Keeping it Weird 4 Lyfe

This Thursday I'll be reading for the first time ever in Austin, TX, and yep I just peed a little in excitement. I'll be reading with Dan Boehl, whose new book, Kings of the F**king Sea, is out now!

Can't wait to see Amelia Gray and Mary Miller and Sarah Grainer and my brother/sister in-law and a couple dogs I'mma mash faces with.

And to reenact this picture.

But before all of that, I'm reading and DJing at the Artifice Magazine Dirty South Dance Party tomorrow night. My DJ name is DJ Sensible Shoes. Control your jealousy and admiration, please. Setlist sneak peek here!

Last night I read at the Encyclopedia Show. I really can't say enough about that event - it is always so unique and wonderful, and if you haven't been to one you should make it a point to do so a-sap.

On my walk to the train afterward I passed a house where a band was practicing in the attic. Whoever they were, they were super emo, and I was very moved, okay? I'm not made of stone. Until a gentleman in a butt-length leather jacket walked by and requested Freebird. And then requested it again when there was no reaction. And then again, caterwauling like he was being stabbed and these were his last words.

I believe what I witnessed was the death, finally, of that joke. I feel lucky to have played a part in its demise.

In other news, I have new stories in Annalemma and Wigleaf, journals I have been salivating over for a long time. And I'm excited to have a story in the launch issue of Midwestern Gothic! Such a great premise for a journal and it's awesome to be a part of it. And stories forthcoming in Barrelhouse, trnsfr, and Dark Sky. eeeee!

Mission Creek!

Quickies! wants you too, Malachai. We want you too! 

I'm heading to Iowa City April 1-2 for the Mission Creek Festival. I'll be reading at Prairie Lights Friday night with Tao Lin and Ted Thompson, and then Quickies! is joining the Mission Creek Lit Crawl Saturday at the Dublin Underground. Reading for Quickies! will be:

Jac Jemc
Zach Dodson
Steve Tartaglione
Kyle Beachy
Anthony Luebbert
Aaron Burch
Adam Novy
Amy Butcher
Jill Summers
and Roxane Gay

I am super excited about being a part of Mission Creek! If you're anywhere near the Midwest, or you have a way to steal your stepdad's frequent flyer miles to get you to Iowa City, please just quit puddlin' and do it!

Thinking I might not do any readings in May, maybe.

In other news, I've been feeling like I want to like, wear a leather minidress and stand around in my lover's penthouse apartment holding a glass of chardonnay and watching the sun set and listening to Purple Rain or this amazing fucking song on repeat before just putting my pumps back on and leaving it all behind to start a life without hairspray but with eyeglasses. I'm nostalgic for this made-up memory, is what I'm saying. I'm going to start reading The Bonfire of the Vanities, is what I'm saying.

Anyway. More to come in April. Including my birthday!

Don't percolate

AWP was fun. I made a righteous ass out of myself, this is good for the ego. To wit: here is video of me putting my mouth on the mic at Vermin on the Mount:

I love Nuvia and Jim a lot and all the readers were sublime.

Somewhere secret there is video of Jac Jemc and I rapping at the Literati Gong Show. I don't know should I be embarrassed or proud, or embarrassed to be proud or proud that I'm embarrassed? Aw man I had a great time. Then I jacked my toe up dancing with the Knee-Jerk boys at the Lit Party but it was worth it. I saw a red panda a slapfight between two males my Jamaican husband the longest escalator this side of earth a cruddy omelet a toddler-sized pizza slice tons of lions but none of them real some velvet pants some glitter drawers the white cloud batting from the other side and a lot of whiskey. So nice to have met you all.

Shall we? Shall we?

We shall.

we own things.

The east coast tour was a lot of fun. My dad showed up in Philly and me and Christian traveled separately like eccentric celebrities and I wore a dress once and I saw Elegant Elliot Offen and Amelia Gray’s new middle hair part and talked about Jerry Lee but not enough and my feet got swole and I ate pizza in Brooklyn and I thought Boston was a fun reading but turns out I was wrong and thank you to Gene Kwak and Jonathan Papas and my best friend KP and Sasha and Jason Hafer and KGB and Word and Lorem Ipsum and featherproof and Grace Krilanovich and Amelia Gray and Two Dollar Radio and featherproof and the Tebordo family and featherproof and everyone who came out to see us read, we’re sorry and you’re welcome and we’re sorry.  


Speaking of featherproof, Patrick Somerville's book is out! Imma rub my face on it.  


And now an accumulation of things I've been wanting to tell you:


I have a story up at Fifty-Two Stories, whoa. 
Bitch Magazine reviewed Daddy's!
I recently read from my novel in progress at The Parlor reading series. It felt good, real good. 
Richard Thomas reviewed Daddy's for The Nervous Breakdown!
Jesus Angel Garcia reviewed Daddy's and The Museum of the Weird for vol. 1 Brooklyn!
Ryan Bradley interviewed me at Big Other!
I did this with Blake Butler at HTML Giant!
I'm in Nylon's America issue! Here is proof:

That's me at the bottom, squinting into the afterlife. So exciting!


So that's what's been going on lately. I also cut my bangs. I also did deep lunges across my apartment the other morning. I also went to see Lynda Barry speak. It blew my dick off. 


Here is a recipe for pancakes: Bisquick and water. 

Midwest Tour

Hey friends,
Here are the dates for the upcoming Midwest tour featuring Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, and me. Y’all come out and see us (make drunken dickfools of ourselves, but only just before and directly after we read you some truly sweet fictions).

