Comments on: The Passionate Male Prostitute: Blake Butler’s “The Ruined Child,” as Remixed by Blake Butler

By: Jensen Smackles

Jensen Smackles — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:55:11 +0000

Reading this I’m baffled as to why the guy gets the slavish devotion he does. Exceptionally awful.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:17:42 +0000

Man, people really be hating on Blake. What gives? Dude gets a book contract and becomes a pariah?

Also, I would like to point out that I (Mike, Barrelhouse editor) am not the above Mike (angry malcontent).

By: Joseph Jensen

Joseph Jensen — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:23:05 +0000

Tripe, unreadable tripe…

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:26:37 +0000

I’ve run across a few of Mr. Butler’s pieces recently, and underneath the verbose, trying prose there may be a decent story or two. Unfortunately, instead of focusing on story or even cadence he chose to adopt stock “showiness” and “hipness.”

In addition, I’ve run across Mr. Butler’s contributions to a forum where editors bash potential contributors. Inane and even cruel. Enough from this crowd of hipsters.

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By: johnstevens

johnstevens — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:36:33 +0000

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