writing is sorrow; having had written is sublime
“Hell, man, I know very well you didn’t come to me only to want to become a writer and after all what do I really know about it except you’ve got to stick to it with all the energy of a benny* addict.”
~ Dean Moriarty from ON THE ROAD
#amwriting
#ofthejournals
*Benzedrine, the trademark name for Amphetamine.
This senryū (川柳) serves as the forword to my poetry collection SHORT VERSES AND OTHER CURSES.
It also serves as a metaphor for the scrambled goings on in my mind…
My latest creative endeavor, adapted from my short story of the same name, which can be found in the short story collection LEAVE: and Other Stories Short and Shorter.
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More video adaptions to come.
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No seriously, go!
My latest creative endeavor, adapted from my short story of the same name, which can be found in the short story collection LEAVE: and Other Stories Short and Shorter.
You can get a free copy of the collection by subscribing to my newsletter.
More video adaptions to come.
Please visit my youtube channel and likesubscribeshareyadayadayada.
Sorrow by Kurt Brindley is a thought-provoking and unsettling read that will resonate with readers who appreciate complex explorations of identity, social commentary, and the darker aspects of human nature, making it a great fit for fans of literary, psychological thrillers that challenge and provoke.
Gina Ray Mitchell
I would like to thank Ms. Gina Ray Mitchell for taking the time and making the effort to so thoughtfully read and review my latest release Sorrow.
And I would like to ask that you take the time and make the effort to read her full review, one deep and insightful. In fact, it is so insightful that I believe she may have a better understanding of the book than I, which is certainly far from an impossibility as I’ve long held the belief that books are typically much smarter than those who write them.
You can read the full review at her very informative and entertaining website…
And Goodreads…
And at a location new to me, StoryGraph.
If you are intrigued by Ms. Mitchell’s assessment of Sorrow and would like to make an assessment of your own, you can purchase an ebook edition of it, and those of all my other published works, for free until midnight tonight (PST).
*Paradoxes such as this always amuse me…
I initially set out to record Henry James’ somewhat condescending response to Walter Besant’s very pretentious essay “The Art of Fiction”…
Until I discovered the letter from Henry James’ older brother, and renowned psychologist/philosopher, William James, where he tells Henry exactly how he feels about Henry’s latest release “The American Scene.”
Spoiler alert: It’s definitely not a 5-star review…
Being the father of two sons, I know how brothers can be not only brutally frank and painfully honest to one another, but also highly competitive and a bit boastful as well.
The older brother’s letter to the younger encompasses all that and more.
Check out my youtube channel and like and subscribe and yada yada yada and peristaltic belching…
Better yet, how about reading and reviewing my latest novel?
For many people art means rose-coloured windows, and selection means picking a bouquet for Mrs. Grundy. They will tell you glibly that artistic considerations have nothing to do with the disagreeable, with the ugly; they will rattle off shallow commonplaces about the province of art and the limits of art, till you are moved to some wonder in return as to the province and the limits of ignorance.
Henry James
Learning the tricky ins and outs of audio/video recording and editing ain’t easy for an old dog like me. But I’ve always wanted to offer audiobooks as part of my humble literary portfolio, so I guess it’s time for me to grin and bear it and get to it ’cause I certainly ain’t getting any younger.
As I work on recording my new novel Sorrow, I figured I might as well have a little visually creative fun with it along the way…
Narrating in general is less than easy for me; it is even less so when it’s the Early Modern English that was spoken nearly half a millennium ago.
Yeah…
#grinandbearitwithme
Happy times, Sorrow is here!
And you have until midnight tomorrow, or more specifically, 11:59 p.m., Sunday, November 24, 2024, (Bezos Standard Time, aka PST), to purchase a free Kindle version.
An aging white male forsakes humanity, changes his name to Sorrow, and begins identifying as an it, just as its white son learns his Black girlfriend is pregnant, and you begin a murderous rampage targeting interracial couples just like them...
And as Arthur Schopenhauer, that merry misanthrope, only happy when I’m not philosopher of old, reminds us:
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Now, I am only the author of the tale so I cannot be sure, but if I were a betting man, which I’m not, but if I were, I would bet that Sorrow, our odd protagonist of our newly released tale, would agree with me that the quote above is true to the spirit of its journey. But alas we are sure to never know for sure since…
Sorrow does not respond.
Or maybe it does.
Find out here.
