Dan Leach

Writer. Teacher. Resident of the Existential South.

[Dan Leach @deadmediumdan]

PUB DAY!

I wrote some prose poems during COVID. Those poems became a time capsule. The time capsule, a book. Thanks to @HubCityPress for believing in this weird little mixtape.

Click here to order: https://t.co/1jU8THqMay

[Dan Leach @deadmediumdan]

A poem about a sign about a year that (sometimes) still freaks me out: https://t.co/7QVdG1B2BX

[swamp pink @swamp_pink]

Check out CofC MFA student Jimmy Passaro's interview with Dan Leach (@deadmediumdan), author of the South Carolina Novel Writing Series award winner, JUNAH AT THE END OF THE WORLD: https://t.co/Jl07kDVM2I

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"I was born with a definite pervasive melancholy." This from an existential bone-crusher by @conorhultman over at Hobart: https://t.co/8TEuv3Dptm.

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New interview up at Hobart: https://t.co/X7CleKYPF0

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Badass artist from Australia did a piece based on my book. Thrilled and honored.

[Robert Olmstead @farbrightstar]

Iced tea/Omar Ortez… JUNAH AT THE END OF THE WORLD 1st novel Dan Leach @deadmediumdan When outsider sunglasses kid w a speech impediment Junah Simmons walks into class Sept. '99 the chalkboard reads THE END OF THE WORLD IS HERE. Another full-hearted from Hub City @HubCityPress.

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"Towards the end of the novel, Junah’s scuzzy first crush (Sadie) introduces him to two forms of apocalyptic 'medicine': stolen beer and punk rock."

@deadmediumdan shared a playlist for his debut novel, Junah at the End of the World at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/LMr3qoxSD8

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New interview at @zonamotel with @biblicalmike.

https://t.co/ytKZ8Sh0Ab

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Lit Hub asked me to rank the five best anti-novels. Here's my list: https://t.co/rZ98QvohEv @biblicalmike @lithub @MaggieNelsonBot @HubCityPress

[SwR @SouthwestReview]

“Set in the twilight of 1999, it’s not just a coming-of-age story, but a coming-of-apocalypse tale”

📌ICYMI, @ryan_ridge reviews JUNAH AT THE END OF THE WORLD by @deadmediumdan out now via @HubCityPress https://t.co/5Fg2OAxTr4

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New work up at @Terrainorg.

One's about the strangeness of childhood.

The other's about the strangeness of childhood.

Two Poems by Dan Leach - https://t.co/dREj0Kphds via @terrainorg

[SwR @SouthwestReview]

JUNAH AT THE END OF THE WORLD--the “eerily prescient and poetically elegiac first novel” by @deadmediumdan--is out now & @ryan_ridge is here to review the goods 📚

Get back in the Y2K groove & snag yr copy via @HubCityPress 💥 https://t.co/5Fg2OAyrgC

[Dan Leach @deadmediumdan]

Thanks for all the pub day love! It's cool knowing Junah is out in the world, and that (with a little luck) it'll find the right folks. If you end up reading it, please do drop a line. It's the most personal thing I've ever written, and I'd love to hear it stirred up for you.

[Dan Leach @deadmediumdan]

Dream stuff over here: Junah got a Kirkus star!

https://t.co/7VSLKbFRAK

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Apocalypse time. @HubCityPress

[Dan Leach @deadmediumdan]

@drewpcoles Congrats, brother! Give M. Lucas my love, yeah?

[Dan Leach @deadmediumdan]

@StellaHayesPoet @Image_Journal Thanks, Stella! For the record, your poem took a big pick to the ice around my heart. I'm glad to know your work.

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@Perez_Writes @biblicalmike @sampinkisalive If you're willing to go beyond the 10-year constraint, Padgett Powell is pretty brilliant.

[Dan Leach @deadmediumdan]

@Perez_Writes Try Sophia by @biblicalmike or Rontel by @sampinkisalive.