Alvin Lu
@alvinlu.bsky.social
Daydreamers (@fictioncollective2.bsky.social), The Hell Screens alvinlu.co
Living in San Francisco these days is like They Live, except you don’t need the glasses. —my kid
November 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Living in San Francisco these days is like They Live, except you don’t need the glasses. —my kid
Ben Marcus, introduction to David Ohle’s Motorman
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Ben Marcus, introduction to David Ohle’s Motorman
Sale includes the whole FC2 catalog btw—I just filled in some gaps in my Elisabeth Sheffield and Pamela Ryder reading—two important writers we should all be reading more of—including preordering Ryder's upcoming Billy the Kid book.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Sale includes the whole FC2 catalog btw—I just filled in some gaps in my Elisabeth Sheffield and Pamela Ryder reading—two important writers we should all be reading more of—including preordering Ryder's upcoming Billy the Kid book.
www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
one Chinese apple
my love with as many seeds
take small crimson bites
Frances Chung
my love with as many seeds
take small crimson bites
Frances Chung
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
one Chinese apple
my love with as many seeds
take small crimson bites
Frances Chung
my love with as many seeds
take small crimson bites
Frances Chung
One year later, this collection still stuns.
“We have two sides and two sides only: that of the *potheads* and that of the *tietwats*. I, who have had my stay with both, wish to call attention to a true middle position.”
“We have two sides and two sides only: that of the *potheads* and that of the *tietwats*. I, who have had my stay with both, wish to call attention to a true middle position.”
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
One year later, this collection still stuns.
“We have two sides and two sides only: that of the *potheads* and that of the *tietwats*. I, who have had my stay with both, wish to call attention to a true middle position.”
“We have two sides and two sides only: that of the *potheads* and that of the *tietwats*. I, who have had my stay with both, wish to call attention to a true middle position.”
New Kelly Krumrie forthcoming, from Crop Circle Press. Excerpt from Concentric Macroscope first appeared in @yourimpossiblevoice.com:
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October 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
New Kelly Krumrie forthcoming, from Crop Circle Press. Excerpt from Concentric Macroscope first appeared in @yourimpossiblevoice.com:
yourimpossiblevoice.com/concentric-m...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/concentric-m...
Was being a ditz last night and neglected to congratulate you on the new book—but I did buy, as this handle suggests, this handsome edition of Kalivas!
October 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Was being a ditz last night and neglected to congratulate you on the new book—but I did buy, as this handle suggests, this handsome edition of Kalivas!
The Adventures of Lady Egeria, W.C., Empyrean Series. Outstanding. Elizabethan atrocity exhibition written in 1585 but drinking perfectly in 2025, when it all makes sense. Even its patchiness reads naturally in our glitchy contemporary. “Extremities unjustly happening.”
October 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Adventures of Lady Egeria, W.C., Empyrean Series. Outstanding. Elizabethan atrocity exhibition written in 1585 but drinking perfectly in 2025, when it all makes sense. Even its patchiness reads naturally in our glitchy contemporary. “Extremities unjustly happening.”
Back in the Bay and at Books Inc. Alameda this Thursday night (October 23), 6:30pm.
Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.
Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.
October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Back in the Bay and at Books Inc. Alameda this Thursday night (October 23), 6:30pm.
Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.
Talking Daydreamers, California, and Taiwan with the great Shawna Yang Ryan, with whom I had this earlier (quoted) enlightened conversation at taiwaneseamerican.org.
In Brooklyn, Unnameable Books, between Malcolm Lowry and Canisia Lubrin, with Gabrielle Lutz not too far off.
October 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In Brooklyn, Unnameable Books, between Malcolm Lowry and Canisia Lubrin, with Gabrielle Lutz not too far off.
They shelved my novel next to some book I never heard of.
September 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
They shelved my novel next to some book I never heard of.
San Francisco “summer” night, Giants and Cardinals, upper deck behind home plate, overlooking bay and sunset.
September 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM
San Francisco “summer” night, Giants and Cardinals, upper deck behind home plate, overlooking bay and sunset.
Thank you! That was fun. Go get a signed copy of one of these books when you visit @citylightsbooks.bsky.social!
September 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Thank you! That was fun. Go get a signed copy of one of these books when you visit @citylightsbooks.bsky.social!
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.
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Thursday, September 18, 6 p.m.
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September 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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...
Thursday, September 18, 6 p.m.
www.double--negative.com/003-the-veld...
