Dodie Bellamy

"A meld of essay, memoir, and story, When the Sick Rule the World collects Dodie Bellamy's new and recent lyric prose. Taking on topics as eclectic as vomit, Kathy Acker's wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, Bellamy here examines illness, health, and the body -- both the social body and the individual body -- in essays that glitter with wit even at their darkest moments" --Back cover.

When the Sick Rule the World

"While ending an affair with a Buddhist teacher, Dodie Bellamy wrote about it simultaneously on her blog. This experiment in writing in extremis explores nuances of public shame, the vagaries of desire and rage, and Bellamy's confusion over the authenticity of group and individual spirituality. What is personal, what is public? In the electronic age, can anybody tell the difference?" -- from publisher description.

The Buddhist

Cunt-Ups

Kevin Killian

At last a major anthology of New Narrative, the movement fueled by punk, pop, porn, French theory, and social struggle to change writing forever.

New Narrative Writing 1977-1997

Writers who Love Too Much

In Dodie Bellamy's imagined "sequel" to Bram Stoker's fin de siècle masterpiece Dracula, Van Helsing's plain Jane secretarial adjunct, Mina Harker, is recast as a sexual, independent woman living in San Francisco in the 1980s. The vampire Mina Harker, who possesses the body of author Dodie Bellamy, confesses the most intimate details of her relationships with four vastly different men through past letters. Simultaneously, a plague is let loose in San Francisco-the plague of AIDS. Bigger-than-life, half goddess, half Bette Davis, Mina sends letter after letter to friends and co-conspirators, holding her reader captive through a display of illusion and longing. Juggling quivering vulnerability on one hand and gossip on the other, Mina spoofs and consumes and spews back up demented reembodiments of trash media and high theory alike. It's all fodder for her ravenous libido and "a messy ambiguous place where pathology meets pleasure." Sensuous and captivating, The Letters of Mina Harker describes one woman's struggles finding the right words to explain her desires and fears without confining herself to one identity.

The Letters of Mina Harker

Academonia

Two essays. Presented at the 2007 MLA conference, and the 2008 Graduate Lecture Series at California College of the Arts (San Francisco).

Barf Manifesto

Inspired by visionaries such as Moses, William Blake, and Joseph Smith, San Francisco-based writer Dodie Bellamy spent five months in 2009 receiving transmissions from her television set and writing brief commentaries on each. In the present volume, her TV Sutras and their commentaries are but the beginning of an intensive investigation into the nature of religious experience. What are cults? Are they limited to wacko marginal communities,or do we enter one every time we go to work or step into a polling place? What is charisma and why are we addicted to it? Bellamy speaks candidly and intimately to her own experience as a woman, a writer, and former cult member. It's a commingling of memoir, fiction, collage, and essay that makes room for horny gurus, visitors from outer space, the tenderness of group life, and maybe the beginnings of a hard-won individualism.

The TV Sutras

Paul Buck

Laure Prouvost

Annette Kraus

Dana Munro

This Means Love

Bee Reaved (Semiotext

Poetry. Prose. "CUNT-UPS is an explosion of textual sexuality that resists principles of formal ordering, is polyvalent in its voice and range, and as perverse in its sentence construction as its content. Its 'setting' is the mediated exchange itself, the fractured articulation of 'a female body who has sex writing about sex.' While the title might imply a gendered site of production, it also suggests a sexual/textual violence that is more than a mere 'disorganization of the senses' but a dismemberment of the gendered body as well. The text becomes a (feminist) desiring machine, its writing a prosthetic device mediating the traces of physicality, imagination, abjection, and pleasure. "Throw on the switch, plug into the mediating machine, the flesh-object writes back, becomes subject, suspect, the gaze cut-up and fed back into vibrating loops of unobtainable desire."--David Buuck

Cunt-ups

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Women's Studies. In CUNT NORTON, the sequel to her unforgettable CUNT UPS, Dodie Bellamy "cunts" The Norton Anthology of Poetry (1975 edition), setting her text-ravenous cut-ups loose to devour the canonical voices of English literature. The texts that emerge from this sexual-linguistic encounter are monstrous, beautiful, unashamed: 33 erotic love poems ("the greatest fuck poem in the English language," according to Ariana Reines) that lust after the very aesthetic they resist. "These patriarchal voices that threatened to erase me—of course I love them as well," Bellamy writes. Even as CUNT NORTON dismembers the history of English poetry, "cunting" Chaucer and Shakespeare, Emerson and Lowell, it simultaneously allows new sexual members to arise and fill in the gaps, transforming the secret into the explicit, the classically beautiful into the wonderfully grotesque. Bellamy's cunted texts breathe life into literary "masters" with joy, honesty, hilarity, and insatiable passion. "I think this could be the most joyful book on Earth."—Ariana Reines

Cunt Norton

A new collection of essays from Dodie Bellamy on disenfranchisement, vulgarity, American working-class life, aesthetic values, and profound embarrassment. So. Much. Information. When does one expand? Cut back? Stop researching? When is enough enough? Like Colette's aging courtesan Lea in the Chéri books, I straddle two centuries that are drifting further and further apart. --Dodie Bellamy, "Hoarding as Ecriture" This new collection of essays, selected by Dodie Bellamy after the death of Kevin Killian, her companion and husband of thirty-three years, circles around loss and abandonment large and small. Bellamy's highly focused selection comprises pieces written over three decades, in which the themes consistent within her work emerge with new force and clarity: disenfranchisement, vulgarity, American working-class life, aesthetic values, profound embarrassment. Bellamy writes with shocking, and often hilarious, candor about the experience of turning her literary archive over to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale and about being targeted by an enraged online anti-capitalist stalker. Just as she did in her previous essay collection, When The Sick Rule The World, Bellamy examines aspects of contemporary life with deep intelligence, intimacy, ambivalence, and calm.

Bee Reaved

Lisa Jarnot

Nancy Princenthal

Alice Notley

Anne Waldman

C. S. Giscombe

Bernadette Mayer

David Antin

Kerry E. Sherin

Janet Zweig

Ron Silliman

Memoir/anti-memoir

00This book features nineteen paintings made by Louise Bonnet between 2019 and 2022. The figures that populate Bonnet?s work walk a line between beauty and ugliness, between absurdist, knockabout comedy and extreme psychological and physiological tension. Inhabiting sparse, eerie landscapes and boxed in by the edges of the canvas, they act out dramas of profound discomfort that plumb the depths of the artist?s subconscious.00Along with color reproductions of the work?including gatefolds of three triptychs?an essay by writer and editor Nicole Rudick explores Bonnet?s fascination with corporeal forms as ?fragile membranes between the self and the world, and the most visible manifestation of who we imagine ourselves to be.? A conversation between Bonnet and poet and novelist Dodie Bellamy delves into the power of horror, the intensity of memory, and the intricacies of the creative process.0.

Louise Bonnet. Recent Paintings

Sam D'Allesandro

The Letters of Mina Harker and Sam D'Allesandro

Real

Al tiempo que finalizaba un asunto con un maestro budista, Dodie Bellamy escribió sobre el tema en su blog. Tal experimento de escritura in extremis explora los matices de la vergüenza pública, los caprichos del deseo y de la rabia y la confusión de Bellamy sobre la autenticidad del grupo y la espiritualidad individual. ¿Qué es personal y qué es público? En la era electrónica, ¿puede alguien explicar la diferencia?

Dodie Bellamy

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