If MySpace comes back, I'm willing to pretend the past 15 years of social media didn't happen...
Mallory Smart
@mallorysmart.bsky.social
Neurotic Chicago-based writer, editor-in-chief of Maudlin House, podcaster, and doer of many odd things. https://mallorysmart.com/
Eric LaRocca on Book of David. They understood the assignment. houseofvlad.bigcartel.com/product/book...
Afterimages is back! August is slammed with an interview of @mallorysmart.bsky.social for her recent chapbook, @josephedwinhaeger.bsky.social, with another book review, and two new fictions by Yuna Kang and Stephanie Jones. Big newsletter on the 3rd. You're reading some quality literature here.
The Lizzie McGuire Movie really changed a generation.
Pretty sure Hilary Duff healed 28,000 millennials tonight…
I wrote something petty. I Just Found Out My Sisters Stalk My Social Media is now live at Scaffold. If you’ve ever realized you’re somehow the main character in someone else’s group chat, this one’s for you… www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
i just found out my sisters stalk my social media by mallory smart — scaffold literary magazine
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New episode of Textual Healing is live. Claire Vaye Watkins and I sat down to talk about Yellow Pine, but like my favorite conversations, we didn’t stay there for long. Give it a listen wherever you get your podcasts…🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7FEZ...
Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to read our returning contributor aka house favorite Mallory Smart's (@mallorysmart.bsky.social) delightfully bonkers piece, "I'll Be Right Back," published last year in the wonderful @trampset.bsky.social 🔗 ⬇️
This story escalated. "Fatal Attraction" is now live at Bulb Region... bulbregion.com/Fatal-Attrac...
"The first time my wife brought Glenn Close into bed, I didn’t say anything." The wonderful Mallory Smart (@mallorysmart.bsky.social) is back in The Bulb Region today with an absurdist domestic horror about...Glenn Close. 🔗 ⬇️
Poetry, pizza debates, puppets, and Lake Michigan. Beach Poets was an experience. zonamotel.substack.com/p/dispatch-b...
One more from yesterday. Thanks to filmmaker John McNaughton for grabbing this during my conversation with Dmitry Samarov…
A good night for Faulkner. Thanks to everyone who came out for Dmitry Samarov’s new Maudlin Classics edition of The Sound and the Fury…
It’s actually a double-feature day! Please read my old-new story, “White Iverson,” in the wonderful Maudlin House (@maudlinhouse.bsky.social) today. It’s about basketball and… well, about other stuff. Big big thanks to @mallorysmart.bsky.social as always. 🔗 below!
It’s weird how certain TV shows permanently change your drink order. Better Call Saul did this to me…
I went back to an abandoned railroad bridge I spent way too much time on in my early 20s and accidentally figured out where Book of David came from... New essay. malsmart.substack.com/p/it-all-sta...
Just got back from the Glendale Heights Summer Fest fireworks. Around here, every show gets compared to the year they forgot the barricade and the fireworks rained down on the crowd. That’s Glendale Heights lore. This year didn’t disappoint…
As the Founding Fathers intended. Happy Free Slurpee Day…🫡
The Belvidere Oasis has been standing above I-90 since 1959. I wrote a short horror story about it in my upcoming collection, Book of David, coming this October from House of Vlad. Preorder now: houseofvlad.bigcartel.com/product/book...
The Midwest is one of the last places where you can still stumble across playground equipment that hasn’t changed since the Clinton administration. Saw this today and had to do a double take…
Spotify: High Hopes 3000 National Weather Service: “Actually, lower those hopes.” 🇺🇸
I don't think people realize how much of my personality depends on not being awake before 8am...
Today’s accomplishments: defended cats from slander and tried to convince someone to watch Pluribus. I did my part.
Pretty cool to find out that “It’s Giving Final Girl,” originally published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s Sunday Stories, was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50. www.wigleaf.com/2026longlist...
