Adam Van Winkle
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EIC @CowboyJamboree ; author Dylan Quick is a Dairy Queen Don Quixote & more; @notporncovers (Country Covers Series); Banner = Joe Ely & Jerry Jeff neckerchiefs
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My new book DYLAN QUICK IS A DAIRY QUEEN DON QUIXOTE is out now from
@LEFTOVERBOOKS
. Get it and support a great new indie press and good indie grit lit. There's small town drama mixed with some high minded Don Quixote references and a great soundtrack:
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Happy (what would be) 99th birthday to Kurt Vonnegut. When I was an undergrad I got all charged up in the best way possible reading his fiction, and had so many questions to ask him about writing and philosophy that I sent him a letter. This is the postcard he sent back:
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Would have been Kurt Vonnegut's 100th birthday today. Then again, he didn't mean to live as long as he did. Here's to an old fart w/ his Pall Malls. Once again sharing the postcard he sent me in college when I sent him a 7 page letter asking how to be writer.
@VonnegutLibrary
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Dylan’s set list tonight. One of my favorite sets of his I’ve seen.
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Ready to go present some college writing awards tonight.
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Thankful for all the kind things folks said about my new story up on
@RevolutionJohnM
, THE NIGHT GARTH BROOKS DIDN’T SHOW UP. If you haven’t read it give a go as a bday present to me (I’m 40 today):
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2 of my favorite musicians passed on New Year’s Day, 44 years apart. Here’s to Hank and Townes.
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It’s my wife’s birthday. I got her a chainsaw. It’s what she asked for.
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I have no words. How cool...
HOLY SHIT are we honored. 5 books in the TOP 25 of Indie Books for 2023. See ROADS by
@DarenDean1
, STORIES WRESTLING CAN TELL by
@miketchin
, ALICE by
@ShelCompton
, BLUR by
@danbillyc
, & CJ's TRAVELIN’ THRU TOWNES antho. How cool & thanks
@IndieFictionAll
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I got her when I was 22. She was born on my 22nd birthday. I picked her from the litter because she was the cutest puppy I ever saw. It feels like a lifetime since then. We had to have her put down today. I will miss her so.
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Thanks to
@MISTERBULLBULL
for publishing another piece from my in progress COUNTRY MUSIC? vignettes/flash collection. Hope y’all dig WHY-BECAUSE.
"It’s 1991 so the boy, Noah, sits in the front passenger seat. Back when that was still okay. He hears but the thing is he doesn’t know his father. Not really. A day and half every fourth or fifth weekend goes fast."
@gritvanwinkle
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Wish he’d gotten to know my kids. Miss him so. Here’s to all the dads, here and gone.
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Woody Guthrie died October 3, 1967. I'm singin' this and I can't sing enough: learn about this man, study this man.
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Fuck. Right. Off. This is my favorite pronoun and I'm charmin as hell.
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Very stoked to be featured in this alongside so many kickass writers. This story was a kind of turn in my writing of late, and I think it could lead to some good things. Anyway, support
@MISTERBULLBULL
and snag a sweet collection.
At long last, get your hands on BULL
#11
: FRAGILE LIKE A BOMB, exploring masculinity from the perspective of some tough, kickass female protagonists.
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My 4-year-old son and I watched The Sandlot. He asked for a baseball mitt. All my dreams are coming true.
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Welcome to the world Jakob Dylan Van Winkle. It's a crazy, messed up place, but Mommy and Daddy are going to love the hell out of you.
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Happy Jim Harrison birthday day. Highly recommend all his stuff. Especially loved his memoir OFF TO THE SIDE and his novel TRUE NORTH.
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Honored to have a new story up at
@RevolutionJohnM
today. I think it’s a memory, but I might have dreamed it. I hope you enjoy THE NIGHT GARTH BROOKS DIDN’T SHOW UP:
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On trying to get my creative writing students to focus on the image, simplify their language, and trust the reader:
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First spin today. Dig it, opening track to close. Always love a good version of "Cool Water," my favorite song.
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We've read Raymond Carver, Rodney Jones, Allison Joseph, Gloria Vando, Gail White, Donika Kelly & Solmaz Sharif poetry in the first 2 weeks of my creative writing class. Peppered in Hank Williams, Robert Earl Keen & Steve Earle. Students are responding that they really dig it.
