Reading Is Insane
In his column for Vice, Blake Butler explains the “three, short savage books you have to read.”
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The GIF Novel
For Vice, Blake Butler interviews Dennis Cooper about his new Internet novel composed “entirely of terrifying GIFs.”
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300,000,000 by Blake Butler
Alex Norcia reviews 300,000,000 by Blake Butler today in Rumpus Books.
...moreWord of the Day: Periculous
(adj.); dangerous or full of peril; from the latin periculum (“an attempt, risk”) I’m normal. I live in a nice apartment. I think one thing [guys like Burroughs] didn’t have that I have is the Internet. The Internet is the biggest conduit of psychic violence since television. –Blake Butler, in an interview with The Believer […]
...moreNotable NYC: 10/11–10/17
Saturday 10/11: The New Yorker Festival, around town, $35 and up. Cristina Moracho launches Althea and Oliver, a novel about two friends. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 10/12: The New Yorker Festival, around town, $35 and up. The Singapore Literature Festival. McNally Jackson, 6 p.m., free. Amy Jo Burns reads Cinderland (October 2014), a memoir […]
...moreMaster of Feeling Ambivalent
There are a lot of people who have very strong feelings about MFA programs, but Blake Butler’s Vice piece “What I Remember from Getting an MFA in Creative Writing,” just sort of lays out the details and holds back on the judgment (not unlike good fiction, really). It’s surprisingly beautiful in its ambivalence: I remember getting […]
...morePublishing Via Google Docs
At HTML Giant, Blake Butler reflects on Marie Calloway’s Google doc pieces: “They are surprising and create a feeling that seems like a secret private virus or a window. There are people in the world.” Here’s our interview with Calloway.
...moreThe Unblinking Eye
At The Awl, Blake Butler reflects on attachment to the Internet world (and the machines with which we enter) as well as the meaning of obsession. “It seems too late for any of this to be stopped. Even making aimed attempts to avoid these machinations and the silent spread seems bent against a thing that […]
...moreWhat Began As a Love Letter…
Warmed and Bound, an anthology of neo-noir fiction, offers 38 dark and beautiful stories from Matt Bell, Blake Butler, and others.
...moreBlake Butler on Submissions
At The Awl, Blake Butler has let us in on a little secret: he’s posted a spreadsheet with every piece of writing he’s submitted from 2006 to 2008. It’s an impressively long list that includes where the piece(s) were submitted and whether they were accepted or rejected. Along with talent and good writing, the key […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Blake Butler
Blake Butler is the author of There Is No Year (Harper Perennial, 2011), Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books, 2010), and Ever (Calamari Press, 2009). He is the editor of HTMLGIANT, Lamination Colony, and No Colony. His writing has appeared widely online and in print, including in The Believer, Unsaid, Fence, and the New York Tyrant, and has been shortlisted in The […]
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Books, Bodies And Why We Should Bother
“If we can get them right, books are luminous versions of our ideas, bound by narrative structure so that others can encounter those better, smarter versions of us on the page or screen. Books make the case for us, for the identity of the individual as an embodiment of thinking in the world. The heart […]
...moreDiversity in Voices
In a very powerful piece
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