Adrian Van Young

Hey, everyone. Your favorite New Orleans eccentrics are moving to Paris for 5 months--hopefully longer!--at the end of January, where brilliant spouse Darcy has nabbed a research fellowship connected to her PhD. A bientot, mes ami!

Behold! Cover reveal for my black metal crime novel, ROUGH BEAST, slouching towards Bethlehem to be born from @blacklawrence.bsky.social in October 2026.

(Photo credit by photographer extraordinaire, @peterbeste.bsky.social )

(Black metal font design courtesy of Alexander Jackson.)

Behold! Cover reveal for my black metal crime novel, ROUGH BEAST, slouching towards Bethlehem to be born from @blacklawrence.bsky.social in October 2026.

(Photo credit by photographer extraordinaire, @peterbeste.bsky.social )

(Black metal font design courtesy of Alexander Jackson.)

Mona Awad's BUNNY: loved parts, didn't care for others. But I'll admit it does linger pleasantly in the mind. More fairy tale-inflected dark academia, please!

I also dug how directly it seems to channel Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman.

At the Edge of the Known | Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath By Adrian Van Young

I reviewed Ana Paula Maia's novel On Earth As It Is Beneath for @southwestreview.bsky.social. Read it here: southwestreview.com/at-the-edge-...

The President | Adrian Van Young Another promenade, my dove—

New Orleans, 1872. The Pontalba Apartments. Ophelia Mundt is a Confederate widow who just may be having a late-in-life affair—with a statue.

The President | Adrian Van Young Another promenade, my dove—

“And just like that, so long and sweet, the president bends down to her level, the chill of his lips finding hers in the dark as his knee comes up between her thighs, and she strains to wrap her arms around him, saber and epaulettes, coattails and—”

The President | Adrian Van Young Another promenade, my dove—

“It is so undeniable, bronze against flesh, that when she wakes the feeling lingers.” New fiction from Adrian Van Young is on our site now:

The President | Adrian Van Young Another promenade, my dove—

Delighted to usher you back into the Halloween grimoire with this brand new tale out today in @thebaffler.com: "The President." It's about a Confederate widow with dementia who has an affair with an Andrew Jackson statue. Happy creeps!

thebaffler.com/fiction/the-...

While it's a very clever inversion of American Psycho, and also kind of its own thing, it didn't always hit for me at the same depth as the "source material." But damn, is this book WICKEDLY funny at times, especially to a sick twist like me, I guess. I LOL'd all the way to the churchyard!

Pet Semetary & Dark Half are my runners up....

1. Shining; 2. Misery; 3. IT Part I; 4. The Dead Zone; and 5. Carrie.

Feels like the only thing scarier this year than finding out the CW NEA was cancelled would be GETTING an NEA. 👀

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Writers & educators of New Orleans! Check out poet-teacher wunderkind @bradrichard.bsky.social 's new suite of curricular & manuscript consultation services on his newly revamped website. Definitely vouch for this altogether capable & brilliant human, who you shan't regret working with....

Training Day

I AGREE!

Hey @thelincoln.bsky.social ‘s METALLIC REALMS is smart, funny, and thrilling. Highly recommended

Stephen, I really can't emphasize enough how much I admired this book. Unlike anything I've ever read. I will be recommending it to everyone!

Afternoon beer visiting the in laws in NM with @sgj.bsky.social The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Simply stunning! One of the freshest and most gorgeously written vampire stories I’ve ever read...

@anyagroner.bsky.social !

Thank you, Thomas! Nice to know you.

Delighted to let you know that my New Orleans black metal crime novel, ROUGH BEAST, will be published with steadfast & marvelous @blacklawrence.bsky.social in October 2026!!

This will be my fourth book, my third with BLP, and I couldn't be happier about it.