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Dave Housley

@housleydave.bsky.social

Writer of The Other Ones, Looney, Howard & Charles at the Factory, This Darkness Got to Give, more. Editor @ Barrelhouse, primary organizer of the Barrelhouse conference in DC in the Spring. Web @ PSU. Goofy gentleman. He/him.

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SACosby@blacktopkid.bsky.social · 19h ago

I find myself burning with incandescent rage at the way all the civics and constitutional rules and laws I learned my whole life are actually just suggestions if the ppl in congress have a deficiency in courage "A gentleman's agreement only works if the ppl involved are gentlemen "

Dave Housley@housleydave.bsky.social · 20h ago

This one stings. Thanks to Jeff/Stanchion for putting out so much great weird beautiful writing, and supporting writers and books/magazines. This is how it goes in our weird little world. It's a bummer but also time to say thanks and celebrate all Jeff and Stanchion accomplished.

Stanchion@stanchion.bsky.social · yesterday

Officially announcing the end of Stanchion Magazine, providing context as to why, answering some questions, and saying thank you. 🖤🤍 www.stanchionzine.com/post/the-end...

SF Layzell@sflayzell.bsky.social · 7d ago

It's me! I wrote an essay for @barrelhouse.bsky.social about my Gma's unconditional love and how Peppermint Patty and Maria Callas made me gay 🌈📚

Dave Housley@housleydave.bsky.social · last wk.

Hello and reminder that the free @barrelhouse.bsky.social newsletter has a new, original, newsletter-only essay on pop culture obsessions every month, like this most recent essay by SF Layzell about Peppermint Patty (so great). You can sign up here: www.barrelhousemag.com/contact-barr...

Screen capture of the Barrelhouse newsletter, She’s a Good Skate by SF Layzell.
Dave Housley@housleydave.bsky.social · 2w ago

Very likely the thing that happens the day after this story. monkeybicycle.net/coyote/

Coyote |

This story from Dave Housley looks at a classic game of cat and mouse—or, coyote and roadrunner—from a single perspective.

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him)@dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Since A Second Sight came out I've received about 2-3 of these scam emails a week. They are not only profoundly annoying but obviously prey on author's passions and attachment to their work. In some cases they impersonate real people at legit organizations.

That Personalized Email About Loving and Marketing Your Book Is a Scam - Electric Literature

Taking advantage of aspiring authors is a rich tradition, and now published authors are being scammed too

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EPOCH@epochliterary.com · 3w ago

73.2 is at the printer, and 74.1 opens for submissions in two weeks! Please note we have a new AI policy that you can read on our submission page (TL;DR: we don't want AI-generated text), and a blog post from our editor on the subject, linked below.

On AI, in EPOCH and Elsewhere — EPOCH

Human beings are made to be moved. We respond to patterns. AI generates patterns. When there is nothing of substance there, we use our imagination to fill in whatever will give us what we need. It’s n...

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Dave Housley@housleydave.bsky.social · 3w ago

Bittersweet when rich famous people whose work you really admire wind up working on exactly the same writing project you've been working on for years, and really not getting rich and famous doing it. Anyway, great interview with Danny McBride in The Ringer, about his new book of short stories.

With a lot of the characters that I’ve written about, I think their morals and their values and how they see themselves [are questionable]. But I also think their biggest advocates are themselves. They have some sort of understanding of who they think they are that doesn’t usually align with the way others see them. There’s always this constant sort of need to prove oneself or to step over the line of what’s decent in order to get you to where you need to be.
Tom McAllister@tmcallister.bsky.social · 3w ago

remember, be careful what you post on a day like this. If you do it right, you can get illegally fired for being disrespectful to Lindsay Graham and then win a massive lawsuit about 10 months from now and retire with 2 million in your pocket

Dave Housley@housleydave.bsky.social · last mo.

One of the few things I miss about being in an office is walking around on the afternoon before a holiday weekend and telling people they should go home. One of the few actual pleasures of being a wonky middle manager type. So go ahead, everybody, head on out early -- it's fine, I said you could.

Dave Housley@housleydave.bsky.social · last mo.

So happy to see good things happening for this bonkers and awesome book (and writer, and agent)! Read the whole thread if, like me, you're working on your own bonkers writing project. Congrats @tmcallister.bsky.social and @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and Quirk Books, you beautiful fucking weirdos.

Tom McAllister@tmcallister.bsky.social · last mo.

Very happy to finally be able to share the news that my next novel, REVEAL!, will be published by @quirkbooks.bsky.social in Spring 2028. It is a fun, wild, weird book. Incredibly grateful to my agent @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for making this happen.

Publishers Marketplace announcement Category: Fiction: Mystery/Crime June 22, 2026 REVEAL! By Tom McAllister Imprint: Quirk Books Author of HOW TO BE SAFE Tom McAllister's REVEAL!, a humorous locked island murder-mystery narrated by an unborn baby, who somehow gives us a tour of a gender-reveal party from hell with dancing whales, a poisoned nepo influencer, and a husband and wife catering team who are in over their heads, to Randall Lotowycz at Quirk Books, in a nice deal, for publication in spring 2028, by Tommy Dean while at Rosecliff Literary (world).
Tom McAllister@tmcallister.bsky.social · last mo.

I completely missed when this went up, but I had a lot of fun talking with @aaronburch.bsky.social about his book TACOMA, finding joy in the creative process, and our frequently overlapping journeys through 15-20ish years in indie lit www.craftliterary.com/2026/05/29/c...

Conversation Between Friends: Aaron Burch and Tom McAllister - CRAFT

For as long as I’ve been around the indie lit world, Aaron Burch has been a steady source of positive energy and endless creativity. Over the past fifteen(ish) years, he’s been responsible for so much...

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