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Hilary Bell
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Oh god, I had no idea. "Dog Heaven" is one of my favorite short stories of all time. Even after reading it dozens of time, the ending still gives me goosebumps.

Also one of my fav opening sentences ever: "Every so often that dead dog dreams me up again." What a huge loss.
i didn't see more than like 2 or 3 stephanie vaughn memorial posts yesterday which i take as a sign that more of you need to put down whatever book you're reading and pick up a copy of Sweet Talk.
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
yeah hi how much to eat inside the plastic globe enclosure
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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every year around the holidays I get a Garage Surprise, which is where my mom manically downsizes and then mails all the treasures to me — one framed photo of a barn, for example, or a a tin of caramel corn from 1995
November 20, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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Healthy relationships need one person who smokes weed all day every day and one person who can never ever smoke weed again even once. Sometimes there are a bunch of other people too, no judgment
November 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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ginkgo mode
November 19, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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paperback coming in January bookshop.org/p/books/rebo...
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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new story title
September 6, 2024 at 3:50 PM
four goth teens with matching side parts at the last remaining hometown barnes & noble…nature is healing, etc
October 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I always thought someone should do a pretty, low-key version of "The World's A Mess, It's In My Kiss" and, of course, Styrofoam Winos went ahead and did it.
The World's A Mess, It's in My Kiss, by Styrofoam Winos
from the album Aquarium Drunkard's Lagniappe Session
styrofoamwinos.bandcamp.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Twin Lead Lines, my first full length poetry collection, is out today via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social !! 🐣

Link in bio to order and RSVP to book events, etc.

If you make time for art (especially other people’s) in your life, this one’s for you. 🪢❤️
September 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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September 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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fucked up on benzos wandering around my house examining things like a survival horror protagonist

[This is a kitchen...they must cook here.]

[Feel like I have seen this book before...]

[I shouldn't touch this. Looks fragile.]
May 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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My book has a cover and is comin atcha this fall via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social! Twin Lead Lines is out 9/16 🧡✨♾️

www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/twin...
Twin Lead Lines — Third Man Books
Twin Lead Lines , the remarkably original debut from poet and musician Lou Turner , is born of overlaps: those of ancestry and chosen family, of show business and DIY paths of artmaking, and of liste...
www.thirdmanbooks.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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in case anyone wants to read a smart essay in which nice things are said about my book
July 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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your crazy ass stupid post just fucked up the whole world . hope it was worth the likes. hope youre enjoying the clicks
July 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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I’ve got a new short story up at Joyland today. This one is called “Shades” t.co/9FXFxW2ApU
June 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers
June 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Wednesday! May 28 at 7 p.m. in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House, Writers' Workshop Director Lan Samantha Chang and Visiting Professor of fiction, Tom Drury will read from their work events.uiowa.edu/event/32618
May 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
May 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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interviewed one of my favorite working songwriters, dan wriggins from friendship, over at the newsletter. we talked the far side, bob dylan, ancient egypt, and more www.noexpectations.fyi/p/friendship...
No Expectations 108: Free Association
A Taste Profile interview with Friendship’s Dan Wriggins. Plus, a 15-song playlist and a new album from Maia Friedman.
www.noexpectations.fyi
May 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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in your 30s you get to experience a new kind of responsibility called Responsibility 2. It's like the old responsibility, but it's much fucking worse
May 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Bunch of weird ancestral swamp poems coming via Third Man Books in September 2025 🐣✨
January 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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April 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Michael Hurley - Wildegeeses
YouTube video by rockdog4ever
www.youtube.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM