Articles by Blake Butler

Blake Butler

Masturbating Over Ghosts

"Slow Slidings" bills itself as a book that should be filed in stores under “Architecture / Bodies or Objects / Landscape,” but you could just as easily find it in “Haunted Death Sex / Sadist VHS Mystery / Wet Nightmares for Freaks.” Taking equal cues from messed up foreign psychological horror films, paranormal photography, and the French—the new book M. Kitchell has assembled bends both the face and ass of the American novel. Full story

2012 Jul 18 Blake Butler Stuff

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Literary Mailbag: Books Reading Writing Literature Fiction Poetry Dogs Horses Money Gossip Arby's Don DeLillo

I asked folks on Facebook if they had any questions about literature. They did. Full story

2012 Jul 11 Blake Butler Stuff

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I Watched 'The Holy Mountain' with My Mom

She called it "The Blasphemy of All Mankind." Full story

2012 Jul 3 Blake Butler Stuff

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FC2's 40 Years of Brainbending

For almost 40 years now, the publishing group known as Fiction Collective has been a vital wild limb of new American literature. Full story

2012 Jun 27 Blake Butler Stuff

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All Advice Is Bad

The arbitrary brain feed of writerly legends who could easily be the faceless guy at the bar crying into his shoulder bag. Full story

2012 Jun 20 Blake Butler Stuff

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Diane Williams's Sticky Secrets

'Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty,' Williams’s newest collection, reminds me of David Lynch in a different way than things usually remind me of David Lynch Full story

2012 Jun 13 Blake Butler Stuff

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Books People Wrote Because They Were Pissed About Writing

Some of your favorite books were written while its author was filled with rage. Full story

2012 Jun 8 Blake Butler Stuff

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Snow on tha Bluff

Walking around Atlanta's most crime-ridden and drugged-out neighborhood with Michael K. Williams and the real-life Omar Little. Full story

2012 Jun 1 Blake Butler Stuff

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Making Up Bands in Your Brain While High

Dan Magers wears a copy of his book around his neck on a gold chain. It's like that. Full story

2012 May 23 Blake Butler Stuff

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Three Thin Weird Good Books About Sex and Power

Read these books and then go go get laid, or dominate something. Full story

2012 May 18 Blake Butler Stuff

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