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Dylan Landis

@dylanlandis.bsky.social
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Rainey Royal was my last novel. She’s also my alter ego. List of All Possible Desires, linked stories, comes out May 2026.

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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"...when I was in my very first apartment in San Francisco, there was this banging sound outside the window, and I said to myself, Well, you can get really upset about this, or you can start to think of it as the sound of the city, another kind of music... " artist Lynn Marie Kirby, in Bomb.
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BOMB Magazine | Lynn Marie Kirby by Miranda Mellis
Essays on the art of presence.
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Iris Blasi @irisblasi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This answer from @lidiamiles.bsky.social is the very greatest answer you will ever hear to the question "What's the elevator pitch for your book?"
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"A boundary isn’t about what the other person will or won’t do. A boundary is a contract with yourself." Lori Gottlieb in NYT's Ask The Therapist.
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
"My personal preference is writing that devastates me." --Jeannine Ouellette, Writing in the Dark.
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What Do Editors Really Want?
From the Archive | Lit Salon on five things I want to see in writing ... and five things I don't
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
"...to live in California meant to understand that disaster could strike at any instant, which is to say that there is nothing we can count on, nothing that will guarantee safe passage through the world." Gorgeous piece on place, fate, character, and fire by @davidulin.bsky.social in the NYT.
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Opinion | Disasters Have Made L.A. What It Is
Los Angeles may have a reputation for being superficial, but it is in fact a territory that might, at any moment, upend (or even end) your life.
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Los Angeles might need an online registry where folks with empty guest houses could offer temp. shelter to those fleeing the fires. Free, obv. Maybe a church or synagogue could launch it; the county could publicize it. Does anyone have experience with this sort of thing? Does it already exist?
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Loved Plague of Doves; it has the most astonishing opening. Most recent and most propulsive: I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante, Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, Sing Her Down by Ivy Pochoda.
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"Back in April, while savoring two acceptances in a single week, I warned myself that pouring rain creates the illusion that drought is over; but drought is a writer’s true norm." @aimeeliu.bsky.social
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Acceptance Never Gets Old, Writing Never Gets Easy
Celebrate the fruit of writing, and let the petals fall
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Of all the extraordinary things to learn this morning: Heidi W. Durrow put a headstone on Nella Larsen's grave.
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Looking for the Restless Soul of Nella Larsen in Copenhagen
The celebrated Harlem Renaissance author was inspired by her experiences as a mixed-race teenager and young adult in the Danish capital, a time that informed her 1928 novel, “Quicksand.”
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
"The poet Anne Carson has said that if 'prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it.'" @dwightgarner.bsky.social on the poetry of @percivaleverett.bsky.social ("Count on Everett for a sting in the tail...A pebble in every shoe"). Ordering.
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Book Review: The Poetry of Percival Everett
The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look.
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"...two days after Thompson was killed, two migrant teenagers were stabbed in Lower Manhattan. The culprits asked if they spoke English. The teenagers indicated they did not. They were then stabbed. One was killed. No ensuing nationwide manhunts."
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"'You don’t look like you grew up in a trailer park.' I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that in my life..." @samydunn.bsky.social on the trailer she lived in as a girl, the barb of the "trailer trash" myth and why mobile homes could solve so much. bit.ly/3ZLYZ3K
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Why aren’t mobile homes considered among affordable housing fixes?
Mobile homes are a viable form of low-income housing. So, why isn’t it being factored in to solve the housing crisis?
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I like these questions a lot--obviously for life and I confess for novel writing--and I appreciate @samydunn.bsky.social's comment (thx for posting first, Sam).
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It's Tomas Tranströmer, "The Blue House"--and the lines that kept echoing were: "I am grateful for this life! And yet I miss the alternatives. All sketches wish to be real... "We do not actually know it, but we sense it: our life has a sister vessel which plies an entirely different route."
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Any of you ever read a poem about a "sister life," the life you might have led had you made other choices? The poet's sister life haunts her; it's like a ghost ship that trails her, something like that. I've been trying to find this gorgeous poem again for years. (Google's hopeless.)
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
@robspillman.bsky.social Love this line from Lee McCarthy to Kim Young: "Revision is as much of an act of grace as the first draft."
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Listening to Toni Morrison's resonant rasp as she reads Song of Solomon. 13th read but this is the first one auditory. My mother gave me this book when it first came out. Every time I finish reading I miss Pilate almost as much as I miss her.
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social I read a poem in which the poet called that mysterious unlived life, which haunted her (him?), a "sister life." I loved that phrase and have tried to find that poem again for decades.
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Thank you, Hannah! I see Strip everywhere. Happy for you.
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Rereading All Fours by Miranda July with a pen to ferret out what she's doing, and it's dazzling--the way she swings between concrete detail and untethered thought-balloons about life, death, the universe. This book is so much more than a "menopause novel."
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Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
- last book you read: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson - your current read: Stream System by Gerald Murnane - last book added to your TBR: On James Baldwin by Colm Tóibín
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