INTERVIEW: David Leo Rice by Ben Russell, The Void Is Where It’s At Tommy Bruno spent his life in a tuxedo, selling popcorn.

Huge thanks to Zona Motel for publishing and to Ben Russell for conducting this excellent new SQUIMBOP interview! @southwestreview.bsky.social @1111press.bsky.social

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Ep. 11.1 - Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET w/David Leo Rice — Method and Madness The brilliant writer David Leo Rice joined me to talk Thomas Pynchon’s latest, and possibly last, novel SHADOW TICKET. Pynchonian Zones, the warp and weft of history, the end of the systems novel, a...

Had a great time talking SHADOW TICKET with Brad Kelly on Method and Madness!

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New Squimbop interview in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social -- thanks to Raphael Helfand for conducting! @specktor.bsky.social

The Mythmaker Gazes at Himself: A Conversation with David Leo Rice | Los Angeles Review of Books Matthew Specktor and author David Leo Rice discuss his book series, “A Room in Dodge City.”

Very excited to be in conversation about SQUIMBOP with the great @specktor.bsky.social
in LA this coming Tues -- we started the conversation several years ago, w/r/t DODGE CITY 2: @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @southwestreview.bsky.social @1111press.bsky.social

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Just when y'all thought we were done w/ the hype 😅

In addition to our spooky af horror issue, we're hooking you up w/ some new Squimbop lore from the homie @raviddice.bsky.social 🔥

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RSVP to Book Launch: The Squimbop Condition | Partiful David Leo Rice is the author of the novels Angel House, The New House, The Berlin Wall, and the Dodge City trilogy, as well as the story collections Drifter and The Squimbop Condition, out later this ...

LA Squimbop launch next Tues with @specktor.bsky.social and Chris Zeischegg -- RSVP here! @southwestreview.bsky.social @1111press.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @wakeisland.bsky.social

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Launching Squimbop in LA with @specktor.bsky.social and Chris Zeischegg on Oct 14 -- see you there!

It brings me such joy to have stories out on the same day in Southwest Review (the third oldest lit quarterly in the US) and Speculative Erotics/God's Cruel Joke (young queer experimental zine).
When I said I write literary horror and surrealist trash I was not playing.

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Apocalyptic Consciousness: The Philosophy of Pure Perception and Speculative Fiction Kitaro Nishida and the Subject-Object Collapse in David Leo Rice's "The Berlin Wall" and Michael Faber's "The Book of Strange New Things". Excerpt from "Apocalyptic Consciousness", a book-length philo...

Fantastic reading of THE BERLIN WALL in terms of the permanent dream-state we've all entered: @whiskeytit.com

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"Then, oh! The curse!" Featuring eyeless spirits, marrowless care, drone mysticism, cemetery performances, and the top seven fragrances of 2025—so far!

New email edition features work by Gina Hay, an important dispatch on fragrances from AC special correspondent @alec-ivan.bsky.social, plus updates on @perfidiousscript.bsky.social, @raviddice.bsky.social, and an upcoming performance from AC ed Meghan Lamb

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Next time on writing the rapids

Out today!

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THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by @raviddice.bsky.social is out in the mf world thx to the homies at @1111press.bsky.social 💥

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📌 ICYMI, from the homies at @1111press.bsky.social: THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by @raviddice.bsky.social

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In the end,you can’t turn your head from the flood and be spared its damage. And even in doing so, you sense something is being withheld. Like an Escher drawing of a man staring at the back of his own head, looking away fuses with looking in, until you can’t separate walking away from walking toward

Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025 July Edition

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David Leo Rice on 'The Berlin Wall' | Harvard Magazine David Leo Rice explores the strange, unseen forces shaping our world.

“Storytelling is about exploring the unknown,” says David Leo Rice @raviddice.bsky.social ’10. “Trying to go places, even in your own mind, where there’s some taboo, something holding you back from going.” His novels ask: what lies just out of view?

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This century needs a sequel:

Huge thanks to Propagule Magazine for publishing JAKOB AS BIOGRAPHER from The New House 2: @whiskeytit.com

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