{"id":952,"date":"2005-12-01T03:27:20","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T01:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=952"},"modified":"2005-12-01T03:27:20","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T01:27:20","slug":"underground-literary-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/01\/underground-literary-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground Literary Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know that most of the folks who read this aren’t American… but if any of you follow American literature for what ever reason and find it wanting… it’s worth knowing that there is a group that is resisting the mainstream not just by producing its own work, but by doing the occassional protest and bellicose hollering at the tyrants of American lit.<\/p>\n

We’re a bit grumpy.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m one of the 30-something members around the states… recently inducted. Go me. We are working on kicking up a few particular storms in coming days, but I thought I’d promote a little something I’ve started doing on the site in South Africa before I really start talking about it in the states too much. I’m going to start running a weekly homily, or public prayer, on the site. These homilies will be humorous commentaries, but they are genuine prayers as well. They are audio files recorded with an old Compaq Ipaq.<\/p>\n

Here’s the first<\/a>.
\nAnd the second<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The third will be out next Wednesday. I promise it will make you laugh… though it will also be rather crass. The fourth is already recorded… in it, I’ll actually touch on literature for the first time. <\/p>\n

I also highly recommend checking out the ULA’s Monday Report Box<\/a> and other fine ULA writing.<\/p>\n

The ULA’s leader and founder, King Wenclas, has the fine distinction of running the most threatening and hated blog in literature. Check it out!<\/a> Get scared!<\/p>\n

From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
\nBrady Russell
\nUnderground Literary Alliance
\nRank-and-file<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know that most of the folks who read this aren’t American… but if any of you follow American literature for what ever reason and find it wanting… it’s worth knowing that there is a group that is resisting the mainstream not just by producing its own work, but by doing the occassional protest and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,15,4,9,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-brady-dale","category-news-and-politics","category-pop-culture","category-thando"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-fm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":407,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/consular\/","url_meta":{"origin":952,"position":0},"title":"consular","author":"nathaniel","date":"20 August 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Ismail Mahomed and Mary Jeffers, from the Public Affairs office of the American Consulate here in Johannesburg. 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