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TRUE FAILURE (2/25), Coffee House Press editor, Great Place Books alexhigley.com
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4 days ago
Thankful for books in general, but especially our authors and these recent/forthcoming titles.
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Jerry Brennan
10 days ago
Getting ready to finally start the new
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Gregory Pratt
16 days ago
Chicago neighborhoods tear gassed by federal agents during recent immigration raids: Logan Square, Brighton Park, Little Village, East Side, Lakeview, Irving Park and Avondale.
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Leor Galil
16 days ago
Old Irving Park, not far from Kilbourn Park
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old roadside pics
20 days ago
yellow and white bricks, dean and jo's mini golf, yakima, washington, 1987
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21 days ago
holland farms dairy sign, yorkville, new york, 1987
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21 days ago
corn palace, mitchell, south dakota, 1987
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22 days ago
shasta drive-in theater, winter avenue, klamath falls, oregon, 1987
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Justin Taylor
25 days ago
paperback coming in January
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24 days ago
jet statue (angle 1), mini golf at flags of fun amusement park, rapid city, south dakota, 1987
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shane kowalski
24 days ago
my book Are People Out There is out in two weeks. here are some blurbs by Ling Ma and Sebastian Castillo. you can still pre-order the book at Future Tense Books:
futuretensebooks.com/product/peop...
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26 days ago
zion national park, springdale, utah, 1987
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jamelle
29 days ago
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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Leor Galil
about 1 month ago
A day after a federal judge ruled that ICE can’t use “tear gas, pepper spray, or other weapons against journalists.”
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WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/wgn-tv-producer-detained-ice-enforcement/
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Isaac! At the Butler!
about 1 month ago
I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.
slate.com/culture/2025...
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Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke?
He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/10/daniel-day-lewis-anemone-movie-oscars-best-actor.html?via=rss_socialflow_facebook
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Kyle Beachy
about 1 month ago
if it is not glaringly obvious that these people are in chicago to manufacture violence
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Patrick Cosmos
about 1 month ago
I’ve been offline the last week but I’m glad to hear people enjoyed a photograph somebody else took and shared, of my old idea that I had, for clout. I love that for them. Buy my album
veryimportant.lawyer
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Future National Sports, by Patrick Cosmos
11 track album
http://veryimportant.lawyer
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about 1 month ago
westland service gas sign, drake, north dakota, 1987
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Coffee House Press
about 1 month ago
Great books all around! Congratulations to
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and TRUE FAILURE!
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thanks
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! excited to see TRUE FAILURE shortlisted!
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about 1 month ago
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animal crackers for breakfast
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about 2 months ago
viking sew and vac center, front, higgins avenue, missoula, montana, 1987
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John Waddy Bullion
about 2 months ago
Advance praise for my collection of short stories THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS (out 11.18 from
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about 2 months ago
davidson building, ellensburg, washington, 1987
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Willie Fitzgerald
2 months ago
SHAGGY: like zoinks, scoob, what're you reading? SCOOBY: *halfway through underworld* ron rerillo eeheehee
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Justin Taylor
2 months ago
Worst thing to happen to book crit was getting mercilessly synced to pub dates. writer gets 97% of the coverage they're ever getting by the end of week 2, & if the book is widely reviewed (positive or not) in prestige places some of your would-be audience burns out on takes & skips the book itself.
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John Waddy Bullion
2 months ago
I'm convinced that I've just read the best novel of 2025 and it should come as no surprise that
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2 months ago
storybook land park, aberdeen, south dakota, 1987
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iced americano at the indoor play place
3 months ago
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pretending to like the shirt she got you
3 months ago
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3 months ago
rocket drive-in, sweetwater, texas, 1979
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outlook autocorrected my name to “Sled”
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3 months ago
yei-be-chei dancer signs, kaibab valley trading company, route 64, williams, arizona, 1987
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happy pub day to
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go pick up Seduction Theory!
bookshop.org/p/books/seduction-theory-emily-adrian/22087419?ean=9780316584517&next=t
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Seduction Theory
Check out Seduction Theory - <p><b>When two married professors tiptoe toward infidelity, their transgressions are brought to light in a graduate student's searing thesis project.</b> <p/> Simone is th...
https://bookshop.org/p/books/seduction-theory-emily-adrian/22087419?ean=9780316584517&next=t
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3 months ago
desiree's resale boutique, glendive, montana, 1987
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3 months ago
hanson's hotel site, deposit, new york, 1987
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Emily Adrian
3 months ago
If you’re in NYC next week, come to my launch at Books Are Magic! I’ll be in convo with the brilliant Megan Nolan.
www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-e...
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In-Store: Emily Adrian: Seduction Theory w/ Megan Nolan
"I was completely hooked from the first page, and couldn't sleep until I finished it." —Andrew Martin, author of Early Work
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-emily-adrian-seduction-theory-w-megan-nolan-tickets-1439261703499
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3 months ago
hansel and gretel (horizontal), valley view mini-golf, great falls, montana, 1987
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3 months ago
shasta drive-in, klamath falls, oregon, 1987
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Katharine Coldiron
3 months ago
Today at
@barrelhouse.bsky.social
, Milan Polk reviews Alex Higley's latest novel, a sharp diagnosis of delayed adulthood, out now from
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
. Take a look:
www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/true-fa...
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Milan Polk Reviews Alex Higley — Barrelhouse
At the heart of True Failure are silhouettes of young adults today searching for meaning and purpose when milestones seem to elude them.
https://www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/true-failure-higley-polk
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True Failure reviewed in The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”?
Alex Higley’s True Failure, which dramatizes one man’s dream to pitch his business idea on reality TV, slyly compares this bathetic task to publishing literary fiction.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/alex-higley-true-failure/#
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chicks, blackbeard's mini golf, fresno, california, 1987
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Joshua Hebburn
4 months ago
The characters of this are still alive in my memory nearly a year later—read it in ARC.
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Coffee House Press
4 months ago
The first novel we published in 2025 was the incredible TRUE FAILURE by Alex Higley. We love this book! Funny, heartfelt, profound. "Higley examines the relationship between who we want to be and who we end up becoming." says
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True Failure came out five months ago/thanks to everyone that has read it!
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4 months ago
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John Lingan
4 months ago
Cool news,
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and
@maris.bsky.social
: one of the funniest people alive liked your books.
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Every Brutal, Brilliant & Occasionally Trash Book Anthony Jeselnik Has Crowned in 2025 (So Far) - DeadAnt
If your resolution was to “read more” in 2025, well… we’ve reached the halfway mark of 2025. And just so you know, Anthony Jeselnik has already torn through 26 books in 26 weeks, swinging between Nobe...
https://deadant.co/every-brutal-brilliant-occasionally-trash-book-anthony-jeselnik-has-crowned-in-2025-so-far/
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4 months ago
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EPOCH
4 months ago
The website is now updated with a few selected pieces from the forthcoming issue. Subscription copies will go out in a couple of weeks, and the issue will go up for sale on the site. Also, we open for subs August 1!
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EPOCH
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