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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 1d

CLOSING IN THREE WEEKS!
@alvinlu.bsky.social judges the Sukenick Contest, open to all - awards publication & $3,000 ; Kazim Ali judges the Doctorow Prize, open to those with 3 books previously published in any genre, awards publication & $15,000 ⭐️ Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 2d

Garielle* 🙏

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 2d

Always such great curation there.

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 3d

In Brooklyn, Unnameable Books, between Malcolm Lowry and Canisia Lubrin, with Gabrielle Lutz not too far off.

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 3d

I have felt this.

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 10d

They shelved my novel next to some book I never heard of.

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 11d

i'm biased b/c i'm an editor on this thing, but i really think there's nothing out there like Hellarkey - three editors who, while steeped in horror/weird/scary lit, but we're not really a part of any scene, so we end up casting a wider net and getting stories with a wider (and wilder) perspective

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 11d

San Francisco's doomed just like LA
San Francisco's doomed all the kids say
San Francisco's doomed it's all in the air
San Francisco's doomed we don't care

—Crime

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · 13d

"I now realized that for thirty years I’d had an imaginary Pietsch perched on my shoulder, and as I reworked sentences I kept (unconsciously) turning to him and asking, 'How about now? Would you take it now?'"

Vince Czyz on publishing & conglomeration

clereviewofbooks.com/the-age-of-c...

Portrait of the Author in the Age of Conglomeration - Cleveland Review of Books

I now realized that for thirty years I'd had an imaginary Pietsch perched on my shoulder, and as I reworked sentences I kept (unconsciously) turning to him and asking, "How about now? Would you take i...

clereviewofbooks.com

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah it’s freezing sometimes in August!

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 15d

Surprisingly, no. It's SF's "summer" season (early fall) and we actually got baseball night-game weather.

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 15d

San Francisco “summer” night, Giants and Cardinals, upper deck behind home plate, overlooking bay and sunset.

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you, Frank!

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 16d

Check it out!

Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 16d

"Everything in this country was understood backward; the more recent the arrival, the more American, the truly exceptional."

If you really wanna hear my voice, I did a 2-minute radio reading of Daydreamers for @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM's "New Arrivals" show. Thank you, Lisa Morehouse!

Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip in Alvin Lu novel

The book is about Chinese literary exiles in California. There’s a scandal and a roadtrip as they investigate and look for a mysterious woman who was involved in a murder of one of their friends.

www.kalw.org

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 16d

"Everything in this country was understood backward; the more recent the arrival, the more American, the truly exceptional."

If you really wanna hear my voice, I did a 2-minute radio reading of Daydreamers for @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM's "New Arrivals" show. Thank you, Lisa Morehouse!

Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip in Alvin Lu novel

The book is about Chinese literary exiles in California. There’s a scandal and a roadtrip as they investigate and look for a mysterious woman who was involved in a murder of one of their friends.

www.kalw.org

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 16d

Today is the release of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

Check out one of these bookstores: double--negative.com/stockists.html

Or buy direct from Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

The Veldt Institute | Asterism Books

### *At the Veldt Institute everyone is sick, so no one is sick.* Endless fields of grass. A sky so bright there are barely shadows. At the center of this expanse is the Veldt Institute, an austere s...

asterismbooks.com

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you! That was fun. Go get a signed copy of one of these books when you visit @citylightsbooks.bsky.social!

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 21d

TOMORROW ~
SAN FRANCISCO & ONLINE: Register to attend ~ hear from DAYDREAMERS author @alvinlu.bsky.social at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social
citylights.com/events/alvin...

SYRACUSE- head to Patrick Lawler, author of CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTINCT ANIMALS www.lemoyne.edu/event/poetry...

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 22d

San Francisco: this Wednesday, September 17, 7 p.m.

Me and Stacey Levine will be at City Lights, talking Daydreamers and Mice 1961.

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 22d

This week!
citylights.com/events/
👑9/15, 7pm PT Michael Thomas
THE BROKEN KING
[@groveatlantic.bsky.social]
⛰9/17, 7pm PT @alvinlu.bsky.social w/ Stacey Levine
DAYDREAMERS
[@fictioncollective2.bsky.social]
🍄9/20, 1pm PT Ralph Metzner’s Life and Legacy of Consciousness Exploration
📍Berkeley Alembic
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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 24d

Stuff to do in San Francisco this week #2: This Double Negative event at Et al. Gallery in the Mission with @perfidiousscript.bsky.social @milesklee.bsky.social Mads Gobbo Lucy Corin … I’ll be going

Thursday, September 18, 6 p.m.

www.double--negative.com/003-the-veld...

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · Sep 3

ATTENTION SAN FRANCISCANS: Mads and I are taking our book on the road to visit your storied city of fog and burritos. We have an incredible lineup of literary superstars for a reading on Sept. 18 at Et al. Gallery in the Mission. All Bay Area baddies are encouraged to attend!

DOUBLE NEGATIVE
presents
UNDER THE
INFLUENCE
A study of the mechanisms and affects of various literatures on the minds of willing subjects.
SAM MOSS
LUCY CORIN
MILES KLEE
MADS GOBBO
COLIN WINNETTE
CHELSEA DAVIS
The study will be conducted at Et al.
Subjects who participate
Gallery, San Francisco,
in this study consent to exposure to experimental
California on Thursday, September 18 beginning
semiotic methods and any psychoactivity they
promptly at 6:00pm.
might induce.
# Double Negative, Et al. Gallery, the authors, and our generous donors and corporate sponsors are not liable if subjects
experience phenomena includin, but not limited to the followine anor, borderline situations, corporest iversion constricted orifi, delusions of authorship. elevated diction, fragmented syntax, sender euphoria, habitat distortion heteroglossia, idioglossis, involuntary salivation, jun
anomalies, transient nerve
activation, tonal Hudity ultraviole: blindness, wave intertorenco, vellow discharco, zero point fictioni

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 25d

Stuff to do in San Francisco this week #1: me and Stacey Levine hanging out at the border of Chinatown and North Beach at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, talking Daydreamers and Mice 1961.

Wednesday, September 17, 7 p.m.

citylights.com/events/alvin...

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Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 25d

Home after a 3800km Nova Scotia and back road trip to some accrued bookmail...some Shakespeare criticism as well as these two novels, (L) by @alvinlu.bsky.social and (R) from @galleon-books.bsky.social

Cover images of Daydreamers, a novel by Alvin Lu, and The Secret Lives of Public Servants, by Anne Levesque

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 26d

"As with other fragments 'literally torn from Fung’s published works', my father had probably considered Scotch taping them to the manuscript he later titled Daydreamers, but then thought better of it. ... I present them here as a kind of outtake or appendix."

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 26d

Now on the blog, a DAYDREAMERS "outtake" from @alvinlu.bsky.social, who is also our 2026 Sukenick Contest final judge: fc2.org/daydreamers-...

Contests are open until November 1st: fc2.org/prizes/

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 26d

Now on the blog, a DAYDREAMERS "outtake" from @alvinlu.bsky.social, who is also our 2026 Sukenick Contest final judge: fc2.org/daydreamers-...

Contests are open until November 1st: fc2.org/prizes/

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