An Englishman in New York
Billy Childish at White Columns, New York.
Five for: Aleathia Drehmer
1) You’ve been making the rounds on the cyber-print poetry circuit for quite a time now – I’m gonna start with one of the most clich éd questions in the history of clich éd questions: why do you write? Oh…could I answer with the usually “because I have to” line? Ha. I think I used […]
Blake Butler: A Belated Primer
I feel like I’ve gotten better over time at getting it closer and closer to what I want the sound to be earlier on in the process. For years I wrote and labored over every inch of it, and ended up beating a lot of things to pulp, overworking it, resulting as I mentioned in a ton of dead novels that I’ll never do anything with, but also in that process I learned how a sentence can come onto you, more than you coming onto it. I definitely spent a lot of time in revision, and playing, teasing those sounds into their final form, but the closer I can hit to that rhythm in the first draft, the more powerful it feels in manipulating it later.
Susan Tomaselli interviews Blake Butler.