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LOS ANGELES — Sergio González Rodríguez (1950–2017) was a Mexican journalist and writer. A friend and colleague of Roberto Bolaño, he was the primary source of information on the femicides—the countless unsolved rape-murders of women, primarily factory workers—in Ciudad Juárez, for the late Chilean novelist's novel, 2666.
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LOS ANGELES — Been a trip and a half reading Motherhood while posted with the mother this past month of holiday fam time / convalescence out here in LA. Has really propelled me into the nitty-grit of thangs.
In this episode, I go in with more gripes about Sheila's stance on procreation than I come out with. I consider her view on the importance or lack thereof of Art. I hash out her ideas on family extending beyond the nuclear. And I give her props on the deepest idea of all: that Failure can never be communicated, must always be private, and yet is the only way to Freedom.
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LOS ANGELES — I started reading The Elementary Particles (2000) this past summer. I railed through the first couple hundred pages fairly quickly, before stalling out on the last sixty-or-so. I finished it this past Thanksgiving.
In this episode, I explore Houellebecq's takes on the death of the nuclear family, extreme individualism in the West, and the value of declaratives. Michel Houellebecq was born Michel Thomas in Réunion, France in 1956. Houellebecq is his paternal grandmother's maiden name. The Elementary Particles (2000), Houellebecq's second novel (orig. published Les Particules Élémentaires in 1998), was simultaneously hailed as a "nihilist classic" and criticized for its brutality. Michiko Kakutani, for example, called it "a deeply repugnant read." 
LITTLE ORLEANS, Md. — Sean, 23, wakes up damn near hypothermic in his tent, books it to the nearest town in a panic, and gets welcomed by locals at Bill's Place, a bar in Little Orleans, Maryland (pop. 42).
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado.
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C&O CANAL LOCK 53, Md. — Sean, 23, on his third consecutive day without a real human interaction, walks and walks like a dumbass into the middle of nowhere in a rain-hailstorm and gets his morale broken.
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado. 
LITTLE POOL CAMPGROUND, Md. — Sean, 23, gets spooked camping adjacent to the Potomac River on a cloudy, starless night in a spot surrounded by empty beer bottles, a canopy of tree branches, and a wall of sound.
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado. 
CLEAR SPRING, Md. — Sean, 23, develops a cold, gets put up in a motel room by his grandmother, and sleeps for twenty-four hours.
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado. 
CLEAR SPRING, Md. — After crashing out in a highway divider in Williamsport, Sean, 23, walks onto the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath. He accidentally spills the rest of his water, asks a stranger for help, and is led to Clear Spring, Maryland, where he stocks up on rations.
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado. 
WILLIAMSPORT, Md. — After waking up in a vacant lot behind a gas station just west of Smithsburg, Sean, 23, walks into Hagerstown, Maryland (pop. 40,000), in a full-on snowstorm. He tries to stall in a McDonald's to stay dry, only to get kicked out, and so posts up in a library all day before eventually booking it, in the dark, to Williamsport and crashing out on a highway divider.
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado.
Sean Thor Conroe / 12 min. x 12 mi. / October 25
PHILADELPHIA — Gina Myers is poet living in Philadelphia. She is the author of the poetry books HOLD IT DOWN (2013), A MODEL YEAR (2009), and six chapbooks including PHILADELPHIA (2017), from Barrelhouse, which she wrote, mostly on her phone, during the first few months of moving to Philadelphia (August–October 2014). I encountered her work after hearing her read from PHILADELPHIA in early 2017, months after moving back to Philadelphia.
Gina Myers co-edits the biannual online poetry journal, the tiny. About Gina's work, Maggie Nelson wrote, "Myers writes with a melancholic confidence that is all her own, but which also pays homage to an exquisite assortment of ghosts, poetic and otherwise." |
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