Gutshot: Stories

Isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark edges

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Hi Amelia thanks for joining us. I am going to HAVE to try the matcha tea meat saying ritual - could definitely use some power of the gods on my side! 👍 I'm really interested to know how this all come about for you in the first place? What was the starting point for you and your inspiration?

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11yr ago

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@ems_hodge We'll try it together, Emily! It's the power of two at work here. I've always thought that I started writing in high school to sort out my teenage feelings of heartbreak and similar, but actually in going through the archives I found a piece of paper on which I had typed my first story, probably the same week I was learning to use the typewriter. The story was called "the moon." and the story was "thE moon is wite. IT shines in the sky like a moon . ha hha." So I always have had a curiosity about the moon and a very stupid sense of humor.

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11yr ago

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It is my pleasure to introduce Amelia Gray for a Product Hunt AMA at 12pm PST. Amelia is the author of four books: AM/PM, Museum of the Weird, THREATS, and Gutshot. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and VICE. She lives in Los Angeles.

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11yr ago

Hunter

@eriktorenberg Thank you, Eric! I'd like to take this moment to let everyone know that if you repeat the word "meat" while drinking a fresh matcha tea, you can harness the power of the gods. (Any meat-related word will do if you would prefer not to say "meat." Try it!)

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11yr ago

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Thanks for being here Amelia! Who’s writing has most inspired you and why?

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11yr ago

Hunter

@lejlahunts Hi Lejla! I'd say Barry Hannah for his life and language, Vladimir Nabokov for insight and precision, Shirley Jackson for control and darkness, Lydia Davis for her razor wit, Don Barthelme for playfulness, Russell Edson for same but condensed, Jean Rhys for aching wit. Lately I'm feeling Alissa Nutting for being sharp as hell, Rachel B. Glaser for art school party, Gary Lutz for moments stuck in the bathtub, Donald Ray Pollock who lives I think in an abandoned drive-in and Claire Vaye Watkins for Nevada, where it is all going down.

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11yr ago

Rocketship.fm

@grayamelia what a list

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11yr ago

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Who are your favorite short story writers?

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11yr ago

Hunter

@russfrushtick I like Joyce Carol Oates, Ron Carlson, Ben Loory, Lindsay Hunter, Tony Earley, Barry Hannah, Shirley Jackson, Lydia Davis, Don Barthelme, Gary Lutz, Donald Ray Pollock, and Claire Vaye Watkins. Hard to pick a favorite but I could put together a monster collection with one of each.

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11yr ago

Rocketship.fm

@grayamelia @russfrushtick No Alice Munro, Junot Diaz or George Saunders?

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11yr ago

Hunter

@jeffumbro @russfrushtick Sure! They could write the forward, afterword, and annotations respectively.

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11yr ago

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I see you’re working on a novel - can you tell us what’s next?

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11yr ago

Hunter

@jacqvon Right now I'm working on a short story, a novel, a short novel and some TV stuff. The novel is historical fiction set a hundred years ago and in editing I'm ripping out passages which are written the way people wrote at the time and trying to replace them with the way they thought (which is very close to how we think today, but with slightly different words and no wide cultural knowledge of Freud.) My main character is an egotistical genius and an artist. I can't say too much more about it yet. Lots of work to do still. It will be out in I believe April 2017. Where will we be in 2017? How many of us will have been melted down to create energy to power the hoverboards?

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11yr ago

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@grayamelia @jacqvon Incredible all around 💥👍 Thanks for the awesome answer!

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