Bud Smith

I’ve got a new short story in the latest issue of the Paris Review. This one is called “Skyhawks”

It’s hard to make a living as a writer: fellowship money dries up, freelance rates keep dropping, and book advances aren’t what they used to be. Our new issue features a forum on the side hustles that journalists, novelists, and poets take on to survive. thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/…

mostly through the minor revisions and copy edits to my memoir Work, getting a fresh reissue early this summer

Come on out

I’m opening for book submissions at Rose Books for the first time ever this year. Sign up for the mailing list on rosebooks.co to be notified first.

This will be a series of workshops. In person, Wednesday nights. If this is of interest to you, please send along a writing sample. Thank you!

@jenneralist I would be honored

@Bud_Smith Gonna tell my kid this was K-pop demon hunters

This is an account of the most brutal gang this town has ever known, I’m talkin about The Natural Selectors

Shout out to my 11 year old chihuahua for so effortlessly handling his first grape

Tonight at Ruby/Dakota, will read a new short story. Come on out, NYC

Will read a new short story at Ruby/Dakota art gallery, NYC, Dec. 16th. 7pm. This will also be a coat drive. Come on out

Make hospital entrances great again

This monday!

Happy end of 2025. I wrote up a note about my favorite novel this year, Little Lazarus, by Michael Bible. A great read!

“Someone cleared their throat. I looked southwest toward the promise of a never-ending day, then we all grimaced up at the sky that now seemed to be pressing down on us like the stubborn lid of some overfilled thing.” Read new fiction by Corey Lof: relegationbooks.com/article/a-robb…

must’ve been so weird to be around when hamlet came out. hey man have you seen hamlet yet. it’s supposed to be crazy haha

My next tattoo

@BohemiaStable it’s all there waiting, thanks to people who hoped we were coming along

@Bud_Smith this is like me reading my first Emile Zola novel this year at the age of (checks notes) 54.

@BohemiaStable As one should!!

@Bud_Smith "Euripides trousers, you pay for dese trousers." (very old joke)

Asked my three-year-old daughter if she knew how to count in French and she said: “French one, French two, French three…”