Chris Dennis
@ChrisDnns
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Author of Here Is What You Do. NEA Fellow, harm reductionist, rural gay dad. Work: Best American Essays, Paris Review, Granta, Playgirl, Guernica, McSweeney’s.
Southern Illinois
Joined April 2013
What in the world. Is it too dramatic to say that my whole life has been leading up to this!? BEST AMERICAN ESSAYIST, who? Honestly, as someone in recovery from addiction, writing about that experience and all the things that led to it, included in BAE. Unbelievable, actually. 🖤
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it occurred to me that let there be light was the first prompt
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A young Candy Darling, a transgender woman, draws long hair on a photo of herself, around 1954
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i had a dream you usurped me, kitten. don’t ever do that again.
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Very much loved Vladimir and Rachel Weisz is a strange, brilliant legend who I can’t get enough of but things certainly went off the rails at the end and it began when the plump-faced sexy guy said, “I wrote twelve pages today.” In a DAY?! Typed? No you didn’t, king.
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Watching conservatives attempt moral outrage is so fascinating now that they—very ironically—are the party that has rendered it completely useless as a political tool.
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I really try not to talk much during therapy. I don’t want the therapist to think it’s all about me. You know?
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do I not know what “lowkey” means anymore?
how is homosexuality wrong if a mans gspots lowkey in their ass 😕😕
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writing the weird fiction might also save you.
reading the weird fiction may save your soul
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haven’t seen her on my tl yet so happy international women’s day
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In honor of International Women’s Day, name your favorite quote by a woman.
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When I saw The Iron Claw, the only other people in the theater were a man and woman sitting together behind me and afterwards when I went to the bathroom the man was standing in the stall crying uncontrollably. Hope he’s doing OK and that his brothers know how much he loves them.
hi can anyone recommend a movie that will emotionally destroy me I want to be sobbing uncontrollably and questioning my existence
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what if i hugged u really tight & then gradually loosened my grip & told u ur blood pressure is 130/95
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WHAT in the Ian Fleming. Sometimes when the future arrives it seems too terrifying to be real, and yet—
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remember when every book was called “the waffle maker’s niece” or “the bill collector’s bubby” or “the brain surgeon’s gastroenterologist”
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My nephew has written a book about the midnight zone and the last page is:
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You need to be marmmaxxing. You need to be wearing gingham with your hair in a tight bun. You need to have your glasses perched on the end of your nose
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had that shit on
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