Students at Penn State rioting against the housecleaning of corrupt officials who enabled monstrous occurrences well shows that the one thing a blindly loyal herd doesn't want is the truth.
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Showing posts with label crime city usa. Show all posts
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
The Motivation of a Toothache
What's my motivation for renewed noise against the literary elite? (Aside from their blatant corruption and obvious phoniness, their absent morality and fraudulent ideas, and my need to get word out about my ebooks?)
Right now I have a toothache which causes constant stress and aggravation. I'm not sleeping. If you have no insurance, and no money, seeing a dentist is an unreal dream.
I had a tooth like it a year ago. Eventually the tooth broke up and fell out, not without a certain amount of pain.
Poor writers in this country are in a race of time to see what happens first: you die, or all your teeth fall out.
Here's hoping that the tooth at least makes for some strong writing!
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(To read strong writing, purchase Crime City USA, available as an ebook. Or, for more subtlety, try Mood Detroit.)
Reality America. You'll find no stronger and relevant writing anyplace. Writing the literary elite fears to read.
Right now I have a toothache which causes constant stress and aggravation. I'm not sleeping. If you have no insurance, and no money, seeing a dentist is an unreal dream.
I had a tooth like it a year ago. Eventually the tooth broke up and fell out, not without a certain amount of pain.
Poor writers in this country are in a race of time to see what happens first: you die, or all your teeth fall out.
Here's hoping that the tooth at least makes for some strong writing!
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(To read strong writing, purchase Crime City USA, available as an ebook. Or, for more subtlety, try Mood Detroit.)
Reality America. You'll find no stronger and relevant writing anyplace. Writing the literary elite fears to read.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Metaphor of the Mask
The character "Fake Face" in my new e-book Crime City USA isn't a metaphor for any one particular writer, whether Daniel Handler, Keith Gessen, or anyone else. He's a metaphor for the entire cronyistic shithouse that's the established literary scene.
Lit's leading lights wear bright beaming masks of social justice and concern. Beneath the masks they're ruthless bastards who were raised with the knowledge that this is a dog-eat-dog world. It's why they fight to get into bastions of Elitism and Privilege like Columbia, Yale, or Harvard. Or crony-up quickly enough with that crowd. Cronyistas. They understand that playing the game on an UNlevel playing field favoring them is what it's about. Everything else from them is lip service. Token gestures for suckers like myself.
Visualize a smiling fake face on the lot of them, then realize it's only a mask. Beneath it, like the character in my melodrama, they're monsters.
Lit's leading lights wear bright beaming masks of social justice and concern. Beneath the masks they're ruthless bastards who were raised with the knowledge that this is a dog-eat-dog world. It's why they fight to get into bastions of Elitism and Privilege like Columbia, Yale, or Harvard. Or crony-up quickly enough with that crowd. Cronyistas. They understand that playing the game on an UNlevel playing field favoring them is what it's about. Everything else from them is lip service. Token gestures for suckers like myself.
Visualize a smiling fake face on the lot of them, then realize it's only a mask. Beneath it, like the character in my melodrama, they're monsters.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Good vs. Evil
AGAINST POSTMODERNISM
Crime City USA, my newest e-book, doesn't follow postmodernist theory. It believes in retro concepts of good and evil, right and wrong-- and depicts those concepts through character and plot. The chief villain, Fake Face, could be a metaphor for the duplicitous thinking and corrupt behavior which rules the established literary world today.
Art is truth.
Have you read Crime City USA?
Crime City USA, my newest e-book, doesn't follow postmodernist theory. It believes in retro concepts of good and evil, right and wrong-- and depicts those concepts through character and plot. The chief villain, Fake Face, could be a metaphor for the duplicitous thinking and corrupt behavior which rules the established literary world today.
Art is truth.
Have you read Crime City USA?
Friday, October 07, 2011
Crime City USA!
WHAT? Gang wars.
WHERE? A violent American city.
WHO? Mysterious disguised figure Fake Face.
WHY? Hyper-pulp fiction, next wave pop literature.
HOW? E-book.
HOW MUCH? 99 cents at Nook or Kindle.
WHERE? A violent American city.
WHO? Mysterious disguised figure Fake Face.
WHY? Hyper-pulp fiction, next wave pop literature.
HOW? E-book.
HOW MUCH? 99 cents at Nook or Kindle.
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Hyper-Pulp
My newest e-book is out and available for sale. Namely, Crime City USA, an early version of which had previously appeared at one of my other blogs.
Buy it now for 99 cents at Kindle or Nook.
Buy it now for 99 cents at Kindle or Nook.
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