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Bud Smith
@Bud_Smith
My books are Teenager (Vintage), and Mighty (forthcoming from Knopf).
Jersey City, NJ
Joined August 2009
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    Six week sessions, all through 2026. Come workshop stories in Brooklyn. Hit up [email protected] Thank you!
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    Teenager is coming early May '22 from Vintage. This cover was designed by Tyler Comrie.
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    Teenager is out today!
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    I’m on a writing residency in my living room and I am the recipient of the “I took $20 out of my wife’s purse” grant
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    Got some news, my novel Teenager is going to come out with Vintage in spring of ‘22. Thanks so much to acquiring editor Todd Portnowitz (@tportnowitz) and also, my dear friend Michael Mungiello (@_______Michael_) who represents my creative work.
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    I’ve got a short story coming out in the next Paris Review. It’s called “Violets”. I’m looking forward to sharing it, seems like one little half-normal thing on the way for summer. I kept crawling out of bed mostly dead with some flu doing edits, oh god
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    in these old books when somebody breaks your heart you get a fever and then consumption and you’re dead on the next page
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    Paperback galleys of Teenager are available now, if you would like one, please hit me up, or email James Meader and say hello, [email protected] — thank you! PSYCHED
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    when you finish writing your novel let me know I'll come over and dump Gatorade on you
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    On my novel, Teenager “There is a typo on page 14. Other than that, this book is perfect.” —Bill Callahan
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    Gian DiTrapano was a hero and a friend and always a prince to me, one time I was waiting for him on the street corner expecting him to come up one way and he came around the other way and pantomimed shooting me to death with a hundred bullets, “got ya sucker”. Rest In Peace, Gian