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Mag + Readings + Books. PDX-based. {READING 2.10 @grandgesturebooks} Fiction @kevinmaloney.net | Poetry @brianstephenellis.bsky.social | EIC femmeintheory.bsky.social
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Three new bangin' poems from @adamdeutsch.com over at Pool Party!!! 🔥 He also happens to be one of my fav people in the lit scene. Check out his new work, then come see him live on Feb 10 at our next reading in PDX! 🎤✨
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Private property, accumulation, the death drive. Have you thought about them lately? You will want to read @adamdeutsch.com new poems over and over. Take a look at his poems then mark your calendar for Tues., Feb.10 for our next reading: Adam will be there!

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January 9, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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Private property, accumulation, the death drive. Have you thought about them lately? You will want to read @adamdeutsch.com new poems over and over. Take a look at his poems then mark your calendar for Tues., Feb.10 for our next reading: Adam will be there!

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January 9, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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Private property, accumulation, the death drive. Have you thought about them lately? You will want to read @adamdeutsch.com new poems over and over. Take a look at his poems then mark your calendar for Tues., Feb.10 for our next reading: Adam will be there!

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January 9, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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This story collection is SOOOOO FUCKIN GOOD. Like Denis Johnson level writing. Best book I read last year period. I can't believe we're lucky enough to publish it via Pool Party Books. I can't wait for you all to read this one. It's gonna blow your minds. 🤯📚✨
poolpartymag.com Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · 3d
We're soooooo excited to announce that the first book we'll be publishing via our new Pool Party Books division is @mattknuts.bsky.social's extremely well-crafted story collection SO FAR BEHIND I THOUGHT I WAS FIRST, to be released WINTER of 26/27. We're thrilled!!! 🔥🔥🔥
January 6, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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We're soooooo excited to announce that the first book we'll be publishing via our new Pool Party Books division is @mattknuts.bsky.social's extremely well-crafted story collection SO FAR BEHIND I THOUGHT I WAS FIRST, to be released WINTER of 26/27. We're thrilled!!! 🔥🔥🔥
January 6, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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FAVORITE STORIES OF 2025

Cryptid Summer by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social in @poolpartymag.com
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Cryptid Summer by Emily Costa
The Mystic Pigman is barely special. No clear eyewitness accounts, no police record. The story is he killed one woman while wearing a pig’s head and then escaped capture. We weren’t even sure if pig’s...
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December 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Thank you to @poolpartymag.com and @brianstephenellis.bsky.social for including my book on their Top 15 Books of 2025 list. 💙
December 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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THANK YOU @poolpartymag.com for picking Y2K as a top book of 2025!!!
December 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Find out what my top five reads of the year were, along with Managing Editor @femmeintheory.bsky.social and Poetry Editor @brianstephenellis.bsky.social!!! 📚✨
December 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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It's that time of year!!! Our editors each picked our five top reads of the year! Titles from @gigilittle.bsky.social, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social, @coletteshade.bsky.social, @lailalalami.com, @clairedederer.bsky.social, and more! 📚✨

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Pool Party Top 15 Books of 2025
Pool Party editors share their top five "best-of books" from 2025 as well as a few reco's for 2026!
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December 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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love this @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social short on @poolpartymag.com!

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The Hideaway by Sarp Sozdinler
When my parents got divorced, my dad moved into a house three blocks away and left the shed in our backyard to rot. The kind of shed with cheap plywood walls, a warped door, and windows smudged with s...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Hey Portland!!! This is tonight!!! Pool Party EOY BASH. Cash bar! Flash open mic! Goofy raffle! Refugee gift drive!!! Hope to see you! 7pm @ Coffee Beer

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December 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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"IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO THE DEAD"

I love this. @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in @poolpartymag.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Blood oaths, divorce, and not-so-secret drug deals. These childhood milestones and so much more to feel nostalgic over in Sozdinler’s new story 🩸
poolpartymag.com Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · Dec 4
“After that, things escalated. We stole more. Little things at first, stupid things: a rubber bouncy ball, a packet of sugar from Denny’s, a chipped plastic ring from the church lost-and-found.”

Check out @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's AMAZING new story "The Hideaway" 🔥 (link in comments)
December 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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“After that, things escalated. We stole more. Little things at first, stupid things: a rubber bouncy ball, a packet of sugar from Denny’s, a chipped plastic ring from the church lost-and-found.”

