Grady Chambers

I am...totally elated to share that my novel, GREAT DISASTERS, will be published by @Tin_House, coming Fall 2025 (!!!) I cannot wait to share this book with you. If you're interested in updates in the coming year (cover, readings, more!) sign up here: gradychambers.com/great-disasters💫

"Thanks for looping me in," by which I mean "please never do that again."

I feel like the people who refer to coffee as “java” are probably the same ones who like to refer to William Shakespeare as “the Bard”

“…But when you went, a streak of reality broke in upon the stage through that fissure where you’d left: green of real green, real sunshine, real forest.” - Rilke, from "Death Experienced" ❤️

💥 for those maybe interested in teaching Great Disasters in the classroom (or out of it :)

Lord, one of my favorite days o the year 🥂

"Well, the box says 'serve immediately,'" I mutter, chomping into an egg roll of absolute lava

“It’s 5 below zero in Iowa City tonight. This year I found a warm room That I could go to                                    be alone in & never have to fight.” - Ted Berrigan, from "Anti-war Poem" ✨

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. - Cormac McCarthy, from "The Road"

It makes sense that you’d think this bottle of champagne I’ve brought to your holiday party is for you, but it is not. It is for me, in celebration of you

"There is a gold light in certain old paintings..." ❤️ Donald Justice

It was my good fortune to get to talk with Tyler Kline at @adroitjournal about Great Disasters, movies, Mad Men, Midwest mythologizing, and I snuck in a couple book and movie recommendations as well ✌ Full interview here: theadroitjournal.org/2025/12/03/a-c…

still have a headache from weeping thru the last ten minutes of Hamnet 🥂

Much respect to the Olive Garden ad team that signed off on these existentially ominous commercials that end with, “try it all while you still can.” 🥂

I would like to propose a villainous theme park in San Diego called San Di-Iago

Very grateful to @lithub for giving me the chance to shout out Four Loko circa 2011 and speculate a bit about the swirl of things that gave rise to Great Disasters 🤩 Full interview here, replete w recitations of questionably sourced Jewish proverbs: lithub.com/lit-hub-asks-5…

The Clean - “Franz Kafka at the Zoo” m.youtube.com/watch?v=dT0wUo…

I’m starting to think the guy I buy tobacco from may not have my best interest at heart

Twin Cities folks: if you're able, come out next Wednesday to Open Book, where I'll read from Great Disasters (@Tin_House) and be in conversation with @aaminaahmad 💥💥💥 Presented by @Milkweed_Books, this event is totally free, but RSVP if you would: eventbrite.com/e/milkweed-pre…

My great thanks to Wendy J. Fox and @ElectricLit for these words about Great Disasters 💥💥💥 Full article here: electricliterature.com/15-small-press…