One year later, this collection still stuns. “We have two sides and two sides only: that of the *potheads* and that of the *tietwats*. I, who have had my stay with both, wish to call attention to a true middle position.”

It has been a year since the publication of Sleep Decades (@malarkeybooks.bsky.social), my debut short story collection. Throughout the month, I will be sharing a couple of reviews and some notes on the stories. malarkeybooks.com/sleep-decades

Always heartening to hear when a compatriot, i.e., one of you, has a new book to be published.

My novel The Hell Screens is more Halloween material (comedy-horror in the manner of We Are Going to Eat You, I like to think), but my new one Daydreamers is the one you can get 31% off on, with promo code, as part of this sale which ends tomorrow.

New Kelly Krumrie forthcoming, from Crop Circle Press. Excerpt from Concentric Macroscope first appeared in @yourimpossiblevoice.com: yourimpossiblevoice.com/concentric-m...

Our annual Innovative Fiction contests are closing on Saturday! Get your book published ( & enjoy the cash prize!) ! @alvinlu.bsky.social is the final judge for the Sukenick Contest, and Kazim Ali is final judge for the Doctorow Prize! fc2.org/prizes

Our weak safety Runs upon enginous wheels: short syllables Must stand for periods. John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

poorly framed shot of @alvinlu.bsky.social reading from Dreamers at Books Inc. (soon to be Barnes & Ignoble - back from the dead, alas) in Alameda

We're thrilled to reveal our next two Pushcart nominations this morning: @alvinlu.bsky.social for "Style" and @infullvelvet.bsky.social for "Daddy Scene." Because can you really have a Daddy Scene without Style? Subscribe to Cherry Tree: washington-college.square.site/literary-hou...

spent ~$100 this morning alone on books, so why not slide into the ol' DMs and get yerself a copy of TOADSTONES, the greatest collection of weird fiction ever written by mortal man! $25 flat fee (includes S+H!!!) and i'll scribe you a monster guy in there AND send you a silly S&S bumpersticker

This is tonight!

The Adventures of Lady Egeria, W.C., Empyrean Series. Outstanding. Elizabethan atrocity exhibition written in 1585 but drinking perfectly in 2025, when it all makes sense. Even its patchiness reads naturally in our glitchy contemporary. “Extremities unjustly happening.”

BAY AREA! See @alvinlu.bsky.social this Thursday!

Back in the Bay and at Books Inc. Alameda this Thursday night (October 23), 6:30pm. Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.

CLOSING IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE~ Don't miss your chance to submit to our annual contests. The Ronald Sukenick Contest is judged by @alvinlu.bsky.social and awards $3,000; the Catherine Doctorow Prize is judged by Kazim Ali and awards $15,000 ⭐️ Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/

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/

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

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

"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...

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

Check it out!

"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.

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...

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...

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

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

Had such a good conversation about Mice 1961, Daydreamers, and other weird stuff with Stacey Levine in Seattle that we decided to keep it going in San Francisco at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social. RSVP for the livestream: citylights.com/events/alvin...

Did you know that the author of our most recently released novel ~ DAYDREAMERS ~ is also final judge of our 2026 Sukenick Contest! Send your work to us for @alvinlu.bsky.social to read! fc2.org/prizes/#suke...

Hey, I'm in in this (for something I wrote a loooooong time ago)! Thank you @juliansingleton.bsky.social for rekindling some good times.

Boom. Congratulations, all, and best of luck! @sundresspub.bsky.social

Really enjoyed having this conversation with a novelist I greatly admire, Shawna Yang Ryan (Green Island, Water Ghosts). +Shawna will be joining me live to talk Daydreamers on October 23 in Alameda, CA at Books Inc. booksinc.net/event/2025-1...

Interesting article in @publisherswkly.bsky.social on publishing collectives, featuring Joanna Ruocco of @fictioncollective2.bsky.social, as well as as Ulysses Press @thinkinginkpress.bsky.social @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social City Works Press @akpress.org www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

DAYDREAMERS by @alvinlu.bsky.social, an incredibly twisty, playful, uncanny book that everyone must read immediately

Beautiful. Thalia and I were classmates in a few writing workshops together (a long time ago).

Last four reads Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry Thirst For Salt by Madelaine Lucas Daydreamers by @alvinlu.bsky.social @fictioncollective2.bsky.social The Amnesiac in the Maze by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social

My very West Coast “tour”, as it were. Hey Seattle is TONIGHT 7pm @ Elliott Bay Book Co. Given the book’s subject matter, SoCal should be happening, but no dice, so far. Will fate conspire to bring me to Nashville? Tuscaloosa?

Seattleans: This is tomorrow.

"Description gets badmouthed these days, by impatient readers wanting to get on with the story and stylists who privilege voice, but description was how I got serious about this business." Enjoyed this interview with Alvin Lu, and am really enjoying his DAYDREAMERS.

Great gratitude to Shawna Yang Ryan, Leona Chen, and taiwaneseamerican.org for this Q&A where I talk the art of description, writing about California and across cultures, and the possibilities of Asian American literature. www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2025/08/alvi...