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There are plenty worse things you can be in fascist times than the cold unyielding tr*nny in the group chat, is my mantra today

BOMB Magazine NONFICTION A Novel's Hidden Diary: Writing Exhibit Process journal: Seven years of notes BY R.O. KWON NOVEMBER 26, 2024

7.20.16 Idon’t quite know what this new book is, who these people might be, or where it’s going, but I imagine it might also be true that, if I knew, I’d be too bored to keep going. So I hope, and I hack through thick leaves. I began Exhibit in 2014, and, until 2017, worked on it when I wasn’t editing my first novel. Starting in 2017, my fiction-writing time went to just Exhibit. 11.17.16 Last week’s election left us brokenhearted and afraid. I keep forcing myself to take deep inhales. It helps a little. What will become of us? I want to be a better person; I would like to be less selfish. I’ve made resolutions about how I’ll use my time. Will they keep? Will I grow up at last? 4.10.17 Each month that goes past, since the elections: flicker of surprise, we’re not yet all dead. Last night, I finished typing out notes for the second novel. I think I’m starting to see where it’s going, what it hopes to be.

while writing Exhibit, I also kept a process journal, writing notes to myself & maybe to the novel about the attendant thoughts, feelings, terrors, joys, anxieties

& now it’s out!, thank you to @bombmag.bsky.social for publishing this 🖤

003: Girlbots I Part one of two on The Ginny Suite, the TESCREAL bundle, “Serial Experiments Lain” and other cyberfeminist considerations.

wrote a two-part essay about feminization + digitization, cyberfeminism, the TESCREAL bundle, and Serial Experiments Lain and The Ginny Suite 💌

Which four of y'all will move my ridiculous novel about online transsexuals who make ZZT games and have intricately messy feelings toward one another to the front of store display sohopress.com/books/a-s-l/

can’t wait to hear ur thoughts 🥹🫶

1 Hot Girls with Balls ARC placed atop 2 horizontal copies facing opposite directions. The cover has a bright purple background, two blue orbs with pink borders, and a white net and shadow below the title ‘Hot Girls with Balls’ in green Arial font with ‘a novel’ and ‘Benedict Nguyễn’ in white Arial font. a white box in upper right corner has Catapult logo (swirl of 7 pages) with text ‘Advanced Reading Copy / On Sale July 2025’

ARCs of my debut novel 🏐 HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS 🏐 🥹😮‍💨

media ppl, booksellers, etc. DM me if you wanna make our star-crossed lady jocks Six and Green famous and we’ll send!

everyone else, preorder / request, etc. and be patient 💅 my deeply super serious 🤭 satire is out 7/1/25 from @catapult.co #DYHTB

The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.

THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊

Ok! My memoir, DIRTY KITCHEN, is out May 6, 2025 w One Signal/Simon&Schuster. It’s on 22 years undocumented in the US, and what happens to kids like me when we fall through the cracks and survive (spoiler: I get angry and write a book). Pre-order: tinyurl.com/damatac. Read my Author’s Note:

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Looking forward to lots of these listed, as well as Hot Girls with Balls by @xbennyboo.bsky.social - out July 2025 from @catapult.co

Winter 2025: *Dean Spade, Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together, Jan 2025 *Edgar Gomez, Alligator Tears (memoir in essays), Feb 11 Emily St. James, Woodworking (novel), March 4 *Torrey Peters, Stag Dance (a novel + 3 novellas), March 11 Spring 2025: Jamie Hood, Trauma Plot (nonfiction), March 25 Vivian Blaxell, Worthy of the Event (essay), April Anton Solomonik, Realistic Fiction (short stories), April Jeanne Thornton, A/S/L (novel), April 1 Aurora Mattia, Unsex Me Here (fiction), April 1 Andrea Long Chu, Authority (essays), April 8 *Denne Michele Norris, When the Harvest Comes (debut novel), April 15 Issac Fellman, Notes from a Regicide (novel), April 15 *Niko Stratis, The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman (memoir in essays), May 6 Mac Crane, A Sharp Endless Need (novel), May 13 Harron Walker, Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman (essays), May 20

Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :)

Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)

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that was absolutely the goal 🤞

🏐serving🏐 my debut novel HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS 7/1/25 @catapult.co - available now for pre-order :)

BOMB Magazine | Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker's The Stroll A new documentary shares the stories of Black trans sex workers in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district during the 1980s and ’90s.

wrote about the documentary THE STROLL, Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s incisive intervention in the co-opted history of Meatpacking District — for BOMB Magazine’s 165th issue! in print! ty editor Sophie Kovel <3

bombmagazine.org/articles/the...

i get why it's useful but I feel like p*rtiful has got to go :/

i started looking at applications for the @tinhouse.bsky.social winter workshops today & i'm already so delighted + excited by the stories i've been reading :,) you still have a day to apply!!

Author of THE INCENDIARIES and co-editor of KINK R.O. Kwon's EXHIBIT, about a brilliant photographer drawn to a glamorous world-class ballerina first by intense artistic drives and then shared bodily desires, while grappling with what might be a curse threatening death and ruin, to Laura Perciasepe at Riverhead, by Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group (NA).

some news: I wrote a novel, EXHIBIT, & it will publish in May ‘24! I started working on it in ‘15 & its obsessions include art, sex, ambition, curses, Korean mythologies, & generations-old revenge, also the book is very queer

People are so proud of their relationship to time. I think that’s charming. And very funny. Like, oh good for you, Father Time kisses you on the forehead and tucks you in every night? That’s so cool, man.

My head is still spinning over this one!

"The Exorsister," my story about a plague of demonic possessions and messy queer sisterhood, is the feature for the August issue of “One Story!”

You know you want to buy a copy of this greenpea-soup-colored beauty!

a taurus called me an interior design icon 🥹 there is no higher compliment 🥹

"I just need a bit of melancholy on top of it thoug-" YOU ARE ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL WHILE THIS EXISTS CHUMPELSTILTSKINS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlFMVzo9zuE

this barbie thought the white girlboss movie was predictably itself!!

Do you like stories? Stories about Millennials? Stories about aunties? Stories about wine? Angst? Old secrets? Have I got a book for you (to preorder):

earnestly using 6 desktops on my little m*c to organize all my little projects and deadlines 😩 babes my brain is so busted

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