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Kevin Maloney

@kevinmaloney.net
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Author of HORSE GIRL FEVER, THE RED-HEADED PILGRIM & CULT OF LORETTA. Co-founder & fiction editor: @poolpartymag.com. Married to @femmeintheory.bsky.social

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Horse Girl Fever by @kevinmaloney.net, @clashbooks.bsky.social & Pandora by Ana Paula Pacheco, trans. by Julia Sanches, @transitbooks.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram
Book covers for Pandora by Ana Paula Pacheco, trans. Julia Sanches, Transit Books: Lit professor Ana plans her remote classes while confined to her apartment during lockdown. Her lover has died of Covid. In her place are a series of animals that demand Ana’s care and attention: an overbearing pangolin, a swarm of insects, a giant bat. Amid changes in medication and fraught faculty meetings, Ana begins to devise a syllabus on the financialization of art and life, posing questions about labor and intimacy she will use her own body to answer. Pandora is a hallucinatory portrait of a mind and a world in collapse, a razor-sharp meditation on desire, delusion, and the absurd endurance of the human. https://www.transitbooks.org/books/pandora AND Horse Girl Fever by Kevin Maloney, Clash Books: The cult author of The Red-Headed Pilgrim delivers a hilariously weird collection, part autofiction, part outlandish daydream, that celebrates the horse girl within all of us. A cuckolded husband finds a new identity as a ghost. A homeowner has a nervous breakdown while building a pergola. An angst-ridden teenager finds his spiritual equal in the mosh pit of an Alice in Chains concert. In fourteen brutally funny stories, Horse Girl Fever plunges the reader into a world of misfits—inept drug smugglers, tattooed office workers, and philosophical strip club bouncers—who fumble toward the light. https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/kevin-maloney-horse-girl-fever-preorder
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 08/07/2026
This story is sooooooo good!!!
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 12/06/2026
A Biosphere 2 poem!?!?! Fuck yeah! Our Poetry Editor at Pool Party, @brianstephenellis.bsky.social, has an eye for the gooooood shit 🔥🔥🔥
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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
ICYMI - I was permitted to the party, but as a newbie I had to enter slowly at the zero entry point. No cannonballs, no deep end quite yet, but love to all @poolpartymag.com !
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Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · 12/05/2026
"It is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only." We looooooove this poem "Why Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group" from @thaddevassie.bsky.social. Pool Party vibes abound. Take a minute out of your day and dive in!!! 💦
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Why Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group by Thad DeVassie
It is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only. The book is rightfully missing from children’s early reader versions. It is making the youth pastor blush.
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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
When the Red-Headed Pilgrim & the band of lifeguards @poolpartymag.com welcome you to their inflatable, of course you say, HELL YASSS! Grateful that @kevinmaloney.net @femmeintheory.bsky.social & @brianstephenellis.bsky.social let this micro skinny-dip its way in. poolpartymag.com/why-song-of-...
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Why Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group by Thad DeVassie
It is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only. The book is rightfully missing from children’s early reader versions. It is making the youth pastor blush.
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Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · 08/05/2026
“The characters are complex in the way that real people are: genuinely kind but also sort of scammy... well-intended(ish?) but also creepy af.” Check out Luke Goebel’s Top Films / Theorists / Artworks, with an intro by my amazing wife Ryan-Ashley Anderson 🔥
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Luke's Tops by Luke Goebel and Ryan-Ashley (Anderson) Maloney
You don’t have to read very far into Kill Dick to notice that this isn’t your average whodunnit thriller. The characters are complex in the way that real people are: genuinely kind but also sort...
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 24/04/2026
Love a story with a list-like structure (as long as it's done right). @dizzy.gay nails it in their new story SOME DETAILS up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥🔥🔥
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 23/04/2026
I interviewed Luke Goebel about his new novel KILL DICK. We talked about L.A., the Illuminati, Breaking Bad Winnebagos, Bret Easton Ellis, Ken Kesey, hyperreality, and the perils of the art world. Hope you enjoy!
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Art, Oxy, & L.A.: An Interview With Luke Goebel By Kevin Maloney
Luke Goebel is a unicorn in the literary world: an outlaw writer with an underground classic in the indie lit community (Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, 2014) who has also collaborated on sc...
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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
we have an interview with Luke Goebel ! the equally awesome Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net talks to Goebel about ‘Kill Dick’ – one of the best books of the year – an entertaining & angry book about rich elites fucking over everyone great interview ! read it pronto xraylitmag.com/art-oxy-l-a-...
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Art, Oxy, & L.A.: An Interview With Luke Goebel By Kevin Maloney
Luke Goebel is a unicorn in the literary world: an outlaw writer with an underground classic in the indie lit community (Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, 2014) who has also collaborated on sc...
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Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · 10/04/2026
"They continued putting the radio on for him even after he disappeared, until one evening it hit them." Amazing new poem from @ewenglass.bsky.social up at POOL PARTY!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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They couldn’t understand why the rescue dog ran away by Ewen Glass
Sure, he had separation anxiety but they took him out with them whenever they could, and when they did leave him in the house on his own they always put the radio on.
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 01/04/2026
The thing I don’t like about Substack is that it feels like everybody is trying to sell me something. The word SUBSCRIBE is everywhere, which makes me want to throw up. Old Twitter was fun because it was primarily stupid. At most people were like “Hey maybe read the story I published over at …
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 30/03/2026
Is it just me or like… is everyone else getting near-daily book marketing email scams?
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Lexi Kent-Monning @lexikentmonning.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The first thing I've written since I had a baby! Thank you @havehashad.com and @ezhang77.bsky.social!!! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/30-...
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30,000 Feet by Lexi Kent-Monning
My playlist for when I’m on an airplane is called “time travel” On it is Brian Eno’s “Here Come the Warm Jets,” then his entire Ambient 1: Music for Airports album, plus one song at the end by Loud...
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 26/03/2026
Not saying that naming your story HULU KEVIN is an instant acceptance, but it doesn't hurt. Also helps when the story is funny as hell and so fucking good. Seriously... take a minute to check out Dave McNamara's new story on Pool Party. SOOOO GOOOOOD!!! 🔥
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 26/03/2026
Not saying that naming your story HULU KEVIN is an instant acceptance, but it doesn't hurt. Also helps when the story is funny as hell and so fucking good. Seriously... take a minute to check out Dave McNamara's new story on Pool Party. SOOOO GOOOOOD!!! 🔥
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Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · 24/03/2026
"John built an inflatable bridge. The hubris of it, the sheer audacity. I told him bad idea but telling John anything is like arguing with weather." New poem THE DEMOCRACY OF WATER by Spencer Eckart up on Pool Party! 🔥🔥🔥
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The Democracy of Water by Spencer Eckart
John built an inflatable bridge. The hubris of it, the sheer audacity. I told him bad idea but telling John anything is like arguing with weather. We went to look.
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 21/03/2026
The older I get, the more I just want to listen to MARQUEE MOON on infinite repeat
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Jim Ruland @jimvermin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What's this? My new novel from @rarebirdlit.bsky.social is available for preorder! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mighti...
New novel Mightier than the Sword coming Fall 2026 and available for preorder now.
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 17/03/2026
Hey Portland!!! I'm reading tonight at @literary-arts.org in Portland at 6pm. Hope you all can make it!!!
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
If you're in (or near?) LA, I got a dope thing for you to add to your calendar:
TACOMA BOOK LAUNCH

Aaron Burch
D.T. Robbins
Amelia Gray

North Figueroa Bookshop
6040 N. Figueroa St.

Friday, May 8 @ 5:30 pm
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Brian Stephen Ellis @brianstephenellis.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Pleasant orange and purple flyer with numerous arrows. Text reads: Gong Show writers group presents Works in Progress feat Doug Chase, Christy George, Gigi Little reading Steve Arndt and special guests Kathleen Lane, Shawn Lewy and Michael Sage Ricci
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 11/03/2026
Saw a panel at AWP where Carmen Maria Machado addressed the (fucked up) idea that since some people struggle with creativity, generative AI makes art more accessible. Her response was *chef’s kiss* I’m paraphrasing but the gist was: art is supposed to be hard. Creativity is a muscle. Use it.
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 11/03/2026
Can we please stop calling it generative “AI”? There’s nothing intelligent about stealing the work of artists and regurgitating voices and language that took 20+ years to develop. ChatGPT and Claude, etc are not assistance tools for creativity… they’re Plagiarism Facilitators. Let’s call them that.
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emily laura costa @emilylauracosta.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
i hope it counts for SOMETHING that i cried a lot while writing this 💗 (vote soul asylum!)
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Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Found pairing in the horror section of Powell’s books, starring @kevinmaloney.net.
Kevin Maloney’s Horse Girl Fever, faced out on a shelf in Powell’s City of Books. It is in the horror section, and appears next to Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Black Flame.
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 04/03/2026
No big deal, just found out I’m staying at one of the most haunted hotels in the country
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 04/03/2026
Happy first day of #AWP26 !!! Need something to read on your flight? How about THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME featuring @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & me (and special guest)!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 04/03/2026
#AWP26 goals: Midnight bedtime No hangovers Eat blue crab Take breaks to wander around Baltimore Buy reasonable # of books Lounge around hotel room If @aaronburch.bsky.social says we should go to a Casino at 11:45pm, politely decline
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A beautiful day to read THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME! “D.T.: I don’t want to throw the interview off or anything, but is this the part where we kiss?”
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 04/03/2026
Happy first day of #AWP26 !!! Need something to read on your flight? How about THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME featuring @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & me (and special guest)!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I read @aaronburch.bsky.social's TACOMA cover to cover today, and it's so funny and smart and heartfelt. I told him it's "a blow to the idea that great art should come from tragedy! Tacoma is my favorite thing you’ve written and it came out of one of the happiest summers of your life." So good!
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TACOMA - Aaron Burch — Autofocus Books
ABOUT THE BOOK Inspired to “take a break from life” by the idyllic housesitting situation they were offered for the summer, Aaron and Amber find themselves in Aaron’s hometown of Tacoma, Washington....
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 19/02/2026
Cheerleading & Euphoria in one flash piece?!?! This one is pure 🔥 ...take a minute and give it a read.
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 19/02/2026
Cheerleading & Euphoria in one flash piece?!?! This one is pure 🔥 ...take a minute and give it a read.
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 10/02/2026
Pool Party's reading tonight got a shoutout in Portland Monthly!!! Tonight at 6pm at Grand Gesture Books! Hope to see you all there 🔥🔥🔥
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 09/02/2026
Thrilled to announce that HORSE GIRL FEVER is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award - Ken Kesey Award for Fiction!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 09/02/2026
Thrilled to announce that HORSE GIRL FEVER is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award - Ken Kesey Award for Fiction!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 08/02/2026
Using generative AI to “write” a book and calling yourself a writer is like looking out the window of an airplane flying over Mt. Everest and telling everyone you climbed it.
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 08/02/2026
Just finished TACOMA yesterday and holy shit!!! Immediately one of my favorite indie books of all time. Wild and fun and free. Haven’t felt this way about a book since Nagel’s DUPLEX. Soooooooooooo good 📚🔥🧨
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Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · 06/02/2026
"Even the storm clouds that hover above grayscale despots & dumpster divers have cheery little smiles drawn around their gritty cherubic faces" New poetry from RJ Equality Ingram 🔥🔥🔥 poolpartymag.com/three-poems-2/
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Three Poems by RJ Equality Ingram
Roger Rabbit carries his belongings in a bindle like a fool / He left the door to his wife’s apartment open as he walked through to Toon Town but turned towards his favorite juice joint for a celery &...
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 02/02/2026
LOOK MA, WE MADE IT ON TV!!! Watch our little segment on AM EXTRA where we talk all things POOL PARTY, including our upcoming reading on Feb 10 / 6pm @ Grand Gesture Books feat: Chelsea Bieker Jon Raymond Luke Goebel Camille McDaniel Adam Deutsch & Lauren Lavín
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 02/02/2026
LOOK MA, WE MADE IT ON TV!!! Watch our little segment on AM EXTRA where we talk all things POOL PARTY, including our upcoming reading on Feb 10 / 6pm @ Grand Gesture Books feat: Chelsea Bieker Jon Raymond Luke Goebel Camille McDaniel Adam Deutsch & Lauren Lavín
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 31/01/2026
Portland, OR in 2020 felt angry and chaotic Portland, OR in 2026 feels angry and organized The world is scary as hell, but I've never seen anything like what is happening in my community. I imagine it's like... 10x more organized in MN. Feels like really BIG change is possible.
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Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This edition exists because the text could take it. shop.maudlinhouse.net#winesburg-ohio
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
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Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · 30/01/2026
Come see Luke Goebel read at our upcoming Pool Party event. Feb 10 at 6pm at Grand Gesture Books 🔥🔥🔥
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 30/01/2026
Come see Luke Goebel read at our upcoming Pool Party event. Feb 10 at 6pm at Grand Gesture Books 🔥🔥🔥
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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In Solidarity, Read a Book From a Minnesota Press | Kirkus Reviews
Publishers like Coffee House, Graywolf, and Milkweed are international in outlook and open to voices beyond the mainstream.
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 25/01/2026
Random question for grammar nerds: do you need a comma after the state name in the following sentence? "I moved to Portland, Oregon, in the fall of 2007." ??? Or no comma?
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