Excited to support this year's #AmericanWritersFestival presented by @americanwritersmuseum.org & @chipublib.bsky.social! This year's lineup includes @danielkraus.com and @susanorlean.bsky.social along with dozens of other bestselling, award-winning writers. Join me June 6 & 7 in Chicago! 📚

I breathlessly read @danielkraus.com's brilliant novel ANGEL DOWN over the weekend. Incredible work — don't sleep on it.

I've just started Angel Down by Daniel Krauss and was immediately blown away. This is going to be something else. The last time I was this excited after the first page? The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa.

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Halfway through “Angel Down” by @danielkraus.com and this is a visceral, powerful war story. With an Angel. Darned good. I’m listening to it while doing chores, and I don’t want to stop listening, so, if I overdue it, it’s Daniel’s fault.

Had a fascinating conversation w Daniel Kraus (@danielkraus.com), whose 25th book, a novel called ANGEL DOWN (@atriabooks.bsky.social), was recently awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social @pulitzercenter.org

close friends who are aware of my bizarre, fucked-up personal situation have encouraged (bullied) me to create more of a clear-cut fundraising campaign to help with my upcoming move. if you can chip in, great! thank you! but please only do so if you can spare it. 💚 ko-fi.com/interrobangb...

Reading journey: Finished WHALEFALL by Daniel Kraus in record time, what a ride!, Libby didn't have. THE GOD OF THE WOODS by Liz Moore, 47% complete, had on hold with Libby since Nov, will finish tomorrow. REMAIN by Sparks/Shyamalan is loaded and ready. Kraus' ANGEL DOWN, 6th in line. #BookSky

ATHANASIA by Daniel Kraus and DANI reminded me why I will never stop appreciating comics as an art form. This meaty graphic novel clocks in at over 250 pages and positions itself as a story for superhero fans that may or may not be tired of reading traditional superhero stories.

June 7th, at our regular time, we'll be meeting in The Lost Drive-In Discord to discuss April's selection, The October Film Haunt. Then read June's selection, Daniel Kraus' Pulitzer Prize winning Angel Down—June's selection. #MutantBookClub #MutantFam Harless🥋/ @jonharless21.bsky.social

Looking for a new read? Check out these titles by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Kraus, available to borrow with your Library card: bl.buffalolib.org/Daniel-Kraus

Available at Wicked Good Books … 🟠 Pulitzer Prize Winner, ANGEL DOWN 🔵 JOHN OF JOHN by the Booker Award winning author of Shuggie Bain #shoplocal #indiebookstore #SalemMA

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus - fabulous.

Read Angel Down based on your rec way before the Pulitizer. Such a weird pick but so deserving.I feel like there should be some sort of prize for tuning in ahead of the crowd.

True story. I appear briefly in this book by recent Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Kraus. It's also a VERY good book.

About 20% through this thing and it’s very good —>

Weasel Plume & Butcher Birds patches are perfect for tote bags, and even better when it's a tote from a great indie press like @shortwavebooks.bsky.social! Celebrate @stephengrahamjones.com's THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER 🦬 and @danielkraus.com's ANGEL DOWN 🦅 with patches from threadsofdread.com ⚡

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Some people do dinner and a movie. I’m doing dinner (CiCis Pizza) and book. The 2026 Pulitzer Award winner Angel Down by @danielkraus.com @almakatsu.bsky.social I’ll be busy for the next two days.

They had these new covers ready to GO

I have not been this excited about a book in YEARS. Just a few pages in and holy shit this the good stuff Inject this into my brain directly

hang on let me just finish this sentence

Whalefall is the most beautiful death in the world. I would love for my decomposing remains to become a lively and diverse ecosystem for sharks, crabs, sea snails and mollusks

Read. There’s a section near the end describing a war machine that I read twice and am about to go in for a third. Breathless, disturbingly beautiful violence reminiscent of Between Two Fires. The sentence format felt gimmicky initially BUT ultimately, its usage made me cry. Man!

