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A new story about Amanda Bynes and S4 of Arrested Development and The Celebrity Machine and social media and Apple iOS and clickbait titles and health care reform and rape culture and the new Daft Punk and
A solemn promise between internet friends.
Written and recorded by Kevin Fanning.
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Posted 1 week ago
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A new story about Amanda Bynes and S4 of Arrested Development and The Celebrity Machine and social media and Apple iOS and clickbait titles and health care reform and rape culture and the new Daft Punk and
Posted 3 weeks ago
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I’m reading with Matthew Salesses in Newton on June 14th. There will be stories, food & drinks, friendly faces, hanging out, and some fun surprises. More details here. In other news I’m very good at photoshop
Posted 1 month ago
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Today I wrote about Amanda Bynes & The Internet Teens saving the world with their selfies.
For more good writing about selfie culture and how we treat women both online and off, read what Lily wrote on Grimes, Amanda Bynes, and Being Seen.
Posted 1 month ago
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I was at a Farm King in western Illinois last week, looking for the knife section (turns out the knife section is basically just an afterthought in the rifle section, long story, separate post) when I found myself in the hat section. I have never been a hat person but I was standing there, looking at these hats and I suddenly thought: One of these hats is mine. It was kind of the only thing I have been really sure of in a long time.
Anyway, very excited about my new hat.
(Source: instagram.com)
Posted 2 months ago
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mailing art, a comic, & kfan stickers to one of my fave rappers, Jonwayne
The Wind Cries Maré
Posted 2 months ago
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This is me, reading “The Person Who Lives” from Touch Anything Except Me.
Works best with headphones, I still haven’t figured out how to record vocals like a normal human.

Posted 2 months ago
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The celebrity breakup is like a baby, born from the celebrity romance. The celebrities maintain joint custody of the baby, and they shuttle it back and forth to each other, with nasty little notes pinned to its bib.
This is the opposite of how relationships work for regular humans. For us it’s the waiting to be with that person, the hoping they will return our affection, the wondering if they are ever going to fucking notice how many of their tweets we are faving, that lasts forever. The breakup is the part we just want to be on the other side of as quickly as possible.
Kevin Fanning, “How We Break Up.”
I want to wave this piece in the face of every single person who’s told me it’s vapid and pointless to write about pop culture. In other words, a lot of people.
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HEY I wrote this thing about celebrity relationships vs real human relationships. Between you and me and tumblr, the idea of female celebrities taking media offensives against the dudes who wronged them is really interesting and I wish I’d dug into What It Means a little more. Maybe later.
Posted 3 months ago
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I have a story called “The Pictures of Our Children” in Sundog Lit today. The assignment was to write something related to or inspired by the cover of Matthew Salesses’s new book, I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying.

It’s sort of like being the literary Jason Bourne, if you think about it. A certain kind of job requires a certain kind of person. Publishers look deep into my icy eyes and see that I have the training and the willingness to perform the task at hand, no questions asked. I show up, I do what needs to be done, maybe a few people die but hey, books get sold, everyone’s happy. I disappear and await my next assignment.
Posted 4 months ago
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A Small, Alive Thing
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This is me, reading “A Small Alive Thing” from How I Learned To Love You From So Far Away.
Chels said she wanted a recording of this story and I’ve been meaning to experiment more with audio stuff and so anyways this is my first attempt. There are problems with it but we shouldn’t focus on the problems, should we. We should just focus on what worked.
The music is “The End of the Cyclone” by Biosphere.
Posted 4 months ago
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Perfect birthday card, from Nora
Today in The Morning News I explained how to a) build a Ryan Reynolds out of ordinary household objects, and b) how to get celebrities to fall in love with you on Twitter.