David Leo Rice
@raviddice.bsky.social
Author of THE BERLIN WALL, A ROOM IN DODGE CITY, ANGEL HOUSE, THE NEW HOUSE, DRIFTER, ed. of CHILDREN OF THE NEW FLESH, etc. www.raviddice.com Co-host of WAKE ISLAND podcast
Thrilled to welcome the one and only Jarett Kobek back to WAKE ISLAND for another wild talk! @specktor.bsky.social @wakeisland.bsky.social wakeisland.substack.com/p/zap-youre-...
Zap, You’re Pregnant, That’s Witchcraft with Jarett Kobek
On Atta and Invocation of My Demon Brother
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Mircea Cartarescu’s SOLENOID — the “instant classic,” the “masterwork,” the “landmark,” the “greatest surrealist novel ever written” — will be back in stock November 2026.
we have a list of recommended books by Andrew Farkas @andrew-farkas.bsky.social ! the theme is works of fiction that use cinema as part of their style or subject matter featuring books by David Leo Rice @raviddice.bsky.social & Brandi Homan xraylitmag.com/andrew-farka...
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My cinematic education started pretty early. My mom introduced me to Humphrey Bogart films and my dad to the Marx Brothers and Elvira’s Movie Macabre all before I was a teenager. Later, I would attend...
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Pretty cool that my story “Late Bloomer” is one of the @ergot.bsky.social stories selected as a September monthly read by the Literary Horror group on Goodreads
Amazing. Most fascinating essay I’ve read in a long time. Thank you for sharing it.
I covet the intelligence of this essay by David Leo Rice in @southwestreview.bsky.social. southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...
Master of Puppets | On My Mother’s Death and the Last Chapter of the History of the World
By David Leo Rice
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New ep of WAKE ISLAND in honor of 9/11: substack.com/home/post/p-...
American Triage: From 9/11 to Fahrenheit 451
When one dystopia isn’t enough.
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"He enters this terrain so fully that he requires no avatar to inhabit it. He and it are one. I am my son, he thinks." From David Leo Rice (@raviddice.bsky.social), the spiraling, absorbing, redoubling "Jakob as Father" New today at Always Crashing:
DAVID LEO RICE / JAKOB AS FATHER — always crashing
The name of Jakob would not stretch far enough to cover them both, and yet there was no other that either could use. Whether this doubled or halved the power the name carried with it was what remained...
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"The name of Jakob would not stretch far enough to cover them both, and yet there was no other that either could use." New work at the site tomorrow / which means today's an excellent day to dive back into @raviddice.bsky.social's infinity pool of a story "Jakob As Father," up now
DAVID LEO RICE / JAKOB AS FATHER — always crashing
The name of Jakob would not stretch far enough to cover them both, and yet there was no other that either could use. Whether this doubled or halved the power the name carried with it was what remained...
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Always Crashing@alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 2mo ago"He enters this terrain so fully that he requires no avatar to inhabit it. He and it are one. I am my son, he thinks." From David Leo Rice (@raviddice.bsky.social), the spiraling, absorbing, redoubling "Jakob as Father" New today at Always Crashing:
ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #32 — ft. @yanisiqbal.bsky.social Michael Templeton, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @farsouthproject.bsky.social @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social @kentkosack.bsky.social @stuhennigan.bsky.social @badaude.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social + out Friday sign up: minorlits.substack.com
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minor literatures ; stuttering cultures. Click to read minor literature[s], a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with @raviddice.bsky.social — @delfanbaum.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/h...
Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice — Danny Elfanbaum
David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is in many ways a culmination, a capstone on one phase of his career, and at the same time, a hint at which of the many forking paths he may travel going for…
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"This too feels very much a part of the era we’re living through, where discourse has swallowed reality so thoroughly that we don’t notice the disjunct anymore ..." Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with @raviddice.bsky.social — @delfanbaum.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/h...
Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice — Danny Elfanbaum
David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is in many ways a culmination, a capstone on one phase of his career, and at the same time, a hint at which of the many forking paths he may travel going for…
minorliteratures.com
"here, almost like a deathbed vision of your life passing before your eyes one last time, I wanted to draw together a lot of themes, ideas, stylistic tendencies, characters, and locations ..." An Interview with @raviddice.bsky.social — @delfanbaum.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/h...
Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice — Danny Elfanbaum
David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is in many ways a culmination, a capstone on one phase of his career, and at the same time, a hint at which of the many forking paths he may travel going for…
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I really like talking to @raviddice.bsky.social.
minor literature[s]@minorliteratures.bsky.social · 8mo ago"This too feels very much a part of the era we’re living through, where discourse has swallowed reality so thoroughly that we don’t notice the disjunct anymore ..." Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with @raviddice.bsky.social — @delfanbaum.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/h...
Monthly Dispatch #32 — ft. @yanisiqbal.bsky.social Michael Templeton, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @farsouthproject.bsky.social @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social @kentkosack.bsky.social @stuhennigan.bsky.social @badaude.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social & more ... out now: minorlits.substack.com
last week @ minor lits ... — @delfanbaum.bsky.social interviews @raviddice.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/h... — Michael Templeton on digital culling minorliteratures.com/2026/02/26/a...
A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — Michael Templeton
The Word The entire process depends on the use and placement of specific key words. It is possible that the process can have begun many years prior to this moment in the present; that the concatena…
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"Like all his novels, and even more so here, his sentences sing, his passages drink like absinthe. We are definitely in weird territory, but is it horror? Perhaps only as much as the world around us is, when we are willing to awaken to it." — John Schertzer on The Berlin Wall @raviddice.bsky.social
Our pal/contributing writer @raviddice.bsky.social is back w/ a heavy hitter on grief and the end of the world 🕳️ Read MASTER OF PUPPETS from our spring issue 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...
Master of Puppets | On My Mother’s Death and the Last Chapter of the History of the World
By David Leo Rice
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Loved speaking with you!
James Reeves@jamesreeves.co · 4mo agoA very special episode of Midnight Radio with @raviddice.bsky.social discussing his essay in @southwestreview.bsky.social about entering a strange new spiritualized age. www.jamesreeves.co/the-age-of-t... With holy reverberations from Romance, Burial, Flowchart, Kali Malone, Datacide, and more.
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Always Crashing@alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 2mo ago"He enters this terrain so fully that he requires no avatar to inhabit it. He and it are one. I am my son, he thinks." From David Leo Rice (@raviddice.bsky.social), the spiraling, absorbing, redoubling "Jakob as Father" New today at Always Crashing:
