Dave Fitzgerald
@dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social
Writer, author, wordsmith, sentence putter togetherer, redundancy enthusiast.
www.davefitzgerald.net
Debut novel Troll from Whiskey Tit Books
Reviews on Heavy Feather, Exacting Clam, X-R-A-Y, Daily Grindhouse, Cinedump, Strange Horizons
www.davefitzgerald.net
Debut novel Troll from Whiskey Tit Books
Reviews on Heavy Feather, Exacting Clam, X-R-A-Y, Daily Grindhouse, Cinedump, Strange Horizons
Oh man. I haven’t checked Goodreads in a minute. What wonders await me?! 👀
"You're supposed to sit in the proverbial shitty pants that our main character is sitting in." Cannot believe I missed this ace review on Goodreads of @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social's TROLL.
Get it and sit in it:
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Get it and sit in it:
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Troll
Here you are, shopping for books online because honestly, who has the energy to go out anymore? There are so many people out there, all buying the same Oprah-stickered crap to take to the coffee sh…
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October 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Oh man. I haven’t checked Goodreads in a minute. What wonders await me?! 👀
New Xray Recommends is live - a paean to Brandi Homan’s Burn Fortune, Kristin Garth’s Daddy, Danielle Chelosky’s Pregaming Grief, and the 1969 movie musical Paint Your Wagon! @clashbooks.bsky.social @anxietypress.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @xraylitmag.bsky.social
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DAVE FITZGERALD RECOMMENDS: Brandi Homan’s 'Burn Fortune', Kristin Garth’s 'Daddy', and Danielle Chelosky’s 'Pregaming Grief'
Paint Your Wagon, the 1969 Western musical starring Jean Seberg, Clint Eastwood, and Lee Marvin, was a historic commercial flop, by turns both mindbogglingly strange, and mind-numbingly dull in its de...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
New Xray Recommends is live - a paean to Brandi Homan’s Burn Fortune, Kristin Garth’s Daddy, Danielle Chelosky’s Pregaming Grief, and the 1969 movie musical Paint Your Wagon! @clashbooks.bsky.social @anxietypress.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @xraylitmag.bsky.social
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It arrived!
Thank you @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social & @whiskeytit.com!
I can’t wait to start this insane 581-page reading journey!
Thank you @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social & @whiskeytit.com!
I can’t wait to start this insane 581-page reading journey!
September 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It arrived!
Thank you @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social & @whiskeytit.com!
I can’t wait to start this insane 581-page reading journey!
Thank you @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social & @whiskeytit.com!
I can’t wait to start this insane 581-page reading journey!
New review up on Goodreads of @davidscotthay.bsky.social's The Butcher of Nazareth (for which, full bias alert, I also wrote the introduction). Second Coming soon from @whiskeytit.com www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Dave Fitzgerald's review of The Butcher of Nazareth
5/5: I can be a bit like Charlie Brown with the football when it comes to fictional reimaginings of the New Testament. No matter how many times I'm disappointed, it's a conceptual template I continue ...
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May 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
New review up on Goodreads of @davidscotthay.bsky.social's The Butcher of Nazareth (for which, full bias alert, I also wrote the introduction). Second Coming soon from @whiskeytit.com www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Been relearning an important writing lesson this week. Half the battle is just getting started. Sitting down and doing it whether you’re tired or not. Whether you feel like it or not. Whether it’s the NBA playoffs or not. Once you get going, there’s no better feeling in the world.
April 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Been relearning an important writing lesson this week. Half the battle is just getting started. Sitting down and doing it whether you’re tired or not. Whether you feel like it or not. Whether it’s the NBA playoffs or not. Once you get going, there’s no better feeling in the world.
Back on Heavy Feather Review for the first time in a minute to gush and fawn over Stefan O. Rak's staggering New Roses, a kinetic, genius level work of paranoiac enlightenment. Out now from @whiskeytit.com
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Fiction Review: Dave Fitzgerald on Stefan O. Rak’s Paranoic Novel New Roses
Paranoia is a tricky beast to capture. I think we can all recognize and relate to it from the outside easily enough, whether in the wild-eyed monologuing of Macbeth and Raskolnikov or the slow-burn…
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April 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Back on Heavy Feather Review for the first time in a minute to gush and fawn over Stefan O. Rak's staggering New Roses, a kinetic, genius level work of paranoiac enlightenment. Out now from @whiskeytit.com
heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/04/18/n...
heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/04/18/n...
More like More Hell Yeah! 🔥🔥🔥
Check it out! You can now preorder @adamalsirgany.bsky.social's upcoming novel MORE HELL from @whiskeytit.com! whiskeytit.com/product/more...
April 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
More like More Hell Yeah! 🔥🔥🔥
It's a good podcast!
It's a good book!!
April 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It's a good podcast!
