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Jeff Chon
@jeffchon.bsky.social
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It just doesn't feel real yet. https://linktr.ee/jeffchon
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 48m
New Substack. Subscription is free.

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“I sat on a bank of sand and watched waves hit rock and became an atheist.”
Aficionados of the San Pedro cactus will know what it is to be stripped, in real time, of the basic assumption that it is possible to distinguish mind from world—disabused of the notion that reality a...
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 2h
It's me on Lincoln Michel's Substack!

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Processing: How Dan Chaon Wrote One of Us
The author on historical fiction, writing villains, and the darkness of older children's literature
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 14h
Shouting Stop it! at the TV
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 5d
Dear God. Let's not do that again.
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 5d
I can't remember the last time sports stressed me out like this.
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 5d
Post season baseball is stressful, man.
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Chris Gonzalez @livesinpages.bsky.social · 7d
I have a new story out today @maudlinhouse.bsky.social! Writing it was heavily inspired by the increasing cost of groceries and general anxieties around money and trying to live a stupid little life!
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Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social · 7d
Tap It, Swipe It, Charge It by Christopher Gonzalez

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Tap It, Swipe It, Charge It
This morning’s run to the ATM was harrowing. I dipped into savings! Seventh time this month. I tell Alicia all this in the middle of my second mojito. “Look, until the card declines it’s no one’s busi...
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 8d
Inside you there are two cranes: Frasier, who feels the nickname Big Dumper is crass and silly, and Marty, who is very happy for the guy in the Dump Here T shirt.
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 11d
Lyrically, "I Get Around" is basically late 80s rap.
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Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com · 12d
It's a luxury to think politics aren't personal. The 'issues' affect us personally!

So how do we write about them in more personal ways?

Beyond anger or detached 'irony.' Beyond 'Good vs Evil.'

We asked @aaronburch.bsky.social + @jeffchon.bsky.social and they shared some great thoughts...
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 11d
Without Kirk's charisma, it's nothing but trolls now.
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EROCY @erocy.world · 13d
lmao think we’re almost done with this news cycle y’all, the embers are barely glowing
KING 5 16h • • Follow • • • The experience took an unexpected turn when the teen said she tried to name a bear after Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA who was assassinated last month. i king5.com Washington teen says Build-A-Bear manager refused to name stuffed animal after Charlie Kirk
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 11d
However nuthin. This team forgot how to press
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 11d
Wolverine lying in bed, staring at a framed photo of Darwin, the Luis Diaz song playing in his head.
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 17d
Eyyyy....
The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger and this year's Hellarkey.
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 20d
Is Arizona's uniform supposed to look like the inside of a gas station toilet bowl?
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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 21d
I learned SAD GROWNUPS was removed from consideration for Kansas Notable Books (along w other books the deciders worried might endanger future federal funding). This isn't a bitter post. More sad that libraries feel compelled to make choices like these in these censor-y times.
Sad Grownups
Check out Sad Grownups - <p><strong>For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Winne...
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 21d
Just very grateful to Aaron for seeing something he felt was worth sharing with everyone.
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 21d
Been thinking a lot about this @jeffchon.bsky.social story. Gotta be up there in conversation for story of the year.

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The Punisher stands on a rooftop and launches his bazooka into a building where the Roxxon Energy Corp. is holding a board meeting, killing everyone inside. I don’t remember which comic that was in, but it might have been the moment I began to understand what white-collar crime was. It’s actually a core memory of the Punisher—the other being the time he shot up some litterbugs in Central Park, and that one only stuck with me because of this book from elementary school where litterbugs were drawn as literal bugs wreaking havoc. black and white drawing of The Punisher with a bazooka
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 21d
I say this in all sincerity: I'm really lucky to live in a world where you and your journal exist. Not sure a lot of people would've given this a chance the way you did.
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 24d
I enjoy Charles Davis. I feel he's what MNF thought Dennis Miller would be as an analyst.
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 25d
Hark the herald
The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch
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Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social · 25d
🎸 Who let The Dead Milkmen in here? Oh, that would be Zandra Renwick. You can thank her later.

Enjoy this excerpt from her story "Extra Midnight"—yes, with a special shoutout to TDM's "Punk Rock Girl"—and grab a copy of the book from wherever books are sold.

🔗: links.ruadanbooks.com/120M

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A background photo of a Polaroid camera with scattered photographs around it is covered by a taupe-colored box with rounded edges containing the following text in white: “We were young and terrible and beautiful, and the world was ours though we didn’t know it then or ever.” This text is attributed at the bottom of the box to Zandra Renwick’s short story, “Extra Midnight” from 120 Murders, edited by Nick Mamatas. A 3D representation of the book appears in the lower right corner of the box, overlapping onto the background image. Three taupe accent lines of varying sizes appear in the lower left corner. The Ruadán Boks logo appears in the upper right corner of the graphic.
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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 25d
New Yorkers: please come say hello tomorrow (Sunday, Sep. 20) at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We'll be at Booth 333 with books old, new and forthcoming, and we'll have a video giveaway: read an excerpt on camera, get a book. @bkbookfest.bsky.social
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 25d
Hark the herald
The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 25d
a man with a beard is smiling with his mouth open
ALT: a man with a beard is smiling with his mouth open
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 26d
If you like Malarkey we could use more book club subscribers. Helps us get books in the world and pay for creating them.

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2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
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