Rave review for Season of the Rat in SwR

I really, really loved this book, which catalogues the history of a California cult, traces the arc of Orange County’s once thriving and now barren gay-bar-and-group-sex scene, and studies the nature of rats and rat culture after a rodent takes refuge on the narrator’s roof.

This Friday 🔮

Part 3/3 of my interview w personal hero Laura Albert is now live... we talk takeways from Foreclosure Gothic, what makes active writing, EE's Hobart, and more: ashadedviewonfashion.com/2025/08/25/for…

C4G is profiled in Publishers Weekly

“Though the stories in Lozada-Oliva’s dazzling collection are not explicitly linked, they are unmistakably of a piece, each a candid confessional rendered with Lynchian flair.” STARRED Kirkus Reviews for Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive! kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/m…

Behold C4G's fifth title ALLIGATOR Coming November 2025 Cover design Raegan Bird

For friends of NOON outside NYC, the anniversary event reading will air live on Montez Press Radio! Tune in at the link below radio.montezpress.com/#/show/3806

New fiction by David Ryan. softunion.online/library/in-maps

“Ryan explores the boundary between dreams and reality in this approachable and surprisingly moving collection... Throughout, Ryan’s offhand style gives way to startling epiphanies. This one leaves a mark.” Publishers Weekly offers up a promising first review of Alligator...

Reading tonight in LA for exactly 7 minutes. The correct amount of time to orate. One moment longer is a crime against literature

issue ♾️ out now, limited run. forever mag dot net slash shop

A traumatized ex-union worker, a paint pen, a dead bird, Stewart's Mountain Brew, a forensic investigation, infamous twin brothers, and a fading octopus... "Art Kids on Mischief Night" is now live, from the SwR summer issue: southwestreview.com/volume-110-num…

Sometimes they actually do get it right!

My new short story "Family Planning in the Covid Era" is live ANIMAL BLOOD Read: animalbloodmagazine.com/features/famil…

I've read a lot of great writing since joining this community this year, and, in the face of steep competition, Foreclosure Gothic by Harris Lahti takes the crown. It's ambitious and rich, full of great scenes and atmosphere, and deeply memorable. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Our horror issue is chock-FULL of spookies & we're always down to s/o the goods of our homies 🖤 Read Adrian Van Young on Harris Lahti's FORECLOSURE GOTHIC, out now via Astra House 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-num…

"The novel is Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood by way of Ian McEwan’s dread-soaked early work, or Jac Jemc’s haunted house parable, The Grip of It." Pretty floored by Adrian Van Young's review of FG in the latest SwR Read here: southwestreview.com/volume-110-num…