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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The greatest riffer working today.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This was fantastic! Brilliant interview with a brilliant writer.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Or send the book to a printer. It’s funny how up until the 90s or so, the big writers were coming out with books every two years. But now the publishing has turned into an event , one more important than the actual book.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Well, you should read Hopscotch first, if you haven’t read that yet.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Chon not Chin, stupid autocorrect.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

That’s Chin’s bread and butter, it seems. If someone were to tell me they were writing Hashtag Good Guy With a Gun, I’d say they were crazy and it was doomed to fail, but that book’s execution is perfect.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Christine Sneed has an amazing story called “Older Sister.” You can probably find it online.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The seeming or overt premise gives way to a story that is about something else entirely.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Can you elaborate on this? I’ve been thinking a lot about this since you posted.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I’ve read so many fine books thanks to Daniel’s reviews.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

“But I couldn’t help wishing its author took more risks. ‘Great writers of fiction,’ Arnold Bennett tells us, ‘are by the mysterious nature of their art ordained to be amateurs.’ The author of The Sleepers is many things, but an amateur isn’t one of them.” Great review by a great writer!

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

So you’re saying I was saying, no, no, no, no, read her previous one and it was awful, no, no, looks interesting, no, no, read that one and it was okay, to a list of books that don’t exist?

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Bristol Vaudrin (she/her) @bristolvaudrin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Ben at @beyondthezero.bsky.social and I talked about my hopes for my main character that I struggled to like, how a creative writing professor ends up in Alaska, and my next book that was written in anger. Give it a listen (and if you haven't listened to his stuff before, it's great)! #litfic 💙📚🖋

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Bristol Vaudrin - AFTERWARD

Podcast Episode · Beyond The Zero · 24/04/2025 · 47m

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

None of those are on my summer list. Finally going to read The Tunnel. And a bunch of Muriel Sparks lined up when I need a break.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Recommendations for short stories that read like parables.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

My kid would be excited about the Modric.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

For a solid three years, I’d bribe my kid with these packs. The Yamal is pretty great.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Funny that the bladder is considered more revolutionary than the heart or even an eye. I’d think it would be one of the easier transplants. Just sticking a new bag in there.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Every single book on this list is a big publishing book. (And I’m sure every book was on their “most anticipated list” too.)

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The mail has arrived! Vurro- heard it’s great. Vaudrin- read this as an ms and it’s fantastic. Stern- my hope is that more people will read this legend.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Grateful to Marc Nash for this thoughtful and generous review of my new novel. m.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Pv...

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Recent Reads Easter 2025

YouTube video by Marc Nash

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

My book, THE DELEGATION, is out today. Everyone shows the cover, and I’ll show you that, but the first page will tell you whether you want to read the thing or not.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Better than Libra? End Zone? Point Omega? (I realize I’m one of the few who thinks PO is one of his best books.)

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Ha. Haven’t read that one yet. I’m slowly getting to all of them after having neglected him most of my life. I think Underworld is on tap for this year.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

An all-timer for sure. Read Lightning Rods. Amazing book and amazing that the same person wrote both those books.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Someone once remarked that the period before publication is the storm before the calm.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Creation Lake is not good. Read DeLillo instead.

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DarkSkies @avnerlandes.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

It appears nobody reads my posts on here. Does this mea I can treat this site like it’s a diary? The galleys for my book went out a few days ago and my anxiety is through the roof. When I’m writing, I don’t expect that anybody will actually read my work. But now they will.

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