Beth Bachmann
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nashville || nyc
Joined February 2014
New #fiction @NewYorker a dark story for a dark time
Read “The Boy at War and at Home,” by @bethbachmann, the third story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. https://t.co/6Fb3rj4Red
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A bit of news that feels strange, half-unbelievable, but also wonderful to announce: I have a full-length book of poetry coming out, and this is it! https://t.co/6V2kAQ7roa
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From a prizewinning poet whose work “points to an unfathomably bright future for the canon” (Danez Smith), a stunningly lush collection about desire, resilience, and our fraught and...
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My short story "Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" will be included in this collection, Alhamdullilah.
As The New Yorker prepares for its 100th anniversary, we’re proud to join with @AAKnopf to publish two celebratory collections curated from a century of groundbreaking fiction and poetry, coming February 4, 2025. Pre-order your copies here: https://t.co/3RHSUu5dQi
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"Within days a man came forward to take credit for killing the premier. This was news to the man who’d actually done it": Flash fiction by George Saunders.
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He must be forever changed, we thought, entire fields of joy no longer his, every lovely thing tainted.
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Read “The Boy at War and at Home,” by @bethbachmann, the third story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. https://t.co/6Fb3rj4Red
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The writer @bethbachmann shares a book that has been an inspiration and touchpoint for her writing on war: “The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest,” by Felix Salten. Read her new Flash Fiction: https://t.co/mGxF63VYAN
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"Don’t let the novel’s slimness fool you; Hollow Bones is an incredibly rich work of literature." Bowled over by this thoughtful review by Bradley Sides in Chapter 16, one of my favorite bookish publications.
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Knoxville author Erica Wright opens her latest novel, Hollow Bones, with the image of a snake being pulled onto a lap. It’s an eerie beginning, and it serves…
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"His toy cars are out of gas, creating chaos at the checkpoint, but the plastic horses can still get through": this week's Flash Fiction piece is "The Boy at War and at Home" by Beth Bachmann.
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His toy cars are out of gas, creating chaos at the checkpoint, but the plastic horses can still get through.
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'The Boy at War and at Home,' by Beth Bachmann (@bethbachmann - @NewYorker)
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His toy cars are out of gas, creating chaos at the checkpoint, but the plastic horses can still get through.
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New #fiction @NewYorker
"His toy cars are out of gas, creating chaos at the checkpoint, but the plastic horses can still get through": this week's Flash Fiction piece is "The Boy at War and at Home" by Beth Bachmann.
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Excited to share “The Boy at War and at Home” @NewYorker Summer Short #Fiction 🎩🧐🦋 part of the book i’m writing about a boy and a horse and a war https://t.co/BSUhCjZ8ZS
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His toy cars are out of gas, creating chaos at the checkpoint, but the plastic horses can still get through.
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Today we launch this summer’s Flash Fiction series, with “A Children’s Story” by Weike Wang.
newyorker.com
“I want a happy ending,” the mother says, folding up the story and setting it on her nightstand. “You don’t know how to write happy.”
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Honored and grateful to be selected by @JamilJanKochai as winner of the @Zoetrope_Mag Short #Fiction Contest. A glimpse of the #novel I’m writing about a #boy and a #war and the more I write it, the stranger it becomes https://t.co/3eHBiFCMgr
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Judge @daniellevalore writes, “it would take a citation almost the length of ‘The First Robot’ [by @bethbachmann] to properly catalog its virtues. The story feels grounded in a recognizable world while anchored to the strangeness of its perspective.” https://t.co/QRnAsNCmnx
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#pov Third person horse. Or third animal?
Judge @daniellevalore writes, “it would take a citation almost the length of ‘The First Robot’ [by @bethbachmann] to properly catalog its virtues. The story feels grounded in a recognizable world while anchored to the strangeness of its perspective.” https://t.co/QRnAsNCmnx
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Excited about this. Please give it a read. It’s the opening to my novel about a veteran warhorse.
Judge @daniellevalore writes, “it would take a citation almost the length of ‘The First Robot’ [by @bethbachmann] to properly catalog its virtues. The story feels grounded in a recognizable world while anchored to the strangeness of its perspective.” https://t.co/QRnAsNCmnx
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Ok the boy isn’t in this part yet but forthcoming in @Zoetrope_Mag soon!
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My first published fiction! About a horse and a boy and a war. And the first pages of my first novel! I think.
“Every time the horse reads AI, he thinks animal intelligence. There’s so little men know.” Selected by judge @daniellevalore as the winner of our 2023 Short Fiction Contest—read “The First Robot” by Beth Bachmann. https://t.co/QRnAsNCmnx
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Many thanks to @daniellevalore for selecting my piece as winner of the @kenyonreview Short Fiction Contest. It’s my first published piece of #fiction 🤖🧠 &incidentally the opening to my #novel 🚬🐴 about a horse & a boy & a war tho it moves like a #poem
https://t.co/cVuAdqzBGz
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