shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 24/06/2026just a sheer pleasure to read. gorgeous, funny, an all-timer... 020
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 23/06/2026one of my favorite stories to give to students 120
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Always a pleasure to be interviewed by Ben—highly recommend the experience 031
Reposted by shane kowalski J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 21/05/2026Everybody should read this new selected by the menschiest genius to ever pound an underwood. I wrote the intro! I loved steve and I love his stories!!biblioklept.orgStephen Dixon’s Goodbye to Goodbye (Book acquired, 19 May 2026)This October, McSweeney’s will publish an anthology of Stephen Dixon’s short stories. Titled Goodbye to Goodbye (after Dixon’s 1985 short story), this anthology inaugurates a fort… 063
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 05/05/2026new interview, wherein i briefly mention the novel i've been working on: 000
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 23/04/2026new piece in the new issue of Four Way Review. about the usual stuff. fourwayreview.com/billionaires... 000
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 14/04/2026will be reading in nyc this saturday in the Segue Reading Series curated by Fence 010
Reposted by shane kowalski J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 24/03/2026I adore this slim vol of short personal essays on the arts, a few of which I am proud to have published thediagram.com/merch/produc... 231
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 24/03/2026oh man, literally just got my copy yesterday. it's great. 010
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 18/03/2026new review of Are People Out There up at Zona Motel. thanks to Kai Broach for seeing my book through not my eyes!zonamotel.substack.comREVIEW: Are People Out There by Shane KowalskiRead Shane Kowalski and dare to become the baby, says Kai Broach. 020
Reposted by shane kowalski J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 05/03/2026That times piece on richard hell’s apt got me thinking about bill knott, who late in his life was mailing boxes of really excellent homemade books to mfa program directors. This is the cover of one of them, maybe the funniest book cover of all time 261
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 24/02/2026i have 3 very short pieces about different things in The Bulb Region 062
Reposted by shane kowalski Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · 14/02/2026If you’re in Philly at the end of the month, this is going to be incredible. @dieddisappointed.bsky.social 092
Reposted by shane kowalski HAD @havehashad.com · 16/01/2026"He never even wanted to be a soldier. He liked writing children’s stories, albeit of the insane variety. For example, a young child’s frostbitten toe detaches itself and wanders off to look for a whore..." Shane Kowalski just one of the best at it rn www.havehashad.com/jm21whavehashad.comLocal History by Shane KowalskiThere is one Hessian who was never captured by Washington’s forces at Trenton. He retreated from battle. He made his own journey across the Delaware River, back into Pennsylvania, into the thick,… 061
Reposted by shane kowalski Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 16/01/2026we love @futuretensebooks.bsky.social !! 073
Reposted by shane kowalski Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 31/12/2025“I have been here almost a year. I spend an afternoon transcribing agreements and I miss a comma. I know I have missed a comma, but I don’t go back to fix it. I like the missing comma. It gets me in the mood.” —Shane Kowalski ( @dieddisappointed.bsky.social )buff.lyTo Be Frank, by Shane KowalskiWe've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure 021
Reposted by shane kowalski Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 24/12/2025“I never get to know the heads’ names, nor do I see the heads attached to actual bodies. For all I know, they are floating heads passing by Frank’s old office.” From Are People Out There, by Shane Kowalski, which was published by @futuretensebooks.bsky.social.buff.lyTo Be Frank, by Shane KowalskiWe've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure 022
Reposted by shane kowalski Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Shane Kowalski's short stories are like extended prose poems. Funny, perverse, quirky, and unique. Picture Diane Williams dancing the tango with Russell Edson. Highly recommended. @dieddisappointed.bsky.social @futuretensebooks.bsky.social 0123
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 17/12/2025can confirm: i have a piece in the new issue of Harper's 👍 180
Reposted by shane kowalski Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Imagine the tears of joy when you give someone the gift of @dieddisappointed.bsky.social 🎁 futuretensebooks.com 031
Reposted by shane kowalski Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 18/11/2025a book so good she only had to write the one 2173
Reposted by shane kowalski AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Just learned that my former professor, friend, and mentor Stephanie Vaughn, has died. For those unaware, Stephanie's book SWEET TALK is one of the greatest American story collections, up there with the likes of JESUS' SON. This is the justly famous intro of her story "Dog Heaven" 3276
