M Téllez
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Recap on a Mercury Monastery
By all expressed accounts, the Mercury Intensive, my free, impromptu, experimental June-long writing and storytelling workshop, went well. If you recall, I decided I would run my own workshop after getting yet another rejection from a genre writing workshop I had been hoping…
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Monk Reviews Blue-Collar Conservatism by Timothy J. Lombardo
The postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who brought figures like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump to the White House. Blue-Collar Conservatism traces the rise of this little-understood, easily…
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MERCURY INTENSIVE FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP
Seeking participants for a first-time DIY Philly fiction writers workshop series, intensive for the month of June 2021, facilitated by M. Téllez (aka me, check the About if you need more info). If you are interested in participating, READ THIS PAGE and fill…
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Service Appreciation
An old fashioned internet shrine for service expressed through disposable items, mostly bags. @serviceappreciation After tagging a handful of posts with #serviceappreciation on my personal Instagram a couple years ago, I wound up creating a hobby account @serviceappreciation, where every post is a…
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Bookmarked
“This pandemic blows.” I’ve been saying this as a sign off or greeting in many of my short communications lately. Well—lemme get to the news part of this: All orders of my short story collection Transitional Times Transitional Body will now come with…
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Key Concepts of Message Perception + Futurism & Languages of Manipulation
In the summer of 2020 I put together two zines (PDFs & audio below) concerned with discerning propaganda and strengthening media literacy skills ~ how to call bullshit and pick apart media messages by peeping how and why they’re made, in other words.…
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Monk Reviews Demystification #2
A collab between Ambroze Nzams & Paula Martinez. Through the mystery of social networks, I had been mutually following Paula Martinez online for a few years–someone who I never met but seemed cool and was part of a bunch of interesting and fun…
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Monk Reviews the Amphitheater of the Dead by Guy Hocquenghem
Translated by Max Fox About a year or two ago I cooked up a string of words to function as promotional slogan for my work, particularly for my business card and table signage at zine & book fairs: “sci-fi magic smut survivor memoir.”…
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Monk Reviews Portland Diary by Jamie Berrout
The promotional description of this book is good and apt. Portland Diary is a collection of short stories about women faced with impossible situations. Each of the seven narratives unfolds its heightened, speculative version of the impossible everyday reality we find outselves in…
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Monk Reviews Doc and Fluff by Patrick Califia
My copy of this book has a foreword from the author more or less calling critics out over the violence in the book, chiding them to basically get real. I realize many people out there don’t bother to read the forewords or introductions…
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Monk Reviews Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
For years I’ve been told that DHALGREN is an experimental novel, that it’s maybe not the best first book to read by Delany, that lots of people start it but few finish it. I started reading it like seven years ago and then…
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Monk Reviews Future Pleasures edited by Rin Kim
Germantown artist and event planner Malachi Lily was one of the first to submit their incredible squish-slime smut myth The Violet Island during the open call for Venus Saturn Square, and it was through them that I learned of Other Publishing and their…
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