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Dan Chaon

@danchaon.bsky.social
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Novelist and short story writer. Signed/personalized copies of my books here: www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon

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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 3h
@bleakhousing.bsky.social
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 6h
Getting ready to talk with Kyle Winkler about his amazing new book THE SHIP OF DEATH! 2nite at Loganberry Books in Cleveland! @bleakhousing.bsky.social
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 24/09/2026
I'm joining the war on slop with cheap, fast flyer commissions. If you know someone who is asking the computer for event posters, tell them to ask me instead. Get the guarantee!
A poster mocked up as if it was offset printed in black and red roughly 60 years ago. The header reads "AVAILABLE NOW! FLYERS DESIGNED BY A HUMAN BEING!" and the subsequent text is pitching $50 flyer designs with a "SLOP-FREE GUARANTEE," incorporating some vintage Henry Volk clipart of people looking at a poster and saying how well it reflects on the event organizer.
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 17h
If you were a bot would you tell me that you were a bot?
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 18h
I feel like it's important to have daily contact with non-humans. Dogs, yes, cats, yes, but also plants--especially catci--urns or whatever, the glass on windows. Be aware of the furniture you're sitting in. Make a note of the things you touch, and how it feels to touch them.
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As a resident of Cleveland, I'd like to apologize
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Idea!
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 23/09/2026
There are a lot of ways to be online, but I am convinced that this is the way we should cultivate and cherish. Being earnest and open to positivity is an active practice that enriches all of our lives.
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
👇😍🤘
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How much longer?
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I started watching DTF ST LOUIS (b/c Emmy-curious) and I'm feeling that the tone is slightly gamey and off for me.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🎉🥳🎉
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks for reminder, Nicole!
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One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
👻In this four-week reading group with author @danchaon.bsky.social, students will read and discuss classic and contemporary ghost stories. This online class is meant for both readers and writers looking for a hauntingly fun time! For details & reading list visit: bit.ly/472i701
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Name your favorite comedic/light-hearted scene in a Christopher Nolan film:
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you're going to be in Cleveland on September 30, why not join me and Kyle Winkler for the launch of his delightful, hilarious and terrifying new novel?
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Buffet Infinty Curios
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BUFFET INFINITY! It is an experinece
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I would like to know who calls a tail light a "taillamp" and spells it as all one word? WHO???!?!?!
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just a reminder that I'm teaching a Ghost Story class in October. Let us raise our candlesticks and creep down the stairs to investigate! one-story.com/product/thir...
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Thirteen Ghost Stories – One Story
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A digital illustration done in a black and white graphite style with white highlight on a gray grainy paper background of a hand from the front in a fingers-crossed gesture. From the heel of the palm and down the wrist is lettering reading, ‘maybe it will happen today’. The hand is cropped beetle the lettering and surrounded with decorative rays and circles.
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just saw Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and really loved it. There’s a breezy joyfulness like a pleasant shroom trip—and Gillian Anderson photographs welll
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is great, @jpinckney.bsky.social! So many fantastic booksellers weighing in here.
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Discovered a disturbing coloring book at my vacation rental house
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Christian Nightmares @christiannightmare.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you'd like to support the work I do exposing Christian Nationalism and calling out evangelical hypocrisy and abuse, you can do so here www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/... or by becoming a paid subscriber to my Substack: christiannightmares.substack.com/subscribe
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My shadow is making me uncomfortable
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
B🩸L🩸O🩸O🩸D MOON
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lovecraft Moon over Albuquerque
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NO BOTELLHS
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
On a cross country trip with younger son and Shirley Jackson the dog. Found this excellent smoker on a strip of grass by the interstate behind the Red Roof Inn outside St Louis
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“ILL WIND”. 😒
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is a water stain on an index card. It is not a picture of a man coughing
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Beware the Stranger!
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree.
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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Also, book launch info for THE SHIP OF DEATH if you're in the NE Ohio or Cleveland area. Me and @danchaon.bsky.social are going to jaw about writing/horror/whatnot. C'mon out to Loganberry Books.
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Book Launch: Kyle Winkler's THE SHIP OF DEATH
Come celebrate the launch of Kyle Winkler's new cosmic horror novel, THE SHIP OF DEATH! Kyle will be in conversation with Dan Chaon
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Assignment Understander @90sslowjamz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Anakin/Padme meme with Anakin saying “Well, here we are in the catacombs.” And padme says “For the Amontillado?” And Anakin looks back at her and she is partially covered by a brick wall
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hey, would you be interested in reading some ghost stories with me in October? I'm doing an online shindig for ONE STORY, check it out~~ one-story.com/product/thir...
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Thirteen Ghost Stories – One Story
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Someone should write a story about a curséd device, lusted after as a transformative source of power, that renders its users unnaturally youthful long beyond their time
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I have a new story in this one👇👇
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Serious question: Am I just old? (61M) Or did things actually used to be better?
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Post surgery blues:
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We’re all being punished because a bunch of unattractive billionaires are mad they can only buy the faux respect of sycophants, and not real cultural influence.
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I made a title card for my new book. I guess it's a way to make it feel real. Even though I've written eight books now, it's still weirdly hard to believe that I could ever finish another one. It seems impossible. A penny dropped in the wishing well.
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I am pleased to learn that Sam Irby likes my novel
i spent all goddamn day yesterday at the emergency vet with our cat cocoa (she’s fine) but i knew from experience that i was gonna be there all goddamn day, so i acted accordingly and brought a book. the book i brought? one of us by dan chaon, and IT FUCKING RIPS. what a great book. it’s about a pair of orphaned mind-reading killer twins in the 1910s who join a traveling carnival, and that’s all i’m gonna say.
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
On first glance I thought it was a brain~~😐
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Wonderful story 👇
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"The circus seemed like a very particular metaphor for American life: the dream of escaping and being special, alongside the pressure to conform and not be a 'freak.'" Dan Chaon speaks with Sanjena Sathian about his new novel, "One of Us." lareviewofbooks.org/article/blambus…
a headshot of Dan Chaon
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Sad to hear that the great Daniel Woodrell has passed. His work meant a lot to me.
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
You will be visited by three spirits
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