Ada(ms) or Ardor

An excerpt from my novel, which concerns real rumors of my grandmother's complicity in the murder of my grandfather, & explores whether anything so quixotic as the truth can be excavated from what individuals, even entire cultures, try to forget. minorliteratures.com/2024/09/17/con…

Rereading Lawrence Durrell for the first time in 20 years is like dropping onto an ancient ottoman, languorous as a minor god settling into theology's neglect, when at once a plume of myrrh-laced dust rises like a silken exhalation - ecclesiastical & faintly minatory.

Indie rock is starting to grate me the way middlebrow fiction does.

Power went out. Reading Jay Wright til it gets dark.

Pick out any bygone literary era. Do you think great writing necessarily conforms to the critical consensus of that moment? Of course not. Then why uphold contemporary market preferences as anything but similarly ephemeral? Write as though you bestride all time.

Dreamt that one of you read my first manuscript and then told me, while standing in my parents' bedroom, that you found it wooden, overwritten, unconvincing.

All great writing is experimental. When you craft something without obvious precedent, you don’t know how it’ll be received. You don’t know how to receive it yourself. “This is either genius or consistently bad.” Ambition risks embarrassment.

So grateful to the mesmerizing Gabriela Denise Frank for this interview. And to one of my favorite food writers, Annelise, for giving it a home in ⁦@The_Rumpus⁩. therumpus.net/2025/07/17/ult…

Latest issue of @YIVJournal arrived. (Yes, there is a corporeal version.) First-time editing a journal (prose), got lucky with stellar submissions and ridiculously good final list of contributors. Last shot is from Steve Barbaro's oceanic Temperance of Heretics.

Daydreamers is out in the world now. "A story of immigration, brilliantly inflected with undercurrents both noir and comic.” —Susan Daitch "Daydreamers kind of sinks in slowly. Then it becomes absorbing in a way that doesn't let up." —Stacey Levine Cover concept by @iLLepitaph

Happy Official Pub Day to @alvinlu's DAYDREAMERS! Get your copy of this mesmerizing work today! fc2.org/authors/lu/#da… ( For review copies, query to Samantha Huff-Robertson at [email protected] ~ we love being an imprint of @UnivofALPress ! )

Our Summer 2025 Issue is OUT NOW! Featuring some fantastic works of eco-writing in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry as well as some marvelous visual art. Read now on our website (link in bio)!

As previously floated, this fall (maybe Oct 10-12), I'm hosting a meetup in Nashville. We'll play Surrealist language games, talk books, and hopefully start to build an offline literary community in the South. If you're interested in joining, shoot me a DM.

“It is to burn with a passion,” said Jacques Derrida of the human hounded by archive fever. “It is never to rest, interminably, from searching for the archive right where it slips away.” A few notes for @blnreview on the land I miss like a severed limb.🫀 blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/20…

Print issue out this week. Or read the story here - yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/

To solve a love-triangle murder, a Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip with her friend’s son into the heart of the émigré Chinese literary world in @alvinlu's new novel DAYDREAMERS ~ get your copy via @UnivofALPress : uapress.ua.edu/9781573662123/…