Kevin Maloney

Kevin Maloney

@kevinmaloney.net

Author of HORSE GIRL FEVER, THE RED-HEADED PILGRIM & CULT OF LORETTA. Co-founder & fiction editor: @poolpartymag.com. Married to @femmeintheory.bsky.social

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Kevin Maloney
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This story is sooooooo good!!!

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"They found a finger with a gold signet ring on it a few feet away from the blood, also one dog collar, and an ax with a broken handle." Check out @thehagsoup.bsky.social's amazing story "Did You Know the People Who Lived Here Before?" 🔥🔥🔥

poolpartymag.comDid You Know the People Who Lived Here Before? by Janice LeadinghamIt was a year ago Sunday actually that the Ralfsons didn’t show at our weekly block party, and even though we thought it odd, we weren’t too concerned until late the following Tuesday, when we were al...
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A Biosphere 2 poem!?!?! Fuck yeah! Our Poetry Editor at Pool Party, @brianstephenellis.bsky.social, has an eye for the gooooood shit 🔥🔥🔥

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“…The plan is to stay inside a year. We feed the plants and flush the toilets with water we used to wash dishes. It filters through the soil and when it reaches the pond, we drink it again…” Check out this amazing poem, BIOSPHERE 2 by Carly Rae Zent 🌎🌱✨

poolpartymag.comBiosphere 2 by Carly Rae ZentAfter the 1994 Arizona experiment in closed ecosystems.We are all dressed in red.I wouldn't do this if I wasn't in love.The man who stands in the centerof the press photos. His brawny bald head,his ab...

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Thad DeVassie
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ICYMI - I was permitted to the party, but as a newbie I had to enter slowly at the zero entry point. No cannonballs, no deep end quite yet, but love to all @poolpartymag.com !

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"It is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only." We looooooove this poem "Why Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group" from @thaddevassie.bsky.social. Pool Party vibes abound. Take a minute out of your day and dive in!!! 💦

poolpartymag.comWhy Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group by Thad DeVassieIt is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only. The book is rightfully missing from children’s early reader versions. It is making the youth pastor blush.

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"It is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only." We looooooove this poem "Why Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group" from @thaddevassie.bsky.social. Pool Party vibes abound. Take a minute out of your day and dive in!!! 💦

poolpartymag.comWhy Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group by Thad DeVassieIt is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only. The book is rightfully missing from children’s early reader versions. It is making the youth pastor blush.

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Thad DeVassie
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When the Red-Headed Pilgrim & the band of lifeguards @poolpartymag.com welcome you to their inflatable, of course you say, HELL YASSS! Grateful that @kevinmaloney.net @femmeintheory.bsky.social & @brianstephenellis.bsky.social let this micro skinny-dip its way in. poolpartymag.com/why-song-of-...

poolpartymag.comWhy Song of Songs Is No Longer Required Reading for Youth Group by Thad DeVassieIt is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only. The book is rightfully missing from children’s early reader versions. It is making the youth pastor blush.

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“The characters are complex in the way that real people are: genuinely kind but also sort of scammy... well-intended(ish?) but also creepy af.” Check out Luke Goebel’s Top Films / Theorists / Artworks, with an intro by my amazing wife Ryan-Ashley Anderson 🔥

poolpartymag.comLuke's Tops by Luke Goebel and Ryan-Ashley (Anderson) MaloneyYou don’t have to read very far into Kill Dick to notice that this isn’t your average whodunnit thriller. The characters are complex in the way that real people are: genuinely kind but also sort...
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Love a story with a list-like structure (as long as it's done right). @dizzy.gay nails it in their new story SOME DETAILS up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥🔥🔥

