Holly Wilson

@kylerseibel @chaucersbooks @CLASHBooks My book is looking up at your book! 😻

damn this looks good

@JasDrawsSmtms Oh my gosh, thank YOU for reading (and for taking your reading seriously). This is very kind, it means a lot! 🥹♥️

@WilsonJHolly I just finished kittentits. thank you for taking me seriously as a reader. The tone was spot on, the language, the development, everything was brilliantly intentional and flawlessly executed. This book is painfully relatable, and absoluly helarious at the same time

If I were forced to pick one scene in Lynch's run that encapsulates his art (which is impossible), my pick is the Llorando sequence in Mulholland Drive. Even in the dark of our nightmares, the beauty and pain of art can reach us, even if that art is built on nightmares itself.

Cheer yourself up, here's Swiss art-punk band Kleenex from... 77? Essentially Elastica, 20 years early

If there was ever a time to read Dorothy Allison, it would be now.

ever since i was a little girl, i knew i wanted rights

@cstegman Thank you, Casey! ♥️

Got to speak with Beth Golay about KITTENTITS on Marginalia! Thank you, Beth! In my limited experience, radio people are the nicest.

@chloescarlet Congrats! 🎉

some news for my network, urgently awaiting my next move . . .

@Penny_Zang Oh my gosh, thanks for mentioning Kittentits! Very kind. ♥️

I’ve come to love compiling the highlights at the end of each month, part photo dump and part reminder of everything I’ve been drawn to lately. #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity

This book. I am laughing so hard/feeling all the feelings. So good. Kittentits by @WilsonJHolly 🖤

There are writers of fiction who present as precisely and as accurately as they can the hidden heart of the human condition. They expose dark tendencies and temptations, moral failings, meannesses, violence, cruelties, the whole inner bastard that all of us meet at least to a certain degree when we are introspective but that very few have the creativity or bravery to discuss out in the open. I’m thinking of writers like William Faulkner, William S. Burroughs, Vladimir Nabokov, or Thomas Pynchon, though there are of course many more. Flannery O’Connor might be another example. These people are not moral authorities and many of them are very far indeed from being moral paragons. However, I feel it is very dangerous to criticise such writers on the grounds of the dark themes and positions laid out in their fictions as though those elements of their creative project were a window into their personal moral turpitude and not a broad comment on either human nature or the state of play in a specific society. Today, it seems to me, there is a tendency for us to try to present our hidden, inner lives as at least more unimpeachable than those of our neighbours, if not absolutely so. There is a spirit of stagey moral competition and no one feels it is advisable to fall behind. And, so, brave writing that picks at the scabs of human character unapologetically is often framed as the aberration of one ethically bankrupt individual. In reading this way I feel we lose most of all the reach of literature, which seeks to plumb depths and cross distances between our visions of perfection and our most loathsome (often secret) shortcomings. Essentially, I suggest, to write about moral lack is not itself, ironically, a symptom of moral lack. It is rather a deeply corrective and emancipatory technology aimed at meeting us where we live rather than where we often, erringly, pretend to be.

Miles Davis, the kitty, isn't quite sure what to think of Kittentits @WilsonJHolly

@kendraunruh Everyone's a critic ☺️

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⚡ Come see Lindsay Starck and me at Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis tonight! ⚡

@cstegman @KA_Harrington @KentWascom Awww, thank you, Casey! Feels so good to see her next to a Kent Wascom book 😻

It's my birthday today. Woot! Thinking about how life is short and even though I want to read ALL the books, I really need to make sure I read the BEST books. Would you gift me with your recommendations of books you can't forget? Others that provide life wisdom? ❤️

@carlthefish @DouglasMGordon Thank you, that's very sweet to say! ♥️

@WilsonJHolly @DouglasMGordon I enjoyed the interview; especially your bright energy which seemed authentic. I really don’t like having to hear writers who have been drug feet first and bored into answering questions about their work. Thank you for your time, insight, and honesty.

I hate tooting my own horn as much as everyone else here, but please know I got to talk about my book with @DouglasMGordon on BETA!!!!