Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Horse Girl Fever by @kevinmaloney.net, @clashbooks.bsky.social & Pandora by Ana Paula Pacheco, trans. by Julia Sanches, @transitbooks.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram

This story is sooooooo good!!!

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"They found a finger with a gold signet ring on it a few feet away from the blood, also one dog collar, and an ax with a broken handle." Check out @thehagsoup.bsky.social's amazing story "Did You Know the People Who Lived Here Before?" 🔥🔥🔥

A Biosphere 2 poem!?!?! Fuck yeah! Our Poetry Editor at Pool Party, @brianstephenellis.bsky.social, has an eye for the gooooood shit 🔥🔥🔥

Pool Party@poolpartymag.com · 2mo ago

“…The plan is to stay inside a year. We feed the plants and flush the toilets with water we used to wash dishes. It filters through the soil and when it reaches the pond, we drink it again…” Check out this amazing poem, BIOSPHERE 2 by Carly Rae Zent 🌎🌱✨

ICYMI - I was permitted to the party, but as a newbie I had to enter slowly at the zero entry point. No cannonballs, no deep end quite yet, but love to all @poolpartymag.com !

Pool Party@poolpartymag.com · 3mo ago

"It is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only." We looooooove this poem "Why Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group" from @thaddevassie.bsky.social. Pool Party vibes abound. Take a minute out of your day and dive in!!! 💦

"It is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only." We looooooove this poem "Why Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group" from @thaddevassie.bsky.social. Pool Party vibes abound. Take a minute out of your day and dive in!!! 💦

Why Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group by Thad DeVassie

It is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only. The book is rightfully missing from children’s early reader versions. It is making the youth pastor blush.

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When the Red-Headed Pilgrim & the band of lifeguards @poolpartymag.com welcome you to their inflatable, of course you say, HELL YASSS! Grateful that @kevinmaloney.net @femmeintheory.bsky.social & @brianstephenellis.bsky.social let this micro skinny-dip its way in. poolpartymag.com/why-song-of-...

Why Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group by Thad DeVassie

It is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only. The book is rightfully missing from children’s early reader versions. It is making the youth pastor blush.

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“The characters are complex in the way that real people are: genuinely kind but also sort of scammy... well-intended(ish?) but also creepy af.” Check out Luke Goebel’s Top Films / Theorists / Artworks, with an intro by my amazing wife Ryan-Ashley Anderson 🔥

Luke's Tops by Luke Goebel and Ryan-Ashley (Anderson) Maloney

You don’t have to read very far into Kill Dick to notice that this isn’t your average whodunnit thriller. The characters are complex in the way that real people are: genuinely kind but also sort...

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Love a story with a list-like structure (as long as it's done right). @dizzy.gay nails it in their new story SOME DETAILS up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥🔥🔥

Pool Party@poolpartymag.com · 3mo ago

"Kinga is 13. She has her first beer and her first period, in that order. The beer looks like piss and the blood looks like chocolate pudding smeared in her underwear." Amazing new story "SOME DETAILS" by @dizzy.gay up at POOL PARTY!!! 🔥🔥🔥

I interviewed Luke Goebel about his new novel KILL DICK. We talked about L.A., the Illuminati, Breaking Bad Winnebagos, Bret Easton Ellis, Ken Kesey, hyperreality, and the perils of the art world. Hope you enjoy!

Art, Oxy, & L.A.: An Interview With Luke Goebel By Kevin Maloney

Luke Goebel is a unicorn in the literary world: an outlaw writer with an underground classic in the indie lit community (Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, 2014) who has also collaborated on sc...

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we have an interview with Luke Goebel ! the equally awesome Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net talks to Goebel about ‘Kill Dick’ – one of the best books of the year – an entertaining & angry book about rich elites fucking over everyone great interview ! read it pronto xraylitmag.com/art-oxy-l-a-...

Art, Oxy, & L.A.: An Interview With Luke Goebel By Kevin Maloney

Luke Goebel is a unicorn in the literary world: an outlaw writer with an underground classic in the indie lit community (Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, 2014) who has also collaborated on sc...

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"They continued putting the radio on for him even after he disappeared, until one evening it hit them." Amazing new poem from @ewenglass.bsky.social up at POOL PARTY!!! 🔥🔥🔥

They couldn’t understand why the rescue dog ran away by Ewen Glass

Sure, he had separation anxiety but they took him out with them whenever they could, and when they did leave him in the house on his own they always put the radio on.

