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Nathan Knapp

@nateknapp.bsky.social
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Author of DAYBOOK, a novel (Splice, 2024). Native Okie, live in Nashville, teach in Clarky.

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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I spend almost no time on this terrible little website (as opposed to other terrible website), but I have E-galleys of SCHOPENHAUER if any of you're interested in reviewing it! If so, don't reply here but instead email: nathanDOTknappATokstate.edu
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Now I can find out what all the fuss is about. @nateknapp.bsky.social
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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Coming in July
Daydreamers by Alvin Lu (Fiction Collective 2)
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Daybook excerpt @nateknapp.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2024/04/04/d...
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Daybook [excerpt] — Nathan Knapp
Just to the east of the many graves of children of which I earlier wrote—all of whom, it now strikes me, according to a certain doctrine mentioned some pages above, deserved destruction—I saw a fen…
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So glad you liked it, Alvin!
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thank you!
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Congratulations to the small presses and writers on the Republic of Consciousness Prize longlist, announced today on Substack: therepublicofconsciousness.substack.com/p/announcing.... The RoC isn't on BlueSky, so here's the list:
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Congrats, sir!
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
My novel DAYBOOK has been longlisted for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize! www.republicofconsciousness.com/2024-longlist
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2025 Longlist Announcement — Republic of Consciousness
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Long list for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for small presses is just out – and stone the crows, there's @nateknapp.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/therepub...
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Announcing the 2025 Long list for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses
I cannot believe we've made it to Year 9.
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Very much same.
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I figured, but I still feel a little guilty to subject people to my idiot thoughts twice-over, lol. I have come down from my spite and reached the self-deprecating portion of the day
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I took a shower, ate some ramen, read a chapter of Syllogismes de l'Amertume, took a nap, and indeed: felt a little better!
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
haha, i'm sorry about that
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Sounds up my alley. Relatedly, I tried to covertly film a family Thanksgiving once (think I wrote about this is Daybook?) and it made me feel like I wasn’t there, like a ghost.
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
My back hurts, I’ve got a sour taste in my mouth, I’m wearing mismatched socks and I need a shower and there’s snow on the ground and my feet are cold. Why yes, I think it is high time for me to pull old buddy Emil Cioran down from the shelf before I maim someone or myself!
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
One week left to send your smartest, strangest, strongest essays! — 2500 words max — please send Word docs — cover letter optional — bios under 100 words — include @ s if you want to be tagged on social media oleada.io/publication/...
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
This is a beautiful, melancholy and (or so it seems to me) Murnanian short novel. I enjoyed it immensely.
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
'Twas a pleasure! My second favorite dog to read to.
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Heads up. Dear humans in and around Birmingham, Alabama, you are invited to tear up my house in the name of literature on the evening of Dec. 14th, celebrating @nateknapp.bsky.social and DAYBOOK. Dm for sordid logistics. 🖤
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Super stoked to read at Alina's house Dec. 14! Hope to see you all there!
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Can't wait to listen to this on the ride home later today.
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I still need to get your Daybook in the mail! Can’t wait to dig in.
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
So I see there’s Adam Mars-Jones on Houellebecq in the new LRB. Practically guaranteed to be the most irritating book review of the year.
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Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
William Blake was born on this day in 1757. Obsessed with the color of the sun.
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thankful for a good mail day—thanks to @spencerfleury.bsky.social!
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Not a bad hotel room, especially after I scrubbed the small amount of blood spatter on the bathroom wall.
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
People saying this website is less toxic than twitter: I was just showed a post by Seth Abramson. Fuck this shit you guys. This is not what I came here for
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Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Three books that I have devoured in recent times, all of which are of a dark nature. Different hues of darkness. All superb.  Thanks to @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social for the Blackwood heads-up. @influxpress.bsky.social @nateknapp.bsky.social #adamscovell #splicepress
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Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"Daybook" by @nateknapp.bsky.social. Incantatory. More here: www.thisissplice.co.uk/fiction/dayb...
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
And the flipside of that satisfaction, absolute and total insecurity masquerading as competence!
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Everyone is just a tad too pleased about it. An air of open and rank superiority, satisfaction, form, form, form. (Poetry, I too dislike it.)
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Something about the atmosphere here reminds me of when I first got to grad school. Was excited to be there but there also seemed to be a rigorous current of something it took me way too long to name.
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The most commonly-held editorial principle, no?
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This was helpful! Still trying to find everyone.
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Splice @thisissplice.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We published two stunning novels earlier this year. First up was Nathan Knapp's "Daybook", "an absolutely one-of-a-kind book that held me rapt from the first word to the last" (Ben Loory). UK readers can get it with a couple of clicks, £10.99 plus postage, right here: www.paypal.com/instantcomme...
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Splice @thisissplice.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Want a taste of "Daybook"? You can read excerpts online: - www.thisissplice.co.uk/fiction/dayb... - www.thisissplice.co.uk/fiction/dayb... - www.thisissplice.co.uk/fiction/dayb... And there's an excerpt at @minorlits.bsky.social: minorliteratures.com/2024/04/04/d...
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Daybook [excerpt] — Nathan Knapp
Just to the east of the many graves of children of which I earlier wrote—all of whom, it now strikes me, according to a certain doctrine mentioned some pages above, deserved destruction—I saw a fen…
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Haha. Your first mistake was to expect the ‘serious’ part! Although in all seriousness, lol, that was one of the most fun aspects of writing that book. Thanks, Martin!
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Man, I really appreciate the kind words, Jacob! Hope you’re doing well these days.
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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Nate Knapp’s DAYBOOK (Splice, 2024) is outstanding — one of the strangest, most exciting & poignant books I have read in some time
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Also, I terrifiedly read this bit aloud to a bunch of psychotherapists a few weeks back and it got pretty solid laughs...
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Nathan Knapp @nateknapp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Of all the parts of the book to shoutout, haha. You have to tell me why this one, Martin. As for explanations or 'breastplanations' I'm afraid I don't have one other than to note that the poor bastard making the description was 21 years old.
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