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Feet-grabbing angels
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September 28, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I am sick of my routines. One of the routines I’m sick of is that I get routinely sick of my routines. …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Goings-on, Philosophy | Tags: 100 days 2012
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
Recycling Facebook
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September 14, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Originally, I only wanted to share a few posts from Facebook over at my blog (a little like what I …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Facebook, Goings-on | Tags: 100 days 2012, Action, Aotearoa, beach sloth, cathedral, Christmas, Christopher Allen, Christopher Forsley, Darwin, Elephant, Ernst Jandl, Existentialism, facebook, Figure, frank hinton, Friederike Mayröcker, Friendship, Gizella, Ken Clarke, Lego, Lettau, Mexican Dude, New Zealand, PANK, Robots, Roxane Gay, S. Teri O'Type, Serenity, Susan Tepper, Tiny Hardcore Press, TYFYS, Vatican, Veszprem, wolves
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
How to be lazy in 10 steps
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September 5, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I am now looking forward to 3 weeks of freedom from academic freedom. I feel like a broken record drifting …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Goings-on, Writerly Advice | Tags: 100 days 2012, attitude, editing, habits, laziness, writing
elephant men
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September 1, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

There was a time when we were all elephant men. Sure, it wasn’t always easy to negotiate two such different …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Stories, The Picture Goers | Tags: 100 days 2012, drawint, elephant man, Picture
Kreusnach
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August 29, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I picked a slim book up today. It caught my attention because on the pink dust jacket that loudly said …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Review | Tags: 100 days 2012, Dreyfus, Kreuznach, Proust, sebald, Zola
summer feet
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August 25, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

A great advantage of having lived a for few summers already is that you can imagine August heat even if …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Goings-on | Tags: 100 days 2012, feet, july, summer
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
halfway
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August 23, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

You may have noticed that I’ve been busy blogging since end of June as part of a 100 day project. …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Carnival, Goings-on | Tags: 100 days 2012, blogs, Dorothee Lang, facebook, reflection

(Birkenkrahe) — Storyteller & Professor

I am German writer who lives in Berlin. My short fiction has been published in elimae, Mad Hatter's Review, kill author, PANK and elsewhere. First published in 2009 at Metazen, I've been nominated for a Micro Award, two Pushcart Prizes, two Best of the Net awards and two Million Writers Awards, and a novella of mine was longlisted for the Paris Literary Prize. My short fiction collection "Thank You For Your Sperm" is published in 2013 by MadHat Press. My mosaic novel "Gizella" is forthcoming from Folded Word Press. I have a lush web site at marcusspeh.com (English), I blog on Tumblr und Deutsch auf marcusspeh.de. Join me on Facebook, on Twitter, Pinterest or send me an email.