#iSchoolUI alumnus Daniel Kraus (MSLIS ’05) won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for "Angel Down." The @nytimes.com bestselling author spoke with the iSchool about the award, WWI inspiration behind the novel, and its ambitious single-sentence structure. 📚 bit.ly/4wo7Kze

ANGEL DOWN paperback is out today. Get it! I’m so tired.

NEW EPISODE @danielkraus.com returns to talk all things NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, including his book on the film, PARTIALLY DEVOURED. LISTEN NOW:

In this episode of the “How I Library” podcast, show host Phil Morehart speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Kraus (@danielkraus.com) about his latest book, “Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World.” Listen here: https://bit.ly/3PyRfQk

"PARTIALLY DEVOURED examines every second of Night of the Living Dead while expanding upon its complicated production history and interweaving cultural commentary with a memoiristic account of @danielkraus.com's personal relationship with the film." — @letterboxd.social buff.ly/FWcN2YL

Our next Gothic Reading Group takes place on June 22 at 4:30 PM EDT to discuss Daniel Kraus' Whalefall. Registration Link: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Kraus tells Dan Mecca why Night of the Living Dead was so deserving of his deeply personal, frame-by-frame analysis in his new book, Partially Devoured. https://boxd.it/386

ATHANASIA is up for a Bram Stoker. Love this book, Dani’s art is UNREAL.

ANGEL DOWN paperback is out today. Get it! I’m so tired.

Great book. I got it because I like WWI novels..but it is a galloping read. Reflections on America, war, what you would give up to end evil, all wrapped up in misdirection, humor and just yearning desperation to get out of an impossible situation. Don't trust me trust Stephen Graham Jones!

You have to hear @talkscaredpod.bsky.social’s interview with @danielkraus.com about his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Angel Down,” which consists of a single, continuous sentence: harkaudio.com/may-8-2026-3...

ANGEL DOWN is out in paperback today!! Apologies for it being out of stock everywhere, this should fix it. New hardcovers coming soon too!

CHICAGO! July 25th at Bucket O' Blood Books and Records! Join me, SA Barnes, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social @christinahenry.bsky.social @jonathanjanz.bsky.social Pulitizer Prize winner @danielkraus.com Nick Medina, Gus Moreno, and @tvayyyy.bsky.social

It's Daniel Kraus Week on The Scares That Shaped Us! New episode Wednesday!

Oh hey, here’s a preview: youtu.be/AnWkitugRC4?...

the whalefall cometh

Epic poem / psalms is how it’s supposed to look, well done.

Next Up, The Ghost That Ate Us by Daniel Kraus. Picked this up after seeing he won a Pulitzer for Angel Down. I've been putting off his writing for a while. I thought this looked funny so I grabbed it. I thought my library didn't have Angel Down when I yoinked this one. No regrets lmao #BookSky

Daniel Kraus's ANGEL DOWN is terrific so far. Rich, raw, poignant, highly styled sans full stops, rough and tumble. Very well deserving of the Pulitzer.

Ya know when a book hooks you so well everything else in waking life is annoyingly dragging you away from it? The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch - Daniel Kraus 👍🏻

Worried I wouldn't find anything as good as Kylie Lee Baker's Bat Eater (amazing book, loved it) which I just finished, I got lucky and am loving Daniel Kraus' Angel Down. Three superb books back to back (Jordan Harper's She Rides Shotgun before those). Been a lucky streak!

Holy shit! CONGRATS to Daniel Kraus! A Pulitzer??!?!!!!

ANGEL DOWN by Daniel Kraus wins the Pulitzer for Fiction and now THE LAMB by Lucy Rose has won the Nota Bene Prize. Horror continues to thrive and it brings me so much joy. 🥹🖤

Coming soon to your friendly local bookstore! #books

Morning, #MutantFam, and it's a first for the #MutantBookClub —June's selection is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Daniel Kraus, who wrote, along with George Romero, The Living Dead and Pay the Piper, won the Pulitzer Prize with his novel Angel Down. Harless🥋/ @jonharless21.bsky.social

This last year’s review of Angel Down by @danielkraus.com I knew I was reading something really special. I constantly gush about this man’s immense talent, I couldn’t be happier for him to be recognized for the absolute tour de force this novel is. I am STILL thinking about this book a year later.