Bill Kemmler's 1 sentence short fiction review

Would women find it completely intoxicating if I started calling myself The Daytrippin' Honeydripper? If I started wearing a big green zoot suit, sunglasses, flip-flops + zinc on my nose? I❤️NY hat?

This scared the living daylights out of me

some kind of critique should be done on esoteric/witchcraft people signal boosting the CIA by talking about their remote viewing "experiments"

Tao Lin doesn't really foreground his disability in his writing, but nevertheless, it remains part of the lore. Should we consider it an example to follow, an unfair advantage, or some third unknown option?

imagine eating at a fast food restaurant run by alt-lit people... they'd be too busy taking selfies to take your order!

Seductive account of a woman who flirts with work at a happy-ending massage parlor in the hopes that it will absolve her of a literary mustiness, but ends up a casualty of the maudlin instead

a few days ago I hit the streets of New York to do some citizen journalism and explore our untested assumptions about pants height. what I found was quite silly and fun youtube.com/watch?v=rR_7uY…

Most short stories ignore the need to subvert our critical impulse repeatedly, but that is all I have space to say in one sentence including not comparing this to “I remember” by Joe Brainard

The unexplained and abandoned use of 2nd person in the first paragraph here sets the tone for narrative and descriptive decision making

And another thing... People mistake alt-lit for being a "scene" and ignore the fact that the "scene" is Tao Lin's entry into the book market at the exact moment that the value of realism and subjectivity collapsed into each other. His only real quality as a writer is great timing

I do also find it funny that there are (a huge number of) people who think post-modernism is a point of view and something you can "disagree with"

there's no particular reason for the publishing industry to exist, but the decades of corporate consolidation have effectively killed the alternative distribution networks and caused all the experts who created them to disappear

I rarely want to comment on XRAY because their curation is so mediocre but this one was about as interesting as slumber