David Yourdon
@davidyourdon.bsky.social
Wigleaf Longlist 2022!
Stories now/soon in SmokeLong, HAD, Peatsmoke, Emerge Journal, Bending Genres, Rejection Letters.
Many novels!
A Substack! https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/
Software Engineering during the day.
he/him
Stories now/soon in SmokeLong, HAD, Peatsmoke, Emerge Journal, Bending Genres, Rejection Letters.
Many novels!
A Substack! https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/
Software Engineering during the day.
he/him
I love to search for online products and then, before clicking, replace the query parameters with fanciful key-value pairs
February 15, 2024 at 4:03 PM
I love to search for online products and then, before clicking, replace the query parameters with fanciful key-value pairs
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publication day! with ginormous thanks to all the inspirers and conspirers, and pre-orderers! let the wild rumpus start! www.versobooks.com/products/303...
January 30, 2024 at 12:56 PM
publication day! with ginormous thanks to all the inspirers and conspirers, and pre-orderers! let the wild rumpus start! www.versobooks.com/products/303...
What Denis Johnson book should I read first?
January 17, 2024 at 11:30 PM
What Denis Johnson book should I read first?
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Footnote of the year. #2023inreview
December 31, 2023 at 12:31 PM
Footnote of the year. #2023inreview
All beauty, resonance, integrity,
Exist by deprivation or logic
Of strange position.
- John Ashbery
Exist by deprivation or logic
Of strange position.
- John Ashbery
December 24, 2023 at 12:35 PM
All beauty, resonance, integrity,
Exist by deprivation or logic
Of strange position.
- John Ashbery
Exist by deprivation or logic
Of strange position.
- John Ashbery
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Prompted by a couple of posts I saw yesterday, a thread about how it's really tough being a creative writing freelancer right now. Please read and share if you can. (1/13)
November 15, 2023 at 12:19 PM
Prompted by a couple of posts I saw yesterday, a thread about how it's really tough being a creative writing freelancer right now. Please read and share if you can. (1/13)
Has there been any analysis done on prevalence of first-person narration vs. third-person narration over time? (Maybe @tedunderwood.me knows?)
December 17, 2023 at 4:05 PM
Has there been any analysis done on prevalence of first-person narration vs. third-person narration over time? (Maybe @tedunderwood.me knows?)
An erotic thriller set in the publishing industry titled MUCH TO ADMIRE
December 14, 2023 at 7:04 PM
An erotic thriller set in the publishing industry titled MUCH TO ADMIRE
naïve people spell naïve naive
December 6, 2023 at 10:27 PM
naïve people spell naïve naive
A potentially vapid question (for @benwurgaft.bsky.social): Are puns more like wild animals that we momentarily trap, or are they like domesticated animals (and if so, what are their wild forebears)?
December 2, 2023 at 12:23 PM
A potentially vapid question (for @benwurgaft.bsky.social): Are puns more like wild animals that we momentarily trap, or are they like domesticated animals (and if so, what are their wild forebears)?
4 famous folks I’ve met and 1 lie
Michael J. Fox
Cory Booker
Samantha Bee
Colm Toibin
Laurie Anderson
Michael J. Fox
Cory Booker
Samantha Bee
Colm Toibin
Laurie Anderson
4 famous folks I’ve met + 1 lie
Kelly Link
Carmen Maria Machado
David Sedaris
Gloria Steinem
Dustin Hoffmann
Kelly Link
Carmen Maria Machado
David Sedaris
Gloria Steinem
Dustin Hoffmann
List 5 famous people you’ve met, but one is a lie*
*I’m including phoners I’ve done because I can
1. Rob Zombie
2. Dave Grohl
3. Ethan Hawke
4. Martin Starr
5. Mike Modano
*I’m including phoners I’ve done because I can
1. Rob Zombie
2. Dave Grohl
3. Ethan Hawke
4. Martin Starr
5. Mike Modano
November 26, 2023 at 2:47 AM
4 famous folks I’ve met and 1 lie
Michael J. Fox
Cory Booker
Samantha Bee
Colm Toibin
Laurie Anderson
Michael J. Fox
Cory Booker
Samantha Bee
Colm Toibin
Laurie Anderson
My story, "The Only Way Out," is in the new @emergejournal.bsky.social -- please take a look at it and all the fabulous other pieces!
emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-only-way...
emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-only-way...
November 2, 2023 at 1:51 AM
My story, "The Only Way Out," is in the new @emergejournal.bsky.social -- please take a look at it and all the fabulous other pieces!
emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-only-way...
emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-only-way...
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My story "The Kid from Out West" is in the new issue of Peatsmoke:
www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-fl...
Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too!
Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback
www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-fl...
Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too!
Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback
October 15, 2023 at 7:04 PM
My story "The Kid from Out West" is in the new issue of Peatsmoke:
www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-fl...
Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too!
Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback
www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-fl...
Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too!
Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback
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Hi, everyone! Here we are, on Bluesky!
If you haven't heard of PUBLIC BOOKS, we're an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship.
Check us out :
www.publicbooks.org
Pitch us:
www.publicbooks.org/submissions/
If you haven't heard of PUBLIC BOOKS, we're an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship.
