Astray
― Chloe Caldwell, Legs Get Led Astray
“A chainsaw's God's way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff.”
― Jennifer L. Knox, Drunk by Noon
― Jennifer L. Knox, Drunk by Noon
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selena wrote: "a book published by chiasmus? does this mean you know the lovely ms. yuknavitch?"Yes--Lidia and I are old friends. In fact, we just read together (and with Kerry Cohen) in Seattle last Thursday!
Yo! I love, love, loved the books by Chelsea Martin and Claudia Smith. You sure know how to pick 'em. Can't wait to see you read in SF!
Brandon wrote: "Thank you for being my one fan."Actually, I've just been writing another "fan" of yours--and I'm going to sell him a rare copy of "Who the Hell..."
I just received an email with my goodreads updates, and the subject was "updates from Kevin, Kevin, Kevin, Kevin, Kevin"-
perhaps it is my drowsy state that finds this hilarious-
or maybe it really does sound like a pissed off valley girl.
either way.....
Thanks for publishing Gary Lutz's A Partial List of People to Bleach. The world is a better place with that book in it.
Ya, sure. Where are my reads? Best intentions and all, but haven't had a moment to log my books. I'm saving up.
I've heard so much about you.Or maybe it's just that I've heard you exist over and over.
I guess you'll have that.
Actually, I think you rejected one of my books once. For which I am not bitter.
Really.
I predict I'll be out your way within the year.Just turned in my book edits today. Feels like running a marathon, and when you're finished, you're too tired to even say, Yay!
Hey Kevin - glad you like the site - and thanks for helping spread the word! T-shirts coming soon :)
Thanks for sharing, Kevin! I haven't read any of those works, so I'll definitely check them out.Here's wishing you the best in all aspects of your life.
-Jeremy :)
Hi Kevin!If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite book of all time?
Here’s wishing you a weekend filled with wacky whims, wonderful weirdness, and well-disposed werecats.
-Jeremy :)
yes, indeed. and today, of all the things to be thankful for, this reminds me what an incredible gift literacy really is.
Aw, thanks and shucks and stuff. You too, really, I spent forever reading your reviews and now I have several dozen books to read.I love Powells, maybe next time I'm in Portland you can show me some favorite books. I work at BookPeople in Austin. Yay bookstores.
Hello, Kevin,Thanks for the add request. After perusing your book list, I know that having you for a goodreads pal will keep me in literary heaven for years! I rarely get up to Amsterdam to visit the English bookstore (and they wouldn't have too many - if any - small press offerings)...but on my annual trip to Portland, I spend hours at Powells. Usually I'm so overwhelmed with all there is to read, I don't know where to start. I end up going waaaaay over the weight limit on my return luggage...
Cheers,
Tish
Yes--Lidia and I are old friends. In fact, we just read together (and with Kerry Cohen) in Seattle ..."
the world keeps getting smaller. she was my writing professor and i just loved her and everyone she taught me about.