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aaronburch.bsky.social
Author: A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack) https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
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Happy birthday to one of my favorite writers AND editors in lit. I’m stoked for his next book, but if you’ve not read his previous books, do yourself a favor and check them out.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

My second favorite @aaronburch.bsky.social story because it's his birthday. rejection-letters.com/2020/06/01/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Can confirm both of these are stellar reads and it’s Aaron’s birthday so really what are you waiting for

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

shoutout to thay bday rejection!

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

Got you all a present for my bday! Happy to send a PDF of my out-of-print story collection, BACKSWING, to anyone who wants one. Also have a bunch of copies of my novel, YEAR OF THE BUFFALO, that I’d rather be read than sit in this box in my office. Want either? hmu

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

The four times the narrator in Mary Gaitskill's "The Other Place" says "I don't know."

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I’m honored every time I think about @aaronburch.bsky.social allowing me to publish this essay about limitless love, boundless poems, the depth of song, the communion of sports. If you missed it the first time, check it out—& if you want to love out loud, check the submission guidelines! We’re open!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

here's my little friday afternoon blog about what I read this week and what I wrote today: aaronburch.substack.com/p/2025-week-...

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new season of Reacher gonna save me!

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here's my little friday afternoon blog about what I read this week and what I wrote today: aaronburch.substack.com/p/2025-week-...

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The downside to being so excited about the current project is it starts to override/nullify that excited feeling about the last project being “the best thing I’ve done yet.”

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Friday at the “office.”

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"To want something too much, as an adult, meant you were obsessive, unstable. It meant you were a nerd, hard up, pitiful. Being adult meant having feelings about your feelings instead of just feeling them. Being forever once removed from yourself." — Susan McCarty, 2008: A Novel (out next spring)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Spent the night on zoom with a bunch’a dorks who love short stories, chatting about Mary Gaitskill’s “The Other Place” for two hours, and everything feels (at least momentarily) amazing.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Important reminder that Ernest Goes to Jail was the first movie I ever went to on a “date”

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Every Q from Treisman seems, to me, kinda dumb (or at least not what I'm interested in); every A from Gaitskill is a little prickly and brilliant. The first part of every answer: "I don’t agree..." "I don’t know." "I think you know the answer to that." "I don’t know." "I don’t know." "Actually..."

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

listened to this ep on my commute today, prob gonna listen to it again next week also (finally!) became an AFWP patreon subscriber like @sheaserrano.bsky.social says: "the rule is the same as always: if someone makes something you like then give them money so they can make more stuff you like"

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I'm done with class on Thursdays at 1, and don't teach Fridays, so am officially on Birthday Weekend Time!

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

every day I hate the internet more and more, which is a fun way to be alive

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Have seen a few tweets last few days saying they’d read this for tonight and it was best story they’d read in a while. Also gotten a couple messages that people struggled to, or didn’t, finish it. So excited to chat about it tonight!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment