Posts by Elizabeth Ellen
THIS IS THE TITLE OF AN INTERIEW (elixabeth change this lol)
Elizabeth Ellen
i used to write on adderall like a million years ago or when drinking also but thats stopped. like once, last year, i wrote a short story while drinking, and i cant even remember where i saved it so idek if its any good, bc after a while i got distracted and started watching YouTube makeup reviews.
NAUGHTY GIRLS (NEED LOVE TOO): Elizabeth Ellen interviews LEESA CROSS-SMITH
Elizabeth Ellen
I write about dark things a lot but not without at least some hope…or hope for hope.
The Ethics of Claimlessness: an interview with Garth Greenwell
Elizabeth Ellen
I wrote for twenty years without anyone paying me or offering me confirmation or telling me that what I wrote would be welcomed by the world. Quite the contrary.
WORSTED: Elizabeth Ellen interviews Garielle Lutz
Elizabeth Ellen
"Gary” always felt like a misnomer to me, something I had to put up with to keep the peace.
Cunt, cunt, cunt: an interview with Laura Theobald and Mikaela Grantham
Elizabeth Ellen
I think they mean they just don't like a woman going around going "cunt cunt cunt."
‘Getting Cancelled Means You Are Permanently Working Class’: Elizabeth Ellen Interviews Brian Allen Carr
Elizabeth Ellen
When I was younger, if you had a hard time following rules, you became an artist.
Now, if you have a hard time following rules, you become an entrepreneur.
People in the literary world follow rules the most.
Empathy in the Usual Way: Elizabeth Ellen Interviews Amanda Goldblatt
Elizabeth Ellen
"Honestly, I don't care if language overtakes story."
All Narrators Are Unlikeable: Elizabeth Ellen Interviews Mary MIller
Elizabeth Ellen
Maybe ‘white trash American girl’ is a compliment over there?
Dirtbags Can Write Books: Elizabeth Ellen Interviews Steve Anwyll
Elizabeth Ellen
If you were to sit down and watch an American beer commercial and then a Canadian one, they wouldn't be that different. Replace the eagle with a beaver.
JULIET, MY MANIAC: ELIZABETH ELLEN INTERVIEWS JULIET ESCORIA (AGAIN!)
Elizabeth Ellen
Trent, and NIN, are way cooler and better. Also Trent is fucking hot.
Betty Ford Said That Dance Was Her Happiness: an interview with Lisa McCubbin
Elizabeth Ellen
The great thing about Betty and Rosalynn Carter working together was showing the world how to find common ground even when coming from different political stances. We could use a lot more of that right now.
References to Alcoholic Drinking in My Grandfather’s WWII Diary
Elizabeth Ellen
June 1, 1944 – Squadron party. Real whiskey, but didn’t get too hi – just happy. Met a W.A.F. (Women Air Force) & we talked English history.
My Old Man Poems (from 'Elizabeth Ellen')
Elizabeth Ellen
I thought Roger Waters was full of shit, I mean
TONIGHT I’M CHELSEA HODSON: a (follow-up) interview with Chelsea Hodson
Elizabeth Ellen
"I’m always looking for ways to pay more attention. I thought maybe I could be a better writer if I knew what private investigators knew, if I could see a clue for what it was. I’m still learning."
Desperately Seeking Whoopi: Whoopi Goldberg, live at the Motorcity Casino, Detroit, Friday, June 15th, 2018
Elizabeth Ellen
Ironically, hours before we went to see Whoopi, I texted two friends from my bathtub that I didn’t think I would ever write another essay. It was “too hard.” “People only want to vilify you, so they look for words to use to that end, and ignore the rest of what you’ve said.”
Talk Show Poems & other miscellany
Elizabeth Ellen
Letterman wore khakis and the camera angled up his crotch. I watched every night or set my VCR to record on the rare occasion I left my apartment.
on obsession, cigarettes, Chanel bar soap, C. E. Morgan and winter precipitation: an interview with Leesa Cross-Smith
Elizabeth Ellen
Kentucky is chill and for the most part, doesn't try to be something it's not. I feel that way abt myself tbh.
Chelsea Martin Poems
Elizabeth Ellen
In these poems I am using ‘Chelsea Martin’ as a pseudonym for someone who is not Chelsea Martin.
Devils Tower
Elizabeth Ellen
When I stay over at Amelia’s there is a poster of Devils Tower over her bed and we trace the volcanic neck with our fingertips instead of sleeping. I give Amelia a Xanax and floss between each of her teeth.