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Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt both died January 1, 44 years apart. Here’s to ‘em.
Townes sings Hank’s YOU WIN AGAIN:
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Happy birthday to the very first author I teach my creative writing and intro to lit analysis college students, Raymond Carver. Love to watch him blow their minds.
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New midlife affectation still goin strong.
Probably just been listening to too much Joe Ely, but I am deciding to be a bandana neckerchief guy.
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I shoulda got an MFA but I didn’t know nothing about nothing then. Didn’t want to do a PhD neither. So I wrote and started a publication that became a Press and edited and wrote and wrote. Very happy to have that hard work pay off.
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Ketch Everette Van Winkle came out (big) yesterday morning. Baby and mom are taking some time to recover, but he’s here.
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Rereadin this big beast from
@FriedmanKinky
, formulatin some ideas for the
@CowboyJamboree
Fall issue theme…
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My dad died in Oct 2020. He was almost 69. He was 5’6” and used to sit in his recliner with his right leg tucked under his butt, smokin a Swisher Sweet cigarillo watchin old westerns and that is the image I have of him that stays imprinted in my brain. That’s all.
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Representin those
@DwightYoakam
Bakersfield Biscuits to pick up my boys from daycare. I look forward to the days when they are old enough to be embarrassed by such things.
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Fiction unit-hav the kids lookin @ my fav writers and mags-expec sum web traffic
@splitlipthemag
@BULL_magazine_
@Cheap_Pop
@MWGothic
@SmokeLong
@OrsonsReview
@bentcountry
@thedrevlow
@Bud_Smith
@etwurth
@bonniejocampbel
@LeesaCrossSmith
@JYSexton
@robhollywood
@StephPostAuthor
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Always a good day teaching Raymond Carver in class, and I'm doing an entire unit for 3 weeks. "Cathedral," "Neighbors," "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," & "Why Don't You Dance?"
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Began teaching Raymond Carver fiction unit I do once or twice a year. Always one of my favorites.
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And though it was the happy hour
It wasn't any fun
Cause the party again
Was just a party of one
Spin
#4
is Kinky doin some originals and interpretin Dylan, Willie, Tom Waits, Merle, Cash, Zevon, Willis Hoover, and others with his sage voice in 2015. RIP
@FriedmanKinky
:
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Ready to go support graduates from the faculty section.
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Been rewatching Northern Exposure today for the first time since I was a kid. Excellent show.
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The Day Before... Tomorrow we go in for the c-section for our second son and three will become four.
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Second spin today is John Prine doin old country classics (and one new original) with various duet partners:
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Show me the movie or television character you wanted to be growing up vs the one you feel like you became.
Show me the movie or television character you wanted to be growing up vs the one you feel like you became.
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I told my 4-year-old today that he was high maintenance. He grabbed his belly and laughed and laughed…
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Would I enjoy bein at AWP? Sure. Do I pay a couple thousand bucks a month for two kids in daycare? Yep.
In lieu of my presence I offer a great story from Terry Allen via Guy Clark:
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Trying to channel Justin Townes Earle with the Wrangler denim snap and a trucker cap while I edit the CJ fall/winter JTE inspired issue.
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My loving wife got me a new fancy tenor guitar for my birthday ❤️
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Western stars light up the sky, tonight I'm alone to cry.
3rd spin today is someone I should've listened to more than I have:
@kdlang
.
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“My father died many years ago now—of natural causes. So it goes. He was a sweet man. He was a gun nut, too. He left me his guns. They rust.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
There are times to honor the old ways, and there are times to be different. The latter takes more courage.
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If you weren’t in the holiday mood yet, here’s my two boys lookin like they wanna murder someone for being forced to sit next to this weird dude.
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My wife got me Hank and Willie coffee cups for my bday.
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Townes Van Zandt claimed to have dreamed the lyrics to "If I Needed You." Kind of happened to me recently. Dreamed the first stanza of a poem. Woke up & wrote it out, then wrote the rest. STOKED to say
@BendingGenres
picked it up for the Feb issue.
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Update. Still growing.
