Andrew Cominelli

Fiction writer

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

A while back, I wrote an essay as an attempt to speak to a relative who died before I was born.

Here it is, with thanks to the editors, in @redividermag
22.2:

https://t.co/9ej3j5ucF4

[Redivider @redividermag]

Our new spring issue is live! Full of many great pieces—learn some lessons in smoking, or maybe take a look at past and future exhibits at the mutter museum. Or, read about the house that’s taken over.

#WritingCommunity

[The Barcelona Review @BarcelonaReview]

It's a pleasure to feature this story by US author @ajcomjr in which a man at work researching the background of an old colonial home comes to confront a painful part of his past.
link: https://t.co/eqvL08493M
#TheBarcelonaReview #AndrewCominelli #AmericanShortFiction2025

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

My short story “Preservation,” is in the new @BarcelonaReview. It’s about denial, two old houses, an obscure mural lost to time, & more:

https://t.co/erN6smFCpj

Big thanks to eds. Jill Adams & Diggory Dunn for publishing it

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

My review of the unmissable novel “American Abductions,” by Mauro Javier Cárdenas (@IneluctableQuak). Thanks to the editors @QuarterlyWest for including it🌻

https://t.co/4IZEUt2DFE

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

you gotta go see the incredible @sapphicspielbrg ‘s new film as soon as you possibly can

[Jane Schoenbrun @sapphicspielbrg]

I SAW THE TV GLOW is officially playing in theaters in NY and LA!!!

I want to be frank with u, plz buy tickets and tell ur friends to do the same. i really want the movie to make a bunch of money bc it'll make it easier for me to convince cis ppl to keep letting me do this shit

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

@RobertAllenPoet The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

@MrHWM The Lime Twig comes to mind. it’s tonally-focused to the extreme. nearly the whole plot is just… alluded to

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

@MrHWM helpful language for a thing i spend lots of time thinking about. writing “events” often feels artificial: “okay, lemme inject some *drama* right… here.” i’m pondering ways to sort of embed needed “events” in the text - to weave them into a atmospheric/tonal fabric

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

@MrHWM & Steinbeck was contemporary to Faulkner/ Hemingway. the latter two are so present in convos, i’d say largely for being prose stylists. but Steinbeck, whom i see as more a pure storyteller, is overlooked. all 3 are great, but interesting to ponder reasons for the diff legacies

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

My short story "The Smoke of the Land Went Up" is in @GuernicaMag today. It's got sex, drugs, pedicabbing, a landscaping convention, and lots of dread.

Huge thanks to editors @autumn_watts, @adalva, and Ishita Marwah for getting this out into the world.

https://t.co/KQbyQE62iQ

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

@adalva Thanks, Adam!

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

@esfletcher it’s sad-dark-funny, but Frederick Exley’s “A Fan’s Notes” rules

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

@JasonAChristian The Green Ray (Rohmer, 1986)

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

@IneluctableQuak @matthewspecktor don’t forget “sorting”!

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

@DepartureJay recently stumbled across this gem in the "Bolaño smoking" genre. smoking begins at 3:15: https://t.co/RTUpw1E6ed

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

@IneluctableQuak @Dalkey_Archive @OneworldNews @willevans @DeepVellum I would love to read this and try to place a review of it somewhere!

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

thrilled to have this short piece up today @EllipsisZine!

[Andrew Cominelli @ajcomjr]

v excited to see my story “Go” in print, with a ton of other great work in the Fall 2022 issue of @RuminateMag

[Ruminate Magazine @RuminateMag]

Issue 63 is here!

Our Fall 2022 issue features work by @musgraved @kfor24 @ito_sab @Kavetchnik @SaraMooreWagne1 @DanielEGalicia @littprofessor

For the first time ever, you can read the issue both online and in print. 😃

More: https://t.co/Xycve1ypZe