Congratulations to our finalists in the annual Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest, won this year by Joe Fletcher for THE CHIMERAS, selected by @alvinlu.bsky.social ! fc2.org/fletcher-202...
More on this flabbergasting novel anon, but will just say for now how excited I am for Joe Fletcher's The Chimeras—destined to be a classic of weird experimental horror and, along with books like Grant Maierhofer's Hidden World, a keystone for the new wave of UFO literature.
Announcement and finalists, below. Gratitude to @fictioncollective2.bsky.social's readers for pulling together such a high-caliber shortlist. I had a great time with every one of these manuscripts. And of course thank you to everyone who submitted to the contest.
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More on this flabbergasting novel anon, but will just say for now how excited I am for Joe Fletcher's The Chimeras—destined to be a classic of weird experimental horror and, along with books like Grant Maierhofer's Hidden World, a keystone for the new wave of UFO literature.
Happy birthday Isabella! Looks beautiful.
What he doesn’t realize is that many things happen that night without really happening. Because they happen in a foreign language.
Alina Stefanescu
Totally beside the point, but reading Karen Hao’s Empire of AI am struck by the complete lack of physical description of the spaces where all this drama occurs, which happens to take place in the beautiful city I live. There is only the tracing of massive, invisible flows of money, data, and power.
Excellent weird fiction, a unique take on the sanatorium novel, by @perfidiousscript.bsky.social. Great design too.
"Like a snake or other animal I don’t have a lot time or money, antennas, licenses, expertise. I know enough to know how to tune in, where most of the voices are ..."
Passive Sounding — Kelly Krumrie
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Excited to announce the publication of my novel, The Hollow of Evening, with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines in Winter 2027.
Gratitude to Akin Akinwumi and Meghan MacDonald of the press, as well as to the journals, editors, and organizations that have supported my writing through the years.
"Over the past week I could feel myself slowing down, hesitating to pick back up @alvinlu.bsky.social's DAYDREAMERS. Not because of disinterest but because I didn’t want it to end. I wanted to savor it."
Read the full review! frankgarrett.online/2026/01/lite...
i've said here before that karen an-hwei lee is a legit Genius and nobody else has a Writerly Brain that operates like hers and i cannot wait for her 2026 novel because it feels delightfully impossible to guess what it may contain *and* it comes with a k-ming chang stamp of approval!!
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That's a good one!
“Instead of the monumental ‘Who Am I,’ Lu refracts identity to show how we are as much the small hopes we have for our children as the faded memories we have of a distant home. Or the rumors we try to outrun.” Easily one of the most pleasurable reads in quite a while.
Marimo, Mon Amour, new from Karen An-hwei Lee, coming September:
"What starts off as a plague journal narrated by a chibi Rabelais becomes by way of limitless lists, alliteration, and logophilia something darker and more serious, a meditation on meaning, death, and God in the manner of Donne."
Afterword — @nameofauthor.bsky.social
@incastellated.bsky.social
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"This book has been out for a half dozen years and was well received for a small press volume. But I just came across it a few weeks ago and was so happy to read it that I feel compelled to publicly respond with my thanks to the one-named San Francisco poet, Klipschutz."
Compelling review of @alvinlu.bsky.social's DAYDREAMERS in Taipei Times: taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
Get your copy: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...
Recommended: The Cavalier, Nathalie Quintane, translated by Jonathan Larson (Winter Editions, 2025)
Indescribable prose, in an indeterminate genre.
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Recommended: The Cavalier, Nathalie Quintane, translated by Jonathan Larson (Winter Editions, 2025)
Indescribable prose, in an indeterminate genre.
asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
Pretty cool to hear you read from this (twice!), but the whole book is somethin’ else. And now I get to experience the ongoing reverberations …
Recommended:
The Veldt Institute, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social (Double Negative, 2025)
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Excellent review of the novel, which I just finished. Complex and counterintuitive, it made me backtrack to get my bearings, but revealed itself as compulsive reading — especially in its second half, when disparate narrative threads begin to bind
So great to hear the book hitting just the way it’s supposed to! Thank you for reading, Jeremy.
Nicely engaged review of Daydreamers by James Baron, writing for Taipei Times.
"Flaubert’s aphorism that truth is essentially perception, neatly captures the essence of this novel—a work of ideas that, as with so much great art, leaves us with more questions than answers."
Thank you for reading!
In stack form, echoing the ones that I been able to read and was happier for it. (Thread)
Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press)
Alvin Lu, Daydreamers (FC2)
2026, spending more time with friends
(Tr. @unpaginated.bsky.social &
Daniel Elkind)