Alvin Lu
@alvinlu.bsky.social
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Alvin Lu
@alvinlu.bsky.social
· Jul 15
Daydreamers is out in the world now.
"A story of immigration, brilliantly inflected with undercurrents both noir and comic.” —Susan Daitch
"Daydreamers kind of sinks in slowly. Then it becomes absorbing in a way that doesn't let up." —Stacey Levine
Cover concept by @illepitaph.bsky.social
"A story of immigration, brilliantly inflected with undercurrents both noir and comic.” —Susan Daitch
"Daydreamers kind of sinks in slowly. Then it becomes absorbing in a way that doesn't let up." —Stacey Levine
Cover concept by @illepitaph.bsky.social
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#Mice1961
#StaceyLevine
Living with them on that narrow yet warm ledge, trying to hang on to that life, I did not care if I was free to leave or not. I disliked the notion of independence and wanted to shut it away as the sky with its range of blues locks out the infinite every day.
#StaceyLevine
Living with them on that narrow yet warm ledge, trying to hang on to that life, I did not care if I was free to leave or not. I disliked the notion of independence and wanted to shut it away as the sky with its range of blues locks out the infinite every day.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
#Mice1961
#StaceyLevine
Living with them on that narrow yet warm ledge, trying to hang on to that life, I did not care if I was free to leave or not. I disliked the notion of independence and wanted to shut it away as the sky with its range of blues locks out the infinite every day.
#StaceyLevine
Living with them on that narrow yet warm ledge, trying to hang on to that life, I did not care if I was free to leave or not. I disliked the notion of independence and wanted to shut it away as the sky with its range of blues locks out the infinite every day.
one Chinese apple
my love with as many seeds
take small crimson bites
Frances Chung
my love with as many seeds
take small crimson bites
Frances Chung
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
one Chinese apple
my love with as many seeds
take small crimson bites
Frances Chung
my love with as many seeds
take small crimson bites
Frances Chung
These all look great. Can speak to @babaklak.bsky.social's South, which is unnerving, perhaps more so now than when I read it, written in a blank, chiseled style that is hard to shake off.
Lovely book mail today @alvinlu.bsky.social @babaklak.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
These all look great. Can speak to @babaklak.bsky.social's South, which is unnerving, perhaps more so now than when I read it, written in a blank, chiseled style that is hard to shake off.
One year later, this collection still stuns.
“We have two sides and two sides only: that of the *potheads* and that of the *tietwats*. I, who have had my stay with both, wish to call attention to a true middle position.”
“We have two sides and two sides only: that of the *potheads* and that of the *tietwats*. I, who have had my stay with both, wish to call attention to a true middle position.”
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
One year later, this collection still stuns.
“We have two sides and two sides only: that of the *potheads* and that of the *tietwats*. I, who have had my stay with both, wish to call attention to a true middle position.”
“We have two sides and two sides only: that of the *potheads* and that of the *tietwats*. I, who have had my stay with both, wish to call attention to a true middle position.”
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It has been a year since the publication of Sleep Decades (@malarkeybooks.bsky.social), my debut short story collection. Throughout the month, I will be sharing a couple of reviews and some notes on the stories.
malarkeybooks.com/sleep-decades
malarkeybooks.com/sleep-decades
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It has been a year since the publication of Sleep Decades (@malarkeybooks.bsky.social), my debut short story collection. Throughout the month, I will be sharing a couple of reviews and some notes on the stories.
malarkeybooks.com/sleep-decades
malarkeybooks.com/sleep-decades
Always heartening to hear when a compatriot, i.e., one of you, has a new book to be published.
November 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Always heartening to hear when a compatriot, i.e., one of you, has a new book to be published.
My novel The Hell Screens is more Halloween material (comedy-horror in the manner of We Are Going to Eat You, I like to think), but my new one Daydreamers is the one you can get 31% off on, with promo code, as part of this sale which ends tomorrow.
This seasonal sale includes 2026 pre-order titles !
Browse our catalogue ! www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
Browse our catalogue ! www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
My novel The Hell Screens is more Halloween material (comedy-horror in the manner of We Are Going to Eat You, I like to think), but my new one Daydreamers is the one you can get 31% off on, with promo code, as part of this sale which ends tomorrow.