Check out @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's AMAZING new story "The Hideaway" 🔥 (link in comments)
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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"For over a hundred years after the first people tried to settle the swamp, the swamp fought back."

@femmeintheory.bsky.social and I (Kevin) interviewed Patrick Wensink about his new book THE GREAT BLACK SWAMP, where we discuss toxic green algae, Ohio pride, Kurt Cobain, and floating coffins ⚰️🤮✨
Everything's Okay, Nothing's Bad Here: Patrick Wensink in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney
Unlike the dinosaurs, whose extinction was the result of a single cataclysmic event, humans are courting our own extinction with significantly less flair. While the results of our warming planet are c...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I love Patrick and I love this book and you should all buy it right now, and if nothing else, read our discussion for my incredible interview technique, i.e.: "As a Gen Xer, I feel like I need to ask the grunge question…"
poolpartymag.com Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · Nov 21
"For over a hundred years after the first people tried to settle the swamp, the swamp fought back."

@femmeintheory.bsky.social and I (Kevin) interviewed Patrick Wensink about his new book THE GREAT BLACK SWAMP, where we discuss toxic green algae, Ohio pride, Kurt Cobain, and floating coffins ⚰️🤮✨
Everything's Okay, Nothing's Bad Here: Patrick Wensink in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney
Unlike the dinosaurs, whose extinction was the result of a single cataclysmic event, humans are courting our own extinction with significantly less flair. While the results of our warming planet are c...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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"For over a hundred years after the first people tried to settle the swamp, the swamp fought back."

@femmeintheory.bsky.social and I (Kevin) interviewed Patrick Wensink about his new book THE GREAT BLACK SWAMP, where we discuss toxic green algae, Ohio pride, Kurt Cobain, and floating coffins ⚰️🤮✨
Everything's Okay, Nothing's Bad Here: Patrick Wensink in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney
Unlike the dinosaurs, whose extinction was the result of a single cataclysmic event, humans are courting our own extinction with significantly less flair. While the results of our warming planet are c...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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We're thrilled to announce that @brianstephenellis.bsky.social has joined Pool Party as our poetry editor! We know Brian is going to bring their sharp eye & community spirit to Pool Party 🔥🔥🔥 Submit to them at poetry@poolpartymag.com (after reading our subs page!)
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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"At twenty-four, I fucked wherever I could while my boyfriend did the same, an impossible competition." Love this new essay by Alicia Gee, "I MAY LEAVE," up today at Pool Party. 🔥
poolpartymag.com Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · Nov 14
"Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity."

Check out Alicia Gee's amazing essay "I May Leave," a meditation on family, fidelity, and desire, up now at POOL PARTY 🦋🔥
I May Leave by Alicia Gee
Mum says that Don’s womanizing killed him, along with the smoking and the drinking. Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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"Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity."

Check out Alicia Gee's amazing essay "I May Leave," a meditation on family, fidelity, and desire, up now at POOL PARTY 🦋🔥
I May Leave by Alicia Gee
Mum says that Don’s womanizing killed him, along with the smoking and the drinking. Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥
poolpartymag.com Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · Oct 30
"Inside were his Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and KISS albums. All the dudes on the album jackets looked like party guys"

Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋
The Pool Pit by Guy Cramer
I’d gotten a call a few days before my birthday, this was back when I was just tall enough to punch my dad in the belly button.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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"Inside were his Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and KISS albums. All the dudes on the album jackets looked like party guys"

Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋
The Pool Pit by Guy Cramer
I’d gotten a call a few days before my birthday, this was back when I was just tall enough to punch my dad in the belly button.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"Some creatures themselves are like large apartment buildings for the smaller ones to live in."

Check out @jaimefountaine.bsky.social's amazing interview with artist Soso Capaldi where they discuss religious experience, their shared family, and David Lynch. 🎨✨
SCRATCHING BOTH ITCHES: JAIME FOUNTAINE IN CONVERSATION WITH SOSO CAPALDI
As I helped with the load-out after the closing of their most recent show, “Entity Cramming” with Eric Anthony Berdis at Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia, it struck me that, even though Soso Capaldi an...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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This one pretty much sums up the relationship I have with poetry and - who am I kidding? - with myself 😬😬. Thanks so much to @poolpartymag.com for publishing it recently; they’re doing really cool stuff 📱
October 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM