"Clown Girl" by Monica Drake / Intro. by Chuck Palahniuk
such a wonderful book. i read it quite awhile back, but just found the thread 
definitely in my top five of the year.
i've said it to you before monica, but you're brilliant!
i'll post some links to her short stories here later on when i can get to my bookmarks.
you have shorts? fuck yeah. please do post them!
"Matt, you pretty much just SLAMMED your square ass right in this round hole. You've officially fit in." - Six On The Dot
See You Later, Fry-O-Later
This is one of my favorites. She grew up ten minutes from me, and told me about some of her real life misadventures working at the Burger King just off the highway.
Honeymooning
This is interesting, the way it was presented.
The first four were bookmarked, the last one I just found googling and haven't read yet; I can't be sure that one's by our Monica yet. I may have more stashed away, but I don't have time to check just now. Enjoy
I LOVE her writing. She's pretty great.
Must scoot.
thanks tourist. she has a pretty amazing style.
cheers
"Matt, you pretty much just SLAMMED your square ass right in this round hole. You've officially fit in." - Six On The Dot
I'd been meaning to buy Clown Girl. Then this last week I vacationed in Bend. I went to a bookstore called Between the Covers and I asked the owner if there were any books she could recommend and she brought me to the front display and pointed to Clown Girl. How cool is that?
Of course I bought it! I couldn't dig in right away because I was finishing up Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle but your book is next
Get the sugar. Get the sugar. Get the sugar.
you're in for a treat
i love monica's writing! clown girl was wonderful!!
Dammit, I love Team Fortress 2.
"To fail to embrace my dreams now would be a disgrace so great that sin itself would not be able to find a name for it." - Werner Herzog
there's a reason Chuck calls Monica Drake his "arch-enemy" in the intro to clowngirl. she knows how to do the thing.
held within the visualization, the continuous re-run
monica > chuck, in my humble opinion.
not that the man hasn't written some good books, survivor was excellent. i just much prefer her characterization and plotting.
She's got a story in the recently published Portland Noir also and I enjoyed it very much. Check it out.
"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning"
It was pretty great
I love what Akashic Books is doing with it's city noir series.
Be sure to check out San Francisco Noir for a Will Christopher Baer story featuring Jude as a teenager, and San Fran Noir 2 for a great story by Craig Clevenger. All sorts of gems in those books.
i actually saw them on amazon about a week or so ago and thought they looked fucking good. and i've never even been to any of the cities mentioned. i think, from memory, they were reasonably priced, too.
just bought a book today called "Bad Sex" - it has a story in it from monica that you posted a link to, tourist. and, they're all true stories. well, how much is exagerated, we will never know i guess.
it's put out by nerve.com and it's a whole bunch of writers telling their "real life" bad sex stories. i've read a couple of the shorter ones, and monica's and fuck. funny.
"Matt, you pretty much just SLAMMED your square ass right in this round hole. You've officially fit in." - Six On The Dot
fantastic book. i just finished reading it. possibly delayed.
i actually bought the book purely based on the introduction by chuck.
i normally read the first paragraph and the blurb and some of the quotes form reviews and other authors and then if i'm into it i buy it. i didnt realise until i was in the carpark that i didnt even read any of the story before i bought it.
chucks word is all i needed. but shit, it's a fantastic introduction for a fantastic novel. can't wait to read some mroe work monica.
"Matt, you pretty much just SLAMMED your square ass right in this round hole. You've officially fit in." - Six On The Dot