Mo Daviau

Can you get all that filler and shit removed or are you stuck with it even after you get cast out of the cult? Does it degrade over time?

Geraldine's in Columbia City.

I'm thinking of going to AWP next year for no other reason than it's in Chicago and I want to go to Sawa's Old Warsaw Buffet.

I remember my dad, who died in 1992, telling me that the US must never drop a bomb on Iran. That would start WWIII. That it would be the worst international disaster humanity would ever witness.

Epic and Lovely: A Novel Epic and Lovely is the swan song of Nina Simone Blaine, the daughter of a long-dead 1950s Vegas crooner and a Texas beauty queen forty years his junior. In the wake of her unexpected divorce, Nina returns to her hometown of Los Angeles to spend her final days with The Friends of the Good Thumb, a support group for patients with A12 Fibrillin Deficiency Syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects children of much-older fathers, causes several physical deformities, and results in death around the age of forty. Written as a deathbed letter to the UCLA physician who has tracked Nina and the other Good Thumbs throughout their lives, Nina recounts her final days with the group and with Cole, the charismatic, sadistic fellow A12er with whom she has fallen madly in love, who charms and harms her in equal measures. An unlikely alliance with a tech billionaire, the return of her estranged mother, and the birth of the baby she never thought she’d have force Nina to reckon with the triumphs and mistakes of her life and to fight to leave her child in good hands.

Shouts on Rare Disease Day to my fellow Marfanoids! Except for that one guy.

I wrote this novel about our shared affliction: annieblooms.com/book/9781959...

Republicans: We Fuck Kids or Blow Them Up— no third option

In Spanish- "¡Dejen de meter su pinche IA en todas partes!" "Nadie la pidio" "Todos la odian"

in German- "Würgt Eure K.I. nicht in jeden Scheiss rein"

in English

I've uploaded the #Spanish and #German translations of STOP FORCING AI INTO EVERY FUCKING THING to #TeePublic,

www.teepublic.com/user/nobodys...

(You can also get English, Russian, French and SFW versions.)

Can I sue the craven old white lady who leaves her stank coochie smell all over the restroom before shrieking "you're a man!" underneath a stall door at someone who just needs to pee and is not befouling the air with their partially-digested McNugget farts and rank bigotry? Can I?

My Cat Power "Metal Heart" essay goes up against The Cranberries on 3/9.

Also, I've never submitted a bracket because I don't know how brackets work. (My dad died when I was a kid, both husbands were/are not sport guys, I hate asking for help, it's all about the writing, I don't know...)

The cover of Murder Your Darlings by Jenna Blum

A customer gushed about this one and though I rarely pick up a thriller, this one is pretty good.

Today I had a 97-year-old customer who very proudly told me the best book she's read in her 97 years of life is Theo of Golden.

She lived through the golden age of publishing.

Theo of Golden.

I wonder if Serj would let me read cups at his coffee shop. I'm a wise Armenian matriarch.

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Chicken in a Biskit crackers. Like breaking open a bouillon cube and eating it. Mmm.

LOL.

Some Smith alum who attended my Austin reading ripped their name out of their copy of Epic and Lovely and is selling it for $14 as some sort of special signed copy.

Get you a discounted, damaged copy of my book?

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A customer came in for Theo of Golden and walked out with Epic and Lovely!!!!!

Come to Portland, city of introverts who don't want to be around people and are extremely proud of themselves to the point of making merch! (I miss LA.)

Love Story: JFK Jr and Carolyn is worth it just for the massive '90s nostalgia trip. I didn't think the story was that compelling, though. I was kind of hoping it would turn into a Mad Men reboot in the '90s, with JFK as Don Draper. That would have been better.

It’s Sylvia’s death day, for all who observe.

Whaaaaat?!??

The Villa’s Tacos moment made me cry. Highland Park!!!!

❤️❤️❤️

Thanks for the high praise!

Copy of Every Anxious Wave along with a slice of cake with a 10 number candle

Happy 10th anniversary to my debut, Every Anxious Wave.

Hi there! Can I help you find anything?

One of the best things you can do as a writer to support the literary landscape is to buy small press books. Buy them at indie bookstores, ask for them at your libraries. The big publishers have proven they are just another corporation. Small presses are responsible for innovation.

An Interview with Rachel Weaver by Mo Daviau Rachel Weaver’s beautiful and harrowing memoir Dizzy takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through the American medical establishment. Stricken with constant, unexplained dizziness…

Dizzy drops next Tuesday, 2/10, from WVU Press!

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University presses to the rescue.

Epic and Lovely Epic and Lovely Mo Daviau

My novel Epic and Lovely has characters with a fictional disorder that's described as "Marfan on steroids." wvupressonline.com/node/1000

BOOKSELLERS! Please consider voting for EPIC AND LOVELY, a September '25 IndieNext pick. My book got very little publicity owing to the fact that it was published by a small press, so this would be a much-appreciated boost. Thank you for considering.

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“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

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