Aaron Gwyn

Thankful for this wonderful review of my novella, THE CANNIBAL OWL, in today’s New York Times: nytimes.com/2025/02/28/boo… via @NYTimes

Happiness is a mug's game. Find a way to be of service to your family, friends, and neighbors. Hobbies are great in that they take you outside yourself, but serving people close to you is better. The secret to misery is making your life about you.

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Rest in peace, Ozzy, you wild Episcopalian. Thank you for some fantastic tunes and for scaring the pants off parents for thirty years. 🦇 🕊️ 🦇

Esquire published this short story of mine about bar fights and their consequences—Esquire Russia has translated and reprinted it. Here’s the U.S. version: esquire.com/entertainment/…

I built an Eddie Van Halen-style Telecaster. (Fender USA neck, alder body, locking tuners, Greer Amps Neckplate, Dimarzio Super Distortion T humbucker).

“Decadence is ‘falling off.’ The forms of art as of life seem exhausted, the stages of development have been run through. Institutions function painfully. Repetition and frustration are the intolerable result. Boredom and fatigue are the great historical forces.”—Jacques Barzun

DEADWOOD (2004-2006)

I think I like the Korean poster for NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN better than the American one.

Returning to this brutal, beautiful masterpiece.

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, ‘The Crack-Up’

Available October 7th.

Thank you for being kind to Elmo and all the people in your neighborhood. Elmo loves you.❤️