Checked in on the old Goodreads page this week and was thrilled to discover Troll now has over 50 ratings, and nearly 20 reviews, including these two recent gems!
If you’ve read and haven’t rated/reviewed, please consider doing so. If you haven’t read, do that!
@whiskeytit.com
If you’ve read and haven’t rated/reviewed, please consider doing so. If you haven’t read, do that!
@whiskeytit.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Checked in on the old Goodreads page this week and was thrilled to discover Troll now has over 50 ratings, and nearly 20 reviews, including these two recent gems!
If you’ve read and haven’t rated/reviewed, please consider doing so. If you haven’t read, do that!
@whiskeytit.com
If you’ve read and haven’t rated/reviewed, please consider doing so. If you haven’t read, do that!
@whiskeytit.com
-Got to see Water Damage recently, and I don’t think any album could capture the relentless power of their live drone. But this one is a great place to start.
-YHWH Nailgun is doing something unique with raw abandon. That goes a long way with me.
-RIP Roy Ayers. The mf’n realest.
-YHWH Nailgun is doing something unique with raw abandon. That goes a long way with me.
-RIP Roy Ayers. The mf’n realest.
April 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
-Got to see Water Damage recently, and I don’t think any album could capture the relentless power of their live drone. But this one is a great place to start.
-YHWH Nailgun is doing something unique with raw abandon. That goes a long way with me.
-RIP Roy Ayers. The mf’n realest.
-YHWH Nailgun is doing something unique with raw abandon. That goes a long way with me.
-RIP Roy Ayers. The mf’n realest.
Flesh.
Fleshy flesh flesh.
Flesssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
🤤
Fleshy flesh flesh.
Flesssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
🤤
April 22nd from @anxietypress.bsky.social. Spent the weekend hopscotching through the TOC. A fetishistically disturbing story from David Simmons. A hilariously grotesque tale from @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social. A deceptively straightforward brain-bender from Blake Butler.
April 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Flesh.
Fleshy flesh flesh.
Flesssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
🤤
Fleshy flesh flesh.
Flesssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
🤤
I was prepared to hate this review, but then it got super nice at the end! Thanks to the the man with the kind face @jchaplinsky.bsky.social for taking a chance on Troll. You’re not the first person to tell me it’s something of an antidote to Fuccboi. @whiskeytit.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I was prepared to hate this review, but then it got super nice at the end! Thanks to the the man with the kind face @jchaplinsky.bsky.social for taking a chance on Troll. You’re not the first person to tell me it’s something of an antidote to Fuccboi. @whiskeytit.com
Stop by the @whiskeytit.com booth 563 at #AWP and pick up an ultra-limited preview copy of @davidscotthay.bsky.social’s latest mindbreaker: The Butcher of Nazareth (official release - Feb. 2026). If you check the fine print on that badass cover, you'll notice that I wrote the introduction!
March 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Stop by the @whiskeytit.com booth 563 at #AWP and pick up an ultra-limited preview copy of @davidscotthay.bsky.social’s latest mindbreaker: The Butcher of Nazareth (official release - Feb. 2026). If you check the fine print on that badass cover, you'll notice that I wrote the introduction!
New review up on Goodreads of @ginatron.bsky.social's harrowing memoir of post-Columbine fear and smalltown paranoia, out now from our shared mother goddess @whiskeytit.com ! Go snag one at #AWP25 this weekend! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Dave Fitzgerald's review of Suspect
5/5: Good Lord. Gina Tron has been through it. I'm not gonna lie, this one hit close to home. Not so much, as I originally expected, for the school shooting angle, as for Tron's cleareyed recollection...
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March 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New review up on Goodreads of @ginatron.bsky.social's harrowing memoir of post-Columbine fear and smalltown paranoia, out now from our shared mother goddess @whiskeytit.com ! Go snag one at #AWP25 this weekend! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Thanks Noah! Glad you dug it. @whiskeytit.com
finished Troll by @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social last night, and it was well worth the wait! second-person has never worked so nastily on my psyche
March 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Thanks Noah! Glad you dug it. @whiskeytit.com
Ah, that special time of year when I get hype for March Madness, fill out 2 or 3 brackets with different friend groups, sit down to watch the first game, and am instantly reminded how much better the NBA is than college basketball.
March 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ah, that special time of year when I get hype for March Madness, fill out 2 or 3 brackets with different friend groups, sit down to watch the first game, and am instantly reminded how much better the NBA is than college basketball.
