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Brendan McKennedy
@okehcomputer.bsky.social
such sorrow & then pancakes

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Fiction in The American Scholar, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, EPOCH, Colorado Review. I live in Busan. Yeah like in that movie title

I take photos: bsky.app/profile/insamsullivan.bsky.social
Humanity: a case in point.

Look up from your fucking phone.
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Halloween read:
The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher
#booksky
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Contributor copies arrived in Busan today ~ how nice to hold it.

I don't publish stories often, but when I do they somehow go into excellent journals like @theamscho.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
August 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Wisława Szymborska, "In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself"
#poetry
July 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It's still summer, right? I've just gotten my beach reads lined up.

#charlesportis #mavisgallant #readmoremavis #booksky
July 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Been refamiliarizing myself w/ Joseph Campbell, & one thing that leaps out is how neatly Twin Peaks—including (especially) The Return—maps to the hero’s journey. I know @markfrost.bsky.social is a novelist w/ special interest in world mythologies; speculating I’m seeing his hand here.
February 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
One nice thing about deciding (after nine years!) to settle in Korea, instead of half-planning eventually to live elsewhere, is that it finally makes sense again to own real books -- including these out-of-print gems by Mavis Gallant.
#booksky #readmoremavis
June 13, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Best taco in Korea? I haven't tried them all, but so far yeah—by a landslide. Tapas Tokki in #Busan.
May 13, 2024 at 6:11 AM
A perfect short story
January 22, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Finished this book last night. The story "From Mullae" is now by far my favorite piece of Korean fiction. Kang (with Hong translating) absolutely nails an uncanny that's universally haunting but also so specific to Korea.
January 20, 2024 at 7:13 AM
First read of the year (a re-read): this absolute gem by Mavis Gallant. Let's all read more Mavis in '24.
January 1, 2024 at 7:01 AM