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Daniel David Froid

@froid.bsky.social

Writer, reader, desert-dweller, and minor demon. Stories in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Post Road, Black Warrior Review, elsewhere. 😈🏳️‍🌈 danieldavidfroid.com

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American Literary Translators Association@littranslate.bsky.social · yesterday

The translator Lin King of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE, awarded with the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize and 2026 International Booker Prize, reflects on Taiwan’s history of colonialism, current geopolitical situation, and identity struggle in this interview for NPR.

'Taiwan Travelogue' rethinks history, colonialism, and identity

The author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue, the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, discuss identity and history amid the debate over Taiwan's colonial ties to Japan and escalating…

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Daniel David Froid@froid.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m obsessed with this pair of novellas. They pose twin puzzles, with many clues and hints as to what actually happens and how the narratives may intersect. And they are impeccably written. Stephen Beachy maintains a measured tone while giving an almost cosmic register to his lonely characters.

Some Phantom/No Time Flat: Two Novellas by Stephen Beachy
Daniel David Froid@froid.bsky.social · last mo.

Mario Bellatin is a fascinating writer. This novella is partly excerpts from a lost (fake?) work by Joseph Roth, partly interpretations of that work, and partly memoir-ish fragments. Recommended if you like seeing a writer pushing, or perhaps breaking apart, the boundaries of form.

Jacob the Mutant by Mario Bellatin
John Self@john-self.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Girls is many things at once. It’s a comedy but it's also a portrait of an England of down-at-heel seediness, where flower shows, dirty coppers and the serial killer Dennis Nilsen are part of the same social fabric." Me on John Bowen's 1986 novel The Girls, reissued by Vintage and McNally:

This terrific novel is like a cross between Barbara Pym and Stephen King

In his wicked comedy, The Girls, John Bowen takes us into the world of vicars, fêtes and murder in the Cotswolds of the 1970s

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josh boerman@bosh.worstpossible.world · 2mo ago

one trillion dollars is so much capital as to be effectively infinite for a single individual, which is why when we talk about this kind of wealth it needs to be expressed in terms of what it could do for the rest of us

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Matthew Cheney (@melikhovo.bsky.social) examines what we can learn from Clive Barker and Joel Lane, two very different queer writers who began carving out new spaces in weird fiction and horror in the dark days of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis. reactormag.com/poetry-from-...

Poetry From the Plague Pit: The Early Stories of Clive Barker and Joel Lane - Reactor

At the height of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis, two queer British horror writers began carving out their unique visions...

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the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2mo ago

they do not post much but we are so fortunate to have @wakefieldpress.bsky.social in the world, keeping some of the most vital books in print, doing so many good things

Wakefield Press@wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Back from the printer: the collected poetry and other writings by Belgian Dadaist Clément Pansaers. Arguably the most Dadaist verse to be found among all the Dadas: Tzara and Picabia seem almost traditional in comparison.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 3mo ago

This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community. Yesterday I called for EPA and Congressional investigations into the impact of data center construction on local drinking water supplies. We cannot take water for granted.

Eric Williams@geoliminal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dark auguries speak the fell truth...HELLARKEY 5 is again open for submissions! Send @renbolger.bsky.social, @ossuary.bsky.social, and yer's truly your best, weirdest, scariest stories for the single most important horror publication in the history of the written word docs.google.com/document/d/1...

HELLARKEY VOLUME 5 Submission Guidelines

HELLARKEY VOLUME 5 Submission Guidelines Black runs the blood across the cursed altar, congealing into words of dark prophecy: the Time of Hellarkey V is once again upon us! That’s right, as read in t...

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Daniel David Froid@froid.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Doesn't the phrase "a fictional staple in the literature world" suggest that...the book doesn't actually exist? My favorite fictional staples are the works of Archimboldi. Or maybe the Necronomicon.

Screenshot of the cover of Lord of the Flies with the following blurb: " A fictional staple in the literature world, Lord of the Flies follows a group of boys stranded on an island, where the fight for survival cascades into brutal chaos."
Suzy Eynon@suzyeynon.bsky.social · last yr.

Just finished reading MY HOME IS NOT THERE by @froid.bsky.social and am moved by it. The loss is relatable, never sentimental: wanting to keep an archive of the lost, the irritation at those who don't get it, not feeling at home on this planet. Beautiful work and a worthy tribute.

MY HOME IS NOT THERE by Daniel David Froid, blue cover with constellations against a blue blanket and cloud patterned pillow, with sleeping gray cat in background of photo