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dmaine

@mainely

7 months

Borges. That’s the answer. There are many, many great short story writers of all time. The greats. Lots to talk about there. But you asked me the best. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo.

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2 years

My first novel came out today. I am doing a book launch right now in my truck in the parking lot of the Red Lobster on Buck Jones Road. I’m not eating here or getting out of my truck. Just doing my book launch. Reading to follow, order here:

Characters – Derek Maine - ExPat Press

In Characters, an unclassifiable novel, Derek Maine plugs away, is still plugging away from a remove at the pressure points between your ears, spews his vitals in a subtle vanishing act transcribes a...

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@mainely

2 years

One of my favorite indie writer tropes is the “I write books for people who don’t even really fuck with books,” and it’s like, yeah man, we can tell.

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@mainely

2 years

Cormac McCarthy cover talk just gives me another excuse to post this cover that I love and is amazing and will defend to death

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@mainely

8 months

This is going to be such a fucking hard year, I can already feel it. In bed crying at Noon, between Teams meetings. Just heartbroken in a way that I can’t even put to words. I honestly thought I had one of those great loves. And I guess I did. I cannot imagine a happiness.

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@mainely

11 months

The Pale King is really good, I’m sorry to report.

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@mainely

2 years

My debut novel, Characters, is available for pre-order - only from

Characters – Derek Maine - ExPat Press

In Characters, an unclassifiable novel, Derek Maine plugs away, is still plugging away from a remove at the pressure points between your ears, spews his vitals in a subtle vanishing act transcribes a...

expatpress.com

Expat Press

@ExpatLitJ

2 years

If you ease your foot off the gas you’ll shatter. The good problem you’re looking to have, @mainely ’s speaking in code, an antidote to all known variants, bottomless interpersonal harmony an oral manifesto written on the wind. Characters, conduits, sigh.

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@mainely

2 years

If you see all this literary "drama/bs" & feel lost or lonely: every Friday night there is a reading series where anyone & everyone is invited to come & read their work & chat with & meet other writers/artists. @miserytourism tweets out the zoom link at 8EST & you should come.

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@mainely

6 months

My summer reading by the pool is secured and set.

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@mainely

2 years

What is the defining novel of our century so far? What is the best novel of our century so far? And what is your favorite novel of our century so far? And are they all the same answer, or different?

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@mainely

2 years

The Hobart interview and resulting controversy is, I think, overall good for a literary community. It sets a clear line between those writers interested in teaching positions & literary careerism in a corporate/academic world & the writers that are not.

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dmaine

@mainely

6 years

@Matt_Fortuna They misspelled “winning football games on the backs of the unpaid labor of primarily young minorities is more important/valuable than protecting women from domestic abuse and Urban Meyer is good at the winning.”

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@mainely

2 years

I can never get into books that (try to) approximate the experience of being on the internet. I think it’s just a preference and not some serious aesthetic principle or whatever, but the internet as form/structure for storytelling, bound, does nothing for me.

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@mainely

1 year

My uncle drove his ass here, taught my twelve year old son three (3) disgusting jokes, complimented my wife’s figure, told several racist stories, and told me my bookshelves made me seem like a commie or a queer. No notes, Wayne.

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@mainely

2 years

Bolaño convinced me that the most interesting writers were unknown, possibly non-existent, only spoken about in conspiratorial tones. A few lonely people would spend their lives chasing rumors of a manuscript or public appearance.

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@mainely

1 year

@AmericanGwyn I think it's just "The Miserables"

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@mainely

3 years

If your identity is tied to your trauma then you run the risk, subconsciously or consciously, of constantly seeking new traumas to feed the identity. And you will find them.

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@mainely

2 years

19 years ago today, camping on Carolina Beach, I asked a girl if I could kiss her. She said “no, you have a girlfriend & she’s here.” I went over, broke up with my cokehead girlfriend, & kissed the girl. Haven’t left her side since.

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@mainely

2 years

On a dreary, rainy, December Saturday I am finally sitting down to work a bit on my own passions and not in the service of making other people more money.

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@mainely

2 years

Instead of a year-end list. These five books provided the reading experiences that stuck in my craw.

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@mainely

2 years

In the midst of literary drama, it��s always important to take a step back and realize, since this is twitter, it’s all marketing and promotion.

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@mainely

1 year

Detectives in old noirs will have a lunch of fried steak, roast chicken, Waldorf salad, creamed potatoes, corn, carrots, pie with ice cream, pot of black coffee, two martinis

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@mainely

3 months

There should be more editing in indie lit.

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@mainely

2 years

Literature is and will be the radical artform of this century. You can hide things in literature, still.

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@mainely

2 months

The inaugural Seven Readers & An After Party, on zoom, hosted live from the Winston-Salem Art Hotel is this Friday eight eastern. Lineup is set. Please share. Zoom link posted Fri at 7:50 or you can DM me & I’ll send you link via DM at 7:45.

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@mainely

7 months

A good, bright morning.

