Aaron Burch

You at the bookfair now? I’m not but could coke dip in for it!

I’m doing this right before Jake. What about lunch today maybe??

I need one!

Finished @aaronburch.bsky.social 's charming novella TACOMA the other night. I now understand his illustration! Loved the wormhole.

Book cover (white): Tacoma (title in blue letters) Aaron Burch (author name in black letters) Black and white illustration of a lit rocket (firework) AUTOFOCUS (publisher's name in black letters)

#BookMail is the best mail & it always seems to arrive when I need it. Thanks, @aaronburch.bsky.social -- I'm really looking forward to reading your book!

This was super fun. Thanks, @neonpajamas.bsky.social! Sucks for you if you weren’t there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oyster boy date??

“politely decline”
— famous last words!

close up of Richard Jenkins in the HBO show DTF St. Louis subtitle reading: "It's like a nerd thing?"

whenever I tell any of my non-writer friends I'm headed to AWP...

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?”

they're called PRIORITIES

Squeezing in the just-dropped Love is Blind wedding ep before I head to the airport for AWP.

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 hadn't either! We just saw it on the HBO homescreen and have liked the last couple Jason Bateman shows so figured we'd give it a shot. Maybe ads have pitched its off-kilterness (but I/we haven't seen any or even heard of it!) but I didn't assume any, and was really pleased how askew it was!

Hell yeah! Was a little afraid that might mislead, but there's something just askew enough about it all that made it feel kinda Tim Robinson-y to me, and wanted to encourage the other Chair Co. heads to check it out!

Watched the first ep of DTF St. Louis having heard and knowing nothing about it, and turns out it’s kinda an erotic thriller (?) and has surprisingly big The Chair Company vibes, and also Linda Cardellini, which is all to say it was incredibly my shit.

spent my evening tryna write something for this

He’s AFFILIATED with them.

wait, we doing text messages now, too??

Totally. Sometimes I'm just wrong, and it turns out I whiffed! Other times, something is great but just not quite for me. (And sometimes not for the journal? HAD & SSL don't really overlap, but back when I was still doing Ho, there were times I'd want a HAD submission for Ho and vice versa!)

A handful of my fave stories I've read online in the last few months are stories I declined as submissions, and maybe they really leveled up in revisions, but also... art is so subjective, by audience, but also time and circumstance and any number of factors. It's part of what's so great about it.

O Youth and Beauty!

Oh, kinda crazy. I think you'd love him!

The phrase "I think of the way that horse used to run at those parties," specifically, reminded me of the opening scene of "O Youth and Beauty!" a paragraph I think about kinda all the time, and think you'd dig.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/195...

hell yeah! I think you'll dig it!

“The Woman In White” by Russell Brakefield “I saw a woman in the road,” he said. “A woman in white robes. Sort of floating there.” He tried to describe the woman, but even as he talked, he realized he probably hadn’t seen a woman after all.

Super excited to feature a new @russellbrakefield.bsky.social story today!

@mitchnobis.bsky.social: I spy you!

❤️❤️

that poem rules! so excited to swing by and get a copy! (and just to say hi!)

Claire! This is for the book with (and that kinda got solicited because) the HAD poem, yeah?? Will def come by and get one!

I’m not a big audiobook guy but I’ve listened to Jesus’ Son on each of the three half marathons I’ve run, which have all been great!

I think I'm getting closer to figuring out my squirrels-in-the-attic problem.