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David Lewis

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Horror Writer, Book Lover, Reader for Electric Literature’s The Commuter and Onetime Backup Dancer for Parisian Drag Queens. He/him www.daviddaviddavid.com

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · Feb 11

I've got a website! Unsurprisingly, david dot com was already taken, but it's all for the best. Three davids are better than one.

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David Lewis - Writer & Critic

David Lewis is a writer and book critic. A reader for The Commuter at Electric Literature, he loves well-told stories but especially those that are queer, Native, creepy, and funny.

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 5d

Over at The Masters Review, you can find my review of @kristinaten.bsky.social's weird and wonderful short story collection: Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine 📚📖

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 9d

It’s starting off strong!

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Not a bad way to spend a Sunday evening 🦌 🏳️‍⚧️

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 11d

Easily one of my top audiobooks for this year! Nick Medina’s Sisters of the Lost Nation is brilliant!

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 27d

A flash story by Nadia Born, about a woman who copes with her own impending death by 3D printing the world.

My Husband's Dream Woman Will Outlive Me - Electric Literature

“3D-Printing the World and Other Dreams,” flash fiction by Nadia Born

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Sep 3

A story about a teen who shaves off enough skin to create new bodies.

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Friendship Is Temporary but Skin Suits Are Forever - Electric Literature

“Spareskin,” flash fiction by Tehnuka

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Aug 13

A flash story about the environmental effects of burning history, by Bernie Jean Schiebeling.

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This Guilt Is 100% Renewable - Electric Literature

“The Endstate of History,” flash fiction by Bernie Jean Schiebeling

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 22d

Quick photo of my ever-growing free bookmark collection! It’s very possible that I spend more energy picking a bookmark for whatever I’m reading than I do picking an outfit for the day. 📚

David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 27d

While in Oklahoma City, I found Bookish bookstore-Caboose Coffee - a really charming used bookstore/coffee shop that hosts regular literary events and sells dangerously nice oatmeal cream pies!

David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 28d

On this trip to Oklahoma, I finally managed to make a stop at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur. A great center with a traditional village, dance demonstrations, exhibits and films on Chickasaw history, a restaurant and (of course) a bookshop! 📚

David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 29d

My pleasure! I really enjoyed reading it and was delighted to have a chance to write about it. I can’t always find a good quote to start off my reviews, but once I finished your book I was pretty certain The Twilight Zone was the place to look.

David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · Sep 10

While back in Oklahoma for a few days I discovered Boarding House Books in Claremore. A used bookstore that looks like it’s cozily merged with my grandma’s living room. Grandma, like me, loved influential Native literature and old timey photos of naked strongmen.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎧 New Critical Friends for your listening devices!

This month, Sneha Pathak and @tansyg.bsky.social talk to me about texts often dismissed as too slight to review - books, films, genres with which we might be accused of merely passing time.

How should critics approach this sort of work? And why?

Critical Friends Episode 15: On Time-Pass

Dan Hartland is joined by Sneha Pathak and Tansy Gardam to discuss the kinds of text which many don’t find worthy of criticism at all.

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · Aug 22

My review of Kristin Kirby's fun and disturbing short story collection, Dark Worlds We Wander, is up on this week's issue at @strangehorizons.bsky.social 📚📖

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Dark Worlds We Wander by Kristin Kirby

Dark Worlds We Wander puts survival at the center of its narratives.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · Aug 20

Today's review at @strangehorizons is @daviddaviddavid.com on Kristin Kirby's Dark Worlds We Wander (@eddiegenerous.bsky.social). David discovers a collection that is broad in form and subject matter, but in which "Kirby strikes the right balance between the profound and the practical."

Dark Worlds We Wander by Kristin Kirby

Dark Worlds We Wander puts survival at the center of its narratives.

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · Aug 19

I’m delighted that my story about demonic exes and doppelgängers, “The Replacement,” found a home in Issue 44 of Dark Horses Magazine!

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · Jul 27

Summer reading ☀️📖

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Jul 2

A story about a coworking space whose application features more than a few red flags.

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This Coworking Space Runs on Sisterhood and Toxic Conformity - Electric Literature

“The Parlor,” a fiction debut by Emma Weisberg

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Jun 18

Read Devan Murphy’s flash story about a child who tries to become everything her parents have lost.

Turns Out I'm an Entire Person! - Electric Literature

“The Beginning of the End,” flash fiction by Devan Murphy

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · Jul 20

I had a great time at the summer intensive workshop with @stingingfly.bsky.social. The moderator, Mia Gallagher, was brilliant, the group was fantastic and the feedback for my work was so helpful! ✍️ 🪰

The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · Jul 17

Friendly reminder📚

Applications for the in-person Six-Month Fiction Workshop are open until 5pm (Irish time) Tuesday July 22 ⏰

This is our first fully in-person workshop since the pandemic.

📸Patrick Fleming, Summer School 2025
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · Jul 16

NEW: on this month's episode of the podcast, host Nicole Flattery is joined by James Hudson to read from and discuss his story ‘Dog Story’, published in the Summer 2025 issue of The Stinging Fly Issue 52 Volume Two.

Listen 🔗 stingingfly.org/podcast/jame...

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · Jul 14

Vacation reading 🏖️

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Translated Hugo Initiative @translatedhugo.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come.
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The Translated Hugo Initiative

Putting the World in Worldcon

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · Jun 27

Paul Lynch was at the Irish Cultural Center of Paris last night. His thoughts on the historical rise and fall of rationality was interesting, if bleak. Though his statement on fiction’s ability to inspire empathy, where other information sources fail, was surely inspiring to any writers in the crowd

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Apr 9

A story about being the only person in your family who hasn’t blossomed yet.

Waiting to Blossom In a Family of Golden Children - Electric Literature

“Late Bloomer,” flash fiction by Valentine Sargent

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