Matt Bucher
@mattbucher.bsky.social
DFW Society, author of The Belan Deck, co-host of Concavity Show, mattbucher.com
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We're looking for grad students who might want to work as volunteers at #MLA26 in exchange for free registration. We'll make sure you get plenty of time to go to sessions! www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
Be a Volunteer at the MLA Annual Convention
The MLA is calling for nonpresenting undergraduate and graduate student volunteers to serve at the 2026 MLA Annual Convention in Toronto.Volunteering at the convention is a great way to meet new frien...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We're looking for grad students who might want to work as volunteers at #MLA26 in exchange for free registration. We'll make sure you get plenty of time to go to sessions! www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
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The annual David Foster Wallace conference will be held in Austin in June 2026! Here's the call for papers: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...
cfp | call for papers
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September 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The annual David Foster Wallace conference will be held in Austin in June 2026! Here's the call for papers: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...
"Listen, the years are short. They are nothing.
I write each morning, while you are at work."
Read this poem today: gradychambers.com/notes-on-str... (originally published in the New Yorker, 2020)
I write each morning, while you are at work."
Read this poem today: gradychambers.com/notes-on-str... (originally published in the New Yorker, 2020)
We Are Gone — Grady Chambers
Even the night cooling down is slick with heat. Even the sheet we share like a humming skin. From three stories up the sounds of the street, drinkers at the curb, a wet hiss of dry tires, is a rhyth...
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October 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"Listen, the years are short. They are nothing.
I write each morning, while you are at work."
Read this poem today: gradychambers.com/notes-on-str... (originally published in the New Yorker, 2020)
I write each morning, while you are at work."
Read this poem today: gradychambers.com/notes-on-str... (originally published in the New Yorker, 2020)
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Do you:
-Love #literature? 📚
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-Fancy #film or #photography? 📽️📸
-Thrill to the #theater? 🎭
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Apply for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!
Learn more & submit a proposal by Nov. 3: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Research #CFP #CFA 🗃️📜
-Love #literature? 📚
-Adore #art? 🎨
-Fancy #film or #photography? 📽️📸
-Thrill to the #theater? 🎭
-Relish #RareBooks? 📖
Apply for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!
Learn more & submit a proposal by Nov. 3: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Research #CFP #CFA 🗃️📜
August 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Do you:
-Love #literature? 📚
-Adore #art? 🎨
-Fancy #film or #photography? 📽️📸
-Thrill to the #theater? 🎭
-Relish #RareBooks? 📖
Apply for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!
Learn more & submit a proposal by Nov. 3: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Research #CFP #CFA 🗃️📜
-Love #literature? 📚
-Adore #art? 🎨
-Fancy #film or #photography? 📽️📸
-Thrill to the #theater? 🎭
-Relish #RareBooks? 📖
Apply for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!
Learn more & submit a proposal by Nov. 3: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Research #CFP #CFA 🗃️📜
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"The letters Wallace sent to Washington add detail to a particularly vulnerable period of Wallace’s life..."
#ICYMI: @mattbucher.bsky.social wrote a blog post about a recent addition to @ransomcenter.bsky.social's #DavidFosterWallace Collection.
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#booksky 📖📜🗃️
#ICYMI: @mattbucher.bsky.social wrote a blog post about a recent addition to @ransomcenter.bsky.social's #DavidFosterWallace Collection.
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#booksky 📖📜🗃️
October 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"The letters Wallace sent to Washington add detail to a particularly vulnerable period of Wallace’s life..."
#ICYMI: @mattbucher.bsky.social wrote a blog post about a recent addition to @ransomcenter.bsky.social's #DavidFosterWallace Collection.
www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/news/2...
#booksky 📖📜🗃️
#ICYMI: @mattbucher.bsky.social wrote a blog post about a recent addition to @ransomcenter.bsky.social's #DavidFosterWallace Collection.
www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/news/2...
#booksky 📖📜🗃️
I met Jane Goodall in 1997 or 98, before everyone had cell phones and cameras. She was giving a lecture but I don’t remember anything about it except thinking, “wow, Jane Goodall is giving a talk here. I am at a Jane Goodall lecture.”
October 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I met Jane Goodall in 1997 or 98, before everyone had cell phones and cameras. She was giving a lecture but I don’t remember anything about it except thinking, “wow, Jane Goodall is giving a talk here. I am at a Jane Goodall lecture.”
Please, Jobu, let Austin win this one game.
October 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Please, Jobu, let Austin win this one game.
Our 2026 DFW conference in Austin welcomes scholars and non-academics of all backgrounds. Our call for papers is now live: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...
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September 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Our 2026 DFW conference in Austin welcomes scholars and non-academics of all backgrounds. Our call for papers is now live: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...
