Kevin Maloney
@kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
Author of HORSE GIRL FEVER, THE RED-HEADED PILGRIM & CULT OF LORETTA. Co-editor: @poolpartymag.com. Married to @femmeintheory.bsky.social
Fav non-interview literary podcast? Love interviews but looking for something a little different while I’m driving around running errands
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Fav non-interview literary podcast? Love interviews but looking for something a little different while I’m driving around running errands
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I love Patrick and I love this book and you should all buy it right now, and if nothing else, read our discussion for my incredible interview technique, i.e.: "As a Gen Xer, I feel like I need to ask the grunge question…"
"For over a hundred years after the first people tried to settle the swamp, the swamp fought back."
@femmeintheory.bsky.social and I (Kevin) interviewed Patrick Wensink about his new book THE GREAT BLACK SWAMP, where we discuss toxic green algae, Ohio pride, Kurt Cobain, and floating coffins ⚰️🤮✨
@femmeintheory.bsky.social and I (Kevin) interviewed Patrick Wensink about his new book THE GREAT BLACK SWAMP, where we discuss toxic green algae, Ohio pride, Kurt Cobain, and floating coffins ⚰️🤮✨
Everything's Okay, Nothing's Bad Here: Patrick Wensink in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney
Unlike the dinosaurs, whose extinction was the result of a single cataclysmic event, humans are courting our own extinction with significantly less flair. While the results of our warming planet are c...
poolpartymag.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I love Patrick and I love this book and you should all buy it right now, and if nothing else, read our discussion for my incredible interview technique, i.e.: "As a Gen Xer, I feel like I need to ask the grunge question…"
May have just read this book and... um... HOLY SHIT IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD 💀⚰️🔥
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/the-...
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THE THIRD BEAT - Lauren Lavín (pre-order) — Autofocus Books
ABOUT THE BOOK Lauren Lavín is trying to embrace the boundaries imposed upon life by love and death. But there are distractions: the younger brother she lost to suicide, the friends and ex-lovers wh...
autofocusbooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
May have just read this book and... um... HOLY SHIT IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD 💀⚰️🔥
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/the-...
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/the-...
Honest question... where do you all stay in touch w/ lit journals / discussions these days? Like... what are the main platforms you use? BlueSky? IG? X? Substack? Email newsletter subscriptions? Something else? Ever since Twitter died (RIP), I feel like I don't understand the new media landscape
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Honest question... where do you all stay in touch w/ lit journals / discussions these days? Like... what are the main platforms you use? BlueSky? IG? X? Substack? Email newsletter subscriptions? Something else? Ever since Twitter died (RIP), I feel like I don't understand the new media landscape
I love Patrick and I love this book and you should all buy it right now, and if nothing else, read our discussion for my incredible interview technique, i.e.: "As a Gen Xer, I feel like I need to ask the grunge question…"
"For over a hundred years after the first people tried to settle the swamp, the swamp fought back."
@femmeintheory.bsky.social and I (Kevin) interviewed Patrick Wensink about his new book THE GREAT BLACK SWAMP, where we discuss toxic green algae, Ohio pride, Kurt Cobain, and floating coffins ⚰️🤮✨
@femmeintheory.bsky.social and I (Kevin) interviewed Patrick Wensink about his new book THE GREAT BLACK SWAMP, where we discuss toxic green algae, Ohio pride, Kurt Cobain, and floating coffins ⚰️🤮✨
Everything's Okay, Nothing's Bad Here: Patrick Wensink in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney
Unlike the dinosaurs, whose extinction was the result of a single cataclysmic event, humans are courting our own extinction with significantly less flair. While the results of our warming planet are c...
poolpartymag.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I love Patrick and I love this book and you should all buy it right now, and if nothing else, read our discussion for my incredible interview technique, i.e.: "As a Gen Xer, I feel like I need to ask the grunge question…"
Reposted by Kevin Maloney
Nothing makes me more excited to reread Winesburg, OH for the first time in decades than knowing that Kevin will be framing it up in one of his lovely little Pergolas of Context
Was really stoked to write the introduction for this new @maudlinhouse.bsky.social edition of WINESBURG, OHIO w/ AMAZING illustrations by Dmitry Samarov 🔥🔥🔥
The text stays untouched. The experience changes.
A new visual edition of Winesburg, Ohio designed by Dmitry Samarov, with an intro by Kevin Maloney.
Maudlin Classics, 2026.
A new visual edition of Winesburg, Ohio designed by Dmitry Samarov, with an intro by Kevin Maloney.
Maudlin Classics, 2026.
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Nothing makes me more excited to reread Winesburg, OH for the first time in decades than knowing that Kevin will be framing it up in one of his lovely little Pergolas of Context
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We're thrilled to announce that @brianstephenellis.bsky.social has joined Pool Party as our poetry editor! We know Brian is going to bring their sharp eye & community spirit to Pool Party 🔥🔥🔥 Submit to them at [email protected] (after reading our subs page!)
