Juliet Escoria's Blog, page 8

New poems up at The Heavy Contortionists

Mike Cronin has made a new site that currently features writing by people like Mike Young, Ben Tanzer, ME, artwork by Karen Lillis, and a lot more. Later there will be books and readings. I am super happy to be a part of the launch. My poems about being a sexy terrorist are here.

some people made some best-of lists and put my book on them

Salon
The Fader
FSG: Favorite Books
FSG: Most Original Reads
Dennis Cooper
Vol. 1 Brooklyn #1
Vol. 1 Brooklyn #2
Verbicide
Beach Sloth’s The Beachies

Thank you, Tobias Carroll, Duncan Cooper, Emily Bell, Lindsay Hunter, Dennis Cooper, Sean H. Doyle, Gabino Iglesias, and Beach Sloth — it means a whole hell of a lot. :D :D

I have three new poems up at Shabby Dollhouse. Jessica Hayworth...

I have three new poems up at Shabby Dollhouse. Jessica Hayworth did illustrations for them (see above).

You can check out the rest of the issue here. It is huge and full of amazing contributors and I read the whole thing last night and felt way more excited than I have about any publication in a long time.

"What if my problem wasn’t that I don’t understand people but...

"What if my problem wasn’t that I don’t understand people but that I don’t like them?"

Nightcrawler (2014) 

yaaaaaaaaaasssssss so much crazy, so much sexy, so much...

yaaaaaaaaaasssssss so much crazy, so much sexy, so much cool

shabbydollhouse:

TUESDAY

I will be “home” for Christmas, aka not in nasty...

I will be “home” for Christmas, aka not in nasty grey slush weather, and am looking forward to this reading with Lucy Tiven, Ryan Bradford, and Scott McClanahan. 

SCOTT SAYS THIS ALBUM IS ON HIS TOP 10 LIST OF ‘HUMAN...

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SCOTT SAYS THIS ALBUM IS ON HIS TOP 10 LIST OF ‘HUMAN MASTERPIECES’ AND I THINK I WOULD HAVE TO AGREE WITH HIM. 

you can hear the sweat and sex and tension and the noise of being alive.

neatomosquitoshow:Scott McClanahan has an article on Fader...

neatomosquitoshow:

Scott McClanahan has an article on Fader about country music star Little Jimmy Dickens:

…my favorite was “May the Bird of Paradise Fly up Your Nose.” It didn’t make any sense and didn’t try to make any sense. In the first verse, the narrator decides to help out a beggar by giving him a penny. Then the narrator loses his coat. The beggar finds it and returns it along with a $100 bill the narrator left in the pocket. Then the narrator tips the beggar a dime for returning the coat and the $100 dollar bill. The chorus is the insult the beggar shouts at the singer of our song: May the bird of paradise fly up your nose/ May an elephant caress you with his toes/ May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose/ May the bird of paradise fly up your nose.

I liked it because it was probably the worst chorus ever written. I told Sarah to imagine a song written by Antonin Artaud, and she would understand. It was a song that attacked the listener. It was a song not interested in telling you about the mind of the insane, but one that wanted to produce that state of mind in the listener. It was a spell, a fever, a curse.

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read the rest here

i want to kiss lil brandon flowers so hard in this picwhat a...

i want to kiss lil brandon flowers so hard in this pic

what a smokin mormon 

that is all i’ve got

altlitgossip:Marry Fuck Kill Cuddle Tour video footage...

altlitgossip:

Marry Fuck Kill Cuddle Tour video footage starring Chloe Caldwell, Elizabeth Ellen, Mira Gonzalez, and Chelsea Martin. Also featuring Scott McClanahan, Juliet Escoria, Jordan Castro, Aaron Burch, and Devon Walsh