OBIT: Hubert Selby Jr.

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angela carter

― otto, Friday, 30 April 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago) link

Otto writes: "Kathy Acker can do gritty with the best of em " Ha! I gave Acker a shout out on the John Irving wankfest. Good to see another fan.

― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago) link

Dorothy Allison.

― Martha Bridegam, Monday, 3 May 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago) link

and since someone just started a thread on her, joyce carol oates! she's hardcore. rape, murder, blood, death, nightmare, etc. she takes no prisoners.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 3 May 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago) link

Lynda Barry. Consider the novel if you'd rather not count the comic strips.

If grit on other planets counts, Ursula LeGuin. Anyway she has the idea that the truth about a society is clearest in the place where it treats people worst.

― Martha Bridegam, Monday, 3 May 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

Dammit, ladies, go to Amazon.com and buy The Urban Bizarre, an anthology for which I wrote a story called "Amy." It might not be GOOD but it certainly is REPULSIVE (a better translation of "gritty" than "male"?). I wrote it about 2 years before it saw print and almost checked myself into a psych ward; couldn't finish it. I really must've disliked that trust-fund junkie who threatened to kill me around the time I wrote it more than I thought...

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

good gawd, I can't believe I just self-promoted on an obituary thread... if THAT's not tacky... oh well, he's probably up in booknerd heaven, shooting up and giggling at me... come to think of it, what I just did is somehow appropriate...

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

It might not be GOOD but it certainly
is REPULSIVE
you sold me.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

You sold me, too. The story is entitled "Amy"? For real? And it messed you up real bad? Dude, this just the effect I have on people.

Whoops, accidentally searched for "The Urban Bazaar." There's no review of what this anthology is about, Ann. Please tell me more and I'll buy it (breaking my "Wait until paperback rule" be/c you seem so nice).

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago) link

In case you're interested, The Village Voice has this to say

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0418/sandler.php

― otto, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

Aw, thanks, I oughtta go into advertising, hee hee... there is a paperback edition though, I think it's only $15.

Here's the Bookslut review:

http://www.bookslut.com/fear_factor/2004_03_001698.php

and the publisher:

http://www.primebooks.net

And, truly, my ticket to hell if Selby was Saint Peter in disguise...

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Ann, why must you spring your horrific element a bit too suddenly?

― otto, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link

ARE YOU CALLING ME A PREMATURE EJACU--

Woops, I was thinking of my other favorite message board!

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Ann, seriously, that's not a bad little publishing company. I read KJ Bishop's Etched City and enjoyed the hell out of it. (Moorcock mixed with Louis L'Amour mixed with Rimbaud, if you can imagine.) Anyways, nice work.

― otto, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link

hee hee thanks! (spooges on screen, blushes)

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link

(Hubert would be honored!)

― otto, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi Ann (fellow Urban Bizarre contrib here.)

I stand by Richard Price's Selby summation :
"Sometimes he's able to *stun* the reader into empathy."

― Ian G., Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link

five years pass...

Are there any interesting, in-depth articles on the UK trial of Last Exit...?

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link

six years pass...

https://soundcloud.com/backlistedpod/last-exit-to-brooklyn-hubert-selby-jr

Funnily enough the q of 'gritty bks by women' came up in this podcast on Last Exit. I fast fwd to about 20 mins when the discussion really starts. Saleena's readings are fantastic.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 July 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link

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