New Kelly Krumrie forthcoming, from Crop Circle Press. Excerpt from Concentric Macroscope first appeared in @yourimpossiblevoice.com:
yourimpossiblevoice.com/concentric-m...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/concentric-m...
October 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
New Kelly Krumrie forthcoming, from Crop Circle Press. Excerpt from Concentric Macroscope first appeared in @yourimpossiblevoice.com:
yourimpossiblevoice.com/concentric-m...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/concentric-m...
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Our annual Innovative Fiction contests are closing on Saturday! Get your book published ( & enjoy the cash prize!) ! @alvinlu.bsky.social is the final judge for the Sukenick Contest, and Kazim Ali is final judge for the Doctorow Prize! fc2.org/prizes
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Our annual Innovative Fiction contests are closing on Saturday! Get your book published ( & enjoy the cash prize!) ! @alvinlu.bsky.social is the final judge for the Sukenick Contest, and Kazim Ali is final judge for the Doctorow Prize! fc2.org/prizes
Our weak safety
Runs upon enginous wheels: short syllables
Must stand for periods.
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Runs upon enginous wheels: short syllables
Must stand for periods.
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
October 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Our weak safety
Runs upon enginous wheels: short syllables
Must stand for periods.
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Runs upon enginous wheels: short syllables
Must stand for periods.
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
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poorly framed shot of @alvinlu.bsky.social reading from Dreamers at Books Inc. (soon to be Barnes & Ignoble - back from the dead, alas) in Alameda
October 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
poorly framed shot of @alvinlu.bsky.social reading from Dreamers at Books Inc. (soon to be Barnes & Ignoble - back from the dead, alas) in Alameda
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We're thrilled to reveal our next two Pushcart nominations this morning: @alvinlu.bsky.social for "Style" and @infullvelvet.bsky.social for "Daddy Scene." Because can you really have a Daddy Scene without Style?
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October 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We're thrilled to reveal our next two Pushcart nominations this morning: @alvinlu.bsky.social for "Style" and @infullvelvet.bsky.social for "Daddy Scene." Because can you really have a Daddy Scene without Style?
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Subscribe to Cherry Tree: washington-college.square.site/literary-hou...
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spent ~$100 this morning alone on books, so why not slide into the ol' DMs and get yerself a copy of TOADSTONES, the greatest collection of weird fiction ever written by mortal man! $25 flat fee (includes S+H!!!) and i'll scribe you a monster guy in there AND send you a silly S&S bumpersticker
October 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
spent ~$100 this morning alone on books, so why not slide into the ol' DMs and get yerself a copy of TOADSTONES, the greatest collection of weird fiction ever written by mortal man! $25 flat fee (includes S+H!!!) and i'll scribe you a monster guy in there AND send you a silly S&S bumpersticker
This is tonight!
Back in the Bay and at Books Inc. Alameda this Thursday night (October 23), 6:30pm.
Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.
Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is tonight!
The Adventures of Lady Egeria, W.C., Empyrean Series. Outstanding. Elizabethan atrocity exhibition written in 1585 but drinking perfectly in 2025, when it all makes sense. Even its patchiness reads naturally in our glitchy contemporary. “Extremities unjustly happening.”
October 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Adventures of Lady Egeria, W.C., Empyrean Series. Outstanding. Elizabethan atrocity exhibition written in 1585 but drinking perfectly in 2025, when it all makes sense. Even its patchiness reads naturally in our glitchy contemporary. “Extremities unjustly happening.”
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BAY AREA! See @alvinlu.bsky.social this Thursday!
Back in the Bay and at Books Inc. Alameda this Thursday night (October 23), 6:30pm.
Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.
Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.
October 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BAY AREA! See @alvinlu.bsky.social this Thursday!
Back in the Bay and at Books Inc. Alameda this Thursday night (October 23), 6:30pm.
Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.
Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.
October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Back in the Bay and at Books Inc. Alameda this Thursday night (October 23), 6:30pm.
Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.
Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.