-that dog. are so in the pocket for me I'm honestly shocked I'd never heard of them 'til now
-Merope so sparkly!💎🤩💎
-Trees > Forest > Woods
-Earth vs. The Wildhearts is incredibly stupid fun. Killer songwriting about being the asshole at the party. Like if Gn'R went full punk
-Merope so sparkly!💎🤩💎
-Trees > Forest > Woods
-Earth vs. The Wildhearts is incredibly stupid fun. Killer songwriting about being the asshole at the party. Like if Gn'R went full punk
March 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
-that dog. are so in the pocket for me I'm honestly shocked I'd never heard of them 'til now
-Merope so sparkly!💎🤩💎
-Trees > Forest > Woods
-Earth vs. The Wildhearts is incredibly stupid fun. Killer songwriting about being the asshole at the party. Like if Gn'R went full punk
-Merope so sparkly!💎🤩💎
-Trees > Forest > Woods
-Earth vs. The Wildhearts is incredibly stupid fun. Killer songwriting about being the asshole at the party. Like if Gn'R went full punk
Holy shit! Had an outpatient procedure today and woke up to this. Am I dreaming? Am I in Oz? What a dazzling, humbling slate of writers to see my name among. Huge thanks to James Nulick and @anxietypress.bsky.social including me in this murderer’s row. 🔥🖤
March 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Holy shit! Had an outpatient procedure today and woke up to this. Am I dreaming? Am I in Oz? What a dazzling, humbling slate of writers to see my name among. Huge thanks to James Nulick and @anxietypress.bsky.social including me in this murderer’s row. 🔥🖤
-Great Falls is some mathy-ass hardcore. Makes me wanna mosh at weird angles. Fuck up my back.
-I don't want to oversell Jellyfish, but it's giving Freddy Mercury doing Brian Wilson songs with ELO. Crazy fun.
-Saffron Bloom is some sexy-ass dub. Makes me wanna give back massages.
-I don't want to oversell Jellyfish, but it's giving Freddy Mercury doing Brian Wilson songs with ELO. Crazy fun.
-Saffron Bloom is some sexy-ass dub. Makes me wanna give back massages.
March 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
-Great Falls is some mathy-ass hardcore. Makes me wanna mosh at weird angles. Fuck up my back.
-I don't want to oversell Jellyfish, but it's giving Freddy Mercury doing Brian Wilson songs with ELO. Crazy fun.
-Saffron Bloom is some sexy-ass dub. Makes me wanna give back massages.
-I don't want to oversell Jellyfish, but it's giving Freddy Mercury doing Brian Wilson songs with ELO. Crazy fun.
-Saffron Bloom is some sexy-ass dub. Makes me wanna give back massages.
Lotta folks I admire posting resource lists of late. For anyone seeking insight into the growing threat of Christian Nationalism & the evangelical right, here’s a solid primer. Armstrong in particular is an international treasure @jasonachristian.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @videstellae.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Lotta folks I admire posting resource lists of late. For anyone seeking insight into the growing threat of Christian Nationalism & the evangelical right, here’s a solid primer. Armstrong in particular is an international treasure @jasonachristian.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @videstellae.bsky.social
-RIP Porridge Radio. You never wasted our time
-Syclops is one of the best electronic artists I've come across in a minute. Shimmery, complex and eminently danceable
-Starting to come around on Boldy James
-The Pangaea/Agharta back-2-back listening experience never, ever gets old
-Syclops is one of the best electronic artists I've come across in a minute. Shimmery, complex and eminently danceable
-Starting to come around on Boldy James
-The Pangaea/Agharta back-2-back listening experience never, ever gets old
March 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
-RIP Porridge Radio. You never wasted our time
-Syclops is one of the best electronic artists I've come across in a minute. Shimmery, complex and eminently danceable
-Starting to come around on Boldy James
-The Pangaea/Agharta back-2-back listening experience never, ever gets old
-Syclops is one of the best electronic artists I've come across in a minute. Shimmery, complex and eminently danceable
-Starting to come around on Boldy James
-The Pangaea/Agharta back-2-back listening experience never, ever gets old
New review up on Goodreads of Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of them Are Yours, a kaleidoscopic, mind-expanding cannonball run across the vanishing American frontier brought to you by the good folks at Fiction Collective 2 @fictioncollective2.bsky.social
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Dave Fitzgerald's review of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours
5/5: Hovering over his own life like a noncorporeal spirit in ascendance after ingesting an indeterminate (i.e. – large; epic; heroic) amount of reservation-grade peyote, Luke B. Goebel (or his narrat...
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February 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New review up on Goodreads of Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of them Are Yours, a kaleidoscopic, mind-expanding cannonball run across the vanishing American frontier brought to you by the good folks at Fiction Collective 2 @fictioncollective2.bsky.social
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Mac McClung fatigue - when you literally see someone once a year, and it still feels like too much.
February 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Mac McClung fatigue - when you literally see someone once a year, and it still feels like too much.
Don’t write to get on year-end Top 10 lists. Write to get on banned lists. Write to get on burn lists. Write to be the bottommost log on the pile.
February 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Don’t write to get on year-end Top 10 lists. Write to get on banned lists. Write to get on burn lists. Write to be the bottommost log on the pile.