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Vanessa Veselka
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Next week I start teaching an online class through LitReactor called Leading With Voice. There are still some spots open for those interested. At least I believe there are…Anyway, it made me think about what it means to teach writing. Teaching is a strange thing. There's always something a little grandiose about saying, "Hey! I know how to do this and you should listen to me!"
I feel just like...
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Zazen
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"Bomb threats and terrorist attacks are part of daily life in her scary and yet humorous dystopian novel, Zazen. Would you stay or would you go?" ...More
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| I'm a bad reviewer but I love this book. It wasn't one I could read in snippets, I had to really give myself over, but when I did, it was like a seductive opiate and the tone stayed with me for days. And yes, I am on the same press with KIO, but I wo...more | |
“The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.”
― Vanessa Veselka, Zazen
― Vanessa Veselka, Zazen
“I looked at the woman crying over the doll and felt something else. I was sick of people acting against their own interests. Mooing about how to refinance the slaughterhouse. Putting skylights in the killing pen and pretending the bolt in the brain was a pathway to a better field. I paid my bill. Save your fucking pennies for a gun and a history book, I thought.”
― Vanessa Veselka, Zazen
― Vanessa Veselka, Zazen
“I tried to map the cultural trends leading up to it but as I did they grew, interconnecting and weaving backwards and sideways out to everything. Next to the megalithic institutionalized shredding of people's humanity, marked by tombstone malls and scabby hills, the Styrofoam gullets and flag-waving god-chatterers casting their votes for eternal paternity on the lap rapists - next to all of that, the intimacy between a terrorist and his target was almost a beautiful thing but I still couldn't solve that moment when they did it anyway so I grabbed more paper and widened my field of vision.”
― Vanessa Veselka, Zazen
― Vanessa Veselka, Zazen
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