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"Kinga is 13. She has her first beer and her first period, in that order. The beer looks like piss and the blood looks like chocolate pudding smeared in her underwear." Amazing new story "SOME DETAILS" by @dizzy.gay up at POOL PARTY!!! 🔥🔥🔥

poolpartymag.comSome Details by Dizzy ZabaKinga is 6 when she arrives in Newark, New Jersey. She pukes during the arduous trans-atlantic flight, and the motion sickness makes her forget her teddy bear on the plane.
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I interviewed Luke Goebel about his new novel KILL DICK. We talked about L.A., the Illuminati, Breaking Bad Winnebagos, Bret Easton Ellis, Ken Kesey, hyperreality, and the perils of the art world. Hope you enjoy!

xraylitmag.comArt, Oxy, & L.A.: An Interview With Luke Goebel By Kevin MaloneyLuke Goebel is a unicorn in the literary world: an outlaw writer with an underground classic in the indie lit community (Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, 2014) who has also collaborated on sc...

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we have an interview with Luke Goebel ! the equally awesome Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net talks to Goebel about ‘Kill Dick’ – one of the best books of the year – an entertaining & angry book about rich elites fucking over everyone great interview ! read it pronto xraylitmag.com/art-oxy-l-a-...

xraylitmag.comArt, Oxy, & L.A.: An Interview With Luke Goebel By Kevin MaloneyLuke Goebel is a unicorn in the literary world: an outlaw writer with an underground classic in the indie lit community (Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, 2014) who has also collaborated on sc...
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The thing I don’t like about Substack is that it feels like everybody is trying to sell me something. The word SUBSCRIBE is everywhere, which makes me want to throw up. Old Twitter was fun because it was primarily stupid. At most people were like “Hey maybe read the story I published over at …

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Not saying that naming your story HULU KEVIN is an instant acceptance, but it doesn't hurt. Also helps when the story is funny as hell and so fucking good. Seriously... take a minute to check out Dave McNamara's new story on Pool Party. SOOOO GOOOOOD!!! 🔥

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"You never tried to shake off the legions of freeloaders blowing up your algorithm. It’s also hard to believe that Hulu hasn’t cracked down on you, on us, like so many other platforms have. Thank you, Hulu Kevin." Check out Dave McNamara's hilarious new story HULU KEVIN up today on Pool Party 🔥🔥🔥

poolpartymag.comHulu Kevin by Dave McNamaraHard to believe it’s been over a decade since I started using your password. I got it from our mutual friend Carie back when she and I were roommates. She said you two went to college together in the ...
Kevin Maloney
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Not saying that naming your story HULU KEVIN is an instant acceptance, but it doesn't hurt. Also helps when the story is funny as hell and so fucking good. Seriously... take a minute to check out Dave McNamara's new story on Pool Party. SOOOO GOOOOOD!!! 🔥

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"You never tried to shake off the legions of freeloaders blowing up your algorithm. It’s also hard to believe that Hulu hasn’t cracked down on you, on us, like so many other platforms have. Thank you, Hulu Kevin." Check out Dave McNamara's hilarious new story HULU KEVIN up today on Pool Party 🔥🔥🔥

poolpartymag.comHulu Kevin by Dave McNamaraHard to believe it’s been over a decade since I started using your password. I got it from our mutual friend Carie back when she and I were roommates. She said you two went to college together in the ...

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"John built an inflatable bridge. The hubris of it, the sheer audacity. I told him bad idea but telling John anything is like arguing with weather." New poem THE DEMOCRACY OF WATER by Spencer Eckart up on Pool Party! 🔥🔥🔥

poolpartymag.comThe Democracy of Water by Spencer EckartJohn built an inflatable bridge. The hubris of it, the sheer audacity. I told him bad idea but telling John anything is like arguing with weather. We went to look.
Kevin Maloney
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Saw a panel at AWP where Carmen Maria Machado addressed the (fucked up) idea that since some people struggle with creativity, generative AI makes art more accessible. Her response was *chef’s kiss* I’m paraphrasing but the gist was: art is supposed to be hard. Creativity is a muscle. Use it.

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She also noted that this kind of statement is EXTREMELY offensive to all the amazing art made by disabled people for hundreds/thousands of years. Struggling with creativity is not a disability.

