James H Duncan
@jameshduncan.bsky.social
Poet, Writer, Editor, Indie Bookshop Reviewer
Hobo Camp Review + The Bookshop Hunter
Website: jameshduncan.com
Hobo Camp: hobocampreview.blogspot.com
The Bookshop Hunter: thebookshophunter.com
Hobo Camp Review + The Bookshop Hunter
Website: jameshduncan.com
Hobo Camp: hobocampreview.blogspot.com
The Bookshop Hunter: thebookshophunter.com
A write-up of Urban Aftermath in Albany NY from a few years back. Still going strong!
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A Review of Urban Aftermath — James H Duncan
295 Hamilton St, Albany, NY A couple years back I wrote that Dove & Hudson , one of my favorite bookshops, was the only used bookshop in the city of Albany. I couldn’t have been more wrong, and...
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January 31, 2026 at 4:56 PM
A write-up of Urban Aftermath in Albany NY from a few years back. Still going strong!
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www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...
Not that I think anyone with these qualifications would sign up to do something this stupid, but WOE to the writer who does. The rest of us will eat them alive.
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Not that I think anyone with these qualifications would sign up to do something this stupid, but WOE to the writer who does. The rest of us will eat them alive.
Upcoming open calls at HCR
Hobo Camp Review will have at least two reading periods this year:
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January 27, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Upcoming open calls at HCR
A short piece of fiction in the form of a poem from my book Nassau
January 27, 2026 at 1:15 AM
A short piece of fiction in the form of a poem from my book Nassau
A bookshop interview with writer Gabriel Ricard. I need to start doing more of these again.
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A Bookshop Interview with Gabriel Ricard — James H Duncan
Gabriel Ricard is a poet, writer, and occasional actor currently based out of Long Island, and I originally came to know him through his role as the cinema guru at the always epic Drunk Monkeys site...
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January 27, 2026 at 1:11 AM
A bookshop interview with writer Gabriel Ricard. I need to start doing more of these again.
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Obviously I'd rather people weren't dying and getting kidnapped and that ICE would go away, but if Bovino and Noem are both gone over the response over the last couple days, all I can say is, good work Minnesota.
January 27, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Obviously I'd rather people weren't dying and getting kidnapped and that ICE would go away, but if Bovino and Noem are both gone over the response over the last couple days, all I can say is, good work Minnesota.
This is what they've always wanted, the ability to beat up and shoot anyone simply because they don't like them, and receive total immunity from leaders who are laughing all the way to the bank. This is fun for them, the werewolf of the American psyche running wild. It's disgusting and evil.
January 24, 2026 at 8:45 PM
This is what they've always wanted, the ability to beat up and shoot anyone simply because they don't like them, and receive total immunity from leaders who are laughing all the way to the bank. This is fun for them, the werewolf of the American psyche running wild. It's disgusting and evil.
In late 2025, I had the pleasure of joining my poetry writing partners Gabriel Ricard and Kevin Ridgeway on an episode of the Meat for Teacast, a podcast hosted by Elizabeth Macduffie, where we discussed our book, We Have Waited Long Enough.
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New Interview on the Meat For Teacast — James H Duncan
In late 2025, I had the pleasure of joining my poetry writing partners Gabriel Ricard and Kevin Ridgeway on an episode of the Meat for Teacast, a podcast hosted by Elizabeth Macduffie.
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January 22, 2026 at 1:57 PM
In late 2025, I had the pleasure of joining my poetry writing partners Gabriel Ricard and Kevin Ridgeway on an episode of the Meat for Teacast, a podcast hosted by Elizabeth Macduffie, where we discussed our book, We Have Waited Long Enough.
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"Prophecy" from my book Cistern Latitudes, published by Roadside Press
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January 21, 2026 at 10:59 PM
"Prophecy" from my book Cistern Latitudes, published by Roadside Press
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Winter Twilight by Charles Burchfield, 1930.
January 20, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Winter Twilight by Charles Burchfield, 1930.
The Cherry Valley Bookstore is a wonderful shop in central New York. This is my write-up from a couple years back but they're still worth visiting anytime!
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A Review of Cherry Valley Bookstore — James H Duncan
81 Alden Street, Cherry Valley, NY I first heard about the Cherry Valley Bookstore from some other bookshop hunting friends, and we found the tiny yellow house in the middle of the village with fr...
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January 20, 2026 at 11:48 AM
The Cherry Valley Bookstore is a wonderful shop in central New York. This is my write-up from a couple years back but they're still worth visiting anytime!
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We interviewed poet and publisher Michele McDannold in our latest issue
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Hobo Camp Review Interview with Michele McDannold
A note from HCR Editor James Duncan: Of the many indie press editors I've worked with over the years, Michele McDannold has always stood ou...
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January 11, 2026 at 12:37 AM
We interviewed poet and publisher Michele McDannold in our latest issue
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The Soul of the Soulless City ('New York - an Abstraction') by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1920.
