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hipsters having sex
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September 22, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Speh: «An egg-headed, shoulderless man, a creature from a Beckett novel perhaps, who had a heavy gold coin in his …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Metafiction, Stories, The Picture Goers, Writerly Advice | Tags: 100 days 2012, Hipster, puritanism, sex
Frank Hinton: «Can you explain the importance of the discovery of the Higgs boson?»
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September 9, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

«The search for the Higgs is physicists’ idea of 21st-century sex. While other sciences limit themselves, the contemporary erotic physics …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Metafiction | Tags: 100 days 2012, CERN, frank hinton, higgs, higgs boson, LHC, physics
No Short Cuts
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August 24, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

When the (then still) mysterious literary online magazine > kill author asked me in 2011 to write a guest introduction to …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Goings-on, Metafiction | Tags: 100 days 2012, Beckett, biography, camus, carver, collage, dada, ego, höch, heartfield, humbling, kill author, NYT, plague, raymond carver, sklevicka, stephen king, Vaughan Simons, watt
the ILK mash-ups
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August 12, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

You already know that I enjoy making marks. Earlier this year after two of my texts were published in the then fairly …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Metafiction, The Picture Goers | Tags: 100 days 2012, ILK, mashup, photos, pictures, Tiergarten
Living in the Plattenbau — A Post-Communist Fairy Tale
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July 25, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

A certain Herr G. who lives in Berlin, Germany, in a building called a ‘Plattenbau‘ on Leipziger Straße, collects very short stories at …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Metafiction, Stories | Tags: 100 days 2012
Meeting Marie Calloway Without Adrien Brody
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April 14, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

The first alien came as a rose out of the rocky ground. It grew on a mountain slope, shadowed by a lonely olive tree. …

Category: Commentary, Metafiction, Published, Stories | Tags: Adrien Brody, Alt Lit, controversy, exposure, frank hinton, HTMLGiant, Marie Calloway, Muumuu House, New York, Roxane Gay, tao lin, Yareah
The Man In The Mirror
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January 11, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

«This man only exists in my imagination. I was very lucky to get his photograph: apparently, he only lives in …
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Category: Metafiction, The Picture Goers | Tags: Alt Lit Gossip, Deutsche Guggenheim, Image, man, Mirror, Vision Quest
The Serious Writer Occupies Wall Street
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November 20, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

[listen while you read] When thinking of the commotion surrounding Wall Street, the serious writer gets very upset. But he …
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Category: Metafiction, Stories | Tags: Atticus Books, fictionaut, kaffe in katmandu, Occupy, Occupy Writers, Serious Writer, six degress
Sam Rasnake digs up a grave
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August 29, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I was gratified to hear that not everyone has completely forgotten my nom de plume from what seems so long …
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Category: Commentary, Gastarbeiter, Metafiction | Tags: Finnegan Flawnt, Flawnt, Frankenstein, gastarbeiter, Sam Rasnake
when in paris, pick me up some dragon lotion & some poodle juice & then let’s make dirty love and climb the eiffel tower
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August 14, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

In Paris, I bought a leather portfolio with very large white pages in it loosely bound—I spoke to it thus: …
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Category: Goings-on, Metafiction, Writerly Advice | Tags: condom, dragon lotion, eiffel tower, frank zappa, goethe, huxley, paris, patrick blanc, poodle juice, rue de buci, Tiergarten, tourism, vertical garden

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«At a party, I stood next to a bald guy with a beard who didn’t say anything. I noticed a nearby couple put their heads together and whisper while pointing at me. They were smiling so I went over and inquired if I could help them in any way. “No, not at all,” said the woman, “but listen, isn’t that Sir Salman Rushdie who stood next to you just now? We’re such fans.” The man nodded.»

Excerpt from: My Friend Salman Rushdie, in: Pachydermini Pack 4 (Turtleneck Press); donation dependent download.

«Tara, I look at us in that photo, taken so many years ago, I look at you sandwiched between Tom and me, with our left arms in casts, so ridiculous, it makes me think of music that is ridiculous also, music by Charles Ives with two bands playing against one another, or two melodies backpacking a third, or an instrument entering a dialog of two other instruments like a dangerous stranger. It makes me think of your musical voice and your rich hair, Tara, I’m thinking of you as my ship begins the landing process.»

Excerpt from: Friends, in: In Those Days We, available online at Issuu. Paperback version to appear.

Now at Amazon as paperback and on Kindle. See also goodreads.

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