Kevin Maloney
@kevinmaloney.net

Saw a panel at AWP where Carmen Maria Machado addressed the (fucked up) idea that since some people struggle with creativity, generative AI makes art more accessible. Her response was *chef’s kiss* I’m paraphrasing but the gist was: art is supposed to be hard. Creativity is a muscle. Use it.

Kevin Maloney
@kevinmaloney.net

Reminds me of the Harry Crews interview where he spoke about how some people late in life decide, “I think I’ll write a novel.” To which he responded, “It would be easier to become a brain surgeon. Anybody can learn how to do brain surgery. Writing a novel is the hardest thing in the world.”

Kevin Maloney
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Can we please stop calling it generative “AI”? There’s nothing intelligent about stealing the work of artists and regurgitating voices and language that took 20+ years to develop. ChatGPT and Claude, etc are not assistance tools for creativity… they’re Plagiarism Facilitators. Let’s call them that.

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emily laura costa
@emilylauracosta.bsky.social

i hope it counts for SOMETHING that i cried a lot while writing this 💗 (vote soul asylum!)

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MARCH SADNESS 90s NEW GAMES ARE UP THREAD (1/4): Soul Asylum, "Runaway Train" / @emilylauracosta.bsky.social VS Lee Ann Womack, "You Don't Even Know Who I Am" / @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social Read, Listen, Vote by 9am 3/11: marchxness.com/1stround-sou...

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Happy first day of #AWP26 !!! Need something to read on your flight? How about THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME featuring @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & me (and special guest)!!! 🔥🔥🔥

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“Can you talk more about how you owe all of your recent creative and personal successes entirely to Kevin and me?” Pool Party is extremely excited to present THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME feat. @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & @kevinmaloney.net (and special guest) 🔥🔥🔥

poolpartymag.comThe Greatest Interview of All Time: Aaron Burch in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and D.T. Robbins (w/ Special Guest Amber Frank)In the summer of 2024, I was going through a divorce and living with my mother… which feels like the first line of one of my short stories, but my life tends to repeat itself and sometimes my stories ...

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Aaron Burch
@aaronburch.bsky.social

A beautiful day to read THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME! “D.T.: I don’t want to throw the interview off or anything, but is this the part where we kiss?”

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“Can you talk more about how you owe all of your recent creative and personal successes entirely to Kevin and me?” Pool Party is extremely excited to present THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME feat. @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & @kevinmaloney.net (and special guest) 🔥🔥🔥

poolpartymag.comThe Greatest Interview of All Time: Aaron Burch in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and D.T. Robbins (w/ Special Guest Amber Frank)In the summer of 2024, I was going through a divorce and living with my mother… which feels like the first line of one of my short stories, but my life tends to repeat itself and sometimes my stories ...
Kevin Maloney
@kevinmaloney.net

Happy first day of #AWP26 !!! Need something to read on your flight? How about THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME featuring @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & me (and special guest)!!! 🔥🔥🔥

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“Can you talk more about how you owe all of your recent creative and personal successes entirely to Kevin and me?” Pool Party is extremely excited to present THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME feat. @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & @kevinmaloney.net (and special guest) 🔥🔥🔥

poolpartymag.comThe Greatest Interview of All Time: Aaron Burch in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and D.T. Robbins (w/ Special Guest Amber Frank)In the summer of 2024, I was going through a divorce and living with my mother… which feels like the first line of one of my short stories, but my life tends to repeat itself and sometimes my stories ...

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Cheerleading & Euphoria in one flash piece?!?! This one is pure 🔥 ...take a minute and give it a read.

