Kevin Maloney
@kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
Author of HORSE GIRL FEVER, THE RED-HEADED PILGRIM & CULT OF LORETTA. Co-editor: @poolpartymag.com. Married to @femmeintheory.bsky.social
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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. 🔥
"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 🦋🔥
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.
poolpartymag.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"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. 🔥
Reposted by Kevin Maloney
cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
"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. 🔥
"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 🦋🔥
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.
poolpartymag.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"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. 🔥
Was really stoked to write the introduction for this new @maudlinhouse.bsky.social edition of WINESBURG, OHIO w/ AMAZING illustrations by Dmitry Samarov 🔥🔥🔥
The text stays untouched. The experience changes.
A new visual edition of Winesburg, Ohio designed by Dmitry Samarov, with an intro by Kevin Maloney.
Maudlin Classics, 2026.
A new visual edition of Winesburg, Ohio designed by Dmitry Samarov, with an intro by Kevin Maloney.
Maudlin Classics, 2026.
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Was really stoked to write the introduction for this new @maudlinhouse.bsky.social edition of WINESBURG, OHIO w/ AMAZING illustrations by Dmitry Samarov 🔥🔥🔥
Hey Portland!!! If you’re going to the @literary-arts.org Portland Book Festival this weekend, I’ll be doing a pop-up reading at the Portland Art Museum Sat 11/8 @ 2pm in front of The Little Harpist. Hope to see you there!!! #PDFBookFest #portlandbookfestival
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hey Portland!!! If you’re going to the @literary-arts.org Portland Book Festival this weekend, I’ll be doing a pop-up reading at the Portland Art Museum Sat 11/8 @ 2pm in front of The Little Harpist. Hope to see you there!!! #PDFBookFest #portlandbookfestival
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Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥
"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 💀🔥💋
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.
poolpartymag.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥
Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥
"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 💀🔥💋
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.
poolpartymag.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥
Reposted by Kevin Maloney
This @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social story is 11 (!!) years old now, and I still remember immediately loving it, accepting it, and hyping it probably almost every Halloween since...
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Ghost by Kevin Maloney
Two days before Halloween I caught my wife having sex with my best friend Dave in a position we’d never tried in seven years of marriage. She had a good explanation—she didn’t love me anymore. I could...
www.hobartpulp.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social story is 11 (!!) years old now, and I still remember immediately loving it, accepting it, and hyping it probably almost every Halloween since...
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
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"The big religions feel like Costco and McDonalds, and the little indigenous religions and spiritual stuff feels like mom-and-pop stores. I stan a mom-and-pop store, and that’s what I want to be affiliated with."
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
"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. 🎨✨
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...
poolpartymag.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"The big religions feel like Costco and McDonalds, and the little indigenous religions and spiritual stuff feels like mom-and-pop stores. I stan a mom-and-pop store, and that’s what I want to be affiliated with."
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
Reposted by Kevin Maloney
Thanks to @thedodgemag.bsky.social and @addisonzeller.bsky.social for sharing my story "Two Dreams," rejected two different times explicitly for having talking animals. Like, literally, one of them was a just form and "no talking animals."
In wonderful company:
www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...
In wonderful company:
www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...
Two Dreams by Derrick Martin-Campbell — The Dodge
www.thedodgemag.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Thanks to @thedodgemag.bsky.social and @addisonzeller.bsky.social for sharing my story "Two Dreams," rejected two different times explicitly for having talking animals. Like, literally, one of them was a just form and "no talking animals."
In wonderful company:
www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...
In wonderful company:
www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...
"The big religions feel like Costco and McDonalds, and the little indigenous religions and spiritual stuff feels like mom-and-pop stores. I stan a mom-and-pop store, and that’s what I want to be affiliated with."
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
"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. 🎨✨
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...
poolpartymag.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"The big religions feel like Costco and McDonalds, and the little indigenous religions and spiritual stuff feels like mom-and-pop stores. I stan a mom-and-pop store, and that’s what I want to be affiliated with."
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
Reposted by Kevin Maloney
They settled on 2,500 words b/c we read @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social's story "Ghost" and they decided that was a length they liked--"kinda long, but without feeling long," so someone copy/pasted the text into Word to get an exact count, then rounded up. Editing!
Ghost by Kevin Maloney
originally published by Hobart, October 2014
re-animated by HAD, October 2021
Two days before Halloween I caught my wife having sex with my best friend Dave in a position we’d never trie...
www.havehashad.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
They settled on 2,500 words b/c we read @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social's story "Ghost" and they decided that was a length they liked--"kinda long, but without feeling long," so someone copy/pasted the text into Word to get an exact count, then rounded up. Editing!
🚨🚨🚨NEW POOL PARTY POEM ALERT🚨🚨🚨
"...mysterious
like someone on an app
inviting you to meet
to drown
in their self-regard."
Check out this amazing poem "He’s as deep as The Mariana Trench (when it writes poetry)" from @ewenglass.bsky.social & come back tomorrow for another banger 🔥🔥🔥
like someone on an app
inviting you to meet
to drown
in their self-regard."
Check out this amazing poem "He’s as deep as The Mariana Trench (when it writes poetry)" from @ewenglass.bsky.social & come back tomorrow for another banger 🔥🔥🔥
Two Poems by Ewan Glass
He’s all about that darknessand what we still don’t know,mysterious
poolpartymag.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🚨🚨🚨NEW POOL PARTY POEM ALERT🚨🚨🚨
Is this ANTIFA?
September 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Is this ANTIFA?
