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Great readings from some @whiskeytit.com homies on Thursday night. @adamalsirgany.bsky.social @ginatron.bsky.social and @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social. And huge thanks to Miette Gillette, the genius behind it all. #AWP #AWP26

Oh man. I haven’t checked Goodreads in a minute. What wonders await me?! 👀

DAVE FITZGERALD RECOMMENDS: Brandi Homan’s 'Burn Fortune', Kristin Garth’s 'Daddy', and Danielle Chelosky’s 'Pregaming Grief' Paint Your Wagon, the 1969 Western musical starring Jean Seberg, Clint Eastwood, and Lee Marvin, was a historic commercial flop, by turns both mindbogglingly strange, and mind-numbingly dull in its de...

New Xray Recommends is live - a paean to Brandi Homan’s Burn Fortune, Kristin Garth’s Daddy, Danielle Chelosky’s Pregaming Grief, and the 1969 movie musical Paint Your Wagon! @clashbooks.bsky.social @anxietypress.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @xraylitmag.bsky.social

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It arrived!
Thank you @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social & @whiskeytit.com!

I can’t wait to start this insane 581-page reading journey!

Dave Fitzgerald's review of The Butcher of Nazareth 5/5: I can be a bit like Charlie Brown with the football when it comes to fictional reimaginings of the New Testament. No matter how many times I'm disappointed, it's a conceptual template I continue ...

New review up on Goodreads of @davidscotthay.bsky.social's The Butcher of Nazareth (for which, full bias alert, I also wrote the introduction). Second Coming soon from @whiskeytit.com www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Been relearning an important writing lesson this week. Half the battle is just getting started. Sitting down and doing it whether you’re tired or not. Whether you feel like it or not. Whether it’s the NBA playoffs or not. Once you get going, there’s no better feeling in the world.

Fiction Review: Dave Fitzgerald on Stefan O. Rak’s Paranoic Novel New Roses Paranoia is a tricky beast to capture. I think we can all recognize and relate to it from the outside easily enough, whether in the wild-eyed monologuing of Macbeth and Raskolnikov or the slow-burn…

Back on Heavy Feather Review for the first time in a minute to gush and fawn over Stefan O. Rak's staggering New Roses, a kinetic, genius level work of paranoiac enlightenment. Out now from @whiskeytit.com

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More like More Hell Yeah! 🔥🔥🔥

It's a good podcast!

Checked in on the old Goodreads page this week and was thrilled to discover Troll now has over 50 ratings, and nearly 20 reviews, including these two recent gems!

If you’ve read and haven’t rated/reviewed, please consider doing so. If you haven’t read, do that!

@whiskeytit.com

-Got to see Water Damage recently, and I don’t think any album could capture the relentless power of their live drone. But this one is a great place to start.
-YHWH Nailgun is doing something unique with raw abandon. That goes a long way with me.
-RIP Roy Ayers. The mf’n realest.

Flesh.
Fleshy flesh flesh.
Flesssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
🤤

I was prepared to hate this review, but then it got super nice at the end! Thanks to the the man with the kind face @jchaplinsky.bsky.social for taking a chance on Troll. You’re not the first person to tell me it’s something of an antidote to Fuccboi. @whiskeytit.com

Stop by the @whiskeytit.com booth 563 at #AWP and pick up an ultra-limited preview copy of @davidscotthay.bsky.social’s latest mindbreaker: The Butcher of Nazareth (official release - Feb. 2026). If you check the fine print on that badass cover, you'll notice that I wrote the introduction!

Dave Fitzgerald's review of Suspect 5/5: Good Lord. Gina Tron has been through it. I'm not gonna lie, this one hit close to home. Not so much, as I originally expected, for the school shooting angle, as for Tron's cleareyed recollection...

New review up on Goodreads of @ginatron.bsky.social's harrowing memoir of post-Columbine fear and smalltown paranoia, out now from our shared mother goddess @whiskeytit.com ! Go snag one at #AWP25 this weekend! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Thanks Noah! Glad you dug it. @whiskeytit.com

Ah, that special time of year when I get hype for March Madness, fill out 2 or 3 brackets with different friend groups, sit down to watch the first game, and am instantly reminded how much better the NBA is than college basketball.

-that dog. are so in the pocket for me I'm honestly shocked I'd never heard of them 'til now
-Merope so sparkly!💎🤩💎
-Trees > Forest > Woods
-Earth vs. The Wildhearts is incredibly stupid fun. Killer songwriting about being the asshole at the party. Like if Gn'R went full punk

Holy shit! Had an outpatient procedure today and woke up to this. Am I dreaming? Am I in Oz? What a dazzling, humbling slate of writers to see my name among. Huge thanks to James Nulick and @anxietypress.bsky.social including me in this murderer’s row. 🔥🖤

-Great Falls is some mathy-ass hardcore. Makes me wanna mosh at weird angles. Fuck up my back.
-I don't want to oversell Jellyfish, but it's giving Freddy Mercury doing Brian Wilson songs with ELO. Crazy fun.
-Saffron Bloom is some sexy-ass dub. Makes me wanna give back massages.

Lotta folks I admire posting resource lists of late. For anyone seeking insight into the growing threat of Christian Nationalism & the evangelical right, here’s a solid primer. Armstrong in particular is an international treasure @jasonachristian.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @videstellae.bsky.social

-RIP Porridge Radio. You never wasted our time
-Syclops is one of the best electronic artists I've come across in a minute. Shimmery, complex and eminently danceable
-Starting to come around on Boldy James
-The Pangaea/Agharta back-2-back listening experience never, ever gets old

Dave Fitzgerald's review of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours 5/5: Hovering over his own life like a noncorporeal spirit in ascendance after ingesting an indeterminate (i.e. – large; epic; heroic) amount of reservation-grade peyote, Luke B. Goebel (or his narrat...

New review up on Goodreads of Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of them Are Yours, a kaleidoscopic, mind-expanding cannonball run across the vanishing American frontier brought to you by the good folks at Fiction Collective 2 @fictioncollective2.bsky.social

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Mac McClung fatigue - when you literally see someone once a year, and it still feels like too much.

Don’t write to get on year-end Top 10 lists. Write to get on banned lists. Write to get on burn lists. Write to be the bottommost log on the pile.

You bet buddy. Don't let the bastards grind you down.

-New work schedule means a 30-scrob is now the weekly baseline.
-In the past 2 weeks, closed out the colossal catalogues of both Curren$y and Blu. What ultraprolific rapper should I do next (Czarface, AJ Suede, and Estee Nack were other recent obsessions). Help me fall in love!

Team Hoyt ✊