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Kirk Curnutt

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November 15, 1964 in Lincoln NE; currently living in Montgomery AL, The United States

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Kirk Curnutt is the author of eleven volumes of fiction and literary criticism. His first novel, Breathing Out the Ghost, won the 2008 Best Books of Indiana competition in the fiction category. It also won a bronze IPPY and was a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year finalist. His second novel, Dixie Noir, was published in November 2009. Other recent works include Key West Hemingway, co-edited with Gail D. Sinclair (UP of Florida), The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the fictional dialogue with Ernest Hemingway Coffee with Hemingway (with a preface by John Updike), and the short-story collection Baby, Let’s Make a Baby, Plus Ten More Stories. The recipient of a 2007-08 Alabama State Arts Council literary fellowship, he is curren...more


Average rating: 4.38 · 196 ratings · 84 reviews · 21 distinct works
Breathing Out the Ghost
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Clues to Murple (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Dec 08, 2010 02:02pm
Description: This is a new story published by Flatmancrooked about how Facebook, Wikipedia, Amazon, and even GoodReads aren't good for the nerves of either writers or spree killers. Lots of GR in-jokes!
The Day Draft Beer Came to Town (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Jul 07, 2010 04:12am
Description: This is a newly published story. It's very political. It's about how we are now awash in a tide of socialism that prevents us natively born in the USA people from exercising our God given right to life, puberty, and the pursuit of flabbiness. It's about how we must stand up to tyranny, lest our leaders change Independancing Day from July 4 to October just to show us they can. JUST KIDDING! It's really about beer. And keg stands. And weed. Plus it has a Sapphic subtext. It's ... SUDSY. And with a good head to boot. Yeasty fun.
"The Greater Mercies of Intimacy" (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:34pm
Description: Short short story
"Hello Liz, Goodbye Teeth" (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm
Description: In honor of the imminent rerelease of Liz Phair's epochal CD Exile in Guyville, I decided to post this oldie but moldy, too. It was published in---aww, who cares where it was published. It was inspired by my near meeting with Liz Phair, however, photographic proof of which may be found here: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=42965553&albumID=0&imageID=26124237 (That's me in the left corner, losing my religion)
"Etude and Bell Tower" (Literature & Fiction)
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Description: This is an old story. I figured I'd add something here.... I hadn't in a while.
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"If I'd been a virgin when I read this book I probably would've castrated myself out of sheer terror. Then again, if this book had been published when...more "
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
" I have never experienced a break up.

You know, one of those, ‘she doesn’t have to have her fresh young fellows tape back, but there’s not a long of things that she’ll take back’ kind of break up or the ‘And I’m here to remind you of the mess you l... "
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Drive
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I've rounded up to four for the sake of symmetry but really, this was a 3-1/2er for me. Knocked 'er off one night in about two hours after seeing the movie wouldn't be out for another week and that Amazon was hocking it for less than $6. I love the i...more
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As many reviewers note, Hammett claimed this book was his favorite, and it's easy to see why. Structurally it's the most cohesive of his five novels. RED HARVEST is great but feels a little serial-y, DAIN CURSE is four stories glommed together, and b...more
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What it Was
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This book is a lot like the decade in which it's set: the garish fashions tend to overshadow the substance, the plot feels loose and sprawling, everybody is collapsing into crass, and the specter of Richard Nixon stinks it up like the bad smell from...more
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If I weren't the mean teacher I am I'd cut Hammett slack and round up to four stars because this---the last of his novels---is a solid 3-1/2. And that's only because it pales in comparison to every one of his other novels except THE DAIN CURSE, which...more
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“Somewhere along the line I began compiling myself from the excerpts of better men.”
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“My worst kiss could have been an outtake from Species. I think she thought my epiglottis was a punching bag.”
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“But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”
Gertrude Stein

“I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.”
Zelda Fitzgerald

“Agonies are one of my changes of garments.”
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition

“Said Red Molly to James that's a fine motorbike
A girl could feel special on any such like
Said James to Red Molly, my hat's off to you
It's a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952
And I've seen you at the corners and cafes it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favourite colour scheme
And he pulled her on behind
And down to Boxhill they did ride

Said James to Red Molly, here's a ring for your right hand
But I'll tell you in earnest I'm a dangerous man
I've fought with the law since I was seventeen
I robbed many a man to get my Vincent machine
Now I'm 21 years, I might make 22
And I don't mind dying, but for the love of you
And if fate should break my stride
Then I'll give you my Vincent to ride

Come down, come down, Red Molly, called Sergeant McRae
For they've taken young James Adie for armed robbery
Shotgun blast hit his chest, left nothing inside
Oh, come down, Red Molly to his dying bedside
When she came to the hospital, there wasn't much left
He was running out of road, he was running out of breath
But he smiled to see her cry
And said I'll give you my Vincent to ride

Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
Beats a 52 Vincent and a red headed girl
Now Nortons and Indians and Greeveses won't do
They don't have a soul like a Vincent 52
He reached for her hand and he slipped her the keys
He said I've got no further use for these
I see angels on Ariels in leather and chrome
Swooping down from heaven to carry me home
And he gave her one last kiss and died
And he gave her his Vincent to ride”
Richard L. Thompson

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message 463: by Gary

Gary You profile pic? Where was it taken? Is that the Fitzgerald house in Alabama?


message 462: by Kirk

Kirk Pirh wrote: "♥ ♥ ♥ You were next on my list to add! My sincerest apologies for you not being at the top of it."

haha---I'm happy to know my place :)


message 461: by Gåry!

