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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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Recommended: The Cavalier, Nathalie Quintane, translated by Jonathan Larson (Winter Editions, 2025)
Indescribable prose, in an indeterminate genre.
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Indescribable prose, in an indeterminate genre.
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January 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Recommended: The Cavalier, Nathalie Quintane, translated by Jonathan Larson (Winter Editions, 2025)
Indescribable prose, in an indeterminate genre.
asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
Indescribable prose, in an indeterminate genre.
asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
Recommended: The Cavalier, Nathalie Quintane, translated by Jonathan Larson (Winter Editions, 2025)
Indescribable prose, in an indeterminate genre.
asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
Indescribable prose, in an indeterminate genre.
asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
January 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Recommended: The Cavalier, Nathalie Quintane, translated by Jonathan Larson (Winter Editions, 2025)
Indescribable prose, in an indeterminate genre.
asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
Indescribable prose, in an indeterminate genre.
asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
Recommended:
The Veldt Institute, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social (Double Negative, 2025)
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The Veldt Institute, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social (Double Negative, 2025)
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January 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Recommended:
The Veldt Institute, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social (Double Negative, 2025)
asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
The Veldt Institute, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social (Double Negative, 2025)
asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
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Excellent review of the novel, which I just finished. Complex and counterintuitive, it made me backtrack to get my bearings, but revealed itself as compulsive reading — especially in its second half, when disparate narrative threads begin to bind
Nicely engaged review of Daydreamers by James Baron, writing for Taipei Times.
"Flaubert’s aphorism that truth is essentially perception, neatly captures the essence of this novel—a work of ideas that, as with so much great art, leaves us with more questions than answers."
"Flaubert’s aphorism that truth is essentially perception, neatly captures the essence of this novel—a work of ideas that, as with so much great art, leaves us with more questions than answers."
Book review: Lost in translation: The hazy clarity of a daydream - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Excellent review of the novel, which I just finished. Complex and counterintuitive, it made me backtrack to get my bearings, but revealed itself as compulsive reading — especially in its second half, when disparate narrative threads begin to bind
Nicely engaged review of Daydreamers by James Baron, writing for Taipei Times.
"Flaubert’s aphorism that truth is essentially perception, neatly captures the essence of this novel—a work of ideas that, as with so much great art, leaves us with more questions than answers."
"Flaubert’s aphorism that truth is essentially perception, neatly captures the essence of this novel—a work of ideas that, as with so much great art, leaves us with more questions than answers."
Book review: Lost in translation: The hazy clarity of a daydream - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Nicely engaged review of Daydreamers by James Baron, writing for Taipei Times.
"Flaubert’s aphorism that truth is essentially perception, neatly captures the essence of this novel—a work of ideas that, as with so much great art, leaves us with more questions than answers."
"Flaubert’s aphorism that truth is essentially perception, neatly captures the essence of this novel—a work of ideas that, as with so much great art, leaves us with more questions than answers."
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In stack form, echoing the ones that I been able to read and was happier for it. (Thread)
Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press)
Alvin Lu, Daydreamers (FC2)
Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press)
Alvin Lu, Daydreamers (FC2)
December 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In stack form, echoing the ones that I been able to read and was happier for it. (Thread)
Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press)
Alvin Lu, Daydreamers (FC2)
Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press)
Alvin Lu, Daydreamers (FC2)
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January 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Alvin Lu, Daydreamers (2025)
December 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Alvin Lu, Daydreamers (2025)
"There was something unreal about people who did just what they set out to do, with no obligation to the past or the future. Everything in this country was understood backward; the more recent the arrival, the more American, the truly exceptional."
December 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"There was something unreal about people who did just what they set out to do, with no obligation to the past or the future. Everything in this country was understood backward; the more recent the arrival, the more American, the truly exceptional."
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Well I made a list of books I couldn't forget this year... and left a few off (which means I will open the new year with another list! like a dog! ) nevertheless I'm leaving this here for those who love books and living like dawgs in the mind of Kafka!
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
2025 in 99 books. — alina Ştefănescu
Regardez-moi bien! Je suis idiot, je suis un farceur, je suis un fumiste. Regardez-moi bien! Je suis laid, mon visage n’a pas d’expression, je suis petit. Je suis comme vous tous!’ — Tristan Tzara, ...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Well I made a list of books I couldn't forget this year... and left a few off (which means I will open the new year with another list! like a dog! ) nevertheless I'm leaving this here for those who love books and living like dawgs in the mind of Kafka!
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
Grant Maierhofer’s Hidden World might be tops this year for me. Fully realized and funny rewiring of the formal elements of the novel that operates throughout in the register of the sublime. Moby-Dick of UFOs.
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Grant Maierhofer’s Hidden World might be tops this year for me. Fully realized and funny rewiring of the formal elements of the novel that operates throughout in the register of the sublime. Moby-Dick of UFOs.
