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@deirdrecoyle
In all the excitement of the world being on fire, I forgot to mention that my Unwinnable column about Chloe Price is online! Featuring teenage dirtbags, DIY venues, and my roommate’s cat.
I wrote about Dream Daddy's GOTH DAD for Unwinnable’s August cover story--dreamily illustrated by Shafer Brown! Get the issue here: http://bit.ly/1puY3GY
I wrote about David Foster Wallace and the men who recommend him to me for Electric Literature.
TONIGHT.
I wrote about garage bands, cockroaches, and setting things on fire, with infinite thanks to Joyland and amazing editor Kyle Lucia Wu. Also, this illustration by Carolyn Tripp is perfection.
I wrote a story in Flapperhouse’s Winter 2016 issue following the archetypal narrative structure of girl eats cookie, girl vomits cat, cat eats lox.
This month, the Manhattanville Reading Series’ season finale features 2016 Whiting Award winner Mitchell S. Jackson (The Residue Years), as well as rising stars Nancy Hightower, Carrie Cooperrider, and Emily Cementina.
Please see our Facebook event page for more details.
I’m reading with Wo Chan, Andrew Cothren, and Christine Scanlon on December 11th at Sundays at Erv’s!
This month, join us at the Manhattanville Reading Series for a night of incendiary lit, featuring readings by Isaac Fitzgerald (Buzzfeed Books Editor) and emerging stars Joy Baglio, Ian MacAllen, and Darley Stewart. Please see our Facebook event page for more details.
This month, the Manhattanville Reading Series features short fiction star Dolan Morgan (Insignificana, That’s When the Knives Come Down) and emerging writers Gessy Alvarez and Alexandra Tanner, plus a multimedia presentation of the iconic memoir, We Want Freedom, penned by Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former member of the Black Panthers. Please see our Facebook event page for more details.
I wrote about being a Fun Person in @hobartpulp.
I wrote about Ghost City Press (@ghostcitypress), micro-chapbooks, and getting paid for poetry in the digital age for Lit Hub.
I wrote about a bear wearing girlskin and exploring garbage in Storychord.
This month the Manhattanville Reading Series features Laura van den Berg, the widely hailed novelist (Find Me) and short fiction star (The Isle of Youth, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us), along with up-and-coming writers Saxon Baird, Jen Choi, and Bruna Dantas Lobato. Join us for a night of provocative lit, great coffee, and friendly mingling. FREE ADMISSION! Please see our Facebook event page for more details.
D E I R D R E C O Y L E
Deirdre Coyle is a writer, fashion librarian, and non-practicing mermaid living in Brooklyn. She edits Mixtape Methodology. Her work has been published in Goddessmode, Cheap Pop, Hello Giggles, Luna Luna Magazine, Fwriction: Review, Human Parts, and elsewhere. She tweets @DeirdreKoala.
My favorite childhood book
I have a lot of childhood favs, but Dove Isabeau by Jane Yolen stands out. It’s about a girl who gets turned into a dragon, then back into a girl, then kills the villainess. There’s a cat in it, and a witch, and a prince (but who cares). My elementary school librarian read it to us and I checked it out over and over. I was obsessed with the heroine’s transformations.
The book I enjoyed most in school
I liked The Scarlet Letter in high school, but only because I liked Hester Prynne. Her beauty is described as “exquisitely painful,” which you have to admit is pretty goth. “She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam…and deep black eyes.” Goth.
The classic I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never read
My first answer was “too many to count,” but the more honest answer is “zero.” I’m not that embarrassed because I find the idea of a literary canon embarrassing. People* sometimes act embarrassed on my behalf when they learn what I haven’t read. I usually say, “I know, it’s embarrassing!” Then I go back to reading witch poetry and sci-fi novels.
*men
A book I consider grossly overrated
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I like apocalypses and their aftermath as much as anyone, but I was bored.
The last book to make me laugh
IRL by Tommy Pico. I had to resist tweeting lines every couple pages. One of my favorites was “What kind of artless / simpleton says what they / truly feel?”
The last book to make me cry
The Girls by Emma Cline, but I’m not saying which part.
A book I wish I’d written
Black Cloud by Juliet Escoria. These stories have an emotional immediacy that I really admire/envy.
What I’m reading right now
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill. I can’t believe I’m only just now reading her work.
The next book I’m going to read
Over for Rockwell by Uzodinma Okehi, recommended by both the internet and my mom.
My reading playlist – 5 books about: PUNK ROCK
1. Nothing Ever Happens by Yoshitomo Nara 2. Violence Girl by Alice Bag 3. Beck by Harold Sakuishi 4. The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni 5. Wonderland by Stacey D'Erasmo (maybe not “punk rock” per se, but so good)
✨ Reading Sunday at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition ✨
Reading with FLAPPERHOUSE tomorrow night~