BENJAMIN HERSEY

PERFORMER/WRITER ///// Author of The Autograph of Steve Industry ///// Easthampton, MA ///// Contact: [email protected]

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The great Gilmore Tamny interviewed me about The Autograph of Steve Industry. @bostonhassle forever!

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Interview with the author: Ben Hersey

Ben Hersey is a writer & performer who lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts. His book, The Autograph of Steve Industry , was published by Mag...

Mel Bosworth asked me a few questions about The Autograph of Steve Industry.

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On stage with my band, The Steamrollers, and we’re a long way from home mid-song. That’s a good one, a feeling. My eyes closed and Toby and Gardenhose behind me are synched up and the gravity of th…

An excerpt from The Autograph of Steve Industry is running at the fantastic site, @lithub.

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My book, The Autograph of Steve Industry, is available for pre-order for another few days. Check it out here:

http://magichelicopterpress.com/steveindustry.html

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Stay afloat.

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Boston art event that looks spectacular featuring the mighty Ben Bennett.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIKCjQdxtO0)

Alongside whaling, logging has to be one of the most brutal jobs in American history.

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Henry Gunderson.

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Good morning.

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Summer Reading Jackpot! free Queer + Trans Books online

++ updated 5/27/16 ++

Free novels by queer/trans writers:

** Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina

Honoré de Balzac’s Sarrasine (trans. Clara Bell)

Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues

** Kevin Killian’s Spreadeagle (via Publication Studio’s free commons project)

Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness

J.-K. Huysmans‘s À Rebours (trans. John Howard) – the book that “ruined” Dorian Gray, for Wilde fan-folk.

Henry James’s The Bostonians and Portrait of a Lady (arguably queer, inarguably great)

Nella Larsen’s Passing

Audre Lorde omnibus: Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name / Sister Outsider / Undersong: Chosen Poems Old And New

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick

Marcel Proust’s entire Remembrance of Things Past (trans. Scott Moncrieff)

** Vanessa Veselka’s Zazen

Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères. (trans. David Le Vay)

** Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

Free collected writings & hybrid texts by queer/trans writers:

The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader

I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde

** Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

** Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa’s anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

** Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal’s RiRi (Re)Vision: a score for Rihanna’s “S&M” 

Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

The Queer Zine Archive Project. Hours of fun.

Free poetry chaps by queer/trans poets:

** CAConrad’s Process Pamphlet #1: Censored Interview

** Jennifer Tamayo’s Poems Are the Only Real Bodies 

Lesbian Poetry Archives free chaps

Free scanned or webcomics by queer/trans cartoonists:

** A.K. Summers’ Pregnant Butch (the whole thing!)

** Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (a nice smattering)

Free chaps & books from innovative small presses:

Free poetry chaps from H_NGM_N

Free poetry chaps from Bloof

Free poetry chaps from Ugly Duckling Presse

Free poetry chaps from Boatt Press

Free essay chaps from Essay Press

Free novels & chaps from Small Beer Press (includes Kelly Link & Maureen McHugh collections! What! Amazing.

Free innovative books & chaps from Publication Studio

**When possible, buy a book from these presses especially & support their work.**

Yet more free books, mostly public domain or political:

A great collection of free books on race, gender, and sexuality here.

Big collection of free books at the University of Adelaide’s digital library.

Project Gutenberg Australia

Of course, if & when you can, buy books from independent local bookstores & small press publishers. I try to always buy books from living writers when I can & have marked these in the list above with asterisks **.

Note: This is a post-in-progress, and I will update as I find more free books. Please leave any tips in comments!

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Mothers News is going to JAPAN with Scott “WORK/DEATH” Reber & Sakiko Mori!!! We’re doing a residency together at the SHINANO Primitive Sense Arts Festival, where we’ll be making an installation, a recording, and a book. Preorders are up now on the website rf5.org/jp, and all sales go towards making this possible! This is a great team and a dream situation, if you’d like to make it all come true, hit the website and preorder! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Cool mo-fo’s rocking the world.

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Decasia: Excerpt Three (Bill Morrison, 2002)

Excerpt from "Decasia," assembled by Bill Morrison (2002). Music composed by Michael Gordon. "Decasia" is a 2002 American found footage film by Bill Morrison...

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FAT WORM OF ERROR 1.16.11 FLYWHEEL EASTHAMPTON, MA

ONE OF THE BEST SETS OF THE YEAR, THuS SO FAR....

Just ironing clothes half asleep. Welcome told me today that maybe a cyclops was playing the banjo music we were listening to on the way to preschool. Then he said, “there’s a basketball net high up in the trees and a robot is climbing the tree.” Felt a lot of love for my creative writing students today as we come upon the end of the semester and they articulate in writing their processes, their changes. One discovers her subject matter is relationships gone to hell, one discovers she writes for people who barely survived childhood, one discovers the enormous vulnerability she feels every time she works through her creative nonfiction. While in another way, it was seemingly a terrible semester of destruction for so many of my students. A mother died of lung cancer, a friend tried to commit suicide, PTSD in every direction, a grandfather went into assisted living, chronic pain was finally diagnosed, a brain tumor was “shaved,” many cars broke down, an undesired pregnancy, no daycare options and an autistic son spends two hours a week alone with a schizophrenic grandfather, a miscarriage. World, I am honored to have my job. As I was rounding over the mountain on my way home, I felt the freedom of the coming winter break crashing at my semester mind. I move through the days sometimes with a desire to rip my shirt off and scream THANK YOU to, I don’t know, thermodynamics? My spirit animals? My past lives? Feeling grateful like a cyclops with a fucking banjo. Ironing my shirt for tomorrow, I remembered how the best band in the world lived around here for awhile and you could go see them.

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I’m the guy in this @minimansionsmusic video made by the powerfully talented @mountemult.

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Michete

PNW rapper + producer. Debut EP 'Cool Tricks' out now!

My students hook me up with new knowledge.

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Anthro Rex "I Love You, E.T."

Video and sounds by DJC

Vanishes you then floods the shape where your life was with shredded icons and collage feedback. Then you reenter your life via childhood tears. And so on and so forth.