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Guest editor @alvinlu.bsky.social said it best when he described Another Place by Addy Evenson as "a perfect and poisonous dose of Southern Gothic." What more do you need to know? bit.ly/492zcZE
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Guest editor @alvinlu.bsky.social said it best when he described Another Place by Addy Evenson as "a perfect and poisonous dose of Southern Gothic." What more do you need to know? bit.ly/492zcZE
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Delighted to have @addisonzeller.bsky.social back in our latest issue with not one but two micros! bit.ly/4pqfUmR #flashfiction
December 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Delighted to have @addisonzeller.bsky.social back in our latest issue with not one but two micros! bit.ly/4pqfUmR #flashfiction
Biking by night past the Victorians with the Christmas trees lit inside.
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Biking by night past the Victorians with the Christmas trees lit inside.
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i have a new piece in @exactingclam.bsky.social for their special dada issue
it’s one of my favorite things i’ve written recently
have a look and SUBSCRIBE to this fabulous publication as a gift to yourself this holiday season
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...
it’s one of my favorite things i’ve written recently
have a look and SUBSCRIBE to this fabulous publication as a gift to yourself this holiday season
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
i have a new piece in @exactingclam.bsky.social for their special dada issue
it’s one of my favorite things i’ve written recently
have a look and SUBSCRIBE to this fabulous publication as a gift to yourself this holiday season
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...
it’s one of my favorite things i’ve written recently
have a look and SUBSCRIBE to this fabulous publication as a gift to yourself this holiday season
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...
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"There are two San Franciscos at least. San Francisco remains a city of great beauty and disposition. It is also a city that is plagued by the effects of income disparity, a problem at the heart of much that is wrong with our country."
“A book is not interesting to me until it’s impossible for me to write”: Q&A with Robert Glück – ZYZZYVA
A chapter from Robert Glück’s Jack the Modernist appeared in the very first issue of ZYZZYVA in 1985. It’s the chapter where Bob, Glück’s avatar and the
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December 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"There are two San Franciscos at least. San Francisco remains a city of great beauty and disposition. It is also a city that is plagued by the effects of income disparity, a problem at the heart of much that is wrong with our country."
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A truly great short story tells you everything you need to know about it from its very first line. This is one of them. Check out "Storing Dinosaurs" by @supernaturalfeat.com in our latest issue! bit.ly/3XY7fMa
December 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A truly great short story tells you everything you need to know about it from its very first line. This is one of them. Check out "Storing Dinosaurs" by @supernaturalfeat.com in our latest issue! bit.ly/3XY7fMa
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December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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There's a @fictioncollective2.bsky.social flash sale right now, which includes 50% off my novel Daydreamers. Use code FLASH at checkout. Through Dec 2.
"Mesmerizing ... one of the best books I read this year." —Books of Substance
www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...
"Mesmerizing ... one of the best books I read this year." —Books of Substance
www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There's a @fictioncollective2.bsky.social flash sale right now, which includes 50% off my novel Daydreamers. Use code FLASH at checkout. Through Dec 2.
"Mesmerizing ... one of the best books I read this year." —Books of Substance
www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...
"Mesmerizing ... one of the best books I read this year." —Books of Substance
www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...
Living in San Francisco these days is like They Live, except you don’t need the glasses. —my kid
November 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Living in San Francisco these days is like They Live, except you don’t need the glasses. —my kid
We close this issue in "Another Place", a perfect and poisonous dose of Southern Gothic from Addy Evenson.
Thank you all for reading.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/another-place/
Thank you all for reading.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/another-place/
Another Place | Prose
By Addy Evenson — "Sourwood leaves shook in the Canterville wind. Gusts of humid air descended and rattled the chimes on the porches."
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We close this issue in "Another Place", a perfect and poisonous dose of Southern Gothic from Addy Evenson.
Thank you all for reading.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/another-place/
Thank you all for reading.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/another-place/
Ben Marcus, introduction to David Ohle’s Motorman
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Ben Marcus, introduction to David Ohle’s Motorman
We're lucky to have in this issue two miniatures from @addisonzeller.bsky.social, although as often is the case with Zeller, "miniature" is a deceptive descriptor. These efficent stories, like Borges', are denser and more multitudinous than the longest novels.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
Point of Comparison | Issue 33
By Addison Zeller — "Of the lawn, a photograph exists, dated more than a century ago. The size of the camera has reduced over time, but at the date of the photo, it was still clumsy and large, the len...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We're lucky to have in this issue two miniatures from @addisonzeller.bsky.social, although as often is the case with Zeller, "miniature" is a deceptive descriptor. These efficent stories, like Borges', are denser and more multitudinous than the longest novels.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
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One of my favorite recent reads.
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
One of my favorite recent reads.