( lanny quarles on fb / via )

"Not long ago, almost everything I wrote had to go through gatekeepers (almost always sitting in an office in New York) before a single reader saw it. Then I decided to bypass the system too."

"Hey man my AI dating concierge read your book and loved it" --@john_attridge

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic."

"We Came Out of the Night

made the left at Rocksprings
and hit the South Texas heat
wave in a '49 Mercury, lowered with skirts
&leadedin front hood, roll'd & pleat'd & built
for fast trips to the border. It was black.
Outside Del Rio the air shimmers white
shattered into pastel & red afterimages.
The heat decides everything. Suspends
thought. Cactus dominate."

--Robert Trammell, from No Evidence (2001)

"But Jarry, Ballard, Husker Du, and Trammell are not merely being punk delinquent vandals; I believe they each had deeper purposes in mind."