Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Horse Girl Fever by @kevinmaloney.net, @clashbooks.bsky.social & Pandora by Ana Paula Pacheco, trans. by Julia Sanches, @transitbooks.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram

This story is sooooooo good!!!

A Biosphere 2 poem!?!?! Fuck yeah! Our Poetry Editor at Pool Party, @brianstephenellis.bsky.social, has an eye for the gooooood shit 🔥🔥🔥

ICYMI - I was permitted to the party, but as a newbie I had to enter slowly at the zero entry point. No cannonballs, no deep end quite yet, but love to all @poolpartymag.com !

"It is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only." We looooooove this poem "Why Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group" from @thaddevassie.bsky.social. Pool Party vibes abound. Take a minute out of your day and dive in!!! 💦

When the Red-Headed Pilgrim & the band of lifeguards @poolpartymag.com welcome you to their inflatable, of course you say, HELL YASSS! Grateful that @kevinmaloney.net @femmeintheory.bsky.social & @brianstephenellis.bsky.social let this micro skinny-dip its way in. poolpartymag.com/why-song-of-...

“The characters are complex in the way that real people are: genuinely kind but also sort of scammy... well-intended(ish?) but also creepy af.” Check out Luke Goebel’s Top Films / Theorists / Artworks, with an intro by my amazing wife Ryan-Ashley Anderson 🔥

Love a story with a list-like structure (as long as it's done right). @dizzy.gay nails it in their new story SOME DETAILS up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥🔥🔥

I interviewed Luke Goebel about his new novel KILL DICK. We talked about L.A., the Illuminati, Breaking Bad Winnebagos, Bret Easton Ellis, Ken Kesey, hyperreality, and the perils of the art world. Hope you enjoy!

we have an interview with Luke Goebel ! the equally awesome Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net talks to Goebel about ‘Kill Dick’ – one of the best books of the year – an entertaining & angry book about rich elites fucking over everyone great interview ! read it pronto xraylitmag.com/art-oxy-l-a-...

"They continued putting the radio on for him even after he disappeared, until one evening it hit them." Amazing new poem from @ewenglass.bsky.social up at POOL PARTY!!! 🔥🔥🔥

The thing I don’t like about Substack is that it feels like everybody is trying to sell me something. The word SUBSCRIBE is everywhere, which makes me want to throw up. Old Twitter was fun because it was primarily stupid. At most people were like “Hey maybe read the story I published over at …

Is it just me or like… is everyone else getting near-daily book marketing email scams?

The first thing I've written since I had a baby! Thank you @havehashad.com and @ezhang77.bsky.social!!! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/30-...

Not saying that naming your story HULU KEVIN is an instant acceptance, but it doesn't hurt. Also helps when the story is funny as hell and so fucking good. Seriously... take a minute to check out Dave McNamara's new story on Pool Party. SOOOO GOOOOOD!!! 🔥

Not saying that naming your story HULU KEVIN is an instant acceptance, but it doesn't hurt. Also helps when the story is funny as hell and so fucking good. Seriously... take a minute to check out Dave McNamara's new story on Pool Party. SOOOO GOOOOOD!!! 🔥

"John built an inflatable bridge. The hubris of it, the sheer audacity. I told him bad idea but telling John anything is like arguing with weather." New poem THE DEMOCRACY OF WATER by Spencer Eckart up on Pool Party! 🔥🔥🔥

The older I get, the more I just want to listen to MARQUEE MOON on infinite repeat

What's this? My new novel from @rarebirdlit.bsky.social is available for preorder! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mighti...

Hey Portland!!! I'm reading tonight at @literary-arts.org in Portland at 6pm. Hope you all can make it!!!

If you're in (or near?) LA, I got a dope thing for you to add to your calendar:

Saw a panel at AWP where Carmen Maria Machado addressed the (fucked up) idea that since some people struggle with creativity, generative AI makes art more accessible. Her response was *chef’s kiss* I’m paraphrasing but the gist was: art is supposed to be hard. Creativity is a muscle. Use it.

