Get Lit: Sad Laughter
Brian Alan Ellis came on Get Lit With Leza & talked about his depressing life, his new book with Civil Coping Mechanisms, & read some excerpts from SAD LAUGHTER. He read from the AWP section, since that’s coming up. While we talked about AWP I convinced him to come so if you are going you can see him at the offsite CLASH Books reading along with a bunch of other cool cats. Enjoy this episode & check out an excerpt from SAD LAUGHTER.
16. AWP IS FUCKING DOG SHIT A Guide to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference
A shocking number of carnies at the AWP book fair have MFA degrees.
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Kickstarter to fund an AWP book fair dunk tank.
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A fun thing to do at AWP: Approach writers you’ve known for years online but have not met IRL and horribly mispronounce their names.
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Show you mean business at AWP by randomly approaching someone and very menacingly saying, “We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the Hemingway.”
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An AWP panel titled “Short Stories Mansplained.”
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120 At AWP, drunk writers have been known to throw entire Twitter posts out of hotel room windows.
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AWP is where writers spend several days pretending to admire each other’s work while drunk as shit.
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When at AWP, a productive thing to do is to frantically ask random people if they know what time Smash Mouth goes on.
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A lot of people wear lanyards at AWP, which begs the question: How has nobody at AWP been strangled to death?
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Mom says I can only swim in the shallow end, so AWP here I come!
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Look, they were already dead when I got there. #AWP
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Self-publishing is cool because instead of going to AWP to promote your books, you can just stay home and stream all five Leprechaun sequels on Netflix, your reason being: “Well, I’m just waiting until AWP is in either ‘the Hood’ or in ‘Space.’”
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121 An AWP panel titled “How to Remind People That You’re an Actual Author and Not Just Some Crazy Depressed Person Who Spends Too Much Time Online.”
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Roll up into AWP ready to pick up some “strange” using literary-themed negs, like “I’d like to stick my head in your oven,” or “How about a Moby Dick pic?”
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The best AWP offsite event is where you lay on your shitty mattress staring into nothing while thousands of miles away from any writer.