Alvin Lu

CLOSING IN THREE WEEKS!
@alvinlu.bsky.social judges the Sukenick Contest, open to all - awards publication & $3,000 ; Kazim Ali judges the Doctorow Prize, open to those with 3 books previously published in any genre, awards publication & $15,000 ⭐️ Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/

Garielle* 🙏

Always such great curation there.

In Brooklyn, Unnameable Books, between Malcolm Lowry and Canisia Lubrin, with Gabrielle Lutz not too far off.

I have felt this.

They shelved my novel next to some book I never heard of.

i'm biased b/c i'm an editor on this thing, but i really think there's nothing out there like Hellarkey - three editors who, while steeped in horror/weird/scary lit, but we're not really a part of any scene, so we end up casting a wider net and getting stories with a wider (and wilder) perspective

San Francisco's doomed just like LA
San Francisco's doomed all the kids say
San Francisco's doomed it's all in the air
San Francisco's doomed we don't care

—Crime

Portrait of the Author in the Age of Conglomeration - Cleveland Review of Books I now realized that for thirty years I'd had an imaginary Pietsch perched on my shoulder, and as I reworked sentences I kept (unconsciously) turning to him and asking, "How about now? Would you take i...

"I now realized that for thirty years I’d had an imaginary Pietsch perched on my shoulder, and as I reworked sentences I kept (unconsciously) turning to him and asking, 'How about now? Would you take it now?'"

Vince Czyz on publishing & conglomeration

clereviewofbooks.com/the-age-of-c...

Yeah it’s freezing sometimes in August!

Surprisingly, no. It's SF's "summer" season (early fall) and we actually got baseball night-game weather.

San Francisco “summer” night, Giants and Cardinals, upper deck behind home plate, overlooking bay and sunset.

Thank you, Frank!

Check it out!

Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip in Alvin Lu novel The book is about Chinese literary exiles in California. There’s a scandal and a roadtrip as they investigate and look for a mysterious woman who was involved in a murder of one of their friends.

"Everything in this country was understood backward; the more recent the arrival, the more American, the truly exceptional."

If you really wanna hear my voice, I did a 2-minute radio reading of Daydreamers for @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM's "New Arrivals" show. Thank you, Lisa Morehouse!

Today is the release of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

Check out one of these bookstores: double--negative.com/stockists.html

Or buy direct from Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

Thank you! That was fun. Go get a signed copy of one of these books when you visit @citylightsbooks.bsky.social!

TOMORROW ~
SAN FRANCISCO & ONLINE: Register to attend ~ hear from DAYDREAMERS author @alvinlu.bsky.social at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social
citylights.com/events/alvin...

SYRACUSE- head to Patrick Lawler, author of CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTINCT ANIMALS www.lemoyne.edu/event/poetry...

San Francisco: this Wednesday, September 17, 7 p.m.

Me and Stacey Levine will be at City Lights, talking Daydreamers and Mice 1961.

Stuff to do in San Francisco this week #2: This Double Negative event at Et al. Gallery in the Mission with @perfidiousscript.bsky.social @milesklee.bsky.social Mads Gobbo Lucy Corin … I’ll be going

Thursday, September 18, 6 p.m.

www.double--negative.com/003-the-veld...

DOUBLE NEGATIVE presents UNDER THE INFLUENCE A study of the mechanisms and affects of various literatures on the minds of willing subjects. SAM MOSS LUCY CORIN MILES KLEE MADS GOBBO COLIN WINNETTE CHELSEA DAVIS The study will be conducted at Et al. Subjects who participate Gallery, San Francisco, in this study consent to exposure to experimental California on Thursday, September 18 beginning semiotic methods and any psychoactivity they promptly at 6:00pm. might induce. # Double Negative, Et al. Gallery, the authors, and our generous donors and corporate sponsors are not liable if subjects experience phenomena includin, but not limited to the followine anor, borderline situations, corporest iversion constricted orifi, delusions of authorship. elevated diction, fragmented syntax, sender euphoria, habitat distortion heteroglossia, idioglossis, involuntary salivation, jun anomalies, transient nerve activation, tonal Hudity ultraviole: blindness, wave intertorenco, vellow discharco, zero point fictioni

ATTENTION SAN FRANCISCANS: Mads and I are taking our book on the road to visit your storied city of fog and burritos. We have an incredible lineup of literary superstars for a reading on Sept. 18 at Et al. Gallery in the Mission. All Bay Area baddies are encouraged to attend!

Stuff to do in San Francisco this week #1: me and Stacey Levine hanging out at the border of Chinatown and North Beach at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, talking Daydreamers and Mice 1961.

Wednesday, September 17, 7 p.m.

citylights.com/events/alvin...

Cover images of Daydreamers, a novel by Alvin Lu, and The Secret Lives of Public Servants, by Anne Levesque

Home after a 3800km Nova Scotia and back road trip to some accrued bookmail...some Shakespeare criticism as well as these two novels, (L) by @alvinlu.bsky.social and (R) from @galleon-books.bsky.social

"As with other fragments 'literally torn from Fung’s published works', my father had probably considered Scotch taping them to the manuscript he later titled Daydreamers, but then thought better of it. ... I present them here as a kind of outtake or appendix."

Now on the blog, a DAYDREAMERS "outtake" from @alvinlu.bsky.social, who is also our 2026 Sukenick Contest final judge: fc2.org/daydreamers-...

Contests are open until November 1st: fc2.org/prizes/

Next Wednesday, 2 readings, 2 Coasts!

~SYRACUSE: catch Patrick Lawler, author of CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTINCT ANIMALS at Lemoyne www.lemoyne.edu/event/poetry...

~SAN FRANCISCO, & on ZOOM: catch @alvinlu.bsky.social author of DAYDREAMERS at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social citylights.com/events/alvin...

🖤 Very happy to hear that! You've written a great book (& more than one).

Ah, lists. What I came up with for my Top 5 Books. @israelbonilla.bsky.social @nateknapp.bsky.social @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social

This is so nice to hear. Still a great, uncompromising selection of books, too.

Nice evening to drift around North Beach and Chinatown and drop by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, where copies of Daydreamers are on the shelf.