i am deeply grateful for the flash of cosmic connectedness i have experienced from your work. i have enjoyed following all of your writing and i am looking forward to what next year brings. the fact that your writing exists is proof of its legitimacy and your legitimacy as a writer. here's to another year. <3
“ I used to worry that no one would want to read my writing because it’s incredibly personal to the point of discomfort, but then I became enamored with Anaïs Nin and Annie Ernaux for that very reason.”
Really? I’m genuinely not trying to be a dick but people writing about their boring sex lives is almost exclusively what I see on my feed. It’s 2025 it hasent been shocking for a few decades. It’s just played out and pedestrian at this point.
Naw I support writing about sex. I've read a lot of de sade, nin, masoch, bataille, miller etc. I even bought Bataille's wife's bdsm story. I dont have to think every piece of writing on a topic is good or worthwhile. it's just incredibly common and generally not done in an interesting way. Look at houllebecq it’s largely about sex but the way he does it is great. I see sooo many posts that just rely on the subject matter rather than the writing to be interesting. Not finding something envelope pushing isn't dismissing it. Not everything has to be. It's just ordinary like everything else. I'm supporting and acknowledging that it's not a taboo topic.
i am deeply grateful for the flash of cosmic connectedness i have experienced from your work. i have enjoyed following all of your writing and i am looking forward to what next year brings. the fact that your writing exists is proof of its legitimacy and your legitimacy as a writer. here's to another year. <3
“ I used to worry that no one would want to read my writing because it’s incredibly personal to the point of discomfort, but then I became enamored with Anaïs Nin and Annie Ernaux for that very reason.”
Really? I’m genuinely not trying to be a dick but people writing about their boring sex lives is almost exclusively what I see on my feed. It’s 2025 it hasent been shocking for a few decades. It’s just played out and pedestrian at this point.
your comment literally proves my point lol. you’re just dismissing writing about that’s about sex
Naw I support writing about sex. I've read a lot of de sade, nin, masoch, bataille, miller etc. I even bought Bataille's wife's bdsm story. I dont have to think every piece of writing on a topic is good or worthwhile. it's just incredibly common and generally not done in an interesting way. Look at houllebecq it’s largely about sex but the way he does it is great. I see sooo many posts that just rely on the subject matter rather than the writing to be interesting. Not finding something envelope pushing isn't dismissing it. Not everything has to be. It's just ordinary like everything else. I'm supporting and acknowledging that it's not a taboo topic.
"...I also somehow ended up doing ten literary readings. I don’t know how that happened. I just kept getting asked."
How did that go? Did you like doing it? Will you post some video?
Are you reading anything good?
When will you start writing the next book?
Your book is in the stack with many others, also no doubt good. I hope to get to it in 2025.
Don't let the cockwombles get you down!
i'm sorry to hear about all the crap you had to deal with, i'm totally with you. but congrats on the book and the readings at least!