David Lewis
@daviddaviddavid.com
Horror Writer, Book Lover, Reader for Electric Literature’s The Commuter and Onetime Backup Dancer for Parisian Drag Queens. He/him www.daviddaviddavid.com
My review of Vincent Endwell’s collection of disturbing Appalachian stories, Olyoke, is up at @strangehorizons.bsky.social 📚 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Olyoke by Vincent Endwell
While Vincent Endwell’s Olyoke is presented as a collection of linked stories, it reads more like parables from the scriptures of an Appalachian cult, demonstrating preoccupations with multiple ove…
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The Appalachians keep cropping up in specfic right now - what's up with that? Well, here's @daviddaviddavid.com to have a think about one recent instance: "Olyoke is a book that’s begging to have a cult following," he says, "and it may get one." On Vincent Endwell:
Olyoke by Vincent Endwell
While Vincent Endwell’s Olyoke is presented as a collection of linked stories, it reads more like parables from the scriptures of an Appalachian cult, demonstrating preoccupations with multiple ove…
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Had a great time at the launch of @bowparis.bsky.social’s second issue on the theme Healing in the Tennessee Bar. Loads of great readings, but the highlight was seeing my friend Michelle Crowell send chills through the audience in the middle of Paris’ historic heatwave 📚📝
🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Beings by Ilana Masad! @ilanaslightly.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards
Just had time for one #Cymera2026 panel yesterday before my flight. A good one with @annasmithspark.bsky.social, @brigiddooks.bsky.social and Samantha Davey on the fantastical as an outlet for expression of hardships and the need to write difficult scenes fully for the integrity of their subjects.
My Saturday at #Cymera2026 started with @catamaroon.bsky.social and @rainewilson.bsky.social talking about rewilding, ghosts of the internet, hope as necessary for survival and exploring where endings become beginnings
Great start to #Cymera2026 yesterday with @dancoxon.bsky.social @richardstrachan.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social and Hanna Kaner discussing character, worldbuilding, magic and some writing advice to take home: “If you think something you’re writing is ‘too weird’ the double down on the weird”
Over at the Masters Review you can find my review of Joe Bond's touching debut novel, Hope House 📚📖 mastersreview.com/book-review-...
Just out at the Masters Review is my review of @housleydave.bsky.social's comic, extraterrestrial apocalypse, ALIENS ATTACK! mastersreview.com/book-review-...
As a longtime reader and fan of Tin House books, I can hardly believe that I'll be going to the @mccormackwc.bsky.social's workshop in Oregon this summer! I’m so excited and terrified! I can’t wait! #mwcsummer
My review of @justinfeinstein.bsky.social's debut novel, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored, is up on The Masters Review. A view into the uncanny valley of a fictional AI tech firm that's both funny and creepy. mastersreview.com/book-review-...
It was such a pleasure to read and write about @ilanaslightly.bsky.social's gorgeous novel, Beings, for @strangehorizons.bsky.social. I was also delighted to see it's a finalist for a 2026 Lammy in speculative fiction! 📖📚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Beings by Ilana Masad
Ilana Masad’s Beings overlaps three stories, genres, and narrators in each chapter. Readers who love literary puzzles can latch on to so many links between the stories: connections in chapter headi…
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Over at @strangehorizons.bsky.social today, @daviddaviddavid.com on the @lambdaliterary.org nominated Beings by Ilana Masad, a novel that presents “an experience any queer reader can instinctually recognise: the fear of recognition alongside the need for it.”
Beings by Ilana Masad
Ilana Masad’s Beings overlaps three stories, genres, and narrators in each chapter. Readers who love literary puzzles can latch on to so many links between the stories: connections in chapter headi…
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The next feature from Tomm Moore/Cartoon Saloon (Song of the Sea, Secret of Kells, WolfWalkers) is called Kindred Spirits. Inspired by the below facts, it tells the New York-based story of the friendship between a Choctaw boy & an Irish emigrant child whose family have fled the ravages of the famine
Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 5mo agoSome contemporary news coverage of the Choctaw Nation's Gift from 1847. The last piece mentions another donation from the slaves on a plantation somewhere south of the Mason Dixon line.
"Mom is a groupie, so when Dad has a gig, no matter how big or small, she forces us to go as a family." Read "Prodigies," new flash fiction by Drue Denmon. buff.ly/OCjfpYv
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My review of Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's captivating novel, Terry Dactyl, has just gone up at The Masters Review. mastersreview.com/book-review-...
A story by Ariel Katz about the many visible and invisible cracks and fissures in a home.
A Severed Finger Is Rarely a Good Sign - Electric Literature
“Fissures,” flash fiction by Ariel Katz
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When your commitment to the church is lukewarm, even after you’ve been dead for hundreds of years.
I'm Sorry, You've Reached the Wrong Messiah - Electric Literature
“Paul's Tomb,” flash fiction by Will VanDenBerg
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There are loads of great recommendations in @strangehorizons.bsky.social's review of the books of 2025. I was excited to find other reviewers also noted @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and @griffski.bsky.social's Eat the Ones You Love. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
2025 In Review: Part Two
The second part of our reviewers' picks of 2025.
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Our reviewers have chimed in with the highlights of their 2025! Catch up and find something new to enjoy in this week's issue! #bookreviews #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #horror
Some great reads in @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org’s notable books of 2025. Next to my pick of @amfaulkenbury.bsky.social’s Somewhere Past the End, I was delighted to see Isaac Fellman’s Notes from a Regicide and @rhirschgarcia.bsky.social’s Other Evolutions. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...
ARB’s 2025 Notable Books
At the end of the year, we ask ARB’s contributors to pick just one book that they found really interesting this year: maybe already a best-seller or award-frontrunner, maybe something obscure…
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I had so much fun reading and reviewing @pfracassi.bsky.social's new novel, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre for @strangehorizons.bsky.social. A fun, intelligent slasher that, amidst all the - well - slashing, is also surprisingly delicate. 📚📖🗡️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi
Fracassi addresses how easy it is to think a retirement home confirms the assumed connection of ageing to tragedy.
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Today at @strangehorizons.bsky.social, that @daviddaviddavid.com on Philip Fracassi's The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre. Our senior copyeditor, @jampersand.bsky.social, declared the book one of their favourites of the year - find out why!
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi
Fracassi addresses how easy it is to think a retirement home confirms the assumed connection of ageing to tragedy.
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In between Bostonian tourist spots and drinking obligatory pints of Samuel Adams, I had a quick peek in the @harvardbookstore.bsky.social and @mitpress.bsky.social bookstores 📚
My theater going in NYC this trip was camp, queer, festive and absurd with Messy White Gays, Bat Boy, Queen of Versailles, Waiting for Godot and the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular! 🎭🏳️🌈🦇🎄
On this trip to New York, I just got one book at the @strandbookstore.bsky.social’s Mark Z. Danielewski event. But at nearly 1250 pages, I feel like this one will contain multitudes.
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