July 24, 2025

Alegria!

Ell és un exconvicte independentista aturat i divorciat que fins fa uns mesos vivia al cotxe, i ara ja no té ni cotxe. El seu poble és un escampall de rotondes i gents unides només per una església i un Schlecker, i a l'església ja no hi va ningú. La seva comarca és plana asfaltada i muntanya inhòspita, plena de secrets que ja ens han donat l'esquena. Però al setembre, per la diada de Sant Imul, la vila de Verri es treu la pols, arreplega l'orgull que li queda i celebra el poc que té, les arrels més fondes i els brots més tendres. I si algun foraster irromp al poble en una data tan assenyalada, amb el seu esportiu i el seu arsenal i el seu rastre de foc i destrucció entre la Toscana i la Llobera, el Cegador de Verri tornarà a alçar-se per plantar-li cara i restablir la pau. A no ser que el foraster sigui pèl-roja.

GANGSTA MAJOR. Després de l'èxit de Ràdio Free Camaco, una nova aventura del Cegador de Verri. A la venda el 10 de setembre.

Presentació oficial: Llibreria Finestres, Barcelona, 16 de setembre, 19h. Presenta Magí Garcia 'Modgi'.


June 23, 2025

The Kids Will Be Alright

So. Yes. Apparently I published some new material in English. After seven years. Last week. 

Pardon my nonchalance -- I would have definitely warned you this was coming had I been certain it was coming, but the process wasn't exactly smooth, and my mind too, I confess, was somewhere else. I get so easily distracted from work these days. I wonder why.

Anyway! The Kids Will Be Alright is a collection of four short stories with an emphasis on panic, gays, and jokes. You know--my brand. It is an audiobook-exclusive release from Recorded Books. It's not in print, there is no plan to release it in print. This is it. And this is where to get it

January and me at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, August 2018. (Doubleday didn't like my Sasha Grey T-shirt for this event.)

Furthermore, The Kids Will Be Alright is my second collaboration with extraordinary voice actors Kyla García, who did the Meddling Kids audiobook, and January LaVoy, who did This Body's (and with whom I once had the pleasure to do a two-people, three-voices readingshe was Adrian and Zooey, I was the third wheel). Complementing their talents is Michael Crouch (Salt to the Sea, Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda), lending his voice to a rare first-person text from yours truly. 

I didn't have the deliberately passed on the chance to append some personal notes to the collection, because I like my books unencumbered by prologues, commentary and author notes. That's what author blogs are for, IMO. So if you're interested, here's what little these stories don't say for themselves:

 

"A Good-Looking Corpse"

By far the oldest piece in the collection: this pulpy story of a vendetta laced with hilarious body horror was written originally in Catalan as Un cadàver bonic and published in some literary anthology in 2013, wherein its reception persuaded me never to participate in Catalan literary anthologies again. Fans of angry butch heroines will probably enjoy it a lot more. I'm actually happy that she's getting a second life. Or third. The English translation is my own.

"Goin' Down"

Based on the little-known "Choose Your Own Adventure" book of the same title, extant only in a few deep, deep basements. Am I contractually banned from mentioning this thing's publication history? I may be? Well, the people at Recorded Books were nice enough to adopt it, so I respect that. And aren't you curious to see what Michael, Kyla, and January did with it? :D

"You Don't Know This"

The odd one out. Also my favorite piece in this collection. Most of the time I go outside for some inspiration and come back with half-formed ideas, maybe a few lines of dialogue, at best a good paragraph in mind. This day in 2022 I left home for a walk through Hollywood Hills completely empty-headed as is my custom, came back, and typed all 3.5K words of this in one sit. My agent Margaret Sutherland Brown later helped me fine-tune them. It's not really horror, but it's honest. Perhaps even cringey. But that's writing, in a way, isn't it? Exposing yourself, edging closer and closer to the line of embarrassment without trespassing it? I don't know. Anyway, this one is that. I may have succeeded. 

"The Fifth"

Well, it's unavoidable to mention at this point that this collection was going to be FIVE stories, not four, so the last one being called "The Fifth" was very funny. But then they dropped one of the stories due to budget constraints, and now it's less funny. The title, I mean. The story is still quite entertaining, imo. Really twisty. Plot- and bones-wise. The idea was to start with something innocent and childish, in the vein of There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed and slowly ratchet it up to the madcap, festive violence of A Good-Looking Corpse, thus closing the circle. And all while following the magic rules established back in Meddling Kids. You know the deal. It takes five.

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And that's all for now. All there's left to say is, thank you for waiting this long. I know other authors put out a lot more content. Believe me, there is a lot more content (I swear, see for yourselves). It's just...complicated. But I'm on it. 

