Stephen Delaney

Writer, editor, human. Stories in Miracle Monocle, @TahomaReview, New World Writing, @BendingGenres, and elsewhere. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs

[Stephen Delaney @smallestwords]

My reading habit: alternate between genre and literary, short story and novel, the known and the unknown. #amreading #fiction

[Stephen Delaney @smallestwords]

My chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN is now available from Bottlecap Press. The pieces explore marginal life and have magical or fantastical elements. They're sad but I hope you enjoy them. #chapbook #fiction #bottlecappress

https://t.co/N18nn5KtAp

[Stephen Delaney @smallestwords]

He followed the blue butterfly in search of milder climes. Is sunlight real? he wondered.

[Stephen Delaney @smallestwords]

“Lots of times you can’t hear a writer’s voice in her writing. But it’s true she’s a corner of the whole town, a whipping look at the sky and a bit of puttering down the sun-lit road.”

— Grace Paley

#writing #fiction

[Stone Circle Review @stonecirclerev]

“So much of writing seems to be indulging different sides of your personality around a topic or a theme, watching them collaborate—or letting them jockey for prominence, seeing who comes out on top.”

-- Sharon Olds

[Literary Hub @lithub]

“In autumn, in anticipation of the oncoming cold season, the beasts’ bodies were covered with a shiny, golden coat of fur.” Read from Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls, translated by Philip Gabriel.
https://t.co/xP6S9vv9fU

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

Maximizing Time for Reading | 'Dividual' by @blakebutler https://t.co/r040HmCQAs

[Excited Utterance @ExcitedUttRead]

Jeff VanderMeer Tells Victor LaValle Why He Returned to Area X ⁦@InterviewMag⁩ https://t.co/A4M56UJK45

[Stephen Delaney @smallestwords]

“I do have people in mind when I write. I don’t know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are.”

— Lorrie Moore

#writing #fiction

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Bruno Schulz's story, "The Republic of Dreams", is unforgettable. So I made a PDF copy of it (as translated by Walter Ardnt), and linked it at the bottom of this post. With a constellation of annotations. For anyone. Anywhere. World literature forever.

https://t.co/AvVhXm1MmQ

[Stephen Delaney @smallestwords]

For me absurdism only works if there’s something real at stake, making things seem dreadful and weird, or funny and dreadful, rather than just weird.

[Literary Hub @lithub]

“Things here are going from bad to worse.” Read from Juan Rulfo’s story collection The Burning Plain, translated by Douglas Weatherford.
https://t.co/2DO5nZyNCi

[Stephen Delaney @smallestwords]

“Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.”

— Daniil Kharms

#fiction #poetry

[Stephen Delaney @smallestwords]

This is my favorite Daniil Kharms piece (translated by Matvei Yankelevich). Absurd but it has its own logic.

[Jacob Wren @EverySongIveEve]

"I really love books that are kind of thin, but sort of heavy. Thin but incredibly intense. Books that seem like they took 10 years to write, but are almost like the notes for a book that is actually impossible."
- Kate Zambreno

[Books at NYRB @NYRB_Imprints]

"The Singularity is a slim novel of under 130 pages, but the ideas it explores spill beyond its covers and are perhaps much more relevant today than when it was originally published."

@Broke_Bookworm reviews Dino Buzzati's prescient sci-fi classic for @strangehorizons

[Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer]

At @Polygon, they've posted Karen Joy Fowler's intro to the new edition of Annihilation. "W/ [these novels] VanderMeer crafted the definitive work of climate change speculative fiction... that married weird fic & eco-horror for an unforgettable experience" https://t.co/tCl4Qrd1I9

[Stephen Delaney @smallestwords]

@NameofAuthor1 Draft 50: removed a comma. Draft 51: put it back in.

[Stephen Delaney @smallestwords]

How can anyone know their number of story drafts?

[Pantheon Books @PantheonBooks]

BLOOD TEST by Charles Baxter is coming this fall, available 10/22! Follow Brock Hobson, a divorced dad, as his life gets turned upside down by a medical test predicting he has a predisposition to murder.

https://t.co/n1HiF2TZDs

[Cuento Magazine @CuentoMag]

[Bio] Stephen Delaney writes short fiction, craft articles, and book reviews. His most recent story, “Hauntings (A Sutured Tale),” appeared in @miracle_monocle. @smallestwords (#932)