Ariana Reines on Haiti

One day two years ago I was drunk and angrily fucked my boyfriend while the movie Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti played on ubuweb with the volume turned up loud.

Ariana Reines' essay "The Drowning Sun," on her trip to Haiti, posted on HTML Giant. Okay, it's official: I'm madly possessed by Ariana Reines fever (oh my fucking god! it's like my old alt-weekly days have come to haunt me! look at the dripping purpliness of my cliched punny prose! I am keeping it here just to remind me of how purply I can be). 

God everything I write even if it's to steer it elsewhere becomes about me! and that is why I am a narcissist. 

No but seriously. I can't wait to read this whole fucking book about Haiti, for it will be a book, I'm sure, I hope, very soon, the next Aliens & Anorexia, I think, yes.

(something more thoughtful here about Ariana Reines' empathy with Haiti, that trauma she is circling around, mirroring Duras in Hiroshima mon Amour and Sarah Kane writing through the Balkan wars in Blasted.)

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Adam Robinson asked me to curate "July" for Everyday Genius and I think it'll be a great month! After all, isn't July the best month, insert joke about calendars, hotness, I am tres fatigued today, slept in cold air window open, sore throat, have begun writing penultimate chapter!

But focus. Everyday Genius. Will be monster. Some of my favorites, some exciting up-and-comers. Lots of body writing, fucking. All types of fucking. Political. Emotional. Smart. You know. What I like.But all different. In good ways. Excerpts from novels and poems and hybrid essays and even a rock-star comix by Caroline Picard about Joseph Beuys and a wolf!

With daily texts by: Kate Durbin, Dodie Bellamy, Rebecca Loudon, Vanessa Place, Rachel Levitsky, Danielle Dutton, Ariana Reines, Danielle Pafunda, Chris Kraus, Affinity Konar, Rachel Araujo, Megan Milks, Roz Ito, Bhanu Kapil, Colleen O'Connor, Jen Karmin, Laura Goldstein, Caroline Picard, Suzanne Scanlon, Janice Lee, Pam Dick, Janey Smith, J'Lyn Chapman. In no order! Except the first two are in order, actually. Maybe the first three.

I will be pimping it out all month and introducing pieces here and what-not. For there will be not much blogging activity in July as my big attempt will be to finish the first draft! Of the book!

So link link link to it, my darlings.