Reposted by shane kowalski Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 11/11/2025seen a buncha people posting @dieddisappointed.bsky.social's book and wanted to join. only a few stories in, but it is (expectedly) great. here's probably my fave paragraph so far: 192
Reposted by shane kowalski X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 10/11/2025we have a story by Shane Kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social ! in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone. a great story ! & a great ending xraylitmag.com/beckettian-b...xraylitmag.comBECKETTIAN by Shane KowalskiMurphy was visiting Malone. It had been a while since they had seen each other. Murphy being busy in the city, while Malone had lingered in the countryside. Murphy remembered those dark country roads,... 084
Reposted by shane kowalski Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Shane Kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social @futuretensebooks.bsky.social 0379
Reposted by shane kowalski J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 05/11/2025This new @dieddisappointed.bsky.social book is astounding. Sorry it’s greasy, blame the snyders pretzel company 1123
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 05/11/2025thanks, John! pretzels go very well with the book... 020
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 31/10/2025my book Are People Out There is officially out today. get it where books are sold, but especially at Future Tense Books: futuretensebooks.com/product/peop... 061
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 17/10/2025my book Are People Out There is out in two weeks. here are some blurbs by Ling Ma and Sebastian Castillo. you can still pre-order the book at Future Tense Books: futuretensebooks.com/product/peop... 011
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 23/09/2025yeah, i'm curious...will have to search them out. 000
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 22/09/2025the nyt obituary for charles webb, the author of the graduate, from 2020: archive.ph/RtA8Zarchive.ph 110
Reposted by shane kowalski Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2025We can't wait to publish the new Shane Kowalski {@dieddisappointed.bsky.social} collection, Are People Out There. You can claim your October copy now! futuretensebooks.com/product/peop... 252
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 03/09/2025You can now pre-order my new collection of stories, Are People Out There. It drops 10.31.25 via @futuretensebooks.bsky.social: futuretensebooks.com/product/peop...futuretensebooks.comPRE-ORDER: Are People Out There by Shane Kowalski | Future Tense Books 021
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Are People Out There. Forthcoming October 31, 2025. Future Tense Books. Pre-orders start next week. But here is a cover reveal 👀 083
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 20/08/2025i have a story up at Cleveland Review of Books. it's the title story of my forthcoming collection with @futuretensebooks.bsky.social. the story is about a baby.clereviewofbooks.comAre People Out There - Cleveland Review of BooksI decided to become my friend’s baby. My friend is someone I know from high school. We’ve been friends for years. Now she is married to a man, a CPA or MBA or CEO, and they have a baby. 032
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 21/07/2025new piece about a typical book review up at HAD today 030
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 05/07/2025lambchop kind of evening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghdi...youtube.comThe Man Who Loved BeerYouTube video by Lambchop - Topic 010
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 01/07/2025the high-concept transgression of JG Ballard's Crash mixed with the dulcet tones of the gentlest George Saunders story 010
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 29/06/2025a little bernhard, a little aira. deeply smart and splenetic and silly. makes you want to read or write more. 040
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 22/06/2025excellent book. autumnally crisp prose. really evokes the eerie beauty of rural ny. 010
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 19/06/2025a book about god being so lonely he invents the world but can't help it. highly recommend for the carpenteresque prose, the weirdness, as well as the tenderness. 000
Reposted by shane kowalski Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Pssst. If you type the word Warehouse in the discount code, you'll get 35% off of everything (until the end of June). Including the newest by Evan Nicholls. And other classics from @parkeryoung.bsky.social @dieddisappointed.bsky.social @gkhudson.bsky.social @tatianaryckman.bsky.social & more. 🔥 1105
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 12/06/2025i have a story called "spanked before elvis" in the new Fence. it's about elvis, spanking, stamps, ritual, and fandom. 011
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · 03/06/2025new book incoming. stories in an almost but not really at all classical mode. 030
Reposted by shane kowalski David B Henson @davidbhenson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025The trailer for my new novel, “God Woke Up Lonely” 021