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CLOSING IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE~ Don't miss your chance to submit to our annual contests. The Ronald Sukenick Contest is judged by @alvinlu.bsky.social and awards $3,000; the Catherine Doctorow Prize is judged by Kazim Ali and awards $15,000 ⭐️
Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/
Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/
October 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
CLOSING IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE~ Don't miss your chance to submit to our annual contests. The Ronald Sukenick Contest is judged by @alvinlu.bsky.social and awards $3,000; the Catherine Doctorow Prize is judged by Kazim Ali and awards $15,000 ⭐️
Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/
Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/
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CLOSING IN THREE WEEKS!
@alvinlu.bsky.social judges the Sukenick Contest, open to all - awards publication & $3,000 ; Kazim Ali judges the Doctorow Prize, open to those with 3 books previously published in any genre, awards publication & $15,000 ⭐️ Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/
@alvinlu.bsky.social judges the Sukenick Contest, open to all - awards publication & $3,000 ; Kazim Ali judges the Doctorow Prize, open to those with 3 books previously published in any genre, awards publication & $15,000 ⭐️ Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/
October 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
CLOSING IN THREE WEEKS!
@alvinlu.bsky.social judges the Sukenick Contest, open to all - awards publication & $3,000 ; Kazim Ali judges the Doctorow Prize, open to those with 3 books previously published in any genre, awards publication & $15,000 ⭐️ Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/
@alvinlu.bsky.social judges the Sukenick Contest, open to all - awards publication & $3,000 ; Kazim Ali judges the Doctorow Prize, open to those with 3 books previously published in any genre, awards publication & $15,000 ⭐️ Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/
In Brooklyn, Unnameable Books, between Malcolm Lowry and Canisia Lubrin, with Gabrielle Lutz not too far off.
October 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In Brooklyn, Unnameable Books, between Malcolm Lowry and Canisia Lubrin, with Gabrielle Lutz not too far off.
They shelved my novel next to some book I never heard of.
September 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
They shelved my novel next to some book I never heard of.
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i'm biased b/c i'm an editor on this thing, but i really think there's nothing out there like Hellarkey - three editors who, while steeped in horror/weird/scary lit, but we're not really a part of any scene, so we end up casting a wider net and getting stories with a wider (and wilder) perspective
September 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
i'm biased b/c i'm an editor on this thing, but i really think there's nothing out there like Hellarkey - three editors who, while steeped in horror/weird/scary lit, but we're not really a part of any scene, so we end up casting a wider net and getting stories with a wider (and wilder) perspective
San Francisco's doomed just like LA
San Francisco's doomed all the kids say
San Francisco's doomed it's all in the air
San Francisco's doomed we don't care
—Crime
San Francisco's doomed all the kids say
San Francisco's doomed it's all in the air
San Francisco's doomed we don't care
—Crime
September 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
San Francisco's doomed just like LA
San Francisco's doomed all the kids say
San Francisco's doomed it's all in the air
San Francisco's doomed we don't care
—Crime
San Francisco's doomed all the kids say
San Francisco's doomed it's all in the air
San Francisco's doomed we don't care
—Crime
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"I now realized that for thirty years I’d had an imaginary Pietsch perched on my shoulder, and as I reworked sentences I kept (unconsciously) turning to him and asking, 'How about now? Would you take it now?'"
Vince Czyz on publishing & conglomeration
clereviewofbooks.com/the-age-of-c...
Vince Czyz on publishing & conglomeration
clereviewofbooks.com/the-age-of-c...
Portrait of the Author in the Age of Conglomeration - Cleveland Review of Books
I now realized that for thirty years I'd had an imaginary Pietsch perched on my shoulder, and as I reworked sentences I kept (unconsciously) turning to him and asking, "How about now? Would you take i...
clereviewofbooks.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"I now realized that for thirty years I’d had an imaginary Pietsch perched on my shoulder, and as I reworked sentences I kept (unconsciously) turning to him and asking, 'How about now? Would you take it now?'"
Vince Czyz on publishing & conglomeration
clereviewofbooks.com/the-age-of-c...
Vince Czyz on publishing & conglomeration
clereviewofbooks.com/the-age-of-c...
San Francisco “summer” night, Giants and Cardinals, upper deck behind home plate, overlooking bay and sunset.
September 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM
San Francisco “summer” night, Giants and Cardinals, upper deck behind home plate, overlooking bay and sunset.