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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 17h

Throw on yr bunny suit for the latest installment of NEEDLE DROPS 🎶

Read Danielle Chelosky on Joy Division's LOVE WILL TEAR US APART in DONNIE DARKO 🕳️

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Needle Drops | Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart”

By Danielle Chelosky

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 1d

Our fright-fest rolls on all month long 😱

First up this week, read ADRIÁN by Juan Valencia

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Adrián

By Juan Valencia

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 2d

Dallas! Next weekend, catch us posted up at our mecca @texastheatre.bsky.social for the @hayfestival.bsky.social ☀️

We're sponsoring the heat w/ convos feat. Manuel Sánchez Viamonte, Fernando A. Flores, Rodrigo Fresán, Mark Haber, & @lorifeathers.bsky.social

Fit checks @ the door! 🥵

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 3d

”Every evening before dinner, I plan to kill you between naps.“

📌 ICYMI, new from horror issue. Read SAINT MAUDE 2 by Gary J. Shipley below...

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Saint Maude 2

By Gary J. Shipley

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 6d

October is FINALLY here and so is our horror issue 🕸️

Read SAINT MAUDE 2 by Gary J. Shipley & make sure yr doors are locked!

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Saint Maude 2

By Gary J. Shipley

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 NEW PROGRAM ALERT 🚨

Introducing KNOWN ASSOCIATES—a new podcast hosted by @paranoiacs.bsky.social (& brought to you by @newponytx.bsky.social)

Listen to the first ep below feat. a deep af convo w/ Craig Finn from the Hold Steady 💥

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Known Associates | Episode 1: Craig Finn

By Elizabeth Nelson

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 9d

Just when y'all thought we were done w/ the hype 😅

In addition to our spooky af horror issue, we're hooking you up w/ some new Squimbop lore from the homie @raviddice.bsky.social 🔥

Preorder below...

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 13d

Should not be missed

Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 14d

Kicking off spooky season the right way--w/ the TOC for our new horror issue, guest edited by B.R. Yeager 👻

feat: @saderotica.bsky.social @willvanderhyden.bsky.social @maxissippi.bsky.social & more…🕸️

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 13d

I'm & more. Very pleased to be part of this!

Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 14d

Kicking off spooky season the right way--w/ the TOC for our new horror issue, guest edited by B.R. Yeager 👻

feat: @saderotica.bsky.social @willvanderhyden.bsky.social @maxissippi.bsky.social & more…🕸️

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 11d

“Something seriously unholy is seriously steaming from the garbage on the seat beside him.”

📌 ICYMI, read ART KIDS ON MISCHIEF NIGHT by Harris Lahti

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Art Kids on Mischief Night

By Harris Lahti

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 13d

Mainlining nightmare fuel straight into yr veins w/ the cover reveal for our horror issue 😱

S/o to Nicole Rifkin for dressing us up right 💅

Preorder below if u dare…

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 14d

Kicking off spooky season the right way--w/ the TOC for our new horror issue, guest edited by B.R. Yeager 👻

feat: @saderotica.bsky.social @willvanderhyden.bsky.social @maxissippi.bsky.social & more…🕸️

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 15d

Halloween is straight up LURKING around the corner 😈

Pregame w/ us and read a new story by Harris Lahti

From our latest issue, ART KIDS ON MISCHIEF NIGHT 🌙

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Art Kids on Mischief Night

By Harris Lahti

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 19d

📌 We got yr weekend plans COVERED. Come kick it this Sunday with the SwR & @newponytx krewe at the Brooklyn Book Fest (@bkbookfest)

NO COPS

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 20d

MAKE YOUR WAY HOME, a new story collection by Carrie R. Moore, is out in the world thx to the homies at @tinhouse.bsky.social 🙏

Read Kate Preziosi’s review of the goods below & grab your own copy stat 💥

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No Body Left Behind | Carrie R. Moore’s Make Your Way Home

By Kate Preziosi

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 21d

One of our fave musicians Courtney Marie Andrews “returns to the page” w/ a new book of poems–LOVE IS A DOG THAT BITES WHEN IT'S SCARED 🖤

Abraham Smith spoke w/ her about writing, inspos, dogs & more. Read below & grab a copy via @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social ✨

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No Late Fee at the Library of Love | A Conversation with Courtney Marie Andrews

By Abraham Smith

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 22d

📢 ¡Hola NYC! We'll be at the Brooklyn Book Fest slinging choice goods w/ our fellow lit heads this Sunday. All. Damn. Day! 🔥

Swing by booth #331 & say whaddup! We'll bring our best. Will u??? 🧐

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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 23d

One of my favorite @aheartofgould.bsky.social pieces and that's saying something

Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · Jul 10

For the night crowd:

I wrote for @southwestreview.bsky.social about David Lynch's LOST HIGHWAY--a sensuous doppelgängland pulp tale that descends into the porno holocaust of an imprisoned murderer’s recursive psychosexual death dream(s). Fun!

🎨: @studioralston.bsky.social

Read it:

Fermata: The Never-Ending Nightmaria of Lost Highway and the Unbroken Dream of David Lynch

By Travis Woods

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 24d

“I guess I made Nat Sparrow hate me. Or did he figure that out for himself?”

📌 ICYMI, from our latest issue: TO BEGIN WITH THE MOST OBVIOUS by Diane Williams. Leer en inglés y español.

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To Begin with the Most Obvious / Para empezar con lo más obvio

By Diane Williams

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 25d

“The best place to be is not at the top, but on the verge of blowing up, quietly undervalued.”

ICYMI, @samir.help reviews SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS by @chrisdeville.bsky.social
https://southwestreview.com/i-hear-that-you-and-your-band-chris-devilles-such-great-heights/

I Hear That You and Your Band | Chris DeVille’s Such Great Heights

By Samir Chadha

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David Leo Rice @raviddice.bsky.social · 27d

Out today!

Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 28d

📣Tomorrow!!

THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by @raviddice.bsky.social is out in the mf world thx to the homies at @1111press.bsky.social 💥

Last chance to preorder and score a free copy of the fall edish of SwR 🍂

Order now below…

1111press.com/the-squimbop...

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 27d

New story today from the OG Diane Williams 🐐

Read TO BEGIN WITH THE MOST OBVIOUS from our latest issue 💥

In English y tambien en español…

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To Begin with the Most Obvious / Para empezar con lo más obvio

By Diane Williams

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 28d

📣Tomorrow!!

THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by @raviddice.bsky.social is out in the mf world thx to the homies at @1111press.bsky.social 💥

Last chance to preorder and score a free copy of the fall edish of SwR 🍂

Order now below…

1111press.com/the-squimbop...

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Chris DeVille @chrisdeville.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks to @samir.help and @southwestreview.bsky.social for this deep dive on my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS

I Hear That You and Your Band | Chris DeVille’s Such Great Heights

By Samir Chadha

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 Attn aging hipsters!

SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS by @chrisdeville.bsky.social gets juicy af about the post-2000 explosion of indie rock 💥

Read Samir Chadha's review below & order the book now via @stmartinspress.bsky.social southwestreview.com/i-hear-that-...

I Hear That You and Your Band | Chris DeVille’s Such Great Heights

By Samir Chadha

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