HAPPY BOOK PUBLICATIONS DAY TO ME! x2!! Two genres of book I never thought I'd publish — a collection of personal essays & a craft anthology I edited. Two books I couldn't be more excited to see out in the world. Thank you, @autofocuslit!!

The acknowledgements pages of Brian Evenson collections are wild. It's like Conjunctions... a couple university journals you've heard of... a handful of horror mags... and, like, a limited edition broadside randomly folded into 99 2017 Ford Fusion user manual booklets.

@deserthorror Yeah, that's fair. That makes sense. I was kinda hoping for that too... while also assuming I wouldn't get it? The stories don't seem interested in that kind of payoff, though that pairing maybe set up the expectation for it in a way that others didn't.

@deserthorror yeah

@deserthorror fair!

@deserthorror I find myself thinking about the story "pairings" a lot. They were much more subtle in the first half. I think part of what I liked about "Journal" was the way it followed up on and played with "August." (The next pairing are connected even more so!)

@deserthorror I *thought* that one wasn't gonna connect with me... but when Winslow confesses his family and story and then going from there, it won me over and pulled me in!

@deserthorror "Radiolab"?

@lexicola @havehadhavehad HAD call?

@blakebutler but also like 400k words *about* them

RT @WriterLDavis: I'm busy.

@kylerseibel

gonna do the next one two weeks from today! "That Was Awesome" short story club #6 Mary Gaitskill's "The Other Place" Thurs, Feb. 20, 8pm ET (come & wish me a happy early bday!) we hop on Zoom and geek out over a story & just chat for an hour or two. it's fun! hmu if interested

@deserthorror It is! (Tho, of course, maybe I'll never finish it; maybe it won't work and something else will take its place; maybe Lock-In won't ever come out and so won't have a follow-up!)

@deserthorror YES. I liked that story quite a bit... and then the ending just knocked me out and lifted the whole to one of my faves in the collection.

Maybe probably the world and politics and humanity and family shit all just has me extra raw, but cried like three times during The Brutalist.

@AustinTRoss was driving me a bit crazy I couldn't place her, which ultimately led me to finding this fun little piece

@RossMcMeekin @jeremyenigk solid nudge

RT @KeersteeMack: “Read a bunch. This is the most basic advice, but also probably the truest and most helpful. I’m not totally sure there e…