Alvin Lu

Excited to announce the publication of my novel, The Hollow of Evening, with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines in Winter 2027.

Gratitude to Akin Akinwumi and Meghan MacDonald of the press, as well as to the journals, editors, and organizations that have supported my writing through the years.

"Over the past week I could feel myself slowing down, hesitating to pick back up @alvinlu.bsky.social's DAYDREAMERS. Not because of disinterest but because I didn’t want it to end. I wanted to savor it."

Read the full review! frankgarrett.online/2026/01/lite...

i've said here before that karen an-hwei lee is a legit Genius and nobody else has a Writerly Brain that operates like hers and i cannot wait for her 2026 novel because it feels delightfully impossible to guess what it may contain *and* it comes with a k-ming chang stamp of approval!!

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Literary Burdens - Instead of the monumental "Who Am I," Lu refracts identity to show how we are as much the small hopes we have for our children as the faded memories we have of a distant home. Or the rumors we try to ...

“Instead of the monumental ‘Who Am I,’ Lu refracts identity to show how we are as much the small hopes we have for our children as the faded memories we have of a distant home. Or the rumors we try to outrun.” Easily one of the most pleasurable reads in quite a while.

Marimo, Mon Amour, new from Karen An-hwei Lee, coming September:

"What starts off as a plague journal narrated by a chibi Rabelais becomes by way of limitless lists, alliteration, and logophilia something darker and more serious, a meditation on meaning, death, and God in the manner of Donne."

Afterword — [name of author] A one-word inquiry Reader discovers on a notesheet, its meaning now lost to him completely: Dead?                             *             *             *             *             *  …

Afterword — @nameofauthor.bsky.social

@incastellated.bsky.social

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Ignoring Poetic Schools: Premeditations by Klipschutz | Your Impossible Voice Review by Art Beck — This book has been out for a half dozen years and was well received for a small press volume. But I just came across it a few weeks ago and was so happy to read it that I feel com...

"This book has been out for a half dozen years and was well received for a small press volume. But I just came across it a few weeks ago and was so happy to read it that I feel compelled to publicly respond with my thanks to the one-named San Francisco poet, Klipschutz."

Compelling review of @alvinlu.bsky.social's DAYDREAMERS in Taipei Times: taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

Get your copy: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...

Streetlights — Sharon Xuanling Zhang This year, I’m getting rid of everything that doesn’t serve me. E.g. after I graduated, I chucked all my shit into this big polyester bag then burnt it on the beach in Coolangatta, my hand chewing …

Streetlights — Sharon Xuanling Zhang

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Recommended: The Cavalier, Nathalie Quintane, translated by Jonathan Larson (Winter Editions, 2025)

Indescribable prose, in an indeterminate genre.

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Recommended: The Cavalier, Nathalie Quintane, translated by Jonathan Larson (Winter Editions, 2025)

Indescribable prose, in an indeterminate genre.

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Pretty cool to hear you read from this (twice!), but the whole book is somethin’ else. And now I get to experience the ongoing reverberations …

Recommended:

The Veldt Institute, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social (Double Negative, 2025)

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Excellent review of the novel, which I just finished. Complex and counterintuitive, it made me backtrack to get my bearings, but revealed itself as compulsive reading — especially in its second half, when disparate narrative threads begin to bind

So great to hear the book hitting just the way it’s supposed to! Thank you for reading, Jeremy.

Book review: Lost in translation: The hazy clarity of a daydream - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Nicely engaged review of Daydreamers by James Baron, writing for Taipei Times.

"Flaubert’s aphorism that truth is essentially perception, neatly captures the essence of this novel—a work of ideas that, as with so much great art, leaves us with more questions than answers."

Thank you for reading!

In stack form, echoing the ones that I been able to read and was happier for it. (Thread)

Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press)

Alvin Lu, Daydreamers (FC2)

2026, spending more time with friends

(Tr. @unpaginated.bsky.social &
Daniel Elkind)

Alvin Lu, Daydreamers (2025)

"There was something unreal about people who did just what they set out to do, with no obligation to the past or the future. Everything in this country was understood backward; the more recent the arrival, the more American, the truly exceptional."

2025 in 99 books. — alina Ştefănescu Regardez-moi bien! Je suis idiot, je suis un farceur, je suis un fumiste. Regardez-moi bien! Je suis laid, mon visage n’a pas d’expression, je suis petit. Je suis comme vous tous!’ — Tristan Tzara, ...

Well I made a list of books I couldn't forget this year... and left a few off (which means I will open the new year with another list! like a dog! ) nevertheless I'm leaving this here for those who love books and living like dawgs in the mind of Kafka!

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...

Grant Maierhofer’s Hidden World might be tops this year for me. Fully realized and funny rewiring of the formal elements of the novel that operates throughout in the register of the sublime. Moby-Dick of UFOs.

Excerpt from Another Place by Addy Evenson: Two months ago, a man she had never seen before promised her his life. He coaxed her behind the back shed and undid her tulle dress. “You ever think about touchin’ ‘em?” he asked. “What?” “Their bodies.”

Guest editor @alvinlu.bsky.social said it best when he described Another Place by Addy Evenson as "a perfect and poisonous dose of Southern Gothic." What more do you need to know? bit.ly/492zcZE

Excerpt from Point of Comparison by Addison Zeller: Of the lawn, a photograph exists, dated more than a century ago. The size of the camera has reduced over time, but at the date of the photo, it was still clumsy and large, the lens still projecting from a kind of foliated snout, and the face behind it still obscured by funereal drapery.

Delighted to have @addisonzeller.bsky.social back in our latest issue with not one but two micros! bit.ly/4pqfUmR #flashfiction

Biking by night past the Victorians with the Christmas trees lit inside.

Which one? I’m not sure if they fit your criteria—they were just hard to read!