Kent Wascom
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Kent Wascom
@KentWascom
Books @groveatlantic. Gulf Coaster in the Old Dominion. Watch me wip thru this archaic yet relevant lens.
Norfolk, VA เข้าร่วม Ocak 2015
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@KentWascom Kent, I’m so sorry for your loss. A tragedy for America but for you personally, too.
Things are so fucked up in our country.
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Renee was one of my students years ago. I held her baby. She was kind and talented, a working class mom who put herself through school despite circumstances that would’ve crumpled the pathetic rich boy politicians who sadistically abetted her murder
God damn them all
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@BurialMagazine Thanks, man, that’s kind as hell of you to say
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@KentWascom this post made me cry. you have honored her here.
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Say her name #ReneeGood
Kent Wascom@KentWascom
Renee was one of my students years ago. I held her baby. She was kind and talented, a working class mom who put herself through school despite circumstances that would’ve crumpled the pathetic rich boy politicians who sadistically abetted her murder God damn them all
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bronson keeps delivering the goods. the first 15 minutes of this is basically a silent film and it plays out with amazing economy. definitely closer to something like le samourai than you'd assume.
ｙｕｉ@yui_antinomy
watching:
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@Sean_J_Fitz Nothing quite like it at the time either!
That’s why we gotta chase that Hannah high I guess
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@KentWascom I’d read it a long time ago but found it again recently, cause I’m so shot with something to make me want to write. Had no idea about Burroughs, go figure. But such a full character in that story it makes sense. I’ve been reading a lot pubbed today. Can’t find anything like it.
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Barry Hannah’s Bats Out of Hell… I’d like to know what fkin lit mag editors would think of THIS shit! A bot pretending to be a person told me “voice” is important to literary magazines like n+1, Harper’s, and the New Yorker. I 🙄’d so fucking hard.
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@Sean_J_Fitz You’re on that peak Barry Hannah
Always wondered what brought him to write a story about William S Burroughs (Coots) finding himself in a Rudyard Kipling’s “Mark of the Beast” scenario
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I could’ve made this positive but I am as the elders say I’m running out of fucks to give! My pursuit of this literary rigamarole as made me into a bohemian, and I am thankful for that, in some ways, but in others, I am too keen to bad stuff. I’ll take my doctor pill, be fine.
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@yui_antinomy When those flinty eyes catch a glint of humor it’s magnetic as hell.
Have you read Harry Crews’s essay about Bronson? If not lemme know, it’s wild
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@yui_antinomy Yessssss. Dark Angel’s in the pantheon for sure. Right up there with Lana Wood’s Demon Rage
The dissolve is from Crash! (1976) which totally ruled. Beautifully made. I didn’t know Charles Band was dropping bangers so early.
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Vengeful supernatural woman whose eyes glow when she uses her powers might be my favorite movie genre
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@KentWascom For white elephant. Was in a big bag including a whole pineapple, to give it some weight. Got stolen once by a friend for the cigarettes, and his mom was not happy about that!
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@WhatHoARat @ryanhasbadtaste 100% real and for whatever reason the ads were usually for my name brand
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@ryanhasbadtaste I feel like they tried this with mass market paperbacks in the 70s and 80s. I remember colored cigarette ads in books. Unless this is a mandela effect.
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don’t give them ideas
Reads with Ravi@readswithravi
Books are so cool because there are NO FUCKING ADS IN THEM.
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@TrentBWrites If you haven’t pitched the Southern Review of Books, I’d give them a shot!
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Where are some cool places to publish essays in conjunction with a book publishing?
I uhhhhhh swung and uhhhhh missed on the big big big ones
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@thedadlitpod @JoelNedecky @SmashedEars Almost forgot, I’ve got a story about McCarthy and The Road that one of his pals told me in Santa Fe one time but I’ll save for the show.
Oh yeah, and I gotta remember to talk about Lauren Groff’s Arcadia and Masutsugo Ono’s At the Edge of the Woods 🧐
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@thedadlitpod @JoelNedecky @SmashedEars Hell yeah. It didn’t land like this in my 20s, but now I think the last line of the book says a whole lot about parenthood and childhood, the things that can’t be put back or experienced again.
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Finished The Road... So that was an uplifting experience.
GIF
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