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I. AM. ALIIIIIIIIVE!My apologies ha. This semester was getting wildly out of control, so I had to start scaling back on my soch medz activities for a while. I'm still around; just not as noticeable. Hopefully I can make a triumphant return soon!I appreciate the concern! I hope everyone is doing super well! Keep reading, y'all! :D

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14. Jack Kerouac - On the Road, 1957.

For my video this week, I'd like you to ask me some "Would You Rather" questions. Book-related or not. Anything you got. Looking forward to it.

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This book, THIS BOOK. #Tampa #AlissaNutting

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You never know when or if you’ll get a big break as a writer. You write and write and write and hope that someone out there will discern what you believe is in that writing, and then you write and hope and wait some more. I think I am having my big break right now. This year I published two books—a novel, An Untamed State, and an essay collection, Bad Feminist. Both books have received positive critical attention. The latter book has been on the New York Times bestseller list twice. Articles about me keep telling me that I am having a moment, my big break. My friends and loved ones tell me that I am having a moment. Part of me recognizes that I am having a moment, while the more relentless part of me, a part that cannot be quieted, is only hungrier, wanting more.

Read the rest of this essay: The Price of Black Ambition | VQR Online (via roxanegay)

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Behind the Lit: Allen Ginsberg’s First Reading of “Howl”

Fifty-nine years ago today, Ginsberg performed his seminal poem for the first time, marking the public debut of the Beats.

On the night of October 7, 1955, Allen Ginsberg’s impassioned reading of “Howl” gave life to the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance and simultaneously marked the beginning of the Beat Generation’s prominence. The monumental event was promoted simply via a postcard printed by Ginsberg that read:

Six poets at the Six Gallery. Kenneth Rexroth, M.C. Remarkable collection of angels all gathered at once in the same spot. Wine, music, dancing girls, serious poetry, free satori. Small collection for wine and postcards. Charming event.

Gathered together that evening were literary icons — though many had yet to have their talents realized by the literary community. The list of poets reading included Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure and Kenneth Rexroth. Perhaps as impressive were those who merely observed, as Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neal Cassady and Ann Charters were among the large audience who had gathered together at Six Gallery. In fact, it was supposedly Kerouac who set the tone of the evening by taking up a collection for wine, which he then passed around the audience while demanding they “glug a slug from the jug.” Kerouac later described the audience as “rather stiff,” but the wine got them “all piffed so that by eleven o’clock when [Ginsberg] was reading his, wailing poem [“Howl”] drunk with arms outspread everybody was yelling ‘Go! Go! Go!’ (like a jam session).”

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I cannot comprehend how some people just do not read for pleasure at all.

All day everyday.

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feminism never made me hate men but the reaction to feminism sure as shit did

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some men* you literally cannot hate people you’ve never met or even heard of.

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oh MY GOD OH MY GOD OHH M Y GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OHHHYM GOD OH MY GOD OH MY OD OOOOOH MY GOD oh MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD O H MY GO D OH MY GOD O H M Y GO D OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

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Humbug!

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