Madison
Friday, August 27
High-Noon Saloon
701A E. Washington Ave.
6 PM

Minneapolis/St. Paul
Saturday, August 28
The Clown Lounge
1601 W University Ave, St. Paul
7 PM

Iowa City
Sunday, August 29
The Mill
120 East Burlington St
7 PM

Chicago
Monday, August 30
DADDY’S BOOK RELEASE PARTY
The Hideout
1354 West Wabansia Ave
7:30 PM

Can't wait. You know?

Presented without comment

Read this. Do that.

Jason Rice over at Three Guys One Book asked me to write something for their "When We Fell in Love" series. You can find it here. It was really fun to write, but also nervewracking. I didn't want people thinking, "Congratufuckinglations, you read Faulkner." So I decided to get real. I hope you like it.

I am going on a series of mini-tours in the coming weeks. The first (July 31-Aug 3), the High Emission Tour (with Amelia Gray, Aaron Burch, Adam Novy, and more!), takes place on the West Coast, with stops in San Diego and LA for Vermin on the Mount, and then San Francisco (it actually goes to Arizona after that, but I hop off after the first San Fran date).

Holy parentheses.



The next mini-tour is a Midwest tour featuring me, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Blake Butler, Aaron Burch, and others. August 27-August 30. Madison, Minneapolis, Iowa City, Chicago.

Then NYC with Christian Tebordo October 24.

I'll update with specifics as I know more.

Needless to say I am burbling.

We are doing final touches on Daddy's. Brace your balls.

Upcomer!

Friday night I am reading with Kevin Sampsell at the Book Cellar. His book, A Common Pornography, is really good, and you should buy it.

Also, this

Recently reconnected with this song. The video is pretty much an insane person's manifesto. It tears at the heart strings. My favorite parts are the 32 rescue attempts after Axl jumps into the ocean, the crazy hillbilly-may-care fashions Axl models, and the final 3 seconds. And if anyone can get me a pair of those Axl high tops, I will sleep with you every year on your birthday.

("With all the changing seasons of my life / maybe I'll get it right next time..." Intense cryface. I'm sorry. I'm not made of stone.)

Jealous?

Today I found this Valentine somehow relegated to my Spam folder:



This person gets me. Finally, someone who realizes what a "gentleman" I am. I look forward to meeting up with this person for a hott date where we eat a series of hors d'oeurvres and then sing "Don't go rapin' that prost" a la "Don't go breakin' my heart" at the karaoke bar a couple blocks from my house, after which I am throttled, discarded, and eaten by wolves.

Happy Valentine's Day! xoxxx

Daddy's

So, I have a book coming out in September, a collection of flash fiction (or "slim fictions," as I'm partial to calling them) that I've been working on for the past couple years. I could not be more excited about this book or about Featherproof, the press who is kind enough to humor me by publishing it. They have included me on every single decision so far, and they have more than met me halfway in terms of collaboration.

The design, I suspect, may be up in the air at this point, but Zach and I have been envisioning the cover for a while now. I basically told him "Make me somethin real nasty" and bless his heart, he did. We're in the process of collecting blurbs right now, and I just got one back from Kyle Minor that knocked my socks off. I am a huge fan of his, so to read the positive things he had to say about my own work was an honor.

That's the haps, anyway. Stay tuned.

Why We're Married

This, excerpted from a conversation about a married co-worker being too flirtatious with another co-worker:

(11:48 AM) Bunny: it's like "sleeping with the enemy" and you're the dude with the beard who lives in iowa
(11:49 AM) Lindsay Hunter: that is amazing
(11:49 AM) Lindsay Hunter: but not very accurate
(11:49 AM) Bunny: not going to lie I was pretty proud of it
(11:49 AM) Bunny: it is accurate: he was a writer who had spent time in new york and so are you
(11:50 AM) Bunny: and his name was Ben!!!!
(11:50 AM) Bunny: !!!!!!!!!!!
(11:51 AM) Bunny: oh shit.....
(11:52 AM) Bunny: that actor is from chicagoland!!!
(11:52 AM) Bunny: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000754/
(11:52 AM) Lindsay Hunter: i am not looking at that
(11:52 AM) Lindsay Hunter: but this makes me fall in love with you all over again
(11:52 AM) Bunny: and he played "chuck" in risky business
(11:52 AM) Bunny: AND WE QUOTE THAT MOVIE
(11:52 AM) Bunny: ALL THE TIME!!!!!!
(11:53 AM) Lindsay Hunter: killing.me.
(11:53 AM) Bunny: too far?
(11:53 AM) Lindsay Hunter: just far enough
(11:53 AM) Bunny: makes sense
(11:53 AM) Bunny: I have never once in my life taken a joke too far
(11:54 AM) Bunny: ugh
(11:54 AM) Bunny: poor kevin anderson played "reenactment actor" in a 2002 fbi files episode
(11:54 AM) Bunny: why do I think julia roberts isn't taking his calls these days

And the boy got swagger

Exciting things have happened. One, there are only 37 days until I promise my privates to one man for the rest of eternity (or until I stop procrastinating about the divorce).

But further:

I was honored to find out that StorySouth named my story, Unpreparing (which Hobart deemed worthy of publishing), as a notable of 2008. Even though it fell short of the minimum word count!

And also, Wigleaf picked my story, Tuesday (which Smokelong gave a home to) as one of the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions, 2009!

There are many of my literary heroes also included in these lists, and I can't believe I am in their company! So exciting and thus excited.

600 pounds of men...you get my point?

Go See This Movie

The light fantastic

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