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April 3, 2013
Clementine von Radics is a young poet based in Portland, OR....
Clementine von Radics is a young poet based in Portland, OR. That’s as much as I know about her, other than that the poems she posts to her Tumblr are wonderful. And now she’s put out her first book.
My First Book, As Often As Miracles, isavailableon Etsy!
As Often As Miraclesis a collection of poems about trying to get unlost, recovering from what hurts you, accepting the things that heal you, and trying to tell the two apart.
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The last printing I did sold out in less tha...
April 2, 2013
You praise other authors a lot. Do you never feel competitive with them?
Exactly the opposite. I get a feeling of companionship from knowing that other writers are out there, doing what they’re doing. Also, there’s so much great, near-magical, talent out there, it both excites and inspires me and also keeps me from taking myself too seriously.
April 1, 2013
March 30, 2013
Laurie Stone Debunks Laura Albert/JT Leroy's Claim that She Never Claimed Her Writing Was Memoir
Author and editor Laurie Stone was one of the early victims of Laura Albert’s J.T. Leroy scam. When she read about my grilling of Albert, she sent me this essay about her experience, which blows a hole in the argument of some of Albert’s defenders that the work was always presented as fiction, not memoir. More, it shows how Albert exploited the suffering of others to advance her career. I’m grateful to Laurie Stone for allowing me to post the essay here.
LIES AND THE MEMOIR
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March 29, 2013
Heckling Laura Albert/J.T. Leroy
Last night I went to Disjecta, an arts center in Portland, and heckled Laura Albert, who became famous under the pseudonym J.T. Leroy by pretending to be a sexually-abused, H.I.V.-infected teenage boy, when in fact she was a middle-aged, middle class white woman. (If you’re unfamiliar with the story, click here.)
I hadn’t planned to heckle. I hadn’t even planned to go to the event, feeling no need to pay $25 for a ticket to be lied to. But, despite the organizers’ claim...
March 28, 2013
criminalwisdom:
New York Police Department evidence photo,...
New York Police Department evidence photo, homicide scene. Jos Kellner, 404 East 54th Street, murdered in hallway, on January 7, 1916.
March 27, 2013
War, Terrorism - Who Defines the Terms?
our society sees violence by the class in power as legitimate and violence by the oppressed as illegitimate, because it’s structured to favor the class in power and maintain oppression
Or, as I’ve also heard it put: War is terrorism by the rich. Terrorism is war by the poor. I say this not as an endorsement of terrorism or war, nor as denial of the sometime necessity of violence, but as a condemnation of the ruling class’s claim that there is a difference.
March 26, 2013
Book Review: Beat to a Pulp: Hardboiled
The title of this anthology -Beat to a Pulp: Hardboiled- doesn’t reveal the range of its contents.Some of the stories are more subtle and nuanced than it suggests; Patricia Abbott’s story “Ric With No K” isn’t a genre piece at all, but a brilliant, heartbreaking tale of a lonely, brutalized child that stands alongside the work of Daniel Woodrell. Benoit Lelievre’s “Second Round Dive” is a sad and honest story of one of the many ways that boxers...
March 25, 2013
Locking workers in, treating them like prisoners on the...
Locking workers in, treating them like prisoners on the assumption that they’re criminals - does this sound like any present-day corporation?
On this day in 1911, 146 New York City garment workers (most of them Jewish and Italian immigrant women) perished as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory caught fire.
Doors to the stairwells and exits had been locked (a common practice at the time—managers thought it would stop theft and excessive breaks), leaving the women trapped—some died o...
March 24, 2013
Of Darkness and Light is awesome and terrifying. Do you believe in ghosts?
I believe in ghost stories.
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