Never really grown out my hair before. Think this might be the longest it's ever been. Gonna keep goin.
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Sent a letter to Kurt Vonnegut. He sent a postcard back:
What’s your all-time favorite interaction with a famous writer?
Mine: I once played Wii Bowling with Denis Johnson at a party.
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Today's bandana is black. The shirt, as it almost always is, Wrangler denim pearl snap.
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First spin today, obviously:
RED HEADED WRITING is out in the world from CJ Press and a stellar lineup of authors. Dig our homage to Willie:
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Never really grown out my hair before. Think this might be the longest it's ever been. Gonna keep goin.
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Standin on the gone side of leavin
She found a thumb and stuck it in the breeze
She'll take anything that's goin close to somewhere
She can lay it down and live it like she'd please
Spin
#1
today is an all-timer. Plus, Guy stands next to a paintin of the shirt he is wearin:
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Spent all day under the house replacing pvc pipe because the plumber wanted $5k to do it. I hope it is fixed.
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On his birthday, a postcard my first literary hero sent me when I wrote him a long letter in college and my first printing copy of Slaughterhouse-five. Happy 101st Kurt Vonnegut.
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A PERFECT album from the 1990s that ISN'T Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
Cash, meet Rubin.
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I won’t share the second page, but here’s the first of a poem I wrote comin out this Thursday from
@CowboyJamboree
Press as part of the BLUE BOB anthology, from a collection of poems I’ve written about the Dust Bowl.
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Dad woulda been 70 today. Miss him so. Me with him and my son with his cap.
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Well shit-Twitter locked the Cowboy Jamboree account. Stand by.
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It’s Bobby Bare’s 89th birthday. Listen to this album in his honor:
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Boy howdy-have been reading and rereading some great poetry this week
@rgvaughan
&
@dlseuss
&
@LeighChadwick5
&
@alantenhoeve
.
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Rockin Shotgun Willie hoodie on a cool Upper Peninsula mornin. Probably a good time to look at some more Willie anthology subs for
@CowboyJamboree
. Still time to get yours in:
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Happy to be in this one. Get yours.
At long last, get your hands on BULL
#11
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My almost-4-year-old has discovered Dinosaurs the TV show...and is laughing his ass off.
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We turned into our parents before we were out of our teens
Through a series of Chevys and Fords
The occasional spin round the floor at the Copper Canteen
S'pose it's just a McMurtry kinda day. Spin
#2
:
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My best 2019 writing accomplishment: being part of editing, design & writing in
@CowboyJamboree
Press' 1st run alongside the great
@ShelCompton
@thedrevlow
&
@DarenDean1
Doing it again in 2020 w/
@miketchin
@JoeyRPoole
@SteveKgb2003
@Atkinson_Jay
@RustWriter1
&
@ShelCompton
✊🔥
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Moved his chair in front of the tree so he could read.
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It's Johnny Cash's birthday today. The American Recording vols. he did with Rubin are just stellar. Listened to 'em for hours in the car driving to & from work on the backroads of Southern Illinois one year.
Spin
#3
is the posthumous American VI: Ain't No Grave:
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And if I were like lightning
I wouldn't need no sneakers
I'd come and go wherever I would please
And I'd scare 'em by the shade tree
And I'd scare 'em by the light pole
But I would not scare my pony on my boat out on the sea
What an album by
@LyleLovett
. First spin today:
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Written by Sam Shepard. Soundtrack by Ry Cooder. Perfection.
A week of Wenders, 3/5
Paris, Texas / Wim Wenders, dir. (1985)
“I used to make long speeches to you after you left. I used to talk to you all the time, even though I was alone. I walked around for months talking to you. Now I don't know what to say.”
#film
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Fingers crossed for my
@robertearlkeen
submission. Interestin to see Justin Townes Earle and Steve Earle on the list.
OPEN CALL 2024 NEWS 📚 All submissions have been reviewed by our Editorial Board. We plan to have info on results in late June or July. We've had hundreds of fantastic submissions this year so wish us luck!
For now, check out all the artists submitted this year. 🤩
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Beautiful and talented people like
@FBereaud
are a good reason to be in this indie press game.
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what fictional character did you want to *be* when you were a kid?
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