Oh, and if you like the book? A review helps so much. Anywhere. Your online bookstore, your socials, your blog, your podcast, your coffee break. Thank you all. Sweet dreams. :)

June 13, 2025

El otro sitio

Si no estoy posteando nada aquí, igual es que estoy más activo en mi otro blog

Página de Jan del álbum El castillo de Arena (1993)

(O a lo mejor he transcendido al fin, he subido al Renault 8 de una misteriosa conductora sin tiempo para explicaciones, y estoy descansando en un paraíso de arcoíris, teléfonos fijos y refrescos en botella de vidrio retornable. A saber.)

IN ENGLISH: If I'm not posting here, I may be posting on my other blog. (Or perhaps I transcended at last, I hopped into the Renault 8 of a mysterious woman who had no time to explain, and I am now loafing in a paradise of rainbows, landlines, and soda in glass bottles. Who knows.)

EN CATALÀ: Xxxt! Tindreu notícies de Verri ben aviat. ;-)  

April 17, 2025

A.Z. vs. J.K.


Rowling sure looks happy to embrace the villain role she's decided to play in life. Good. I like how those end.

February 14, 2025

Meanwhile, en El Jueves...




 Publicado en El Jueves, septiembre-octubre 2022.

 

January 28, 2025

I want trans kids to live

I want trans kids to live, and transphobes to die.

This is the gist of my thoughts at the moment. I would hate for the essence of my stance to be muddled, so I’m stating it right out of the gate.

Sadly I am a writer, a trade whose power to change the world, I’m afraid, has been greatly exaggerated. And I am still figuring out what in my capacity could I possibly do to act upon my wants. But if I know something about my modest readership is that they’re mostly younger than me, and that around 111% of them are gay as fuck. So, just in case words alone may be of any comfort for a trans person today, this is for you. 



Hey, kid. How’re you doing. Yeah, I know. Fuck that.

Okay so this won’t be a life-changer, but I guess I have to say it anyway: I need you to live. Not because I believe in the sanctity of life (I don’t). Nor because I expect great things from you (I’m a natural born slacker, so no pressure from me). I need you to live, actually, because I do believe, and this is a core belief of mine, that you are on the good side of history, and that the world always moves forwards. Always. Since the dawn of humans, progress has been unstoppable. And these periods where progress seems to stall, like we’re being steered backwards?  They’re just bumps in the road. I swear, you zoom out far enough, you’ll see they don’t amount to a hiccup. A blip. And I would hate for you to miss on the rest of the journey just because we hit a big bump. Yeah, it feels big now, but we’ll get over it.  Trans people in the future will call this millennium “the one where we flourished,” and 2025 in the USA will be known as “the momentary unpleasantness.”

Listen, it is so fucking unfair that you’re given this period in history without you having any say in it. I know. As Gandalf said—well, we all know what Gandalf said, that old lankyfuck is smart. But the truth is there are bumps in the road more often than not, you know. The day monkeys first stood on two legs, some stupid ape insisted we should all stay on all fours, for tradition’s sake or something. He was the first republican. But despite him and his pesky kin, look how far we’ve come. Generation after generation of whiny conservatives yammering on, “we’re moving too fast,” “change is bad,” and look at all we accomplished in spite of them. Trains! Socks! Writing! Ice cream! That’s amazing. What’s next? I’ll tell you what’s next: trans rights. You being able to be you, and your opponents feeling like the little shits they are and always were. Because they have not evolved. They’re the same little shits who opposed gay people, and Black people, and women voting, and different gods being worshiped—they’ve been wrong at every stage in history, and they always, always lose and die.

And that’s what will happen here. All these fucking neonazis and überdivorcedmensch that are hindering our progress now, all the broligarchs and bilderberg fratscum, all the trademark American idiots, all the book-banning, pearl-clutching, flag-molesting, bible-fingering, gun-blowjobbing, cousin-humping, wife-beating subproletarian turds, all those uniform-stuffers, them Nuremberg-defense moral cunts, all the cops who are all bastards who are all cops who are all bastards, all the careerist sycophants and wannabillionaires, all the brainwashers and their corporate sponsors, all the centrist furniture, all the conflict-avoiders and aisle-reachers, all the advocates for quiet thanksgivings, all the just-asking-questions op-editors, all the yes-men and bootlickers, all the spineless stupid monkeys who don’t dare stand up—they all will die. And I hope for their sake that their money can buy them some mourners, because as far as I’m concerned, I will be laughing and whooping through their funerals.

And I will love to have you by my side. 

January 22, 2025

Fix Your Heart or Die

To all trans and nonbinary people:


To all republicans and moderates:

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