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No big deal, just found out I’m staying at one of the most haunted hotels in the country
Happy first day of #AWP26 !!! Need something to read on your flight? How about THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME featuring @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & me (and special guest)!!! 🔥🔥🔥
#AWP26 goals:
Midnight bedtime
No hangovers
Eat blue crab
Take breaks to wander around Baltimore
Buy reasonable # of books
Lounge around hotel room
If @aaronburch.bsky.social says we should go to a Casino at 11:45pm, politely decline
A beautiful day to read THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME!
“D.T.: I don’t want to throw the interview off or anything, but is this the part where we kiss?”
Happy first day of #AWP26 !!! Need something to read on your flight? How about THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME featuring @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & me (and special guest)!!! 🔥🔥🔥
I also caught Chair Co vibes. Sooooo good and weird
I read @aaronburch.bsky.social's TACOMA cover to cover today, and it's so funny and smart and heartfelt. I told him it's "a blow to the idea that great art should come from tragedy! Tacoma is my favorite thing you’ve written and it came out of one of the happiest summers of your life." So good!
Cheerleading & Euphoria in one flash piece?!?! This one is pure 🔥 ...take a minute and give it a read.
Cheerleading & Euphoria in one flash piece?!?! This one is pure 🔥 ...take a minute and give it a read.
Pool Party's reading tonight got a shoutout in Portland Monthly!!! Tonight at 6pm at Grand Gesture Books! Hope to see you all there 🔥🔥🔥
Thrilled to announce that HORSE GIRL FEVER is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award - Ken Kesey Award for Fiction!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Thrilled to announce that HORSE GIRL FEVER is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award - Ken Kesey Award for Fiction!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Using generative AI to “write” a book and calling yourself a writer is like looking out the window of an airplane flying over Mt. Everest and telling everyone you climbed it.
Just finished TACOMA yesterday and holy shit!!! Immediately one of my favorite indie books of all time. Wild and fun and free. Haven’t felt this way about a book since Nagel’s DUPLEX. Soooooooooooo good 📚🔥🧨
"Even the storm clouds that hover above grayscale despots & dumpster divers have cheery little smiles drawn around their gritty cherubic faces"
New poetry from RJ Equality Ingram 🔥🔥🔥
poolpartymag.com/three-poems-2/
LOOK MA, WE MADE IT ON TV!!! Watch our little segment on AM EXTRA where we talk all things POOL PARTY, including our upcoming reading on Feb 10 / 6pm @ Grand Gesture Books feat:
Chelsea Bieker
Jon Raymond
Luke Goebel
Camille McDaniel
Adam Deutsch
& Lauren Lavín
Make sure to snag some tix at EventBrite if you live in PDX:
www.eventbrite.com/e/pool-party...
LOOK MA, WE MADE IT ON TV!!! Watch our little segment on AM EXTRA where we talk all things POOL PARTY, including our upcoming reading on Feb 10 / 6pm @ Grand Gesture Books feat:
Chelsea Bieker
Jon Raymond
Luke Goebel
Camille McDaniel
Adam Deutsch
& Lauren Lavín
I think the last 10 years have deeply traumatized people, & a symptom of that trauma is black-and-white thinking. Great art always pushes us into gray areas where there's no clear distinction between good & evil. Trauma brain wants to know exactly who the bad guy is.
Portland, OR in 2020 felt angry and chaotic
Portland, OR in 2026 feels angry and organized
The world is scary as hell, but I've never seen anything like what is happening in my community. I imagine it's like... 10x more organized in MN. Feels like really BIG change is possible.
This edition exists because the text could take it.
shop.maudlinhouse.net#winesburg-ohio
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
Come see Luke Goebel read at our upcoming Pool Party event. Feb 10 at 6pm at Grand Gesture Books 🔥🔥🔥
Come see Luke Goebel read at our upcoming Pool Party event. Feb 10 at 6pm at Grand Gesture Books 🔥🔥🔥
Random question for grammar nerds: do you need a comma after the state name in the following sentence? "I moved to Portland, Oregon, in the fall of 2007." ??? Or no comma?
On top of being very funny (surprise!), I think this story, more than his others, will wind up being the key to understanding what mushrooms are a metaphor for in Kevin's writing.
We return with two great pieces this Saturday, but before then, stop what you are doing and give The Bulb Region writer Kevin Maloney’s (@kevinmaloney.net) banger in HAD (@havehashad.com) a read!
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/bab...
This is a first for Pool Party!!! A new story "Cotton Candy" from acclaimed Hungarian author, Miklós Vámos, translated by Portland's own @agiborimottern.bsky.social 🍭🍭🍭
Hits all our fav notes of nostalgia and childhood while also hinting at a deeper message. Hope you enjoy!!!
