ohmigod

i psychotically want to read laurie weeks' zipper mouth, coming out in august through alyson books. can alyson books send me a review copy? pretty pretty please? i might try to officially review it. i am editing july for everyday genius and in the back of my head i kept on thinking of this letter to sylvia plath i had read in vice's literary issue like years ago, that is from weeks' book,  along with the excerpt from tao lin's shoplifting from american apparel. i sat there on the toilet and read them both, and felt something.

Anyway, Sylvia, I’ve been tortured about dying for years, ever since reading Little Women made me realize we’re all doomed and ruined my life. But, one day however, I opened your book THE BELL JAR and literally died of shock. For the first time I saw someone in a book portraying emotions that were exactly mine, I never even knew it was okay to write about them! I never would have figured it out by myself. Like when you said how the tulips were breathing I realized I always saw them breathing too but I was in denial.

everything i was trying to do with my monkey character but so so better. today is the day of an anxiety of influence and authorship. both. X2whammy