Juliet Escoria's Blog, page 19
May 15, 2014
Starving Artist Giveaway/Sale
If you want a copy of Black Cloud but can’t afford to pay for it, I’m offering you a super special funtime giveaway sale until midnight on Sunday, May 19.
You have three options:
1. FREE GIVEAWAY: Create a piece of art (drawing, macro, poem, flash fiction, etc) inspired by/depicting my likeness and/or work. Email it and your address to julietescoria at gmail. I will choose 3 (count them: one, two, THREE) lucky winners, who will each receive a copy of Black Cloud.
2. CHEAP BOOK: I’ll sell you my book at cost if you PayPal $7 (includes shipping) to julietescoria at gmail and include either a compliment or your (brief) sob story in the comments section of your PayPal order.
3. FREE PDF: Email a compliment and/or your (brief) sob story to julietescoria at gmail and I will send you the PDF for free wowee free!!!!!
Please don’t be a dick and take advantage. This sale is open to people who are living off student loans, unemployed, down on their luck, etc. only.
Physical copies limited to USA only. If you enter the giveaway, let me know if you want to do option 2 or 3 if you don’t win.
May 10, 2014
altlitgossip:
the Dublin based group Bluebottle Collective will...
the Dublin based group Bluebottle Collective will be having a webshow on Sunday, May 11
click here for more info
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At 9pm a link will be available on our facebook and twitter, leading you to videos/performances by
chris dankland http://www.dankland.net/
juliet escoria http://julietescoria.com/
aliina lindroos http://www.aliinalindroos.com/
oscar bruno d’artois http://oscarbrunodartois.tumblr.co
james ireland https://www.facebook.com/CyclamenProductions
the pupils of St. Brigid’s School, Mullingar feat. paul timoney http://www.paultimoney.com/
and http://stbsschool.wix.com/stbs
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May 9, 2014
Sure wish you'd do an ad for Black Cloud like Sunny Katz did.
that is too meta for me…like… me wearing not very much clothing while holding a book that features images of me… not wearing very much clothing
i wish someone would bring me a pizza and a tray of brownies. my wish is better than your wish.
bushwickreview:
I highly recommend all the stories in Juliet...
I highly recommend all the stories in Juliet Escoria’s book Black Cloud, but the story I want to talk about is “The Other Kind of Magic”. There’s something fairy tale-like about this story, maybe it’s the second-person. And like a fairy tale, I want to live in this story and fantasize about the things described in it.
I read this story and wondered how I could get a job working coat check, making five hundred dollars of cash in a night. If you’re in your late twenties and worked a variety of low-paying “real jobs”, there’s something appealing about pocketing that kind of money away in a temporary and unskilled job. So is dressing up in a slutty outfit and lots of make up, if your usual style is androgynous clothes and little make-up. And dressing this way would make you talk to your co-workers and the coat check customers in a different way than you talk to you friends. You wouldn’t be quite yourself. Maybe you’d take more risks.
I imagine what it would be like to have a night job like that, where I worked while others were sleeping, and then walked home tired in those strange hours of the early morning, while others were just starting their day. It would feel a little like the way staying up night partying does, but a regulated version that’s scheduled to happen a few times a week. I’d have been working instead of spending money partying, there’d be many bills at the bottom of my purse. Maybe I’d go spend a few of those bills on breakfast at a diner, before rolling into bed and missing the rest of the daylight hours.
I fantasize about the things that happen to the narrator in “The Other Kind of Magic”, but like the narrator, I know I’d only want them for a little while. In the long run, they would not be for me. Ultimately, I can’t flee my own self and whatever ideas or ambitions lurk underneath.
You can read “The Other Kind of Magic” in Juliet Escoria’s collection Black Cloud and online at Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
There’s also videos for each of the stories in Black Cloud. I interviewed Juliet Escoria about those videos at The Fanzine. Here’s the video for “The Other Kind of Magic”. According to this nice feature at Atticus Review, it has the lowest views of all the Black Cloud videos. Fuck that, it’s awesome. Give it some more views by watching it now.
The Other Kind of Magic : The Remix by Juliet Escoria from Juliet Escoria on Vimeo.
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May is national short story month. The Bushwick Review will feature a short story every day on this tumblr. It will be by a living writer.
May 8, 2014
My parents are starting to become old. They both have to go to the bathroom a lot. It seems that...
My parents are starting to become old. They both have to go to the bathroom a lot. It seems that their bladders have grown smaller. Sometimes this frustrates me— how often they have to use the bathroom. It makes me impatient. I want to tell them they can’t go. I want to tell them things like, “Come on, can’t you hold it?”
Someday I will be their age. Someday my bladder will have grown smaller, too. Someday I will think about how I feel now, and I will become embarrassed by the impatience I once had.
May 6, 2014
SCOTT WILL TEACH YOU ABOUT METHOD ACTING
SCOTT WILL TEACH YOU ABOUT METHOD ACTING
May 5, 2014
MORE LINKS ABOUT THE BEST SUBJECT IN THE WORLD: ME
Dennis Cooper loves me.
Read an excerpt of Black Cloud at The Nervous Breakdown
Self-interview at The Nervous Breakdown that was mostly me asking people to ask me questions.
Review at Greybook Magazine by Manuel Arturo Abreu
Mention at Impose Magazine
Listen to the Other People Podcast if you want to hear me say “like” and “yep” ~500 times a piece
Listen to the Surreal Grotesque Podcast if you want to hear me sound like I have no idea what I’m talking about (because I don’t)
I like this pic of me & Janey Smith (I read at his 851 reading series last Friday) because I look like a ghost. Big ups to whoever painted the clouds.
I will read at the Red Bird Tour in support of Bonnie Zobell’s new book, with Heather Fowler & James Claffey, on Saturday at 4pm in San Diego
AND JUST FOR BALANCE: HERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT ARE NOT ABOUT ME
Scott McClanahan claims he sounds stupid in this but he is a big liar
This interview of Dennis Cooper by his agent, Ira Silverberg, from 2011 in The Paris Review
Sam Pink said some stuff re: talking about suicide that makes a lot of sense to me.
Gabby Bess made a mixtape for sad girls to celebrate the 4th issue of Illuminati Girl Gang
I <3 my BFF’s dad
I liked this piece by Lorian Long about selling her eggs.
I like this story by Sean H. Doyle
Obama wins first place. I think I may have been influenced by...
Obama wins first place. I think I may have been influenced by the fact that they seemingly created a Twitter for this occasion. They get a copy.
Sex Pistols win second place. I think I may have been influenced because Penny did it and I love Penny. I think I may have been dissuaded because shipping to the UK costs a lot. She gets an e-book.
wow
i love the lyrics to this song so much
kinda feel like i...
wow
i love the lyrics to this song so much
kinda feel like i made them
May 3, 2014
Sunny Katz pimping my shiiiiit
Sunny Katz pimping my shiiiiit
