#chuck young

[ellenash]

I was lucky enough to compile this anthology for @dostoyevskywannabe‘s anthology series, featuring essays, fiction and poetry by some of my favorite living writers. 

Side A: Moss Angel, Cory Bennet, Catch Business, Asha Dore, Ben Gross

Side B: Chelsea Laine Wells, Amanda McNeil, Nicola Maye Goldberg, Precious Okoyomon, Chuck Young

You can get it on Amazon for less than the cost of a pumpkin spice latte. 

[queenmobs]

Poems: Chuck Young

dating: the experience (in 3D!)

the part of the date where you roll up like “i got $4 worth of wine and i’m bloated from gas”

the part of the date where you go with maybe-strangers to a semi-classy joint and the other dude in the foursome orders the beef heart and you say to the waiter “mmm sounds good sir can i ask you though if you use local bees”

the part of the date where you drunkenly spend twenty minutes and a shitload of elbow grease trying to corkscrew-drill into what ends up being the twist-off cap of the second bottle of wine but where you are smiling and dancing the whole time because r&b music is playing and you can hear the tub filling up

the part of the date where the alcohol has built a little campfire between you and them and you’re naked and in their bed softly and tone-deafly singing along to björk

the part of the date where there’s nothing you’d rather do than accept the invitation to play hooky from work and lie in bed all day but where you also need to shit pretty bad so you leave

the part of the date where you realize that you still have a lot of work to do on yourself and none of that work has anything to do with the prospect of finding an other

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[tnypress-blog]

Hello Mofos, Mofettes, and None of the Aboves, this is Chuck. You may know me from such videos as “I’m On The Terlet!” and “This Is Me On The Crapper!” You may also know me from editing at tNY.Press since 2012.

We started as a rallying cry for weird and a crowdfunded book. We then became a second crowdfunded book, an ever expanding online repository, and a carnival. We then got off on design so hard that we started making posters and videos. We started accumulating more gatekeepers of The Cool and The Fucked and The Beautiful. Throw all of that into a pot, mix in the ubiquity of time, and, baby, you got yourself a business stew going. Crowdfunding is for individual things. The subscription model is for sustainability, to ensure a steady flow of things.

For me it comes down to the love and desire to make more (and better) of these things. I know “business” seems like a dirty word when it comes to art but all it means in this scenario is more opportunity to dedicate even more time to giving you what we think will help change the way people read and then write and then think. I know you can get a whole buttload of great literature online for free. I realize that there is a deluge of beautiful work you could buy if you knew where to look. Frankly at this point I feel overwhelmed daily on how much good content is out there. But I don’t think anyone has the same mission statement as we do. I don’t think anyone else is dedicating the same amount of focus to design as we are. In short, I think we’ve gotten damn good at making these books. I think writers recognize us as a place to send amazing experiments with form. I think we do a good job at treating our writers and artists well. We want them to be happy and heard because we are them. We all want passion as sustenance. We’re in this together. Let us make things for you.

I, personally, just want to live a simple life, in my small town, with my kids, doing meaningful work on a laptop. Help me to get to go to there?

I love you.

-Chuck http://tny.press/subscribe Coupon code dadbod gets you 12% off.