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The thing I don’t like about Substack is that it feels like everybody is trying to sell me something. The word SUBSCRIBE is everywhere, which makes me want to throw up. Old Twitter was fun because it was primarily stupid. At most people were like “Hey maybe read the story I published over at …

Is it just me or like… is everyone else getting near-daily book marketing email scams?

The first thing I've written since I had a baby! Thank you @havehashad.com and @ezhang77.bsky.social!!! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/30-...

Not saying that naming your story HULU KEVIN is an instant acceptance, but it doesn't hurt. Also helps when the story is funny as hell and so fucking good. Seriously... take a minute to check out Dave McNamara's new story on Pool Party. SOOOO GOOOOOD!!! 🔥

Pool Party@poolpartymag.com · 4mo ago

"You never tried to shake off the legions of freeloaders blowing up your algorithm. It’s also hard to believe that Hulu hasn’t cracked down on you, on us, like so many other platforms have. Thank you, Hulu Kevin." Check out Dave McNamara's hilarious new story HULU KEVIN up today on Pool Party 🔥🔥🔥

Not saying that naming your story HULU KEVIN is an instant acceptance, but it doesn't hurt. Also helps when the story is funny as hell and so fucking good. Seriously... take a minute to check out Dave McNamara's new story on Pool Party. SOOOO GOOOOOD!!! 🔥

Pool Party@poolpartymag.com · 4mo ago

"You never tried to shake off the legions of freeloaders blowing up your algorithm. It’s also hard to believe that Hulu hasn’t cracked down on you, on us, like so many other platforms have. Thank you, Hulu Kevin." Check out Dave McNamara's hilarious new story HULU KEVIN up today on Pool Party 🔥🔥🔥

"John built an inflatable bridge. The hubris of it, the sheer audacity. I told him bad idea but telling John anything is like arguing with weather." New poem THE DEMOCRACY OF WATER by Spencer Eckart up on Pool Party! 🔥🔥🔥

The Democracy of Water by Spencer Eckart

John built an inflatable bridge. The hubris of it, the sheer audacity. I told him bad idea but telling John anything is like arguing with weather. We went to look.

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The older I get, the more I just want to listen to MARQUEE MOON on infinite repeat

What's this? My new novel from @rarebirdlit.bsky.social is available for preorder! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mighti...

Hey Portland!!! I'm reading tonight at @literary-arts.org in Portland at 6pm. Hope you all can make it!!!

If you're in (or near?) LA, I got a dope thing for you to add to your calendar:

Saw a panel at AWP where Carmen Maria Machado addressed the (fucked up) idea that since some people struggle with creativity, generative AI makes art more accessible. Her response was *chef’s kiss* I’m paraphrasing but the gist was: art is supposed to be hard. Creativity is a muscle. Use it.

Can we please stop calling it generative “AI”? There’s nothing intelligent about stealing the work of artists and regurgitating voices and language that took 20+ years to develop. ChatGPT and Claude, etc are not assistance tools for creativity… they’re Plagiarism Facilitators. Let’s call them that.

i hope it counts for SOMETHING that i cried a lot while writing this 💗 (vote soul asylum!)

March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 5mo ago

MARCH SADNESS 90s NEW GAMES ARE UP THREAD (1/4): Soul Asylum, "Runaway Train" / @emilylauracosta.bsky.social VS Lee Ann Womack, "You Don't Even Know Who I Am" / @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social Read, Listen, Vote by 9am 3/11: marchxness.com/1stround-sou...

Found pairing in the horror section of Powell’s books, starring @kevinmaloney.net.

No big deal, just found out I’m staying at one of the most haunted hotels in the country

Happy first day of #AWP26 !!! Need something to read on your flight? How about THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME featuring @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & me (and special guest)!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Pool Party@poolpartymag.com · 5mo ago

“Can you talk more about how you owe all of your recent creative and personal successes entirely to Kevin and me?” Pool Party is extremely excited to present THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME feat. @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & @kevinmaloney.net (and special guest) 🔥🔥🔥

#AWP26 goals: Midnight bedtime No hangovers Eat blue crab Take breaks to wander around Baltimore Buy reasonable # of books Lounge around hotel room If @aaronburch.bsky.social says we should go to a Casino at 11:45pm, politely decline

A beautiful day to read THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME! “D.T.: I don’t want to throw the interview off or anything, but is this the part where we kiss?”

Pool Party@poolpartymag.com · 5mo ago

“Can you talk more about how you owe all of your recent creative and personal successes entirely to Kevin and me?” Pool Party is extremely excited to present THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME feat. @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & @kevinmaloney.net (and special guest) 🔥🔥🔥