author of, Mighty (Knopf ‘27), Teenager (Vintage), and the memoir, WORK, among others
Jersey City, NJ
Joined August 2009
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Six week sessions, all through 2026. Come workshop stories in Brooklyn. Hit up [email protected]
Thank you!
Aside from a review of my memoir, this is a really moving essay by Adam Van Winkle, about his own childhood memories, and what they mean now for his art making and reading life. Beautiful.
Your Cowboy Jamboree Sunday morning book review is here. CJ's @gritvanwinkle is singing the praises of @Bud_Smith's WORK, recently reissued by @PerfectDayPub: cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/b…
They are re-doing the brickwork outside my building but that also means I’ve got a scaffold/deck outside the building. Happy 4th of July from Rae and me
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I’m always late to class. I don’t respect my students who are on time to class. The only A-plus I gave this semester was to a student who was perpetually late.
My book, WORK is returning. “We are thrilled & honored to be bringing this cult classic back into print. With more than 60 pages of new material, this book has been lovingly refurbished, restructured, and reimagined.”
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My 2016 crash-out classic, A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar: 10th Anniversary Edition, with almost 40 pages of bonus stuff, is OUT NOW in paperback/ebook from @HouseofVlad ⚡ "...amazing and hilarious...a true American original." - @Bud_Smith
somebody told me about ‘inbox zero’ and so I checked to see mine and it said “88,331” very interesting
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In our most recent issue, @Bud_Smith describes the day job he worked for fifteen years, writing on his lunch breaks, before selling a novel to a major publisher:
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Going to talk to @EmilyNemens about her new novel, Clutch, in Hoboken on 5/5. You should come. Link below.
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Renting a car is so amazing….you reserve one and then show up and they’re like, “weird, we have no cars!”
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guy working at the dmv tells me his life story. 2 marriages 2 kids 2 divorces. bipolar wife. alcoholic wife. honeymoon in vancouver. now gets catfished on whatsapp by “ai”. he sends me to take the written license test. first question: When did 2nd wife start drinking heavily?
Going to talk to @EmilyNemens about her new novel, Clutch, in Hoboken on 5/5. You should come. Link below.
eventbrite.com/e/emily-nemen…
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It’s hard to make a living as a writer: fellowship money dries up, freelance rates keep dropping, and book advances aren’t what they used to be. Our new issue features a forum on the side hustles that journalists, novelists, and poets take on to survive.
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I’m opening for book submissions at Rose Books for the first time ever this year. Sign up for the mailing list on rosebooks.co to be notified first.
