An anthology of true stories about sex, edited by Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O’Connell.
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“♫ Getting to knoooow you! Getting to know yourrrr vagiiiii-naaaaa! ♫”
Andreas, to the tune of “Getting to Know You” from The King and I, about the awkwardness of the first time with a new partner, after a conversation we had about Coming and Crying. (via thewordunheard) -
Baltimore, welcome to the other side!
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Coming and Crying came today. Their logo is pretty amazing. Look at it and think of the book name.
Now smile because it’s awesome.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Okay, so the first thing you need to understand is that I don’t really shriek over things.
Like, at all. I think the last time I shrieked about something was when I was 15 seeing Bow Wow in concert. And even then, I’m pretty sure I was hoarse from losing my shit when Marques Houston took of his dirty drawers and threw them into the crowd. ANYWAY.
Today I came home and immediately started bitching to my roommates about how, once again, I’d gotten my syllabus fucked up and thus had the honor of being completely fucking surprised by my story being workshopped today. It’s not that they absolutely hated it (they only hated it a little), it’s just that the EXACT same thing happened to me last semester in my Creative Writing part one class. Anyway, at some point Kim mentioned that I got a package. I asked her what it looked like, assuming she would tell me it was a cylinder/my undertaker poster, but instead she told me it felt like maybe a dvd. Or a book.
Before she can finished the “or something,” I’m in my room, ripping open my package and finding THIS and shrieking like a damn tween at a Bieber concert.
This is my reward for contributing to a project that completely rocked my world over half a year ago. (Remember? ha) I’d thought about the status of getting my reward from time to time, but it was never something I thought about for more than 10 minutes because…you know…these past seven months have kind of sucked. And I wasn’t completely mortified at the thought that I maybe wouldn’t get it because a) shit happens, b) mailing out a shit ton of books to a shit ton of people is probably really hard so if it got lost, it was completely out of their hands/probably wasn’t their fault, and c) I gave them a contribution not only because I wanted a copy, but because I just wanted to (and because I knew that when it came time for my first publication, I’d want contributions too).
ANYWAY IT FINALLY CAME TODAY AND I’M GOING TO READ THE SHIT OUT OF THIS BOOK AND NOT GET ANYTHING DONE TONIGHT LIKE I ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO!
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“In the next few years he would lose the dream job for which he was relocating. His mother would pass away from cancer. He would move back to the city where we met and I still lived. But I wouldn’t find this last part out until looking him up online because writing this made me think of his pretty, full name. I contacted him once, and his response was angry. Why did you abandon me? was essentially what he wanted to know. If I let you back into my life, will you abandon me again? It made me very uncomfortable, and I wrote some angrily awkward response that said, essentially, yes.”
Charlotte Shane, Julian, Coming and Crying
I can’t get enough. I have found a part of my own thoughts in every story that I’ve read. It’s like a bunch of people came together to remind you that your own thoughts and experiences that you think are weird or depressing or “would never happen to anyone but me” are completely untrue. You will learn something from this and you will love it and you will have little half-smiles and laughs every time you read something that reminds you of yourself. And the metaphors and similes are ridiculous. And it really does punch you in the gut every now and then and make you think about finding the writer to cry (or come) with them. Read it. Now.
(via heysean)
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HOLY CRAP
I got my book from Kickstarter by Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O’Connell
Its dirty dirty…. the perfect book to get me out of my funk.. THANK YOU GIRLS
Oh yeah, did we mention that?
And thank YOU.
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Sitting and grinning with Coming & Crying.
An overabundance of thoughts to follow.
Possible titles:
“The Second Coming”
“The Mourning After”
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Book wheel keep on turning. (The mixed bags make their way. Though we heard from at least one person at the Book Fest that her New York apartment is still book-less. We’re on it, gang.)
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brooklyn book festival: tomorrow!→
This is tomorrow, guys.
Melissa and I will be there peddling our wares (or signing your copy)(or saying hi and hanging out)(whatever you’re into) from 1-2pm at the Kickstarter booth in some far flung corner of the thing.
Anyway, you may come (this is ill-advised), you may cry (at someone else’s panel, please do not cry at our booth), you’ll meet us IRL, buy 1 book or many (but not that many because we are only bringing what melissa can carry), and we will all have a great day. I have decided this. It’s called the power of positive thinking, people. Did anyone read about that in this week’s New Yorker?
Anyway if you are there you should come by and see us. I am very excited about this because there will be a lot of Writers there and I might die if I see Mary Gaitskill up close.
See you tomorrow. Maybe. If you live in New York.