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Aaron Gwyn

@americangwyn.bsky.social

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Novelist & Professor. Author of ALL GOD’S CHILDREN, WYNNE’S WAR, DOG ON THE CROSS, THE CANNIBAL OWL

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 26d

My new short story, “Last of the Cowboys,” just went live at Panoptica. Very proud of this one. If you’re interested, you can read it for free by clicking below:
www.panoptica.ai/a/last-of-th...

Last of the Cowboys

A short story written by Aaron Gwyn exclusively for Panoptica and our upcoming Stories of America series.

www.panoptica.ai

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I ponder the question of what comes after postmodernism, I always think about this passage from David Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Pluram: Television & U.S. Fiction” (1990). It’s a spectacular essay, very prescient, and a clarion call to novelists, poets, and critics.

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 1d

WBD rejected his initial offer, but Ellison is expected to go directly to the WBD’s shareholders and force the sale.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a thing for @writersdigest.bsky.social about why I will never stop writing dark humor, sorry to everyone (except those who also claim BoJack Horseman as their favorite TV show of all time)

On Being an Unreformed Writer of Dark Humor

Author Amber Sparks shares her love of dark humor and how it featured in her youth and adulthood as a writer (and consumer of media).

www.writersdigest.com

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Benjamin Percy @benjaminpercy.bsky.social · 1d

Punisher (Red Band) #2 drops this Wednesday -- and we're headed to a second printing. Thanks, readers and retailers.

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 2d

William Faulkner’s personal library (this is downstairs at Rowan Oak, first room on the left; the collection of books in his upstairs office is considerably smaller).

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

I was on NPR talking about the Nobel Prize

(They cut the part where I said who I'd personally like to see win, where I think César Aira, Yoko Ogawa, Don DeLillo, and Ben Okri were names I tossed out) www.npr.org/2025/10/11/n...

How to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Author and critic Lincoln Michel talks about Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's Nobel win and what it shows about who gets recognized in world literature.

www.npr.org

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 2d

Norman Mailer’s personal library:

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 4d

"If the Dead Belong Here" deals with the preternatural, exploring what it means to be haunted. A story of the love and legacy of family—including chosen family. Author Carson Faust discusses his debut novel in our latest interview.

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Nick Arvin @nickarvin.bsky.social · 5d

I'm honored that the University of Colorado, Boulder, English Department chose my novel MAD BOY for this year's Common Read, and I'm really looking forward to discussing it with students.

If you can, come join us for the public event on Thursday 10/16 @ 5:00!

Join us for a reading and discussion with Nick Arvin, author of this year's Common Read book, Mad Boy, about a boy traversing the wilds of Maryland and Virginia during the war of 1812, on a quest to bury his mother and reunite his family. Arvin will read from the book, discuss the writing and research process, and talk about his double career path as a novelist and an engineer.

EVENT DETAILS OCTOBER 16, 2025 5-6PM

AT THE CENTER FOR BRITISH & IRISH STUDIES (LIBR M549)

FOOD AND DRINK PROVIDED STARTING AT 4:30 PM

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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 6d

Three cheers for @wendyjfox.bsky.social & @electricliterature.com for championing small press books! Adding GREAT DISASTERS by @grady-chambers.bsky.social ( @tinhouse.bsky.social ) to my to-read list of books set in Chicago at the turn of the 21st century.

Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 7d

Need more small presses in your literary diet? Oh do we have the list for you!

15 Small Press Books You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall - Electric Literature

These books ask what it means to belong, to stay or leave, or to exist in-between

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 5d

Another reason is that 1% of the U.S. population was sent overseas to fight in wars of a madman’s making. They came home questioning the institutions that would sell their lives and limbs so cheaply.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

A huge reason why we're in this populist moment was because there was a failure to impose consequences on all the wall street people who brought about the great recession. Everyone started losing faith in institutions to maintain accountability making them susceptible to the prejudices of demogogues

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 6d

No, it doesn’t.

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 6d

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 6d

Took a reread of MASON & DIXON for me to realize that the •narrator• of Pynchon’s novel is an anonymous sh*tposter.

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 7d

I’m enjoying it too!

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 7d

Joshua Wheeler's novel "The High Heaven" is in bookstores today! Read this excerpt from the novel, about a 1960s rancher and young child who escapes from a cult, in our Recommended Reading

Gentleness Is Outdated in This Alien World - Electric Literature

An excerpt from THE HIGH HEAVEN by Joshua Wheeler, recommended by Claire Vaye Watkins

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 7d

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 7d

I’m on an English department committee that voted to create a subcommittee, and that subcommittee is considering the creation of a sub-subcommittee, and now I understand why the Soviet Union collapsed.

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 7d

You can get free shipping as part of bookshop.org’s antiprime day sale! Pick up some indie horror and support indie bookstores!

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Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social · 7d

Get yrself one!

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 7d

Monty, if i remember correctly.

Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 7d

You have a cute dog, MD. I’ve *always* said that.

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