Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I would like you to know that @rid9way.bsky.social 's DOONEEN is genuine masterpiece, a novel as emotionally gutting as it is intellectually adventurous, a work of genuine formal and linguistic virtuosity. I loved A SHOCK, was impressed by every page, and still DOONEEN left me floored. 120
Reposted by Kyle Beachydylan @gropeforluna.bsky.social · 06/08/2026i took a class with kyle earlier this year, just a couple afternoons of exploring and appreciating sentence structure, and it was a wonderful, rich experience. i can only imagine how rewarding 8 weeks of his teaching would be. the guy loves the written word; highly recommended! 022
Reposted by Kyle Beachydylan @gropeforluna.bsky.social · 06/08/2026someday i will engage with this text (i.e. read the damn book) and, when i finally do, it will be through kyle's course 141
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The other is an 8-week workshop that centers voice, balancing close reads of selected works and fine, granular attention to each writer's language as it suits their project. I love this class. I love teaching the sentence. Thank you! lighthousewriters.org/workshop/8-w...lighthousewriters.org8-Week: Finding Voice, Then Using VoiceThis workshop will zoom in to focus on the granular details of our sentences in order to find larger, zoomed-out lessons about our projects as a whole. A good sentence, in its form, language, and tone... 041
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026First is a 4-week course on the first 321 pages of Infinite Jest, which I imagine you're heard of. The goal here is to introduce the novel with a clarifying and guiding eye, and get readers over the (considerable) hump of the early sections.lighthousewriters.org4-Week: Craft Lessons from The First 321 Pages of Infinite Jest2026 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s monumental, notorious, and exquisite novel about commitment, addiction, and what it means to be a self in an era of endles... 152
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Heyo! I've got two classes starting this month at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and both have space. Please share liberally, if you're inclined, thank you. 142
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026this is good actually because i have plans to ride my skateboard with friends on sunday afternoon. 020
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Just send emails. If you're a literary journal, have a website. Your engagement numbers are a sham, man. Get off. 0102
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026actively, flagrantly judging all of you who use substack. 1142
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026asking the rattlesnake politely to please come back for this one particular mouse we keep hearing in the ceiling 040
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026the other day? wore my Rush shirt to walmart, bought some ant traps 031
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"a bleak world where survival itself was a triumph and death as familiar as life"!!! 010
Reposted by Kyle Beachyfernballew.bsky.social @fernballew.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Every stage of “I used to skate” 061
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026very weird to wake up (hours ago, jesus, i'm not a slob) and see people saying nice things and celebrating the good fortune of a st. louis cardinal. 010
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026i personally would like to see more novels where the whole thing is just a person living somewhere. 5120
Reposted by Kyle BeachyKyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"A spokesman for the Port of San Francisco said the agency has not received complaints since skaters returned and is happy to let them remain." People want people, even / especially if some of those people are pushing around on wheels.sfstandard.comSan Francisco: The city where skateboarders won?The city has spent around $9 million on skate infrastructure in the last decade. It’s hard to believe it used to jail people for skating on the sidewalk. 183
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Max does well to offer a concise definition of skate urbanism: "the idea that skateboarding is one thread in a tapestry of active, noncommercial uses of public space" I feel a little more targeted by his description of Mike Carroll: "a Daly City native who’s a sort of demigod for Gen X skaters" 040
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"A spokesman for the Port of San Francisco said the agency has not received complaints since skaters returned and is happy to let them remain." People want people, even / especially if some of those people are pushing around on wheels.sfstandard.comSan Francisco: The city where skateboarders won?The city has spent around $9 million on skate infrastructure in the last decade. It’s hard to believe it used to jail people for skating on the sidewalk. 183
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026they really do have it all, huh. (they are all inside of cars right now, as i type this. they're all driving. every single one of them.) 120
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026i was going to recommend ON LIGHTHOUSES, which might be a little better for intro students... 120
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026aaron, it's a perfect story. it's a stunning and glorious piece of writing. 100
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Chicago, Saturday night, Logan Square, let's get weird as hell 054
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026you guys ever build a shed in your yard? not hard. i built a carport and i'm at least 35% fem. building a shed is much easier than kickflipping. 010
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026forgot to tell you guys that i turned down a Pretty Lucrative contract with a piece of shit AI company and my soul really actually does feel cleaner for it 0141
Reposted by Kyle Beachykristin @klooky.bsky.social · 12/07/2026in this house we celebrate every win with an itty little bit of tequila. just enough to feel god smiling 071
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Profoundly bad strategy for open rates, thank you. 020
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026It's Friday evening and I just sent out a letter I've been writing off and on today. If you'd like to receive this one and future letters, just send me your email addy. No promotions. No links to buy anything. Just letters. 140
Reposted by Kyle BeachyÉireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Also, "witnesses" is One Letter longer than "migrants" and more effectively describes the position and role of the men 141
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026oh man someday soon i will have my website up. i've been relying on referrals, talking through the options with each writer who reaches out. i offer full editorial suite, from conception / drafting to developmental edits to late stage line edits, meeting the writer wherever they are... 011
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Please yeah go ahead and refer me to yourself or your friends with manuscripts in progress. I've been doing this for 20 years and hope to keep doing it forever. 120
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Just sent off a 15,000-word editorial letter to a client with a novel that's going to absolutely rule. Cannot stress how much I enjoy doing developmental edits for authors, how fortunate I feel to be trusted in this way and hurl myself into their projects. 140
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026"ryan grim" you say? some other piece of shit on substack? folks, we don't have to live this way 060
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026i'm sorry but these dudes are, what, podcasters? these people whose names you all seem to know? 160
Reposted by Kyle BeachyGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/07/2026NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...newrepublic.comTexas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-DeportThere were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport. 14136032037
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026my own personal approach was to grade the student's essay a B or B- and to return it with brief, fierce note about their failures as students, shaming them with the full force of my own personal soul. the better solution, of course, is to abolish grades entirely. 020
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026i got into a bit of an argument last year with a Known Author for arguing that today's college profs absolutely must redefine "cheating" rather than slot LLM-aided essay writing into the same old categories and procedures. professors simply aren't paid for this shit. 100
Reposted by Kyle Beachyrob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 08/07/202612 or 20 (second series) questions with Dan Beachy-Quick / @milkweededitions.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/07/12-o...robmclennan.blogspot.com12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dan Beachy-QuickDan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and translator. 1 - How did your first book change your life? How does your most recent work compa... 094
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026You have not discovered contemporary masculinity until you've hung out with a radically disparate and intergenerational group of dudes and women and trans skaters hugging and saying I love you after one of us switch heelflips a few steps. 173
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026not for nothing, but a good thing about skateboarding contests is everyone pretty much accepts that they're rigged rather than believing in a fantasy of fairness despite a constant deluge of evidence otherwise! 020
Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Still curious for any input from presses / authors re: how the small POD run does or doesn't reset the "out of print" title clocks. 011
Reposted by Kyle BeachyKyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026another banner day for the first person plural 011
