Kyle Minor : Praying Drunk

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Recorded09 Apr 2014

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The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate lives are woven together within a series of nested repetitions, enacting the struggle to remain physically and […] The post Kyle Minor : Praying Drunk appeared first on Tin House.

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