blake butler

Why does American literature seem like it’s dying? Maybe because all of the most visible publishers play w their tail between their legs pushing family dramas, vacation stories, and netflix propaganda instead of anything that might move a needle

How many drugs do you think Ozzy Osbourne was on during this 1982 interview?

“One of the most original and brilliant writers today”’s new novel is about an interview with an old man that doesn’t get recorded because of a phone mishap?

This is not the worst of our problems but whenever we’re in really bad political times I hate how bad the poetry gets

“I don’t like the term ‘description of the world,’ it contains a clear reference to secondariness—to illustrativeness. No, instead, a writer must conceive of his own worlds—not describe the world that’s already been created.”

After Odysseus has killed all his enemies he starts crying

What's a conspiracy theory you believe with your whole heart?

Everyone on earth thinks you’re a pedo and they ask you about it and your reply is change it back to the Washington redskins

Misread Calvin Klein as Overton window

i think everyone has something interesting about them, but it's difficult to get that across when you don't know how to use words properly & lack the vocabulary to describe your thoughts and experiences. the consequence is being a boring conversationalist

If you’re an employee the employer’s profit margin isn’t your problem or responsibility. They need to pay you what you are worth or they can’t have said employee. Only in the US are ppl expected to have some bizarre allegiance to a company with no reciprocation. It’s a work cult.

Heat Death 2 at Dennis Cooper's blog today. Available now, link in bio.

Submissions for WANTED [whatiwanted (dot) org] are now open exclusively to writers seeking their 1st publication

Some Soviet Station - "Pistol Whipped" — youtu.be/bEIGL1k4WyQ?si…

If any senator thinks you’re funny you’re not funny

Trump is looking like he’s about to explode Miyazaki style in a flood of poop cum diet code beef foam lard frogs mosquitos and flies

Thank you to @politico for publishing, in full, the cease and desist letter my lawyers sent to New York Councilwoman Vickie Paladino and Speaker Adrienne Adams as part of their coverage today: politico.com/f/?id=00000198…

Shane gillis is a great example of someone who is brave enough to say anything for a laugh but not smart enough to say anything interesting

Daydreamers is out in the world now. "A story of immigration, brilliantly inflected with undercurrents both noir and comic.” —Susan Daitch "Daydreamers kind of sinks in slowly. Then it becomes absorbing in a way that doesn't let up." —Stacey Levine Cover concept by @iLLepitaph

Gg allin had way more to say about america than jon franzen, consider that when trying to decide whether to go in debt for an mfa or not