xTx

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"Normally Special is like a diary, but it's not the kind of diary you would keep writing for years. It's the kind of diary you would burn after one entry."
12/09/2011
xTx’s Normally Special is a collection of the painful stories women tell themselves to make it OK for the stories to have happened in the first place. Each story is an open secret. The kind strangers will read right off your face. When I was little, I begged my parents to buy me a diary.…
• Book: Normally Special
• Author: xTx
• Publisher: Tiny Hardcore Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Casey Hannan
Casey Hannan writes stories in Kansas City. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, wigleaf, Hobart and Annalemma. He accounts for his time at casey-hannan.com.
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"I’d want my sweat to show you what it means. I would like the cramp of each of my muscles, and the withering of my fat, and the grind of my bones, and the blisters of sunburn to show you how I strived."
11/13/2011
– xTx, “Because I Am Not a Monster” I cajoled my way into this write-up; my self-promotional skills are both effective and shameless. I wanted to write about Normally Special, the short story collection by xTx. When granted to me after much cajoling [re: harassment], I stalled, contemplating the task. I dislike book reviews which…
• Book: Normally Special
• Author: xTx
• Publisher: Tiny Hardcore Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:mensah demary
mensah demary is co-founder & editor-in-chief of Specter Literary Magazine. a regular contributor for PANK Magazine’s blog, Hippocampus Magazine, ArtFaccia, and Peripheral Surveys, mensah currently writes in Camden, New Jersey.
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On xTx’s Normally Special
11/02/2011
Some books are a surprise. Some books come at you like a bullet out of nowhere striking through some core part of your brain where you store vital information. Vital feelings. Normally Special by xTx is one such case. For whatever reason it took me a while to get sucked into the universe of xTx.…
• Book: Normally Special
• Author: xTx
• Publisher: Tiny Hardcore Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Ryan W. Bradley
Ryan W. Bradley has fronted a punk band, done construction in the Arctic Circle, and managed an independent children's bookstore. He is now a freelance book designer.
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And Then I Read Normally Special & Knew I Feel Fucked Being A Girl Or The Legend of xTx
10/18/2011
“I’m a mess. Dirty, like he said. I’m feeling every bit of being a woman. I resent the weakness of my sex.” From Normally Special by xTx. Where would you like to begin? With the good news or bad? Bad news is more girls have read Twilight than Normally Special. Good news is if you’re…
• Book: Normally Special
• Author: xTx
• Publisher: Tiny Hardcore Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Alana Noel Voth
Alana Noel Voth never writes on a full stomach. Her first book, Fall, is forthcoming from Tiny Hardcore Press in 2012.
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Q&A with xTx
10/13/2011
Where did the name xTx come from? It is a shortened form of a longer name I used to blog under. It is the alphabetic version of a dick and balls. It is the stupidest pseudonym ever. It is a fortunate mistake. It is a shield. Why do you call your pen name a “fortunate…
• Book: Normally Special
• Author: xTx
• Publisher: Tiny Hardcore Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Alana Noel Voth
Alana Noel Voth never writes on a full stomach. Her first book, Fall, is forthcoming from Tiny Hardcore Press in 2012.
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Sugar Evil
10/08/2011
When I was a little girl, my father told me many times that he believed there was true evil in the world. It wasn’t until years later that I fully understood him, that I knew people could be evil, would be evil, would do evil things. The backbone of xTx’s “The Mill Pond,” a story…
• Book: Normally Special
• Author: xTx
• Publisher: Tiny Hardcore Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Sarah Rose Etter
Sarah Rose Etter's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Black Warrior Review, elimae, The Collagist and more. Her chapbook, Tongue Party, is available from Caketrain.
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xTx Is Not a Real Person but ___ _____ Is Not a Real Writer (Yet)
09/22/2011
xTx likes to send me all the great reviews of her book and I yawn, mostly. She thinks I do that because I am not supportive, but it is because nobody is going to tell me something I already know about Normally Special, a book that I am deeply invested in. Disclaimers: I read early…
• Book: Normally Special
• Author: xTx
• Publisher: Tiny Hardcore Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Robb Todd
Robb Todd lives in New York City and has never seen a pigeon walk backwards.
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xTx is not a nun.
09/04/2011
When I first started getting to know xTx, I thought she was a nun. There had to be a powerful reason why she wouldn’t put her name to her writing. Service to God seemed like a reasonable explanation. xTx is not a nun. I don’t care who xTx really is. Her pseudonym is the least…
• Book: Normally Special
• Author: xTx
• Publisher: Tiny Hardcore Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Roxane Gay
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