gabriel smith

PEN/O Henry winning author of BRAT (2024) & THE COMPLETE (202?)

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

new fiction in @thedrift_mag (best in the game right now imo)

if you read one thing by me make it this one, i really like it

props to them for being excellent, esp. @emmalegin for pushing me for literally 18 months to find the 'vibe' of it, true heroes

[The Drift @thedrift_mag]

“Like Brokeback Mountain,” I say, “but in Vietnam.”

Our first short story in an especially fiction-filled issue from @gabriel666smith

https://t.co/YzQwfB3dfz

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

The way we are sold (back our work as) large language models (a chat-box, API, whatever) has fuck all to do with writing prose...

AI does have an ability to show you the mean expected outcome of a sentence

How one deviates... this is voice, and will matter even more than b4

[Ella Dorn 唐棠 @elladorn_]

@ObhishekSaha @fred_beretta In literary fiction your prose *is* you, the field is built on that understanding.
Idk why you get to say this is irrational or that readers should lie down and take it instead of protecting the basic standard. And AI in this context is the furthest thing from a neutral "tool"

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

@FtsyParliament Ez

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

@WhatHoARat @xtebordo It was one of the first books Lish edited at Knopf, I believe making further edits from how they were presented when individually published: https://t.co/sz0ZNQ1F4u

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

@FtsyParliament @THFCJex Probably quite difficult, but (though it’s the most fun way to play) you may wish to consider penalising campaigns with a single untenable policy, or policy aspect, more. If u don’t immediately get fired u can still win people round. Though maybe that’s true-to-life, hard to say

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

@FtsyParliament @THFCJex Yeah, it was, but to be fair to your imaginary voters, I jammed it between vast childcare expansions and paying pensioners for the childcare they do of their own grandchildren, funded by closing loopholes for non-doms, and used relatively mealy (but clear) wording

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

@THFCJex @FtsyParliament I managed this on medium with a policy that made the royal family available for breeding purposes to up the country’s birth rate, which I suggested would help us maintain the triple lock for future generations

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

@cd_hooks i think its more like an involuntary aesthetic response. like a gag reflex

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

https://t.co/5TwCPKvpJA

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

@itvmeridian Admirable initiative, trying to improve literacy in the next generation of Pompey supporters. Bless their hearts x

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

Sadly, one of these cops (not the main one with the sunglasses and mustache) was hit during a routine traffic stop by a drunk driver. Horrifically, their body was cut in half at the waist.

The force of the impact (reportedly 80+mph) sent their police utility belt (now detached from their separated body) flying.

Their partner reported seeing their partner’s bloodied handcuffs come to a perfect stop in the direct centre of the patrol car’s headlamps.

“In a way,” he said later, to cameras, “it was just what he would have wanted.”

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

@stconroe Don’t you understand man Art is a zero sum game

The second any of our peers has success it is crucial we cut them down, perhaps by ostracising them from little parties or w/e

All that attention ur book got could have been theirs - for their book they are working on atm

Duh

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

@GRTRD_STN And only $7 for your mother

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

Imagine how bad I feel

[@dfarecs @lethalrejection]

i’ve never felt so punished just for liking an album

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

@formermissNJ @thecreativeindp Nothing scarier than reading what you said a couple of months ago lol

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

@blgtylr @bookforum I think you’ve misunderstood the deployment of present-progressive in both the sections you’ve quoted here, or they’re poor examples. They’re both moments of stasis. Energising the ‘line of action’ in them seems wildly inappropriate if your intention is for your reader to linger

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

lol months ago, before Intermezzo came out, I uploaded it to pirate book sites

except it was just the first 50 pages of Brat but the Intermezzo cover

assumed nobody noticed, but just found this 'in the wild', love a long-term payoff

[gabriel smith @gabriel666smith]

They shot the Russian spy whale in Brat to death

[Peter Davis @PeterDavisNYC]

My profile of @gabriel666smith in @AVENUEinsider :
https://t.co/0Gnz4Kekxd

[SSENSE @SSENSE]

Gabriel Smith IS brat https://t.co/5nkFN8i3un

[Kiara Barrow @kfzbarrow]

no it's the other one