TJ Fuller

It’s fantastic. Highly recommend.

HIDDEN RIVER novel "Lippmann writes like no other" - Paula Bomer, author of The Stalker SARA LIPPMANN

Coming at you in May 👀@tortoisebooks.bsky.social

Neon Citadel Title: Neon CitadelAuthor: Greg Leunig COMING JANUARY 2026Barnes & NobleAmazon Nagash “Gash” Jensen can’t remember the last time he caught a break. But ever since accidentally…

My third book, Neon Citadel, is now available for pre-order!!

Want to support an amazing small press called Spaceboy Books, or a small-time author with big dreams? Please consider spreading the word to folks you know who might love cyberpunk/fantasy fusion.

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Fresh Dirt From the Grave by Giovanna Rivero was translated in 23 and is full of haunting, visceral stories.

A tremendously stupid, short-sighted decision by the Chicago Tribune that's immeasurably damaging to the city's cultural voice.

Michael, as everyone knows, is the best.

Pssst. If you type the word Warehouse in the discount code, you'll get 35% off of everything (until the end of June). Including the newest by Evan Nicholls. And other classics from @parkeryoung.bsky.social @dieddisappointed.bsky.social @gkhudson.bsky.social @tatianaryckman.bsky.social & more. 🔥

American novelist, short story writer, and essayist Stanley Elkin.

‘Stanley Elkin, 65, Writer of Stylish Fiction,’ by William Grimes. June 2, 1995. NY Times.

‘Stanley Elkin, 65, Writer of Stylish Fiction,’ by William Grimes. June 2, 1995. NY Times.

‘Stanley Elkin, 65, Writer of Stylish Fiction,’ by William Grimes. June 2, 1995. NY Times.

‘I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.’

Today marks the birthday of American novelist, short story writer, and essayist Stanley Elkin. Born May 11, 1930 in New York City.

they're making Teenjus....

Picture shows LJ Pemberton’s novel, STILL ALIVE. Cover has a red cat skull on a yellow background with a green block on the lower right overlayed with severed monkey hands. Lower right is a pink block with LJ Pemberton and Still Alive in script. ****Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award**** ****Named a MUST-READ book by the INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW (2024)**** A hero's journey through a dying empire. On the Road for a beaten generation. After V meets Lex, a butch painter, at an underground punk show, they enter a multi-year relationship that ranges from Portland, Oregon, to New York City, and finally Los Angeles, with V's family of origin ever interjecting with dysfunction and neediness. Her brother has retreated into a hodgepodge of Eastern religiosity and their mother's addictions are worsening. Meanwhile her father is busy building a new family, as sunny as V's childhood was grim. Leroy, V's gay best friend, has chosen rural peace, but V can't find the same satisfaction - anywhere. Ever in search of love, meaning, and temp work, V hurtles across the US, resisting the store-bought narratives of mainstream life to create a freedom all her own. With heady pacing, a recursive structure, and sharp prose, STILL ALIVE renders the much-maligned adult millennial experience with affection and profundity. In this story, as in life, there's no cure for living. “This is what it's like when someone else's truth reads like your own. This is what it's like to feel less alone." —Guillermo Stitch, author of Lake of Urine "This is a book for wanderers and searchers, a love story with all of the attendant cliches wadded into a ball and tossed overboard. LJ Pemberton has written a quarter-life raft for the dissatisfied and unmoored. Still Alive is punch-drunk and furious, listless and wondrous, brilliantly funny and sexy as hell. I devoured it." —Hilary Leichter, author of Temporary and Terrace Story

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Terese Svoboda Old God Ah, to be old and rage uncontrollably, to command the sun and moon to stop and yet be treated like a dog, house training at ten and two or we'll weight your walker. Flatline the sun goes daily, and the dog howls anyway. I read where men's bodies can be made twenty years younger, only men's-we're so simple. I totter toward a diamond of yellow light, where the same geese snatch bread ad nauseam. No one wants to see them past their prime they fly elsewhere for their duplicate unsexed deaths. Why feed them? I parade, leg by leg, back to my barracks, my rage rising over a horizon of sleeping nieces. Weep, wombs, for what you hold is not yourself, over and over.

This poem by @tsvoboda.bsky.social from the @parisreview.bsky.social archives today. 🖤

East of a City by Garielle Lutz — Terrazzo Editions Garielle Lutz's books include Backwardness (Short Flight/Long Drive Books), Worsted (Calamari Archive), and The Complete Gary Lutz (Tyrant Books).

