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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 26/09/2026

Friday fish fry, Northfield, Wis. Great stuff. #thesearemyoeople

Basket of deep-fried cod, crinkle-cut French fries, Cole slaw, and pre-buttered bread.

Fish fry special menu on wall of central Wisconsin bar: beer-battered cod. 2 piece, $14.45; 3 piece $16.45

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 24/09/2026

Schnitzel pizza from local pizzeria. These are my people.

One-half of schnitzel pizza remains in its take-away box alongside spring salad in broad white bowl with silver fork.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 12/09/2026

Quick reminder that my second book of short fiction, THESE ARE MY PEOPLE, a finalist for the Edna Ferber Book Award, is out. Ask for it from your favorite bookseller or bookshop dot org.

Cover image of These Are My People, finalist for the Edna Ferber Book Award

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 07/09/2026

Novel research, The Ultimate Preppy Handbook

Cover image of The Ultimate Preppy Handbook

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 02/09/2026

Foucault. Discipline & Punish… It’s for a novel.

Cover shot of Foucault’s Discipline & Punish, the Birth of the Prison

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 18/08/2026

Current writing exercise: read short story by Fitzgerald read short story by Hemmingway repeat

Cover image of Bernice Bobs Her Hair and In Our Time, short-story collections by F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hamingway, respectively

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 15/08/2026

The Book of Trolls. In which the author clarifies they not all trolls live under bridges.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 08/08/2026

So I guess I will be writing Chapters for the Left Hand for a while now. This novel ain’t gonna write itself, after all.

Photo of author with right arm in sling typing with one hand at computer following surgery on the other.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 02/08/2026

Northwoods read: The Glassblower’s Children. Maria Gripe. Only five pagesto go… Careful what you wish for.

Photo of The Glassblower’s Children by Maria Gripe on author’s knee. Northern Wisconsin lake grows still beyond.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 01/08/2026

Northwoods, Wisconsin fish fry Friday.

Plate of French fries, deep-fried walleye, coleslaw. Seltzer water with lemon wedge beyond.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 17/07/2026

The air be thick in Northern Wis is thick today. AQI. Pretty sure we were oblivious to such a thing ten years ago.

Screenshot of air quality index (500) in Spooner, Wisconsin.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 13/07/2026

Morning read. Sabrina y Corina, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Visceral and wonderful.

Photo of book cover, Sabrina y Corina, a collection of short stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Northern Wisconsin lake lurks beyond.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 05/06/2026

Essay collection Tomboyland by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social now on my desk.

Cover image of essay collection Tomboyland by Melissa Faliveno

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 13/05/2026

Pretty stoked about this sticker I got for my little book, THESE ARE MY PEOPLE. Stories about small-town weirdos. Thanks, @artlitlab.bsky.social and Cornerstone Press.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 13/03/2026

Chilling stories by writers from a chilly place: #wisconsin. Available now in paperback from WWA Press wherever you buy books.

Wisconsin Writers Association mug alongside A Wisconsin Harvest of Horror, an anthology of short stories by Wisconsin writers. Cover features a camping trailer cast in a paranormal light with blood-stained fingerprint overlay.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 02/02/2026

Movie in current release at Falls Theater located in River Falls, Wisconsin, a short drive from ground zero of the mpls ICE agent action. They’ve been active here, too.

Movie theater marquee display reads SEND HELP

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 01/02/2026

In the end, we did the Minneapolis reading. Despite the intensity of the situation just days following the in-broad-daylight murder of Alex Pretti.

The autor signs a book for a book-reading attendee at Magers and Quinn in Mpls. A stack of books, These Are My People, rests at his elbow. He is smiling. It is a good night.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 29/01/2026

Some scams are more obvious than others.

Email preview in mail client's Inbox. Sender is Mable Agencykent, Subject: TRULY IMPRESSED BY YOUR BOOK - WOULD LOVE TO SUPPORT...
Message preview: Dear Steve, I hope you're doing well. I recently came across These Are My People and felt genuinely compelled to reach out. There's somet...

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 23/01/2026

-30 F at my house 25 miles from downtown mpls. They’ve invaded a winter people during winter. People who get excited when they can finally break out the ‘actual cold’ garb.

Analog thermometer nailed to tree trunk reads -29F

Face of young man in winter beneath frosted covered scarf and fur hat.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 16/01/2026

Having a hard time posting about books, coffee, and doggies when we got shit like this in our face.

ICE workers arrest Mexican workers at restaurant where the just dined

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 14/01/2026

Here I thought we'd hit rock-bottom when we sent our children off to school with Kevlar school bags and said, "Have a great day, honey. Don't get shot." So naive. Every rock-bottom's got a trap door down to yet another lower low.

Roosevelt High School, Minneapolis, MN. ICE agents fire tear gas at- and tackle minors in multiple arrests. Image of numerous agents pressing teenage person face down onto snow-covered schoolyard meanwhile they cuff his wrists behind his back.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 01/01/2026

First read of 2026 - The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf.

Cover photo of The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf. S blond woman with tidy curls seated on the deck of an ocean liner pours coffee from a ceramic coffee pot into a cup. A calm sea-green body of water laps beyond.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 26/12/2025

Wow. Random notes like this mean so much: Dear Steve — [These Are My People] is the exact book I was hoping for. It filled my soul and broke my heart all at once.

Cover of These Are My People, a collection of short stories by Steve Fox

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 17/12/2025

Only thing cooler than my hair is my books. Had a great time at last night’s launch of These Are My People, hosted by Chapter2Books. Thanks to all who came from far and wide to attend and hear me ramble.

Author Steve Fox seated and stopped at a table to sign copies of These Are My People at Chapter2Books in Hudson, Wisconsin. Placards bearing cover images of this book and Sometimes Creek rest against the front of the table.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 23/11/2025

You need another book. Get this one now. “Crisp, unsentimental prose … stunningly honey and surprisingly tender.” — Kimberly King Parsons Early-bird discount here: tinyurl.com/these-are-my...

Image of These Are My People with cider drink atop hewn hardwood table

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 21/11/2025

Rabbit-hole rabbit-hole rabbit-hole rabbit-hole rabbit-hole. I’ve heard this said 100 times this week. NEW RULE. You don’t get to use this metaphor unless a. You’re actually physically stuck in a rabbit-hole (then it’s not really not a metaphor, but still), or b. you know Alice.

Cover image of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 18/11/2025

What’s a great book on craft you’ve never read? One of mine is How Fiction Work, James Wood. #WritingCommunity #flashfiction #solarpunk #speculativefiction

Cover Photo of How Fiction Work, by James Wood

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 14/11/2025

Had a great time last week at the Cornerstone book launch party. Honored to be on stage with Calvin Mills (The Caged Man) and Barry Pearce (The Plan of Chicago), two great fiction writers.

Steve Fox pictured signing books for book-reading attendees. He brought his own pen.

Steve Fox reading, in character, a crabby moment from his story “Rings.”

Calvin Mills, Barry Pearce, and Steve Fox seated at Cornerstone Press table for Fall 2025 book launch.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 10/11/2025

All I’m trying to do is turn my lights on.

Image from lighting software requesting account confirmation in order to proceed.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 08/11/2025

Just grabbed a copy of @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social ‘s cool new book, Graphic Rage, from @splitlippress.com while wandering the Twin Cities Book Festival. Wonderful surprise to see them here. #writing #writingcommunity

Cover image of Graphic Rage, by Aubrey Hirsch

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 02/11/2025

Good morning! Daylight Saving Time. For the same reason we say Dog walking time. Story telling time. Beer drinking time. Bonus if you hyphenate because it’s a compound adjective.

Image of an analog clock that reads 1:50. An image of the sun with human eyes nose and lips in the background.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 17/10/2025

Yep. I’ll draft my own email replies, thanks. And please stop enabling Beta software by default

Confirmation dialog verifying if user is certain about turning off apple intelligence. Yes, the user is.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 17/10/2025

That Uecker Magic can kick in again any time now.

Box score 3-1 Dodgers over Brewers top of 9

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 12/10/2025

Expired, but not puffy. Likely fine.

White bottom of plastic yogurt container with expiration date stamped in black ink reads Best by 04 SEPT 2025.

Top of Siggi’s yogurt container. Index finger checks lid for excess surface tension. There is none.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 11/10/2025

Weekend read with @ambersparks.bsky.social , Happy People Don’t Live Here, Her debut novel. Open up and get lost.

Cover image of Happy People Don’t Live Here, by Amber Sparks.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 10/10/2025

Hey @milwaukeebrewers.bsky.social You got this. You do. But quickly, here are four reasons to win tomorrow, 11 Oct 2025: - Beat the Cubs - Advance to NLCS - Notch season’s 100th win - Beat the Cubs Thanks.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 03/10/2025

More Leonora Carrington in the house. Down Below, with introduction by Marina Warner.

Cover image of Down Below, a novel by Leonora Carrington. Introduction by Marina Warner.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 02/10/2025

@danchaon.bsky.social this just in! Thanks for putting it out there. One of Us. Worth noting: I did not walk into traffic while reading it on the way outta the bookstore.

Cover image of Dan Chaon’s new novel, One of Us taken on a very sunny day in Wisconsin.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 01/10/2025

Book mail! Vampires at Sea, by Lindsay Merbaum a.k.a., @pickyourpotions.bsky.social

Cover image of Lindsay Merbaum’s novel, Vampires at Sea

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 20/09/2025

Book mail! The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington, by @dorothyproject.bsky.social #writingcommunity

Cover image of The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington, published by Dorothy Project on the centennial of her birth.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 17/09/2025

I like how Lyft sends along about-to-expire offers like I could miss out on a great deal to get the hell outta Dodge.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 05/09/2025

Hi. Whatcha reading? A Visit from the Goon Squad here, by @egangoonsquad.bsky.social. Wow.

Photograph of a visit from the goon squad, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from Jennifer Egan

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 29/08/2025

Again? Okay. Let’s make a day of it, shall we? Why not.

Microsoft authenticator app asking yet again if I should allow myself to log in.

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