January 2010
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interview w. a coming & crying contrib: katie... →
meaghano:
meaghan: Ha. Do you ever feel like, “Okay. Here goes. I am choosing my art over this relationship.” Sometimes when i write about someone part of me feels like i am putting the nail in the coffin. Like ol’ Joan Didion said, ‘Writers are always selling somebody out.’ How do you work through that in your head? katiewest: Ah, yes, i often feel like i’m selling the people i write about out....
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There is now an interview with me on the internet.
nakedpicturesofyourdad:
In it i reveal gruesome details about my sex life, and also my love of Scottish author Muriel Spark.
Matthew, forgive me for posting this update like five seconds before the iPad announcement!
“It’s so much more intimate than a laptop.”
– (via)
“In 1962, police officers concealed themselves for two weeks in a men’s public...”
– Biber and Dalton, Making Art from Evidence: Secret Sex and Police Surveillance in the Tearoom (via Legal History Blog)
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“I’m like the Lorenzo De Medici of smutty literature.”
– Nicholas Molnar, on (hey thx!) backing Coming & Crying
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WatchStephen Elliott (author of The Adderall Diaries, founder of The Rumpus, and a contributor to Coming & Crying) promises he will not fuck you just to write about it. (My incredulity in this clip is only indicative of my own moral compass.)
“No I did not take all our riches from Coming & Crying and split for Miami....”
“Although (participant observation is) usually described as ‘fly on the...”
– Sarah Thornton, “Seven Days in the Art World”
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meaghano:
steampoweredmedia:
Write your congressperson. Tell her you won’t back someone who accepts corporate money. Tell him support for health care reform is in the toilet because they removed the public option. Tell her you gave $15 to some book about sex because it represents something awesome and if she dared to represent any kind of awesomeness you would probably give the same amount to...
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A midnight swim alone under palms with Nina Simone playing. Taking home a perfectly trashy fancy dress. (To debut at a Very Special Reading tk.) Passionfruit ceviche. Caffe con leche and Lorrie Moore. Licking the bottom of my tongue with my tongue because I strained it. Maybe again. Still loving my breasts. Graceful swoops of neon in pink. Architecture quite like breasts. Pages of all my books...
Tumblr's New Directory: Sexuality →
(via nightmarebrunette)
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When Projects Explode
kickstarter:
Four days ago, Meaghan O’Connell and Melissa Gira Grant launched Coming & Crying, a project seeking $3,000 to publish a book of essays about sex. Within 48 hours, they hadn’t just reached their goal — they had doubled it. Today they have nearly 200 backers and more than $6,700 in funding. How?
Other titles considered for this post: “When Tender Writer Egos Explode”...
“Robert and I took a lot of photographs at Bond Street. I liked the atmosphere...”
– Patti Smith, Just Kids
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“There’s something to be said for the innovative model of publishing that Grant...”
– T H E N E W I N Q U I R Y
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“I had this foam mattress lent to me from the friends who had put me up while I...”
– an excerpt from (whispery post), a Coming & Crying backers-only update (aka our secret blog)
“Robert and I were still intimate and I think it was hard for both of us to bring...”
– Patti Smith, Just Kids
Dear Internet
For one hour, I’ll be doing a super lightning round private reading in a public place. I’m at Bluebird Coffee on 1st and 1st. I have six different diaries here — 2003-2010. Come by. Sit, ask me to read, listen, and say goodbye. It’s tiny and I bet I can do 3 before I’d have to go.
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Dear Internet →
Celebratory private-diary-reading-in-a-public-place in the East Village in a few hours. Call in sick now.
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the thank you post
The biggest thank you to carlo, who responded to our call for a camera, unselfishly made it clear what we needed was him, and leapt right in with us for an all-day shoot to come out with what feels like two minutes inside the book that isn’t done yet.
Thank you to 94 backers right now on Kickstarter. We can breathe now (remember to breathe, you guys) and focus on writing, which was the...
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But wait there's more
I need a place where I can write about sex that’s unindexable. At least yet. Google may get its scanners all over Coming & Crying eventually and (this just in, $75 from Krucoff? ANDREW KRUCOFF: YOU AUTOCOMPLETE US) we’ll be happy for that.
This is why normal people make secret blogs. But I prefer print.
I went back to Patti Smith’s work today. I cried as I was reading her...
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“I met Melissa on the Internet. We were Internet friends. We shared dreams over...”
– meaghan
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WatchThe Secret Diary of Melissa Grant (this is it, my Laura Palmer story), as revealed at Sex Worker Literati, 3 September 2009.
“Public-ness has always been a privilege. For a long time, only a few chosen few...”
– apophenia: Facebook’s move ain’t about changes in privacy norms
(via materialworld)
Porn is like Print (pt. 2)
porncull:
So who’s paying? Is it Internet-illiterate people who google “fuck tits” and give their credit card number to the first hit? That’s a disappearing demographic. Because the thing about growing up with the Internet is that you reach the age where you want to look at porn before you reach they age where you get a credit card. So out of hormone-born necessity, you learn to find the free...
Porn is like Print
…For porn to lose money is an awesome development. Porn is the ultimate hybrid of consumerism and sex. Bigger than Hollywood, huge. Or at least it used to be. Pr0n got the full-scale disruptive de-monetization treatment. You can always say that “men’s lustful needs are eternal, so that lust must have gone somewhere else,” but men’s lustful needs for *commercial, consumerized, profitable*...
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Winter breaks a little coming back to Brooklyn,...
“But that is only part of the problem. In the arena of international aid, a great...”
– Tracy Kidder, Country Without a Net (NYT)
The development nerd in me responds: this is why I don’t give to charity, but rather, to on-the-ground organizations led by the people most impacted by the issues they seek to address, why I give to groups who build critical infrastructure in...
“Remember when that Canadian radio program got kind of famous for just calling a...”
– Ken Layne (via Choire Sicha)
Corinne Marchand - Sans Toi (Without You) (via...
“Literature might be in a “post-sex world,” but for fuck’s sake, who else is? And...”
– me, saying the last smart thing I said on internet since I took off for a few days