War Report #3: the Horrors of Powell’s Books #ThePortlandWars2025
September 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
War Report #3: the Horrors of Powell’s Books #ThePortlandWars2025
MORE LIVE FOOTAGE FROM WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND!!!
September 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
MORE LIVE FOOTAGE FROM WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND!!!
LIVE FOOTAGE FROM WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND!!!
September 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
LIVE FOOTAGE FROM WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND!!!
UPDATE: my wife is going to an art event where they make puppets and perform a puppet skit for families. Will let you know if a war breaks out or if anything ends up ravaged. #Portland #ThePortlandWars2025
September 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
UPDATE: my wife is going to an art event where they make puppets and perform a puppet skit for families. Will let you know if a war breaks out or if anything ends up ravaged. #Portland #ThePortlandWars2025
Drinking a margarita at a food cart pod, surrounded by parents and young children in war ravaged Portland. Highly recommend the lamb shawarma. Haven’t found the war or anything ravaged yet, but I’ll keep looking.
September 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Drinking a margarita at a food cart pod, surrounded by parents and young children in war ravaged Portland. Highly recommend the lamb shawarma. Haven’t found the war or anything ravaged yet, but I’ll keep looking.
Is contemporary literary criticism a thing? If so, who is doing it well? As in… is there a book I can buy that was written in the last ten years that is an important work of literary criticism? Not trying to make a point… genuinely curious and looking for suggestions.
September 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Is contemporary literary criticism a thing? If so, who is doing it well? As in… is there a book I can buy that was written in the last ten years that is an important work of literary criticism? Not trying to make a point… genuinely curious and looking for suggestions.
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Sometimes you read a first line and you're like... oh fuck this is going to be good. Casey Jo Graham Welmers' essay "Conjuring a Life" delivers and then some. Sooooooooo good. Up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥
"Maybe when kids like Jessie & John grew up they wanted to be firefighters or teachers or someone that excavates dinosaurs, but you never really knew what you wanted to be because you always had this inexplicable notion you’d be dead."
Check out Casey Jo Graham Welmers's 🔥 essay "Conjuring a Life"
Check out Casey Jo Graham Welmers's 🔥 essay "Conjuring a Life"
Conjuring a Life by Casey Jo Graham Welmers
Maybe when kids like Jessie and John grew up they wanted to be firefighters or teachers or someone that excavates dinosaurs, but you never really knew what you wanted to be because you always had this...
poolpartymag.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sometimes you read a first line and you're like... oh fuck this is going to be good. Casey Jo Graham Welmers' essay "Conjuring a Life" delivers and then some. Sooooooooo good. Up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥
Sometimes you read a first line and you're like... oh fuck this is going to be good. Casey Jo Graham Welmers' essay "Conjuring a Life" delivers and then some. Sooooooooo good. Up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥
"Maybe when kids like Jessie & John grew up they wanted to be firefighters or teachers or someone that excavates dinosaurs, but you never really knew what you wanted to be because you always had this inexplicable notion you’d be dead."
Check out Casey Jo Graham Welmers's 🔥 essay "Conjuring a Life"
Check out Casey Jo Graham Welmers's 🔥 essay "Conjuring a Life"
Conjuring a Life by Casey Jo Graham Welmers
Maybe when kids like Jessie and John grew up they wanted to be firefighters or teachers or someone that excavates dinosaurs, but you never really knew what you wanted to be because you always had this...
poolpartymag.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sometimes you read a first line and you're like... oh fuck this is going to be good. Casey Jo Graham Welmers' essay "Conjuring a Life" delivers and then some. Sooooooooo good. Up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥
Reposted by Kevin Maloney
📚📚 WHY POOL PARTY BOOKS??? 📚📚
• Ryan-Ashley’s 15 yrs as a creative director w/ publicity experience = thoughtful & marketable promo materials, a strong promo plan & gorgeous art
• Kevin’s experience as an author w/ 3 book pubs means you’re working w/ someone who understands the process soup-to-nuts
• Ryan-Ashley’s 15 yrs as a creative director w/ publicity experience = thoughtful & marketable promo materials, a strong promo plan & gorgeous art
• Kevin’s experience as an author w/ 3 book pubs means you’re working w/ someone who understands the process soup-to-nuts
September 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📚📚 WHY POOL PARTY BOOKS??? 📚📚
• Ryan-Ashley’s 15 yrs as a creative director w/ publicity experience = thoughtful & marketable promo materials, a strong promo plan & gorgeous art
• Kevin’s experience as an author w/ 3 book pubs means you’re working w/ someone who understands the process soup-to-nuts
• Ryan-Ashley’s 15 yrs as a creative director w/ publicity experience = thoughtful & marketable promo materials, a strong promo plan & gorgeous art
• Kevin’s experience as an author w/ 3 book pubs means you’re working w/ someone who understands the process soup-to-nuts
Going to see the Flaming Lips tonight. Last time I saw them play live was... *checks notes*... 32 years ago 😳
September 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Going to see the Flaming Lips tonight. Last time I saw them play live was... *checks notes*... 32 years ago 😳
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📚📚 ANNOUNCING: POOL PARTY BOOKS!!! 📚📚
Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025. Visit our website for details 🔥
Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025. Visit our website for details 🔥
Pool Party - Book Submissions
Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025.
poolpartymag.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
📚📚 ANNOUNCING: POOL PARTY BOOKS!!! 📚📚
Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025. Visit our website for details 🔥
Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025. Visit our website for details 🔥