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
We're thrilled to announce that @brianstephenellis.bsky.social has joined Pool Party as our poetry editor! We know Brian is going to bring their sharp eye & community spirit to Pool Party 🔥🔥🔥 Submit to them at [email protected] (after reading our subs page!)
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"At twenty-four, I fucked wherever I could while my boyfriend did the same, an impossible competition." Love this new essay by Alicia Gee, "I MAY LEAVE," up today at Pool Party. 🔥
"Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity."
Check out Alicia Gee's amazing essay "I May Leave," a meditation on family, fidelity, and desire, up now at POOL PARTY 🦋🔥
Check out Alicia Gee's amazing essay "I May Leave," a meditation on family, fidelity, and desire, up now at POOL PARTY 🦋🔥
I May Leave by Alicia Gee
Mum says that Don’s womanizing killed him, along with the smoking and the drinking. Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity.
poolpartymag.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"At twenty-four, I fucked wherever I could while my boyfriend did the same, an impossible competition." Love this new essay by Alicia Gee, "I MAY LEAVE," up today at Pool Party. 🔥
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cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
"At twenty-four, I fucked wherever I could while my boyfriend did the same, an impossible competition." Love this new essay by Alicia Gee, "I MAY LEAVE," up today at Pool Party. 🔥
"Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity."
Check out Alicia Gee's amazing essay "I May Leave," a meditation on family, fidelity, and desire, up now at POOL PARTY 🦋🔥
Check out Alicia Gee's amazing essay "I May Leave," a meditation on family, fidelity, and desire, up now at POOL PARTY 🦋🔥
I May Leave by Alicia Gee
Mum says that Don’s womanizing killed him, along with the smoking and the drinking. Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity.
poolpartymag.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"At twenty-four, I fucked wherever I could while my boyfriend did the same, an impossible competition." Love this new essay by Alicia Gee, "I MAY LEAVE," up today at Pool Party. 🔥
Was really stoked to write the introduction for this new @maudlinhouse.bsky.social edition of WINESBURG, OHIO w/ AMAZING illustrations by Dmitry Samarov 🔥🔥🔥
The text stays untouched. The experience changes.
A new visual edition of Winesburg, Ohio designed by Dmitry Samarov, with an intro by Kevin Maloney.
Maudlin Classics, 2026.
A new visual edition of Winesburg, Ohio designed by Dmitry Samarov, with an intro by Kevin Maloney.
Maudlin Classics, 2026.
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Was really stoked to write the introduction for this new @maudlinhouse.bsky.social edition of WINESBURG, OHIO w/ AMAZING illustrations by Dmitry Samarov 🔥🔥🔥
Hey Portland!!! If you’re going to the @literary-arts.org Portland Book Festival this weekend, I’ll be doing a pop-up reading at the Portland Art Museum Sat 11/8 @ 2pm in front of The Little Harpist. Hope to see you there!!! #PDFBookFest #portlandbookfestival
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hey Portland!!! If you’re going to the @literary-arts.org Portland Book Festival this weekend, I’ll be doing a pop-up reading at the Portland Art Museum Sat 11/8 @ 2pm in front of The Little Harpist. Hope to see you there!!! #PDFBookFest #portlandbookfestival
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Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥
"Inside were his Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and KISS albums. All the dudes on the album jackets looked like party guys"
Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋
Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋
The Pool Pit by Guy Cramer
I’d gotten a call a few days before my birthday, this was back when I was just tall enough to punch my dad in the belly button.
poolpartymag.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥
Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥
"Inside were his Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and KISS albums. All the dudes on the album jackets looked like party guys"
Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋
Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋
The Pool Pit by Guy Cramer
I’d gotten a call a few days before my birthday, this was back when I was just tall enough to punch my dad in the belly button.
poolpartymag.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥
Reposted by Kevin Maloney
This @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social story is 11 (!!) years old now, and I still remember immediately loving it, accepting it, and hyping it probably almost every Halloween since...
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Ghost by Kevin Maloney
Two days before Halloween I caught my wife having sex with my best friend Dave in a position we’d never tried in seven years of marriage. She had a good explanation—she didn’t love me anymore. I could...
www.hobartpulp.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social story is 11 (!!) years old now, and I still remember immediately loving it, accepting it, and hyping it probably almost every Halloween since...
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
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"The big religions feel like Costco and McDonalds, and the little indigenous religions and spiritual stuff feels like mom-and-pop stores. I stan a mom-and-pop store, and that’s what I want to be affiliated with."
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
"Some creatures themselves are like large apartment buildings for the smaller ones to live in."