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@mainely

2 years

I love being a Dad and watching everybody open presents. Then I slyly buy myself the only two things I need for the year

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

I need a literary agent and a publicist and a hair stylist, a piece of jalapeño cornbread from Husk in Charleston, SC, and a long bus ride, a joint, a place to crash in Queens, cabin in Montana, fresh live bait, sex, hot tea, read Suttree for the first time, and silence.

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

I absolutely love the idea of thousands of writers and presses flying to a convention center to try and sell their books to thousands of other writers and presses trying to sell their books.

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@mainely

2 years

I was twenty-one years old and I told her my dream was to write (and publish) novels. I’m forty now. I have two incredible kids with her and a life I could never have imagined. And that first novel:

Characters – Derek Maine - ExPat Press

In Characters, an unclassifiable novel, Derek Maine plugs away, is still plugging away from a remove at the pressure points between your ears, spews his vitals in a subtle vanishing act transcribes a...

expatpress.com

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dmaine

@mainely

7 months

Back at the ballfield, back on my bullshit

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dmaine

@mainely

5 months

Like this tweet and I will tell you something I think about you.

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

Trapped

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dmaine

@mainely

1 year

The sort of discipline Cormac McCarthy had to not write autofiction when his wife pulled a gun out of her ****** during an argument about aliens. Incredible.

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@mainely

2 years

On those early spring evenings, when I sat on the porch, reading & watching the children play in the yard, I was glad.

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

LA Novels

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

41 years old today. If you’d like to celebrate consider buying a copy of my debut novel, Characters. Or share, tell the word, spread the people. I’m at an Alamo draft house watching a movie about a video game. I’m trying.

Characters – Derek Maine - ExPat Press

In Characters, an unclassifiable novel, Derek Maine plugs away, is still plugging away from a remove at the pressure points between your ears, spews his vitals in a subtle vanishing act transcribes a...

expatpress.com

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@mainely

2 years

Make literature dirty again

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@mainely

2 years

Literature can be used to alleviate loneliness, I hope or pretend.

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@mainely

3 years

Morning wood “he is risen” joke to the wife completely bombed. Be careful out there, my dudes.

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@mainely

2 years

This book feels one hundred years old. It has been sent from another time.

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@mainely

9 months

I published my first book in 2022. It is titled “CHARACTERS” and if you have any interest in buying it the link is below. No Amazon, just straight from the publisher. Every reader means the world to me, as those who’ve read the book know.

Characters – Derek Maine - ExPat Press

In Characters, an unclassifiable novel, Derek Maine plugs away, is still plugging away from a remove at the pressure points between your ears, spews his vitals in a subtle vanishing act transcribes a...

expatpress.com

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

I used to be a country. A proper country.

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@mainely

3 years

Paparazzi (8yo) caught me on a Saturday morning getting ready for the ball field, soccer field, school carnival, birthday party, and sleepover.

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dmaine

@mainely

1 year

Me at 19

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

Almost every single house I drop my kids off at / pick my kids up from has “it’s wine o’clock somewhere” and “BELIEVE” wood carved signs and a woman in a “Resting Beach Face” tank top. I’m heavily medicated and trying to understand this century, underneath it all.

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@mainely

2 years

One time I noticed someone I dug unfollowed me and I said to a friend “isn’t that a bummer?” And my friend say, “oh don’t take it personally. She is trying to improve her ratio while she shops a manuscript.” And I was like very normal very cool human behavior

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@mainely

2 years

My daughter took a cool picture of me tonight.

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@mainely

2 years

I miss punk houses, something unexpected happening, a band in town for just the night, The Seventh Seal playing in the background, an argument breaks out, buggy screened-in porches, if we leave now and drive through the night we could

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@mainely

3 months

I am afraid I have written a second novel somehow more annoying to read than the first, which I doubted was possible when I began.

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@mainely

2 years

Sending you love + dimples. Underneath the smile I’m nervous, white-knuckling dark evenings lately but I’m here. I’m fucking here and I’m making snacks for the kids & I am present for my life.

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@mainely

2 years

People talk about doom scrolling (and I get it), but there are so many people on here that inspire me, delight me, make me smile, fill me with light & even sometimes optimism, and help stave off my own moments of loneliness or unease. There is so much love in this world.

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@mainely

2 years

Right wing talentless ideologue shitheads love art spaces, in my experience. They weasel their way into outsider groups and make everything about them & their stupid insecurities & petty grievances. Nazi punks fuck off.

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@mainely

2 years

Isn’t the rent too damn high for NYC to foster a counterculture or subversive art scene at the moment? I’m not surprised it seems to be littered with rich kids. No Wave thrived because it was cheap and dangerous.

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dmaine

@mainely

8 months

The absolute peace and positive energy I feel working in this room.

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dmaine

@mainely

7 months

Birthday dinner night

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

@miserytourism Everything is not a constant barrage of clout & promotion & petty disagreements & market positioning. There are real people out there trying to make a connection to others. People that have felt like they don't belong anywhere else & need this. You can too.

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@mainely

2 years

A peaceful morning in two shades. Baby’s breath & the lost generation.

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@mainely

2 years

Footage from my reading at my book launch, edited to exactly the amount Twitter allows me to share. Thank you all for coming. I am going to the pool now.