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Just picked up two new books for my summer TBR pile. Excited for both of these! @bookpeople.com @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social @mattbucher.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just picked up two new books for my summer TBR pile. Excited for both of these! @bookpeople.com @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social @mattbucher.bsky.social
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Current plan for this evening: @mattbucher.bsky.social’s latest, _The Summer Layoff_. Hot off the press.
June 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Current plan for this evening: @mattbucher.bsky.social’s latest, _The Summer Layoff_. Hot off the press.
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Leo 'The Summer Layoff', de Matt Bucher, que continúa la historia del narrador de 'The Belan Deck'. Ambas son novelas experimentales, marksonianas y marcianas, que configuran un rizoma psíquico que acaba siendo socio-patológico. Una épica de lo infraleve que pienso seguir hasta el final.
May 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Leo 'The Summer Layoff', de Matt Bucher, que continúa la historia del narrador de 'The Belan Deck'. Ambas son novelas experimentales, marksonianas y marcianas, que configuran un rizoma psíquico que acaba siendo socio-patológico. Una épica de lo infraleve que pienso seguir hasta el final.
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Bolanño illustrated www.penguinlibros.com/es/literatur... (via @mattbucher.bsky.social)
Los detectives salvajes (edición ilustrada) | Penguin Libros
Una de las mejores novelas del siglo XXI, según The New York Times y El País en edición especial ilustrada por Luis Scafati «No es exagerado decir que Bolaño es un genio. Los detectives salvajes debería otorgarle la inmortalidad».Washington Post
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May 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Bolanño illustrated www.penguinlibros.com/es/literatur... (via @mattbucher.bsky.social)
A sort of meta-blurb from Adam Levin, author of The Instructions.
May 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A sort of meta-blurb from Adam Levin, author of The Instructions.
Our old listserv, wallace-l, turns 29 years young today. Here's a thing I wrote for the 20th anniversary: www.mattbucher.com/2016/04/29/t...
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April 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Our old listserv, wallace-l, turns 29 years young today. Here's a thing I wrote for the 20th anniversary: www.mattbucher.com/2016/04/29/t...
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Matt Bucher's The Summer Layoff (Book acquired, 24 April 2025) biblioklept.org/2025/04/24/m...
Matt Bucher’s The Summer Layoff (Book acquired, 24 April 2025)
Matt Bucher’s forthcoming novel The Summer Layoff is a semi-sequel to his debut, The Belan Deck. Blurb: On Day 1, the narrator of The Summer Layoff is unceremoniously canned from his soul-suc…
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April 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Matt Bucher's The Summer Layoff (Book acquired, 24 April 2025) biblioklept.org/2025/04/24/m...
April 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"Hugely, spring exists again"—John Ashbery
Weather in Austin is currently perfect.
"Nothing is partially incomplete, but the wait / Invests everything like a climate. / What time of day is it? / Does anything matter? / Yes, for you must wait to see what it is really like"
Weather in Austin is currently perfect.
"Nothing is partially incomplete, but the wait / Invests everything like a climate. / What time of day is it? / Does anything matter? / Yes, for you must wait to see what it is really like"
February 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"Hugely, spring exists again"—John Ashbery
Weather in Austin is currently perfect.
"Nothing is partially incomplete, but the wait / Invests everything like a climate. / What time of day is it? / Does anything matter? / Yes, for you must wait to see what it is really like"
Weather in Austin is currently perfect.
"Nothing is partially incomplete, but the wait / Invests everything like a climate. / What time of day is it? / Does anything matter? / Yes, for you must wait to see what it is really like"
Really pleased that we had the chance to sit and talk with Sergio de la Pava and discuss his latest novel. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Episode 84 - Sergio De La Pava, author of Every Arc Bends Its Radian
Podcast Episode · Concavity Show · 02/27/2025 · 1h 5m
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February 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Really pleased that we had the chance to sit and talk with Sergio de la Pava and discuss his latest novel. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Talked a bit about The Belan Deck (and what’s next) on Always Choose Orange podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
#66: Matt Bucher - Thoughts on A.I. and Art, Staying Creative at a Corporate Job, Wikipedia Rabbit Holes, and Writing The Belan Deck
Podcast Episode · Always Choose Orange · 02/19/2025 · 1h 16m
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February 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Talked a bit about The Belan Deck (and what’s next) on Always Choose Orange podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Not sure what is going on at Daiso here.
February 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Not sure what is going on at Daiso here.
Blackwing + Field Notes combo of the day.
January 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Blackwing + Field Notes combo of the day.
Latest Concavity Show episode: looking back on our favorite books of 2024. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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January 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Latest Concavity Show episode: looking back on our favorite books of 2024. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
From 2021: Postcards from a World on Fire: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Postcards From a World on Fire (Published 2021)
These 193 stories show the reality of climate change. In every country in the world.
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January 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
From 2021: Postcards from a World on Fire: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Very worried for my friends in Pacific Palisades and my family all over LA. Just devastating fires.
January 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Very worried for my friends in Pacific Palisades and my family all over LA. Just devastating fires.