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But when it was just the two of us, there was always a distance. Between the daughter she wanted and the person I was. THE FLAYED MAN by Chloe Lauter #SundaySentence
"Every year, the kids had to take a big exam that let the state know just how badly I was doing my job." ~Ottessa Moshfegh, 'Bettering Myself' #SundaySentence
"the light arriving from the stars was younger, too, the birds dreaming in the tree cavities were the birds of the past, growth rings had vanished from the trees in which they slept" #SundaySentence from Transcription by Ben Lerner openlettersreview.com/posts/transc...
Transcription by Ben Lerner — Open Letters Review
A review of the new novel by “The Topeka School” author Ben Lerner
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"Poses significant questions about the true value of family versus the self." Gianni Washington's review of “The Flayed Man” by Chloe Lauter (@catapultbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/07/27/g...
Guilt Sharper than Fangs in "The Flayed Man" - Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Chloe Lauter's new novel, "The Flayed Man."
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Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information. - William T. Vollmann, Europe Central born on this day, 1959 #BookSky #WilliamTVollmann
“Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.” ~Claire Keegan, ‘Foster’ #SundaySentence
But trauma can lead to family. Accidents can create friendships. The world’s randomness. The unplanned-for events of your life. ALL FRIENDS ARE NECESSARY by Tomas Moniz #SundaySentence
love when I drop everything & read & it unlocks something in my mind to help me solve a puzzle in my writing
Bonus #sundaysentence …that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of. #theprincessandthegoblin #georgemacdonald
Rage begins the way snow does A change in the light. A melancholy dusting. BAD ANIMALS by Sarah Braunstein #SundaySentence @wwnorton.com
"But mostly we travel through life unsighted, grasping only the smallest details of one another's selves, including our own. Thinking all the while that we can see." from The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout #Sundaysentence (s)
It’s a good one. Bonkers and good.
Kyle Winkler@bleakhousing.bsky.social · last mo.Would like to baldly push my wares here this morning, especially a novel of mine that gets scant attention among my other work: BORIS SAYS THE WORDS. The more I think on it, the more I wish this had a bigger audience. That is, say, 15 readers, instead of, say, 5. Etc. a.co/d/07My296K
👀June 2026 Fiction👀 ICYMI, "Horseland" by EC Dorgan is a short story about authenticity and the monsters that haunt our hearts and histories, and you can read it now! havenspec.com/fiction/hors...
Once you smell it, it doesn’t ever leave. Lies dormant sometimes, but other times you can sniff it through your toes, the sickness of the world. BLOOD RIVER WITCH by T. J. Martinson #sundaysentence
Feed: "CrimeReads" By: Dane Bahr on Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Dane Bahr on Craft and Why Crime Fiction Is the Punk Complement to Literary Fiction
Writing is hard. And if you’re not going to work hard at it you probably shouldn’t even try. Several novels in, some published, some not, and it still hasn’t gotten any easier. The adage of if you …
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Because what passes for spiritual life in this country is laughable. What is contemporary America but a sea of men losing their souls to machines? #sundaysentence #gallerybooks #manoverboard #kathleenrooney #netgalley
We are all fated for the same. All of us are haunted by memories. THE DEAD RINGER by Dane Bahr #SundaySentence
I just posted a review of the forthcoming anthology Never Whistle at Night Part II: Back for Blood edited by @shanehawk.com and @tvayyyy.bsky.social. Spoiler: it's really good! acwise.net/review-never...
Review: Never Whistle at Night Part II: Back for Blood – acwise.net
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Even vegans own guns up north, but folks don’t seem to like shooting themselves. “Eat My Moose” by Erika Krouse SAVE ME, STRANGER and BEST MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE 2025 #SundaySentence
Fantastic issue, that Remains.
Maureen O’Leary@maureenow.bsky.social · 5mo agoAnd then all at once I was invisible fire, heaving, wings and bosom and vinegar so crisp it’d make your eyes water, but you can’t say shit like that in prose. Sorry. “The Baby” by Annie Neugebauer in THE REMAINS Issue 4 @annieneugebauer.bsky.social #sundaysentence
I loved this book.
Leslie Greentree@lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday’s #SundaySentence is from the entertaining restaurant farce The Reservation, by Rebecca Kauffman. Like all good bartenders, Darius had mastered the two most important aspects of his job: pretending he was listening when he was not listening, and pretending he was not listening when he was.
Because fiction is where memory and imagination meet #sundaysentence #beginningmiddleend #valerialuiselli @aaknopf.bsky.social
I have an inkling of how the NY Knicks feel today. A few words of mine are a #SundaySentence.
Carol Brisebois@carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 2mo ago#SundaySentence (s) She is both history and now. Her unhappiness travels through time, feels palpable yet is enigmatic, beyond comfort or rescue because she is paint on a wall. "Report" essay, The Missouri Review ~ Michael Downs @michaeldowns.bsky.social
We need to be reminded from time to time how much of our lives is unknowable. “Archies” by @paultremblay.bsky.social BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR Vol 17 @datlow.bsky.social #SundaySentence
This is so good.
Anna Vangala Jones@anniejowrites.bsky.social · last yr.I have a new story up at the wonderful Monkeybicycle today about sisters, ghosts made of clay, & holding on / letting go—grateful to editor @jamestatehill.bsky.social & any of who you read this one: monkeybicycle.net/my-clay-sist...