Can we please stop calling it generative “AI”? There’s nothing intelligent about stealing the work of artists and regurgitating voices and language that took 20+ years to develop. ChatGPT and Claude, etc are not assistance tools for creativity… they’re Plagiarism Facilitators. Let’s call them that.

i hope it counts for SOMETHING that i cried a lot while writing this 💗 (vote soul asylum!)

Found pairing in the horror section of Powell’s books, starring @kevinmaloney.net.

No big deal, just found out I’m staying at one of the most haunted hotels in the country

Happy first day of #AWP26 !!! Need something to read on your flight? How about THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME featuring @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & me (and special guest)!!! 🔥🔥🔥

#AWP26 goals: Midnight bedtime No hangovers Eat blue crab Take breaks to wander around Baltimore Buy reasonable # of books Lounge around hotel room If @aaronburch.bsky.social says we should go to a Casino at 11:45pm, politely decline

A beautiful day to read THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME! “D.T.: I don’t want to throw the interview off or anything, but is this the part where we kiss?”

Happy first day of #AWP26 !!! Need something to read on your flight? How about THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME featuring @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & me (and special guest)!!! 🔥🔥🔥

I read @aaronburch.bsky.social's TACOMA cover to cover today, and it's so funny and smart and heartfelt. I told him it's "a blow to the idea that great art should come from tragedy! Tacoma is my favorite thing you’ve written and it came out of one of the happiest summers of your life." So good!

Cheerleading & Euphoria in one flash piece?!?! This one is pure 🔥 ...take a minute and give it a read.

Cheerleading & Euphoria in one flash piece?!?! This one is pure 🔥 ...take a minute and give it a read.

Pool Party's reading tonight got a shoutout in Portland Monthly!!! Tonight at 6pm at Grand Gesture Books! Hope to see you all there 🔥🔥🔥

Thrilled to announce that HORSE GIRL FEVER is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award - Ken Kesey Award for Fiction!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Thrilled to announce that HORSE GIRL FEVER is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award - Ken Kesey Award for Fiction!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Using generative AI to “write” a book and calling yourself a writer is like looking out the window of an airplane flying over Mt. Everest and telling everyone you climbed it.

Just finished TACOMA yesterday and holy shit!!! Immediately one of my favorite indie books of all time. Wild and fun and free. Haven’t felt this way about a book since Nagel’s DUPLEX. Soooooooooooo good 📚🔥🧨

"Even the storm clouds that hover above grayscale despots & dumpster divers have cheery little smiles drawn around their gritty cherubic faces" New poetry from RJ Equality Ingram 🔥🔥🔥 poolpartymag.com/three-poems-2/

LOOK MA, WE MADE IT ON TV!!! Watch our little segment on AM EXTRA where we talk all things POOL PARTY, including our upcoming reading on Feb 10 / 6pm @ Grand Gesture Books feat: Chelsea Bieker Jon Raymond Luke Goebel Camille McDaniel Adam Deutsch & Lauren Lavín

LOOK MA, WE MADE IT ON TV!!! Watch our little segment on AM EXTRA where we talk all things POOL PARTY, including our upcoming reading on Feb 10 / 6pm @ Grand Gesture Books feat: Chelsea Bieker Jon Raymond Luke Goebel Camille McDaniel Adam Deutsch & Lauren Lavín

Portland, OR in 2020 felt angry and chaotic Portland, OR in 2026 feels angry and organized The world is scary as hell, but I've never seen anything like what is happening in my community. I imagine it's like... 10x more organized in MN. Feels like really BIG change is possible.

This edition exists because the text could take it. shop.maudlinhouse.net#winesburg-ohio

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

Come see Luke Goebel read at our upcoming Pool Party event. Feb 10 at 6pm at Grand Gesture Books 🔥🔥🔥

Come see Luke Goebel read at our upcoming Pool Party event. Feb 10 at 6pm at Grand Gesture Books 🔥🔥🔥

Random question for grammar nerds: do you need a comma after the state name in the following sentence? "I moved to Portland, Oregon, in the fall of 2007." ??? Or no comma?