Writer @sarabandebooks, @UofMPress, etc. | Kentucky Colonel | Honorary Steamboat Captain | Bassman: Snarlin’ Yarns | Ops: moi.
Joined September 2009
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Jun 9
William T. Vollman on James Ellroy’s new novel. nytimes.com/2026/06/09/books…
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Jun 9
“Tennis in this book is sophisticated, brutal, and life-or-death.”
Grip yr racket & hit the court w/ @LOLGluckstadt as he reviews DAD HAD A BAD DAY by @APolitanoff, out now via @astrahousebooks 🎾southwestreview.com/courting…
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May 28
The late-great Barry Hannah’s *Captain Maximus*: his squirreliest, strangest book by a couple country miles. Penguin is bringing it back into print this fall, complete with a Sam Lipsyte foreword.
May 27
What’s one book that you will never stop recommending?
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Ryan Ridge retweeted
May 27
Comics heads pull up! 🏎️
Drew Lerman’s CONVERSATIONS WITH DON DELILLO AND OTHER CONVERSATIONS is out now via CRAM books & lucky for you we have an excerpt you can peep on the site now. 💥
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May 23
goddamn, this is good. the novel can die if it wants to, but this is what i've always been about and i'm gonna keep doing it.
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May 22
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live:
Beach Boys
Beastie Boys
Father John Misty
Fugazi
Grateful Dead
Neutral Milk Hotel
Pavement
Silver Jews
Sonic Youth
Slint
May 22
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live:
Pavement
Korn
Pixies
Team Sleep
Sonic Youth
Tomahawk
Linkin Park
Incubus
Modest Mouse
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Ryan Ridge retweeted
May 20
This supposedly "classic" book has an incredible number of hallucinated references. It's as if he's summarizing books that never existed in the first place.
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Ryan Ridge retweeted
May 20
Bad timing to eliminate snacks on flights
May 20
BREAKING: TSA now allows medical marijuana on flights — in both carry-on & checked bags.
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Ryan Ridge retweeted
May 15
what Harry Crews looks like in the 10 seconds before he pulls out a pistol & shoots u in the gut & throws his hawk in yr face
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i am calling for a complete and total shut down on new yorker articles until we can figure out what the hell is going on
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May 15
New book is out today. Nice little shoutout in Vol. 1 Brooklyn: vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/13/…
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Ryan Ridge retweeted
May 11
me in the Criterion Closet: i don't have a dvd player
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May 10
“The dice are loaded. The boat is sinking. The good guys have lost. We are fucked. Nothing to do but fight with what you’ve got.”
📌ICYMI, @wmboyle4 on Leonard Cohen's EVERYBODY KNOWS from PUMP UP THE VOLUME for NEEDLE DROPS from our spring issue
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Images that would kill Don DeLillo #5832
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Ryan Ridge retweeted
May 5
“This is a book you buy copies of for all your friends and demand they read it immediately.”
Take it from Jimmy!
New review of LIVES OF THE SAINTS by Nancy Lemann, reissued by @nyrbclassics💥southwestreview.com/volume-1…
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May 2
"Gunslinger 1 & 2" by Edward Dorn
May 2
has anyone ever read a novel-in-verse that wasn’t Bad
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Ryan Ridge retweeted
Apr 30
Our pal/contributing writer @raviddice is back w/ a heavy hitter on grief and the end of the world 🕳️
Read MASTER OF PUPPETS from our spring issue southwestreview.com/volume-1…
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