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Stephen Patrick Bell

@stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social

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Chicago | Writer | 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow | Tin House Summer 2023

Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

And a stage interview at the Leather Archives & Museum with my favorite gen-x hustlers @dalecorvino.bsky.social and Michael Bullock on their tremendous books on queer life and punk artmaking

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Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Brought a ton of extra concerned dad energy to the last haircut of the year.

OP blending into brass/wood paneling of haunted elevator. Hair is uncut.

OP appears to be worried about you, but is just looking at his hair.

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Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

hanging out in exile in bookville while hunter shows off her chirby and I start to panic about being out past 9pm

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Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Loved being able to watch Lindsay Hunter accept the 2024 CHIRBY for fiction. It’s not too late to order her propulsive and horny true crime novel, Hot Springs Drive for the holidays. Thanks to @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social @storystudiochicago.bsky.social @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social for a great night

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Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

can confirm: the people love a little guy

Statue of a Young Satyr Wearing a Theater Mask of Silenos
Date 1 CE–100 CE
Medium: Marble

A young satyr thrusts his hand through the mouth of a theater mask of Silenos (an old satyr) in a gesture that is both mischievous and menacing. This work may have been part of a statuary group that included another figure whom the satyr is attempting to frighten either in jest or in earnest. Although this subject is frequently found in relief sculpture, particularly on sarcophagi (coffins) and gemstones, this is the only known extant version in a work sculpted in the round. The important 17th-century sculptor Alessandro Algardi restored this statue when it was in the collection of the wealthy Ludovisi family in Rome.

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Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Benjamin Fredrickson’s cheeky Wedgies project is on display at Culture Edit w/ @tomsfoundation.bsky.social in Los Angeles for a few more weeks.

A copy of Ben’s hot new book, Wedgies, and a cool new wedgies tee, both of which are on sale at cultureedit.com

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Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

reading list.

Stack of extremely gay galleys featuring work by Melissa Febos, Kristen Arnett, Jinwoo Chong, Rob Franklin, Alejandro Heredia, Edmund White, Seán Hewitt, Ira Madison III, Brittany Newell, and Freda Epum.

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Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

dusting off the ol’ skeetbox.

Poster is in a miraculously empty gym, wearing all black, (with white tube socks and sneakers), soaking wet, and clearly thinking about the thick stack of queer books waiting for him at home

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Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

still deciding if the west coast agrees with us

Bespectacled poster seated in wrinkled linen

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Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

ahead of his feature in publishers weekly and his essay in esquire, I had a chance to connect with a new talent who glitters with the same queer rage as his prose. chireviewofbooks.com/2023/08/04/dis…

screen grab of the attached interview featuring photo of Kyle Dillon Hertz and his debut novel The Lookback Window

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Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

liartownusa knit solitudes pattern book: Bold, bright solitaires for the socially distant

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Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

it is extremely hot and we have acquired llamas

poster is walking under a tree, awkwardly holding up a gouache painting of three llamas while attempting to take a selfie

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Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

we’ve joined another platform.

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