Joshua Hebburn
@joshuahebburn.bsky.social
I always reread this the night before Xmas but you could also read this today.
this is set the night before christmas, but the night before thanksgiving gets a shoutout, so you should all read it today.
“Biggest bar night!” he says again. “Let’s go out! Like old times!”
I wonder why he’s confused tonight, Christmas Eve, with the night before Thanksgiving...
“Biggest bar night!” he says again. “Let’s go out! Like old times!”
I wonder why he’s confused tonight, Christmas Eve, with the night before Thanksgiving...
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS by Aaron Burch
It was exciting and sad and over too fast and underwhelming and amazing, all at the same. It was all of it. It was beautiful.
xraylitmag.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I always reread this the night before Xmas but you could also read this today.
There are two kinds of people: muppets, and people.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There are two kinds of people: muppets, and people.
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I speculated about this (“For all I know, Ivan is on Twitter, pretending to be a pro-Trump housewife in Florida.”) in the last paragraph of my story Moskva, selected by @joshuahebburn.bsky.social and published in Hobart (before The Great Divorce).
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I speculated about this (“For all I know, Ivan is on Twitter, pretending to be a pro-Trump housewife in Florida.”) in the last paragraph of my story Moskva, selected by @joshuahebburn.bsky.social and published in Hobart (before The Great Divorce).
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
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Martin Kippenberger, Untitled, 1989
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136620
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136620
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Martin Kippenberger, Untitled, 1989
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136620
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136620
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Parviz Tanavoli, The Poet and the Beloved of the King, 1964
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1134426
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1134426
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Parviz Tanavoli, The Poet and the Beloved of the King, 1964
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1134426
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1134426
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Homage to the Square: Apparition by Josef Albers, 1959
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Homage to the Square: Apparition by Josef Albers, 1959
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
Wish I could send this story to New York Tyrant.
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Wish I could send this story to New York Tyrant.
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
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What a thrill to be interviewed by @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social and nerd out about structure, humor, flawed male role models, and Elvis Grbac (1998’s Sexiest Athlete Alive) xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
FAULKNER DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TEMPORAL INCONSISTENCIES, SO WHY SHOULD I?: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN WADDY BULLION by Kirsti MacKenzie
John Waddy Bullion is as versatile a writer as they come. His loosely-linked collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers follows coming-of-age tales of Midwestern sons and the fraught relati...
xraylitmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What a thrill to be interviewed by @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social and nerd out about structure, humor, flawed male role models, and Elvis Grbac (1998’s Sexiest Athlete Alive) xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social interviews Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social about her book 'Better To Beg'
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
THE ANSWER HAS TO BE YES: AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTI MACKENZIE by John Waddy Bullion
Kirsti MacKenzie’s debut Better to Beg (Sweet Trash Press, 2025) is a rock ’n’ roll novel set against the backdrop (and at the tail end) of the Meet Me in the Bathroom-era New York indie boomlet, told...
xraylitmag.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social interviews Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social about her book 'Better To Beg'
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
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Gum Ball No. 10: “Sugar Daddy” by Charles Bell, 1975
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137691
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137691
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Gum Ball No. 10: “Sugar Daddy” by Charles Bell, 1975
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137691
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137691
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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This is excellent.
“So, when one reads 'Mister Squishy,' one is witnessing Wallace breaking his cardinal rule. The question worth asking is why."
Hannah Smart tries to diagram David Foster Wallace's 900-word: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nothing-ever-happens-mister-squishy-and-the-year-of-the-sentence-diagram/
Hannah Smart tries to diagram David Foster Wallace's 900-word: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nothing-ever-happens-mister-squishy-and-the-year-of-the-sentence-diagram/
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is excellent.
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you should call out of work to read the vibrant short fiction of john cheever
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
you should call out of work to read the vibrant short fiction of john cheever
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cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
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"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
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Hell yeah hell yeah
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hell yeah hell yeah
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'Northern Spring' (1969)
Brent Wong
Brent Wong
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
'Northern Spring' (1969)
Brent Wong
Brent Wong
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Lenny misses Java.
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Lenny misses Java.