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.
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Wednesday, September 17, 7 p.m.
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September 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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...
Wednesday, September 17, 7 p.m.
citylights.com/events/alvin...
Nice evening to drift around North Beach and Chinatown and drop by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, where copies of Daydreamers are on the shelf.
September 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Nice evening to drift around North Beach and Chinatown and drop by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, where copies of Daydreamers are on the shelf.
Had such a good conversation about Mice 1961, Daydreamers, and other weird stuff with Stacey Levine in Seattle that we decided to keep it going in San Francisco at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social.
RSVP for the livestream: citylights.com/events/alvin...
RSVP for the livestream: citylights.com/events/alvin...
September 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Had such a good conversation about Mice 1961, Daydreamers, and other weird stuff with Stacey Levine in Seattle that we decided to keep it going in San Francisco at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social.
RSVP for the livestream: citylights.com/events/alvin...
RSVP for the livestream: citylights.com/events/alvin...
My very West Coast “tour”, as it were.
Hey Seattle is TONIGHT 7pm @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
Given the book’s subject matter, SoCal should be happening, but no dice, so far.
Will fate conspire to bring me to Nashville? Tuscaloosa?
Hey Seattle is TONIGHT 7pm @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
Given the book’s subject matter, SoCal should be happening, but no dice, so far.
Will fate conspire to bring me to Nashville? Tuscaloosa?
August 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My very West Coast “tour”, as it were.
Hey Seattle is TONIGHT 7pm @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
Given the book’s subject matter, SoCal should be happening, but no dice, so far.
Will fate conspire to bring me to Nashville? Tuscaloosa?
Hey Seattle is TONIGHT 7pm @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
Given the book’s subject matter, SoCal should be happening, but no dice, so far.
Will fate conspire to bring me to Nashville? Tuscaloosa?
Been waiting on this one. Thought it’d be slim but it’s a little brick. @sublunary.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Been waiting on this one. Thought it’d be slim but it’s a little brick. @sublunary.bsky.social
My hometown event for Daydreamers will be within the storied environs of @citylightsbooks.bsky.social on September 17, 7pm. Come hang with me and Stacey Levine!
citylights.com/events/alvin...
citylights.com/events/alvin...
July 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My hometown event for Daydreamers will be within the storied environs of @citylightsbooks.bsky.social on September 17, 7pm. Come hang with me and Stacey Levine!
citylights.com/events/alvin...
citylights.com/events/alvin...
Recently received. Plastic Soul by James Nulick is sensational, so far.
I'll be online-reading with @alinaetc.bsky.social (author of pink book in center) this Sunday August 3 (2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern). Sign up and we'll send the video link a few days before the event:
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I'll be online-reading with @alinaetc.bsky.social (author of pink book in center) this Sunday August 3 (2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern). Sign up and we'll send the video link a few days before the event:
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July 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Recently received. Plastic Soul by James Nulick is sensational, so far.
I'll be online-reading with @alinaetc.bsky.social (author of pink book in center) this Sunday August 3 (2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern). Sign up and we'll send the video link a few days before the event:
forms.gle/YPz6v8yTDMs9...
I'll be online-reading with @alinaetc.bsky.social (author of pink book in center) this Sunday August 3 (2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern). Sign up and we'll send the video link a few days before the event:
forms.gle/YPz6v8yTDMs9...
Draftsmanship: Caravaggio Book 2 by Milo Manara (Fantagraphics, 2025); Judge Bao & The Jade Phoenix by Patrick Marty and Chongrui Nie (Archaia, 2012)
July 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Draftsmanship: Caravaggio Book 2 by Milo Manara (Fantagraphics, 2025); Judge Bao & The Jade Phoenix by Patrick Marty and Chongrui Nie (Archaia, 2012)
Recent arrivals. Yellow Dusk by @rosenovick.com and Maintenance Art by Grant Maierhofer are new releases from @sublunary.bsky.social, with the latter arriving in the mail just as I was jabbering online with the author about Samuel Delany's lozenges. Age of Blight by Kristine Ong Muslim is terrific.
July 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Recent arrivals. Yellow Dusk by @rosenovick.com and Maintenance Art by Grant Maierhofer are new releases from @sublunary.bsky.social, with the latter arriving in the mail just as I was jabbering online with the author about Samuel Delany's lozenges. Age of Blight by Kristine Ong Muslim is terrific.