Austin Adams

"Tabs" by Austin Adams is about now, like right now. He pins it in the way he pins lost causes and end of days elsewhere. The thread through all of it is work that somehow seems to know exactly what it's doing at any given moment, with all the tricks of fiction, words, flow, and shape.

Our Spring 2025 Issue is OUT NOW! Featuring incredible works of eco-writing and translation by emerging and established writers. Read now at the link in our bio!

“I read the news. Everyone does, one way or another, if you’re generous enough with those words. I knew once, something true. But it was a song, and it wasn’t catchy. Who can remember now how it goes?”

Tabs | Issue 32 By Austin Adams — "The revealed and ultimate truth began, as all things do, on the internet.James, who’s changing his name to Rick, read that neuroscientists at Cal-Tech— 'Western,' Pam corrects."

"Everyone looks so strange nowadays, or else they don’t, which is its own decision. One of them had had a kid, and it grew or it died. Something significant had happened, which we don’t say about the ferocious enigma of time’s simple passing."

New story up today.

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Be sure to check out this issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com , which has pieces by two Dodge contributors and is guest edited by a third! @adamsorardor.bsky.social @ianmacclayn.bsky.social @alvinlu.bsky.social

I have a new story in this issue about attention, distraction, how rattled our thoughts are and how alienated we feel from the people around us. It's funny, I swear.

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My friends say I’m totally / intellectually promiscuous which is the footnote to being / so empty that intellectual masturbation begins / to fail regularly.

GLENN GOULD'S FAVORITE COLOR WAS 'BATTLESHIP GREY' by @alinaetc.bsky.social

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I have a new story in this issue about attention, distraction, how rattled our thoughts are and how alienated we feel from the people around us. It's funny, I swear.

yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/

Special thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social who guest edited the prose section of this issue.

Tabs | Issue 32 By Austin Adams — "The revealed and ultimate truth began, as all things do, on the internet.James, who’s changing his name to Rick, read that neuroscientists at Cal-Tech— 'Western,' Pam corrects."

"Everyone looks so strange nowadays, or else they don’t, which is its own decision. One of them had had a kid, and it grew or it died. Something significant had happened, which we don’t say about the ferocious enigma of time’s simple passing."

New story up today.

yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/

Your Impossible Voice #32 | Spring 2025 Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, Molara Wood, Khalil AbuSharekh, Ian MacClayn, Karen An-hwei Lee, Austin Adams, Eric T. Racher, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan, Steve Barba...

It's here. Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, @molarawood.bsky.social, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, @ianmacclayn.bsky.social, Karen An-hwei Lee, @adamsorardor.bsky.social, @ericracher.bsky.social, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan...

against the fleeing to europe industrial complex a brief polemic

wrote about a genre of essay i really hate: the rich people who weaponize political fear to sell you a dream of european emigration no one but them can afford www.late-review.com/p/against-th...

Book cover of Alina Stefanesco's book My Heresies. A pink cover with an image of a cut off tongue with a ring around it.

Let's close ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with another great book ✨Contributor @alinaetc.bsky.social book MY HERESIES was published by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social ! Find this poetry collection of the sacred and the familial here: buff.ly/zXPhjG6

Rainy Friday night, closing the bookstore by myself, listening to a forgotten slowcore band for whom I might be the top listener on earth. This is what it’s all about

...and reaching down into the water, he will eventually find, among the other crude elements, a seam hidden from his companions, and pulling on that, he will unravel the earth itself.

Harold Bloom: this exquisite tiramisu owes a rather obvious debt to Shakespeare

You know who always believed in your dreams? Freud.

Alina Stefanescu: "Daydreamers (@fictioncollective2.bsky.social) promises another journey with Alvin Lu, who has an extraordinary capacity to build worlds that unseat order and genre simultaneously. I look forward to being unseated, blurred, and bewildered by this one."

Old World, New World — Addison Zeller “…it matters not if you elude my arms, my heart, when my thought alone can imprison you.” — Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (tr. Edith Grossman) I. Teotihuacan An empty grid with stone jaguars. Use…

Still my favorite thing I’ve written, so I guess why the hell not share it again

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Anytime you recommend someone, I look them up.

Both: it's Malört.

Excerpt from Mice 1961 by Stacey Levine Sherrie Gagel pushed through the throng toward the head branch librarian, declaring with a patchy pant: “May I ask you something Miss Stroke? I’ve wanted to for ages.”

Congratulations to the incomparable Stacey Levine, whose novel Mice 1961 was a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize! We were fortunate enough to publish an excerpt back in issue 27. Pick yourself up a copy today! bit.ly/4jMhUmI

Like This or Die, by Christian Lorentzen The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

Good piece, well worth rereading

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Hey thanks!

Loved "Contributions to the Terror".

One of the best books I’ve read this year is Austin's unpublished manuscript excerpted in @minorliteratures.bsky.social, below. (Another is Nathan Knapp’s Daybook. Not sure what they’re feeding those boys in Nashville.)

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"They were told ‘this is a goddess,’ and they hated her, but for the most part, they just said ‘okay.’ And it isn’t as though this goddess appeared to them. No one had visions of her."

If you haven't yet, or if you wish to again, read this masterful work from @adamsorardor.bsky.social

I'm down.

Have you been sentenced to die? If Judgement Day arrives by degrees, over decades, would you notice the incremental impacts of that verdict? What is Nature? I can picture the life of a cow, but the life of a plant?

New story out today with @thedodgemag.bsky.social.

www.thedodgemag.com/austinadams1

If they are, then they seem to be failing.