New, vivid @garielle.bsky.social at the wonderful Terrazzo Editions magazine: “She always comes back thinner, tenser, rummaged-looking, heart astagger, huskier of voice, angled differently in what she feels.” www.terrazzoeditions.com/terrazzomag/...

"Awe and wonder for the savage and beautiful life around me. I'm drop-jawed like an idiot, and delighted. Unknown and hidden, ambitious tissue. I tell my students it's living tissue we are wanting on the page. The rest is nonsense." —Barry Hannah

American novelist and short story writer Barry Hannah.

‘Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67,’ by William Grimes. March 3, 2010. NY Times.

‘Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67,’ by William Grimes. March 3, 2010. NY Times.

‘Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67,’ by William Grimes. March 3, 2010. NY Times.

‘The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.’

Today marks the birthday of American novelist and short story writer Barry Hannah. Born April 23, 1942 in Meridian, Mississippi.

TBQ is open! Y'all are bringing it so far. We've received around 200 pieces overnight and I've read about 20 of them so far and already marked five as intrigued! Live más. Send us something. We now pay $150. I'm certain it will slow down but try to get your piece in by the next two weeks lol

“The milk to my Chardonnay” is the bar of the year

That’s great! Congrats!

The POV in Keith Ridgway’s Hawthorn & Child is brain rearranging. I think of it often.

Issue 11 is live. Thank you to all who helped and the great writers and the translator featured. socratesonthebeach.com

Oxford word of the year better be teenjus

Hell yeah. I’ve found a few stories on some websites but I’d love to read some cover to cover.

a man wearing headphones is standing in front of a door that has a sign on it that says no smoking ALT: a man wearing headphones is standing in front of a door that has a sign on it that says no smoking

Excited to finally publish something new - a story up today at Gina Nutt’s great Terrazzo Mag: www.terrazzoeditions.com/terrazzomag/...

old story, new life. thank you @fracturedlit.bsky.social

A floral flier on a dark background announcing that Black Lily is now reading for Issue 3, which we hope to publish around the summer solstice. Submission guidelines: please send up to 5 poems, up to 3 micros/flashes/hybrids max 1,000 words total, one story or essay up to 2,500 words, and up to 5 pieces of visual art as an attachment (.docx, google docs, PDFs are prob best) with a short bio to blacklilyzine@gmail.com. Swipe through for more ideas of what @morgan.bridges & I are looking for. Stay tuned to meet our new readers & what they’d like to see in the queue as well. And hey, if you haven’t ordered either issue, you might want to see what we’re all about. $8 each or both for $14 (+ shipping which is usually around $4.15 for media mail).

Cryptid Summer by Emily Costa The Mystic Pigman is barely special. No clear eyewitness accounts, no police record. The story is he killed one woman while wearing a pig’s head and then escaped capture. We weren’t even sure if pig’s...

"The story is he killed one woman while wearing a pig’s head and then escaped capture. We weren’t even sure if pig’s head meant rubber mask or hollowed-out flesh." 🐷🔪

So stoked to launch Pool Party Mag w/ CRYPTID SUMMER by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social! So good!!🔥🌭🔥

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Text-based graphic reading "January 1st, 2025. Conium Press manuscript submissions are officially open."

New year, new reading period! CONIUM is open through the end of Feb., 2025. Fiction only. We lean toward strange, unusual writing. Length is highly flexible, but we lean toward shorter works. Sliding scale reading fee (starting at zero dollars). Full guidelines here: www.coniumpress.com/guidelines

Category: Fiction: Literary HIDDEN RIVER, JERKS By Sara Lippmann Imprint: Tortoise Books January 24, 2025 Author of LECH and DOLL PALACE Sara Lippmann's HIDDEN RIVER, a Philadelphia Gen X portrait of a fraught female friendship derailed by an illicit affair, and JERKS, a rerelease of the author's story collection, to Jerry Brennan at Tortoise Books, in a two-book deal, by Jenni Ferrari-Adler at Verve Talent & Literary (world English).

grateful to share my hometown novel (and my orphaned collection) are coming home to @tortoisebooks.bsky.social 🙏💗

Such an incredible score

Issue 51: David Lynch Archives - Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2017

A truly awful day for movies and art, losing one of the most singular and brilliant voices to ever make them.

We've unlocked our full David Lynch issue from 2017, which is now entirely free to read.

R.I.P. Mr. Lynch, and thank you forever for the work and example you left us.