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

My marketing plan for my book is to go to the pool a lot this summer

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

You should not be able to write a book until you have read all of the other ones.

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@mainely

2 years

Reporting live from the office on a sunny December day.

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@mainely

2 years

Just explained Pink Floyd to my wife. Definitely getting laid tonight.

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

Finding out about Husker Du. Not even a New York band but loud/rocks?

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@mainely

2 years

“I drove to the DQ Grill & Chill at or around eleven a.m. By seven p.m. I was on the news.” New fiction up in the always excellent, brand spanking new issue of @bcgazette

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@mainely

2 years

If you don’t want to endorse or support something one of the most effective ways I’ve found is to give it no energy.

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@mainely

2 years

Used bookstore find today. I know something about this.

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dmaine

@mainely

3 years

Many of the people in the literary community wailing about leaving the site if a different billionaire owns it are the very same who publish, promote, and distribute all of their work through Amazon POD. Their idea of “running a press” is sending Amazon a file.

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@mainely

2 years

I am really fucking loving The Sun Also Rises on this my third read, at age 40. I keep thinking about how there were not commercial airplanes or television or even a metaverse or Klonopins and my grandfather was like eight and working 15 hour days milking cows when this was publi

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dmaine

@mainely

8 months

Smoked four cigarettes in the last two days for the first time in four years and can confirm they are still amazing.

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dmaine

@mainely

3 years

Was spoken to about screaming “CASH MONEY” following a goal at youth church soccer.

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

I don’t think of writing or literature as some struggle between “real artists” and “losers.” I don’t think, generally, in terms of “us and them” combative paranoia when we are all made of the same stuff and suffer the same fate.

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@mainely

2 years

Still very unsure, but it’s out of my hands. You can buy my novel, ‘Characters,’ directly from Expat Press. It is my first. It came out in June. I am 40 years old. $16.00, 136 pages.

Characters – Derek Maine - ExPat Press

In Characters, an unclassifiable novel, Derek Maine plugs away, is still plugging away from a remove at the pressure points between your ears, spews his vitals in a subtle vanishing act transcribes a...

expatpress.com

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@mainely

2 years

Day two, morning.

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

Kind of want to live tweet this vasectomy.

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

Like many people that she orbited, I have had a difficult time with the death and loss of Elizabeth V. Aldrich. Last night @GabrielHart77 read a piece, filled with many remembrances & brilliant observations from her friends & fellow writers & it felt good. Thank you Gabe.

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dmaine

@mainely

8 months

My life has not gone as I thought, but that’s what lives do. To stand tall and face it, clear-eyed, open to the possibilities and pain meted out by a universe unknowable.

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dmaine

@mainely

7 months

After the gym I’m going to read Don DeLillo and listen to jazz records all day.

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

Ideal morning set up

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

@GoodPoliticGuy Not sure how old you are but I’m 40 and the rightward shift has been on in this country since I was born and there have been countless studies dating it a bit further back than that. These things take decades of planning & execution, and clear vision which one side has.

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@mainely

2 years

If I leave twitter it will be the result of my own toxic behavior and not some pasty billionaire

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@mainely

2 years

Say a prayer for my haters. Reading from Characters live on the streets of downtown Winston-Salem, broadcast on Misery Loves Company, tonight only.

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@mainely

4 months

The most embarrassing thing I ever learned on here was that authors are told my aspiring agents or literary grifters that they need to maintain a “good follower ratio,” and so they mass follow to gain followers and then unfollow to improve their ratio. And it’s also very funny.

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@mainely

2 years

I’m so happy with the LA Novel piece. It makes me very happy to think about. I hope it lives a long life and someone picks something up because of it.

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

Time to wow them as the plus one at my wife’s company Christmas party (company is German?)

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@mainely

6 months

Pictures of a cyber reading

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

I’m losing followers because of ppl deactivating their accounts and moving to mastopia, not because I’ve been psychotic and annoying.

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@mainely

2 years

I did the twitter blue thing for a month and my tweets got something like 8x the views/reach/whatever. Doesn’t matter for me but if you’re running any kind of scam or editing services then figure you’d want to know.

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@mainely

2 years

I had an extremely unproductive day in a frustrated depressive state. My first novel, Characters, came out in June on @ExpatLitJ & you can order it here:

Characters – Derek Maine - ExPat Press

In Characters, an unclassifiable novel, Derek Maine plugs away, is still plugging away from a remove at the pressure points between your ears, spews his vitals in a subtle vanishing act transcribes a...

expatpress.com

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

Born like this

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

I have met people through here that have had an incredibly profound impact on my life and also Josh Sherman. Will be sad if the pale king kills us all.

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dmaine

@mainely

1 year

My ten favorite novels today as I walk past the shelves. 2666 The Sun Also Rises Wittgenstein’s Mistress Shadow Country Suttree They Shoot Horses Don’t They Life: A User’s Manual The Day of the Locust Speedboat Falconer

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dmaine

@mainely

2 years

Back to my silly ways. Burning sage, taking baths, reading Henry Miller.