Mesa, Arizona, 1985
Elizabeth Ellen
By the time I arrived at the Phoenix airport the next summer I was thirty pounds heavier. I’d spent the previous nine months eating vending machine moonpies and packaged cookies in my dorm room.
Halloween II
Elizabeth Ellen
I smile into the mirror. There is lipstick on my front teeth. I don’t rub it off.
Last Days: an excerpt from Person/a
Elizabeth Ellen
I remember Ian saying I was not a novelist and I think, as much as it pained me at the time to hear this, he was correct.
Brian Alan Ellis Is Not Brian Allen Carr: an Interview
Elizabeth Ellen
You interviewing me for Hobart is pretty much the peak of my hustle. Maybe this is me selling out. Maybe this is growing up.
Elizabeth Ellen interviews Christa Parravani: the Interview That Almost Wasn’t
Elizabeth Ellen
Eventually, I turned to memoir because I wanted to stay in scene. I craved space. I believe in the connection between poetry and memoir. It’s no coincidence that some of our best memoirs have come from poets: Mary Karr, Nick Flynn, Lucy Grealy, Mark Doty, Maggie Nelson, and Sarah Manguso—that list could go on-and-on.
How to Be a Dutiful Thing: Elizabeth Ellen Interviews Chelsea Hodson
Elizabeth Ellen
According to my parents, I was obedient from birth—I emerged in silence and then slept through the night. I was just never interested in rebelling—even as a “punk,” I got good grades and was always home by curfew.
A Review of By the Sea, or, How to Be An Artist and Female, I.e. How to be Unlikable, or, How to (Not) Pander
Elizabeth Ellen
And now I am left wondering how The End of the Story might have been different, what more we might have found out, had ‘Vincent’ not been a presence in that flowered armchair, had Lydia not been conscious of him invoking rules: there shouldn’t be any intimate scenes.
These Are Not Poems
Elizabeth Ellen
My new friend interrupted me to say, “You seem like you live like a real artist.”
My new friend had already been twice published by The New Yorker.
I thought maybe she had confused me with herself.
poems
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Tanja and I were competing to see who had moved the most as a child.
“I know of at least fourteen places we lived before I was eighteen,” I said.
Tanja started naming places she had lived. She kept naming her grandma’s house over and over, between every place.
A Review of Cult of Loretta That Is Also An Essay Addressing the ‘Art vs. The Artist’ Debate (and more!)
Elizabeth Ellen
Another night we got so high I broke into our next-door neighbor’s house and stole their television so we could watch The Simpsons. I asked Loretta where I should put it. She said on top of the TV, which is how we discovered that we already had a TV.
elizabeth ellen calls aaron burch on all his shit
Elizabeth Ellen
let’s start with my most pressing question, one you haven’t answered IRL: WHY DID YOU TURN DOWN BRAD LISTI?
Not Another ‘Top Ten’ List: 3 Questions for 3 Authors: Tao Lin, Michael Clune & Scott McClanahan
Elizabeth Ellen
To be honest, there were other books that had as great an impact on me, but I don’t have access to those authors (Bret Easton Ellis – Lunar Park, Elizabeth Wurtzel – More, Now, Again, W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage)..
It Feels Like a Prayer: a review of Hill William by Scott McClanahan
Elizabeth Ellen
I sat and bawled for half an hour after finishing Hill William in one swift read through this morning, beginning to end in an hour.
Crib Notes: My Experience Reading Taipei by Tao Lin
Elizabeth Ellen
on page 97, between sections that detail time Paul and Erin spend in Ohio with “Calvin” and “Maggie” (Jordan Castro and Mallory Whitten), I wrote: Manson Family, in large black letters.
Lil Bitch: An Interview With Chelsea Martin
Elizabeth Ellen
Chelsea Martin is easily one of the sweetest persons I know, as well as one of the funniest. She’s so quiet and seemingly unassuming, you don’t see it coming. It sneaks up on you,
I'm an Asshole and My Life is Retarded: an interview with Julia Wertz by Elizabeth Ellen and her daughter, Andie V.
Elizabeth Ellen and Andie V.
Julia Wertz's first two books are called Fart Party, a great, attention-grabbing title. I remember grabbing the book off the shelf at the comic bookstore, poking my boyfriend and laughing
An Interview with Donald Ray Pollock
Elizabeth Ellen
It takes a lot to get me to read an entire book. I buy, borrow and steal books by the hundreds, but the actual number I read from beginning to end are very few. In the last seven years, I've
An Interview with Eric Spitznagel
Elizabeth Ellen
Eric Spitznagel didn't always write porn. (And doesn't, it should be noted, anymore.) In fact, for most of his adult life (we can't answer for his teen years... God only knows what he was doing