January 11, 2026 at 10:22 PM
The Soul of the Soulless City ('New York - an Abstraction') by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1920.
Here's a write-up of one of the many fascinating bookshops in The village of Hobart, New York.
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A Review of WM H Adams Antiquarian Books — James H Duncan
608 Main Street, Hobart, NY WM H Adams was the last bookshop I explored during my trip to Hobart in the pandemic summer of 2020, but it was not at all the least of the shops I found there. The fir...
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January 11, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Here's a write-up of one of the many fascinating bookshops in The village of Hobart, New York.
www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...
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The 50th Issue of Hobo Camp Review is now live, with poetry, short stories, an interview, and more! Thank you for reading HCR for sixteen years and fifty issues!!
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January 10, 2026 at 2:18 PM
The 50th Issue of Hobo Camp Review is now live, with poetry, short stories, an interview, and more! Thank you for reading HCR for sixteen years and fifty issues!!
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Reposted by James H Duncan
Reposted by James H Duncan
ICE murdered a poet today, a mother, a wife, and the fascist scum will do everything in their power to retain the ability to kill again and again and again without consequences. America cannot allow this to continue.
January 8, 2026 at 2:56 AM
ICE murdered a poet today, a mother, a wife, and the fascist scum will do everything in their power to retain the ability to kill again and again and again without consequences. America cannot allow this to continue.
I've seen some weird things left on the street after garbage day here in Albany, but today I had to step over a full size watermelon just sitting on the sidewalk. That's a new one.
January 7, 2026 at 12:49 PM
I've seen some weird things left on the street after garbage day here in Albany, but today I had to step over a full size watermelon just sitting on the sidewalk. That's a new one.
"We're going to be able to run Venezuela just fine and they're better off with us running it anyway." - every dude who ever told you how you can't trust our "incompetent government"
January 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
"We're going to be able to run Venezuela just fine and they're better off with us running it anyway." - every dude who ever told you how you can't trust our "incompetent government"
My write-up of the impeccable Crow Bookshop in Burlington Vermont at The Bookshop Hunter blog.
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A Review of Crow Bookshop — James H Duncan
14 Church Street, Burlington, VT Crow Bookshop is located in the heart of Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace, a vibrant, bustling street closed to vehicle traffic filled with shops and restaur...
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January 5, 2026 at 12:45 AM
My write-up of the impeccable Crow Bookshop in Burlington Vermont at The Bookshop Hunter blog.
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www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...
I ended 2025 with an interview on the Meat for Teacast about a poetry collection I wrote with Gabriel Ricard and Kevin Ridgeway.
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www.jameshduncan.com/blog/2026/1/...
New Interview on the Meat For Teacast — James H Duncan
In late 2025, I had the pleasure of joining my poetry writing partners Gabriel Ricard and Kevin Ridgeway on an episode of the Meat for Teacast, a podcast hosted by Elizabeth Macduffie.
www.jameshduncan.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I ended 2025 with an interview on the Meat for Teacast about a poetry collection I wrote with Gabriel Ricard and Kevin Ridgeway.
www.jameshduncan.com/blog/2026/1/...
www.jameshduncan.com/blog/2026/1/...
This might be my favorite thing I created in 2025. Only $10 from Bottlecap Press, Talavera Sunsets, a poetry collection about a road trip into West Texas in the '90s.
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Talavera Sunsets, by James Duncan
Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. More than a road trip, it became a pilgrimage and last goodbye. The poems in Talavera Sunsets serve as mile markers along dusty highways in west Te...
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December 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This might be my favorite thing I created in 2025. Only $10 from Bottlecap Press, Talavera Sunsets, a poetry collection about a road trip into West Texas in the '90s.
bottlecap.press/products/tal...
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An open letter from Chuck Wendig in response the writers out there choosing to ski down the slippery, shit-covered slopes of using AI in writing, editing, and publishing. I'm thoroughly against it and I'm glad that most writers I know are too.
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My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing
The tl;dr before you get into this post is this: the SFWA came out, said that some AI usage was okay enough in books for the authors of those books to not to be disqualified from winning a Nebula a…
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December 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
An open letter from Chuck Wendig in response the writers out there choosing to ski down the slippery, shit-covered slopes of using AI in writing, editing, and publishing. I'm thoroughly against it and I'm glad that most writers I know are too.
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terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...
I had the pleasure of joining Gabriel Ricard and Kevin Ridgeway on an episode of the Meat for Teacast, hosted by Elizabeth Macduffie, where we discussed our book We Have Waited Long Enough. It's available across many podcasts platforms (I listened on PocketCast).
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S7 E6 James Duncan, Gabriel Ricard & Kevin Ridgeway
Podcast Episode · Meat For Teacast · 12/26/2025 · 1h 35m
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December 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I had the pleasure of joining Gabriel Ricard and Kevin Ridgeway on an episode of the Meat for Teacast, hosted by Elizabeth Macduffie, where we discussed our book We Have Waited Long Enough. It's available across many podcasts platforms (I listened on PocketCast).
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...