Alex Kudera's Blog, page 86

The French stole the Grinch for Christmas!

I was all wound up for the wall, intoxicated by French theft of The Grinch gig employment, but then I snoozed and loosed. . . missed the entire airing. . . but who do we blame for this French foreign film tax credit noted near the end of the film credits? Chirac? Hollande? Macron? Le Socialisme? Sylvia Beach? Gertrude Stein? Hemingway? Disney? Des pommes frites? Houellebecq?

Meg's Twisdom

Dear creative writers, don’t quit your day jobs! That’s usually a bad idea. Use what happens in your day jobs as material for your writing, especially if it’s a weird day job and if it drives you crazy. The hardest, saddest jobs inspire the best story material!— megpokrass (@megpokrass) January 9, 2019

On Happy Meals and more. . .

Listen to William Lessard on Happy Meals, poetry, Heavy Feather Review, and much more at John Madera's Jamming Their Transmission, Episode 1.

escape is not a reality. . .

"It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiastically they drive you to your own destruction: even the kindest ones, the ones that are most loving, can rarely have your interests truly at heart, because usually they are advising you from within lives of greater security and greater confinement, where escape is not a reality but simply something they dream of sometimes. Perhaps, he said, we are all like animals in the zoo, and once we see that one of us has got out of the enclosure we shout at him to run like mad, even though it will only result in him becoming lost."

~~ from Outline by Rachel Cusk

five free minutes of audio

YouTube has five free minutes of Fight for Your Long Day as an audiobook that leads to a "free download with 30-day trial."

Attention Walmart Shoppers

It's kind of cool that Walmart lists "Turquoise Truck" as an eBook for sale on its website when Amazon doesn't have a version for kindle.

in a European novel

"If his long day were lived in a European novel, he'd become 'D' when on the run or near disappeared."~~ from Fight for Your Long Day by Alex Kudera

Rachel Cusk's Outline

"The human capacity for self-delusion is apparently infinite--and if that is the case, how are we ever meant to know, except by existing in a state of absolute pessimism, that once again we are fooling ourselves?"

~~ from Outline by Rachel Cusk

$7.15

An overlooked feel-good classic of 2016 is now available at the bargain price of $7.15!

Gabino's Words of Wisdom

Best five gifts for the writer(s) in your life:
1. Leave them alone if they're typing
2. Leave reviewsof their books on Amazon
3. Tell folks to buy their work
4. Never tell them you have a story for them
5. Never ask them why they don't write "something more commercial"— Gabino Iglesias (@Gabino_Iglesias) December 21, 2018