Alex Higley

if it is not glaringly obvious that these people are in chicago to manufacture violence

Future National Sports, by Patrick Cosmos 11 track album

I’ve been offline the last week but I’m glad to hear people enjoyed a photograph somebody else took and shared, of my old idea that I had, for clout. I love that for them. Buy my album veryimportant.lawyer

westland service gas sign, drake, north dakota, 1987

westland service gas sign, drake, north dakota, 1987

Great books all around! Congratulations to @alexhigley.bsky.social and TRUE FAILURE!

thanks @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social! excited to see TRUE FAILURE shortlisted!

animal crackers for breakfast

viking sew and vac center, front, higgins avenue, missoula, montana, 1987

viking sew and vac center, front, higgins avenue, missoula, montana, 1987

This is vibrant and crackling work full of the kind of American talk I most want to read: specific, strange, eerily familiar. I love the oddness and warmth in these stories. Alex Higley, author of True Failure

Advance praise for my collection of short stories THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS (out 11.18 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social) from @alexhigley.bsky.social

davidson building, ellensburg, washington, 1987

davidson building, ellensburg, washington, 1987

SHAGGY: like zoinks, scoob, what're you reading?
SCOOBY: *halfway through underworld* ron rerillo eeheehee

Worst thing to happen to book crit was getting mercilessly synced to pub dates. writer gets 97% of the coverage they're ever getting by the end of week 2, & if the book is widely reviewed (positive or not) in prestige places some of your would-be audience burns out on takes & skips the book itself.

thank you!

Jack Bullion's 5-star Goodreads review of Alex Higley's novel True Failure: There is a chapter late in Alex Higley’s brilliant novel True Failure titled “Mariska” that made me literally sit bolt upright, with an immediate understanding of how thoroughly and profoundly the book had gripped me its thrall. I do not anticipate reading a funnier or better novel in 2025—True Failure is a masterclass in witty chaos, with a pocket universe of characters adrift in Chicago and Los Angeles, all of whom are stumbling through “the shaggy mishap of real life,” unable to resist making choices that are as calamitous as they are inevitable. Higley’s prose, as always, is sharp, funny, and unflinching, and if that wasn’t enough, the novel also boasts one of the most unforgettable depictions of a dog I’ve come across in recent literature. You have to read this book. So does Mariska Hargitay.

I'm convinced that I've just read the best novel of 2025 and it should come as no surprise that @alexhigley.bsky.social wrote it

storybook land park, aberdeen, south dakota, 1987

storybook land park, aberdeen, south dakota, 1987

iced americano at the indoor play place

pretending to like the shirt she got you

rocket drive-in, sweetwater, texas, 1979

rocket drive-in, sweetwater, texas, 1979

outlook autocorrected my name to “Sled”

yei-be-chei dancer signs, kaibab valley trading company, route 64, williams, arizona, 1987

yei-be-chei dancer signs, kaibab valley trading company, route 64, williams, arizona, 1987

Seduction Theory Check out Seduction Theory - <p><b>When two married professors tiptoe toward infidelity, their transgressions are brought to light in a graduate student's searing thesis project.</b> <p/> Simone is th...

happy pub day to @adremily.bsky.social go pick up Seduction Theory!

bookshop.org/p/books/seduction-theory-emily-adrian/22087419?ean=9780316584517&next=t

desiree's resale boutique, glendive, montana, 1987

desiree's resale boutique, glendive, montana, 1987

hanson's hotel site, deposit, new york, 1987

hanson's hotel site, deposit, new york, 1987

If you’re in NYC next week, come to my launch at Books Are Magic! I’ll be in convo with the brilliant Megan Nolan.

www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-e...

hansel and gretel (horizontal), valley view mini-golf, great falls, montana, 1987

hansel and gretel (horizontal), valley view mini-golf, great falls, montana, 1987

shasta drive-in, klamath falls, oregon, 1987

shasta drive-in, klamath falls, oregon, 1987

Milan Polk Reviews Alex Higley — Barrelhouse At the heart of True Failure are silhouettes of young adults today searching for meaning and purpose when milestones seem to elude them.

Today at @barrelhouse.bsky.social, Milan Polk reviews Alex Higley's latest novel, a sharp diagnosis of delayed adulthood, out now from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. Take a look: www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/true-fa...

Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”? Alex Higley’s True Failure, which dramatizes one man’s dream to pitch his business idea on reality TV, slyly compares this bathetic task to publishing literary fiction.

True Failure reviewed in The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

chicks, blackbeard's mini golf, fresno, california, 1987

chicks, blackbeard's mini golf, fresno, california, 1987

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