Check out @jaimefountaine.bsky.social's amazing interview with artist Soso Capaldi where they discuss religious experience, their shared family, and David Lynch. 🎨✨
Check out @jaimefountaine.bsky.social's amazing interview with artist Soso Capaldi where they discuss religious experience, their shared family, and David Lynch. 🎨✨
SCRATCHING BOTH ITCHES: JAIME FOUNTAINE IN CONVERSATION WITH SOSO CAPALDI
As I helped with the load-out after the closing of their most recent show, “Entity Cramming” with Eric Anthony Berdis at Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia, it struck me that, even though Soso Capaldi an...
poolpartymag.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"The big religions feel like Costco and McDonalds, and the little indigenous religions and spiritual stuff feels like mom-and-pop stores. I stan a mom-and-pop store, and that’s what I want to be affiliated with."
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
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Thanks to @thedodgemag.bsky.social and @addisonzeller.bsky.social for sharing my story "Two Dreams," rejected two different times explicitly for having talking animals. Like, literally, one of them was a just form and "no talking animals."
In wonderful company:
www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...
In wonderful company:
www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...
Two Dreams by Derrick Martin-Campbell — The Dodge
www.thedodgemag.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Thanks to @thedodgemag.bsky.social and @addisonzeller.bsky.social for sharing my story "Two Dreams," rejected two different times explicitly for having talking animals. Like, literally, one of them was a just form and "no talking animals."
In wonderful company:
www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...
In wonderful company:
www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...
"The big religions feel like Costco and McDonalds, and the little indigenous religions and spiritual stuff feels like mom-and-pop stores. I stan a mom-and-pop store, and that’s what I want to be affiliated with."
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
"Some creatures themselves are like large apartment buildings for the smaller ones to live in."
Check out @jaimefountaine.bsky.social's amazing interview with artist Soso Capaldi where they discuss religious experience, their shared family, and David Lynch. 🎨✨
Check out @jaimefountaine.bsky.social's amazing interview with artist Soso Capaldi where they discuss religious experience, their shared family, and David Lynch. 🎨✨
SCRATCHING BOTH ITCHES: JAIME FOUNTAINE IN CONVERSATION WITH SOSO CAPALDI
As I helped with the load-out after the closing of their most recent show, “Entity Cramming” with Eric Anthony Berdis at Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia, it struck me that, even though Soso Capaldi an...
poolpartymag.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"The big religions feel like Costco and McDonalds, and the little indigenous religions and spiritual stuff feels like mom-and-pop stores. I stan a mom-and-pop store, and that’s what I want to be affiliated with."
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥
Reposted by Kevin Maloney
They settled on 2,500 words b/c we read @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social's story "Ghost" and they decided that was a length they liked--"kinda long, but without feeling long," so someone copy/pasted the text into Word to get an exact count, then rounded up. Editing!
Ghost by Kevin Maloney
originally published by Hobart, October 2014
re-animated by HAD, October 2021
Two days before Halloween I caught my wife having sex with my best friend Dave in a position we’d never trie...
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October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
They settled on 2,500 words b/c we read @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social's story "Ghost" and they decided that was a length they liked--"kinda long, but without feeling long," so someone copy/pasted the text into Word to get an exact count, then rounded up. Editing!
🚨🚨🚨NEW POOL PARTY POEM ALERT🚨🚨🚨
"...mysterious
like someone on an app
inviting you to meet
to drown
in their self-regard."
Check out this amazing poem "He’s as deep as The Mariana Trench (when it writes poetry)" from @ewenglass.bsky.social & come back tomorrow for another banger 🔥🔥🔥
like someone on an app
inviting you to meet
to drown
in their self-regard."
Check out this amazing poem "He’s as deep as The Mariana Trench (when it writes poetry)" from @ewenglass.bsky.social & come back tomorrow for another banger 🔥🔥🔥
Two Poems by Ewan Glass
He’s all about that darknessand what we still don’t know,mysterious
poolpartymag.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🚨🚨🚨NEW POOL PARTY POEM ALERT🚨🚨🚨
Is this ANTIFA?
September 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Is this ANTIFA?
War Report #3: the Horrors of Powell’s Books #ThePortlandWars2025
September 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
War Report #3: the Horrors of Powell’s Books #ThePortlandWars2025
MORE LIVE FOOTAGE FROM WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND!!!
September 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
MORE LIVE FOOTAGE FROM WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND!!!
LIVE FOOTAGE FROM WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND!!!
September 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
LIVE FOOTAGE FROM WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND!!!
UPDATE: my wife is going to an art event where they make puppets and perform a puppet skit for families. Will let you know if a war breaks out or if anything ends up ravaged. #Portland #ThePortlandWars2025
September 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
UPDATE: my wife is going to an art event where they make puppets and perform a puppet skit for families. Will let you know if a war breaks out or if anything ends up ravaged. #Portland #ThePortlandWars2025