Gåry! Pimp.


message 460: by Michelle

Michelle I didn't know Mrs. Crane designed baby clothing.


message 459: by Michelle (last edited Jul 28, 2011 01:50pm)

Michelle You mean my picture is worse than any avatar you've ever had? I am so proud!

(Check out her freaky-ass hand.)

P.S. eMOOtional rescue cracked me up.
: )


message 458: by Michelle

Michelle Hee!

(What is on that woman's chest, by the way? Bacon in a can?)


message 457: by Heidi

Heidi


message 456: by Kirk

Kirk BeLL-Z wrote: "HOLY! Is that was the bars are like down in Montgomery?!?! Looks like a good way to get a pube in your beer."

It's hot down here. But if you wax you can avoid the floaties.


Books Ring a Ling My Ding a Ling HOLY! Is that was the bars are like down in Montgomery?!?! Looks like a good way to get a pube in your beer.


message 454: by Kim

Kim


Books Ring a Ling My Ding a Ling I love your new av! (I think that may drive the teetotalers to drink, though!)

I wish I could buy this for you:
http://www.nfljerseyssupply.org/nhl-j...


message 452: by Esteban

Esteban del Mal The best profile pic I've ever seen around here.


message 451: by EZRead

EZRead eBookstore Hello, Kirk! Very interesting. The only book we have in common, (Outlander) we feel identical about. http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


message 450: by David

David Why Mickey Rooney? I assumed he must have died today... but apparently he's still (ostensibly) alive, according to my Google search.


message 449: by David

David His first novel, Breathing Out the Ghost, won the 2008 Best Books of Indiana competition in the fiction category.

WOTT!

I had no fucking idea we had a 'Best Books of Indiana' competition. Hell, I don't know we could even read. Props to Shatmandu!


Books Ring a Ling My Ding a Ling re avatar:
Amen, Shat, AMEN!
:)


message 447: by Sarah

Sarah Null Also: I don't want to know why they are smelling the bananas. I feel like maybe the bananas just came out of an orifice of some kind and it scares me.


message 446: by Sarah

Sarah Null Hey Kirk! I was just thinking about you and I haven't talked to you in a while so I thought I'd drop you a note. I hope everything is going well for you!! Happy new year!


message 445: by Dave

Dave Russell Merry Christmas

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Books Ring a Ling My Ding a Ling Um. Doesn't everyone?


message 441: by Joyzi

Joyzi Hi Kirk^^


message 440: by Kim

Kim You mean I stumped the avatar stumper? YES!


message 439: by Kim

Kim

Does it need a caption?


message 437: by Gåry!

Gåry! I admit I checked with you before I did it. ;)


message 436: by Michelle

Michelle Does that woman have a fish in her mouth?


message 435: by Gåry!

Gåry! I took that picture for Bellerina, not for you.


Books Ring a Ling My Ding a Ling I like that his wattle is bigger than her bust.

the physics of it is... awe-inspiring.


Books Ring a Ling My Ding a Ling her eyes cry, "I hate my life" and his eyes say, "I have hated every moment of my life except this one and I think I just wet myself."


message 432: by Emily

Emily No, haven't received the PDF. Could you send it to me?


message 431: by Emily

Emily Hey Kirk!

Do you know when the next volume of FSF Review is shipping?

Emily


message 430: by Michelle

Michelle Smells like teen spirit.


message 429: by Michelle

Michelle Kirk! Hahaha!

(Best pic this month...)


message 428: by Gåry!

Gåry! feeling like a woman,
looking like a man,
sounding like a no-no,
mating when I can


oh wait, that's not Grace Jones


Leaning-Good Oh.. your gosh !!!

How fun of your pic, Kirk!

The camel are eating the boy's hand;
Moreover, his father feel enjoy for that, too !!??

Ha!
:P
Suka


message 426: by Michelle

Michelle Happy Father's Day, Kirk!
♥!

(Love your avatar. Of course.)


Books Ring a Ling My Ding a Ling I...

hope that is her daughter's room??


message 424: by Gåry!

Gåry!


message 423: by Heidi

Heidi I'M ON VACATION!!!!


:D

♥♥♥


message 422: by Heidi

Heidi Hi Kirk.

:)


message 421: by Emily

Emily Kirk,
I painted a portrait of Fitzgerald last year and I think it might be a good candidate for a future Fitzgerald Review cover and it translates well to black and white.

http://echaz.deviantart.com/art/F-Sco...

Where exactly should I send it to submit?

Emily


message 420: by Michelle

Michelle Get him, toro!


message 419: by Kim

Kim . Goths and emos, deep down, are really just sentimental. In their rooms at night they cry to reruns of Titantic.


That, right there, is one reason why you are one of my favorite writers...chock full of Curnuttery goodness...


message 418: by Esteban

Esteban del Mal You look HOT!


message 417: by Sally

Sally Bring him baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!


message 416: by Michelle

Michelle Sweet! No one beat me to comment:

That's an angry looking cock you have there.


message 415: by Jen

Jen Your avatar brillance never ends! Quiet, jealousy.


message 414: by Michelle

Michelle Wott!


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