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"Aphrodite puts glitter under her eyes and imagines she’s with Nathan. Aphrodite bought Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater online. Aphrodite wants to be Sydney Sweeney." New 🔥 story by @pamavoledo.bsky.social up today at Pool Party!!! poolpartymag.com/i-didnt-know...

poolpartymag.comI Didn’t Know Aphrodite Until We Sat Next To Each Other In History Class Sophomore YearAphrodite comes over to my house every day after school. Aphrodite likes Euphoria. Aphrodite puts glitter under her eyes and imagines she’s with Nathan. Aphrodite bought Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater onl...
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Cheerleading & Euphoria in one flash piece?!?! This one is pure 🔥 ...take a minute and give it a read.

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"Aphrodite puts glitter under her eyes and imagines she’s with Nathan. Aphrodite bought Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater online. Aphrodite wants to be Sydney Sweeney." New 🔥 story by @pamavoledo.bsky.social up today at Pool Party!!! poolpartymag.com/i-didnt-know...

poolpartymag.comI Didn’t Know Aphrodite Until We Sat Next To Each Other In History Class Sophomore YearAphrodite comes over to my house every day after school. Aphrodite likes Euphoria. Aphrodite puts glitter under her eyes and imagines she’s with Nathan. Aphrodite bought Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater onl...
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Pool Party's reading tonight got a shoutout in Portland Monthly!!! Tonight at 6pm at Grand Gesture Books! Hope to see you all there 🔥🔥🔥

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Thrilled to announce that HORSE GIRL FEVER is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award - Ken Kesey Award for Fiction!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Kevin Maloney
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Using generative AI to “write” a book and calling yourself a writer is like looking out the window of an airplane flying over Mt. Everest and telling everyone you climbed it.

Kevin Maloney
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Just finished TACOMA yesterday and holy shit!!! Immediately one of my favorite indie books of all time. Wild and fun and free. Haven’t felt this way about a book since Nagel’s DUPLEX. Soooooooooooo good 📚🔥🧨

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"Even the storm clouds that hover above grayscale despots & dumpster divers have cheery little smiles drawn around their gritty cherubic faces" New poetry from RJ Equality Ingram 🔥🔥🔥 poolpartymag.com/three-poems-2/

poolpartymag.comThree Poems by RJ Equality IngramRoger Rabbit carries his belongings in a bindle like a fool / He left the door to his wife’s apartment open as he walked through to Toon Town but turned towards his favorite juice joint for a celery &...

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LOOK MA, WE MADE IT ON TV!!! Watch our little segment on AM EXTRA where we talk all things POOL PARTY, including our upcoming reading on Feb 10 / 6pm @ Grand Gesture Books feat: Chelsea Bieker Jon Raymond Luke Goebel Camille McDaniel Adam Deutsch & Lauren Lavín

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HEY LOOK WE'RE ON TV!!! @femmeintheory.bsky.social & I went on @koin6.bsky.social AM EXTRA to discuss Pool Party Publishing, our book deal with @mattknuts.bsky.social, and our upcoming PDX reading on Feb 10 / 6pm at @grandgesturebooks.bsky.social🔥🔥🔥 www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Kevin Maloney
@kevinmaloney.net

LOOK MA, WE MADE IT ON TV!!! Watch our little segment on AM EXTRA where we talk all things POOL PARTY, including our upcoming reading on Feb 10 / 6pm @ Grand Gesture Books feat: Chelsea Bieker Jon Raymond Luke Goebel Camille McDaniel Adam Deutsch & Lauren Lavín

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HEY LOOK WE'RE ON TV!!! @femmeintheory.bsky.social & I went on @koin6.bsky.social AM EXTRA to discuss Pool Party Publishing, our book deal with @mattknuts.bsky.social, and our upcoming PDX reading on Feb 10 / 6pm at @grandgesturebooks.bsky.social🔥🔥🔥 www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Kevin Maloney
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Portland, OR in 2020 felt angry and chaotic Portland, OR in 2026 feels angry and organized The world is scary as hell, but I've never seen anything like what is happening in my community. I imagine it's like... 10x more organized in MN. Feels like really BIG change is possible.