Juliet Escoria's Blog, page 17
June 19, 2014
i tried to go to a 12 step meeting yesterday but traffic was...
i tried to go to a 12 step meeting yesterday but traffic was terrible so i turned around and then went on a walk in the canyon instead
it was a good move
June 18, 2014
Author Juliet Escoria Talks Nightlife and Writing - BlackBook
Nightlife for many is a means to an end. Most truly do not want to be bartending or waitressing deep into middle age, although both are rewarding and noble professions. The business is full of dancers and singers and actors and artists and writers and even an Olympian or two. The hours and cash allow …
Steve Lewis interviewed me for Blackbook
The Sexual Masochism of Juliet Escoria
Juliet Escoria’s debut collection of short stories, Black Cloud, is quick, smart, and darkly entertaining…
Lindsay Maharry interviewed me for Bullett.
June 17, 2014
1. I Read This And Liked It A Lot (Pity the Animal by Chelsea...
1. I Read This And Liked It A Lot (Pity the Animal by Chelsea Hodson)
2. I Read This And Liked It A Lot And I Also Have A Story In It (Lazy Fascist Review, Issue #1)
3. I Read This And Liked It A Lot (Crystal Eaters by Shane Jones)
4. I Haven’t Read This Yet But Am Really Looking Forward To Doing So (New Tab by Guillaume Morissette)
June 16, 2014
moving across the country to live with someone who owns 5000+ books means i am trying to bring as...
moving across the country to live with someone who owns 5000+ books means i am trying to bring as few as possible. here are the ones that made the cut:
fear of flying, erica jong (mass market paperback copy pub 1973)
cat’s eye, margaret atwood
citrus county, john brandon
virgin suicides, jeffrey eugenides (original paperback version)
because they wanted to, mary gaitskill (original hardcover)
apology issue 1
milan review, issue 2
their eyes were watching god, zora neale hurston
tongue party, sarah rose etter
geek love, katherine dunn
the vanishers, heidi julavits (ARC)
billie the bull, xtx
normally special, xtx
anthemas and admirations, e.m. cioran
the secret heart of the clock, elias canetti
the agony of flies, elias canetti
terrestrial intelligence: international fiction from new directions
my mistress’s sparrow is dead: great love stories
gravity & grace, simone weil
dangerous angels, francesca lia block
wrong, dennis cooper
the awakening, kate chopin
prep, curtis sittenfield
last exit to brooklyn, hubert selby jr.
fear and loathing in las vegas, hunter s. thompson (although only because i have owned this particular copy since age 16 and it meant a lot to me then)
sixty stories, donald barthelme
the dubliners, james joyce (pub 1967)
west with the night, beryl markham
pimp, iceberg slim
just kids, patti smith
down & out in paris & london, george orwell
ariel, sylvia plath
blood & pudding, katelan v. foisy
the complete works, rimbaud
the dead and the living, sharon olds
meat heart, melissa broder
migration, w.s. merwin
the stranger, camus
a christmas memory, truman capote
the weaklings (xl), dennis cooper
hill william, SM (due to inscription inside)
the tell-tale heart and other stories, edgar allan poe (due to having owned this copy since age 8)
the bell jar, sylvia plath
no one belongs here more than you, miranda july
the heart is deceitful above all things, j.t. leroy
winesburg, ohio, sherwood anderson (pub 1967)
train dreams, denis johnson
drugs are nice, lisa carver
bright lights, big city, jay mcinerney
the virginian, owen wister
stories II, SM (purchased the night we met)
war of the worlds, h.g. wells
the day walt disney died, sean h. doyle (chapbook)
last night, james salter
moon tiger, penelope lively
bad behavior, mary gaitskill
stories for the nighttime and some for the day, ben loory
miles from nowhere, nami mun
the collected stories, lydia davis
the collected stories, grace paley
the collected stories, breece d’j pancake (scott hates breece, true story)
a good man is hard to find, flannery o’connor
jesus’ son, denis johnson
the little prince, antoine de saint-exupery
the end of the affair, graham greene
fast machine, elizabeth ellen
make-believe love-making, ana carrete (chapbook)
sadmess, ana carrete (chapbook)
selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee, megan boyle
original edition of crapalachia, 2nd edition of crapalachia, SM, (Due to inscriptions inside)
pity the animal, chelsea hodson (chapbook)
we the animals, justin torres
the white album, joan didion
slouching toward bethlehem, joan didion
NOTES:
-excludes practical & sentimental books
-excludes books i am “currently reading”
June 15, 2014
Spent a lot of time on this. Happy with the result. Felt honored...
Spent a lot of time on this. Happy with the result. Felt honored to have interviewed him.
really great interview with Dennis Cooper about his new poetry book The Weaklings (XL)
In my writing, I try to study the imagination, and what is the imagination and what is not. Most of the stuff that happens in my books is about the imagination, and is framed as a kind of theater or fantasy or dream. Most of the stuff in the books is not really happening. So I made a decision, because I was fascinated by all this stuff – but I’m not a bad person – that I was going to let my imagination do whatever it wanted, and I wasn’t going to be afraid of it. If I wanted to think about killing somebody, then I would let myself imagine it and not judge it.
http://thefanzine.com/i-really-really-hate-nostalgia-juliet-escoria-interviews-dennis-cooper/
June 6, 2014
HAPPENING THIS UPCOMING WEEK WOW GET READY
MONDAY JUNE 9 AT THE FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES IN CROWN HEIGHTS
FRIDAY JUNE 13 AT MELLOW PAGES LIBRARY IN BUSHWICK
i don’t use drugs anymore but i think i might take something before the franklin park, like not really interested in hyperventilating on 200 ppl (when oh when will readings stop making me so nervous??? seems unfair)
also i have been thinking lately that a real funny joke involves me belligerently and incorrectly correcting people when they say my book title. like someone says “juliet escoria, the author of Black Cloud" and i go like ‘UM it’s called THE Black CLOUDS, plural?????"
the black clouds
lol
neatomosquitoshow:
a Scott McClanahan song called ‘Epitaph...
a Scott McClanahan song called ‘Epitaph (What’ll I Do)’ from the Holler Boys album ‘Greatest Hits,’ which you can buy here
