“I respect the magic of fiction. If you look at it under a microscope, there’s nothing holding anything together but a cloud of dust.”

📌ICYMI, Tyler Keith interviewed max hipp about his new book WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU OPENS YOUR HEART southwestreview.com/heavy-metal-ma…

It was a good time!

This statue of Viktor Orbán and a giant bug on his lap ('the master and his corrupt pet') is up for auction in Budapest – the money would go to charities as 'the Orbán regime doesn't help our fellow citizens in need, it would rather imprison them'. More: 24.hu/kultura/2024/0…

This will be great fun. Come study with Michael Bible and me at 8 St. Marks. NYC. Ten weeks, will be a blast.

Book mail!

Received cool mail from Square Books. Max Hipp's collection of short stories, WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU OPENS YOUR HEART

I also scored a new T Shirt, the one I bought when I was in Oxford a couple of yrs ago, writing in Larry Brown's Cabin is all tattered

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all of you need to stop writing fiction—

It's not every day you get to publish one of your heroes. Singleton goes right up there with Larry Brown & Barry Hannah for me. Wasn't looking at the author as I was rereading it this morning, & I kept thinking, christ this is the funniest story ever... mrbullbull.com/newbull/fictio…

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We are working on a little project to bring in some extra revenue to cover some gaps. Can’t say more yet. It will drop when it drops. Can only say be ready to give us $5!

This may be the saddest tweet we’ve ever tweeted, but it looks like Juked may be about to end.

It’s not a matter of money, and it’s not a matter of love. It’s a matter of life itself, of family, of care.

If we’ve accepted your work, you will be published. Details to come. XX

I'm so bananas excited about this book!!!!!!!

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Y’all should read it. Literally every line is a knife to the heart. Exceptional stuff.

Now we turn to the dark side at 9 p.m. for William Boyle Noir at the Bar Ajax Diner w/ Tom Franklin Ace Atkins Michael Farris Smith 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑱𝒐𝒚 Lisa Howorth, Tyler Keith, Derrick Harriell Ellen Clair Lamb Bea Setton max hipp Tobi Ogundiran Colin Brightwell Music by Kell Kellum & Bark. Free!

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Somehow I lucked into reading alongside some heroes next Friday. Noir at the bar!

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