Check us out :
www.publicbooks.org
Pitch us:
www.publicbooks.org/submissions/
October 18, 2023 at 6:44 PM
Hi, everyone! Here we are, on Bluesky!
If you haven't heard of PUBLIC BOOKS, we're an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship.
Check us out :
www.publicbooks.org
Pitch us:
www.publicbooks.org/submissions/
If you haven't heard of PUBLIC BOOKS, we're an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship.
Check us out :
www.publicbooks.org
Pitch us:
www.publicbooks.org/submissions/
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Very excited to be making a repeat appearance on The American Vandal pod! Talking ‘bout agents as literary critics and “pre-literary criticism.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The American Vandal: Criticism in The Conglomerate Era on Apple Podcasts
Show The American Vandal, Ep Criticism in The Conglomerate Era - Oct 17, 2023
podcasts.apple.com
October 17, 2023 at 4:23 PM
Very excited to be making a repeat appearance on The American Vandal pod! Talking ‘bout agents as literary critics and “pre-literary criticism.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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For my birthday, I want to read the novel you're working on! TMR is taking Novel Excerpts for our contest judged by @salesses.bsky.social through Nov. 12:
mastersreview.com/novel-excerp...
mastersreview.com/novel-excerp...
Novel Excerpt Contest
Submissions Open Through November 12! Add to Calendar Each fall, The Masters Review hosts a call for novel excerpts! Writing a novel can be an arduous and lonely process, but we’re here to champion ...
mastersreview.com
October 9, 2023 at 2:50 PM
For my birthday, I want to read the novel you're working on! TMR is taking Novel Excerpts for our contest judged by @salesses.bsky.social through Nov. 12:
mastersreview.com/novel-excerp...
mastersreview.com/novel-excerp...
My story "The Kid from Out West" is in the new issue of Peatsmoke:
www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-fl...
Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too!
Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback
www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-fl...
Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too!
Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback
October 15, 2023 at 7:04 PM
My story "The Kid from Out West" is in the new issue of Peatsmoke:
www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-fl...
Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too!
Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback
www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-fl...
Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too!
Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback
Three dramatists from the little free library. Which one did he go with?
October 14, 2023 at 8:39 PM
Three dramatists from the little free library. Which one did he go with?
There’s a nice thing that happens about 80% of the way through writing a novel. The ideas start playing with each other, unsupervised.
October 14, 2023 at 6:35 PM
There’s a nice thing that happens about 80% of the way through writing a novel. The ideas start playing with each other, unsupervised.
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"My father stops in front of the jewelry store on Seventh Street. He tells me to wait, this will only take a minute. When he comes back, he has a whole bagful of things,...."
I love this story by @francinewitte.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 💙💙💙
fictivedream.com/2023/10/13/p...
I love this story by @francinewitte.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 💙💙💙
fictivedream.com/2023/10/13/p...
Pearl Earring
by Francine Witte I’M LATE FOR SCHOOL, and my mother has made one of her big family breakfasts. She says we need solid food we can sink out teeth into, not like the fruit smoothies my father and I h...
fictivedream.com
October 13, 2023 at 6:12 PM
"My father stops in front of the jewelry store on Seventh Street. He tells me to wait, this will only take a minute. When he comes back, he has a whole bagful of things,...."
I love this story by @francinewitte.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 💙💙💙
fictivedream.com/2023/10/13/p...
I love this story by @francinewitte.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 💙💙💙
fictivedream.com/2023/10/13/p...
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If you’re not already subscribed … why not subscribe? The latest Doom & Gloom Dispatch is live! doomandgloomfromthetomb.substack.com
October 13, 2023 at 2:20 PM
If you’re not already subscribed … why not subscribe? The latest Doom & Gloom Dispatch is live! doomandgloomfromthetomb.substack.com
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Good morning. The seemingly bottomless demand for free commentary on the culture is a symptom of being priced out of the culture itself.
Concerts, theatrical performances, museums, & even movies are increasingly out-of-reach.
Concerts, theatrical performances, museums, & even movies are increasingly out-of-reach.
October 13, 2023 at 12:05 PM
Good morning. The seemingly bottomless demand for free commentary on the culture is a symptom of being priced out of the culture itself.
Concerts, theatrical performances, museums, & even movies are increasingly out-of-reach.
Concerts, theatrical performances, museums, & even movies are increasingly out-of-reach.
You know you have a nature kid when it's forest school day, and they say "I'm really excited to see my ______" and the next word isn't "friends," it's "toads."
October 13, 2023 at 10:45 AM
You know you have a nature kid when it's forest school day, and they say "I'm really excited to see my ______" and the next word isn't "friends," it's "toads."
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It’s taken a minute to sink in, but Julie Byrne’s The Greater Wings, released earlier this year, is a total masterpiece. Check out a beautifully filmed Takeaway Show with a few of the album's songs ...
Doom & Gloom From The Tomb
Julie Byrne - A Takeaway Show
It's taken a minute to sink in, but Julie Byrne's The Greater Wings, released earlier this year is a total masterpiece. The tunes here burn with a quiet intensity,...
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October 11, 2023 at 3:20 PM
It’s taken a minute to sink in, but Julie Byrne’s The Greater Wings, released earlier this year, is a total masterpiece. Check out a beautifully filmed Takeaway Show with a few of the album's songs ...