#adamgnade

[adamgnade]

From my novel This is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You. 

They're on sale at www.adamgnade.com this week.

Buy one and I'll send you a bunch of stickers and pins and cool garbage.

Reposted from Madisyn Miller.

#adamgnade #madisynmiller #thisistheendofsomethingbutitsnottheendofyou #threeoneg #breadandrosespress #fiction #writing

[leslieannfierro]

I recently crashed at my old college friend’s place during a brief San Diego visit. This book was hanging around a table or shelf, and I picked it up for the look of it, but immediately felt something familiar in the author’s name. “Adam Gnade? Wasn’t that the radio station guy…that guy who gave us access to the TV studio?” [edit: No, it was not. That was a different dirty-blondish Adam with musical enthusiasms and hungover eyes.] Flashbacks of two freshman nerds broadcasting Pulp and Blues Explosion videos, interviews with random friends, and Titanic, after midnight to maybe a handful of dorm-dwellers. My friend suggested that my correct pronunciation of the name most likely affirmed the sameness of author and college radio guy [edit: It did not]. The author photo was confirmation proved memory’s false and elastic nature.  None of this is important. I managed to read the first chapter before hunger and nostalgia attacked and we went wandering down El Cajon boulevard, which in my 20+ year absence had grown slick and neon and unfamiliar, hotels and high rise apartments and restaurants pustulating the landscape, but none of this is important because we had really delicious spicy tofu larb or something like larb, and pineapple sour beers at a Thai street food place, and the next day I walked from North Park to Hillcrest to eat at Bread and Cie, where I betrayed my own nostalgia and impulse to just order a slice of fig and anise and a slice of olive bread with butter and a pot of Earl Grey, instead ordering a bougie smoked salmon sandwich and a stupid puffy cappuccino. It was fine and none of this matters, but I felt so fat with disappointment I had to walk past the old Che kid apartment above The Loft (which seemingly never tired of playing Cher’s “Life After Love,” and perhaps never has), where somebody’s friend would leave a black garbage bag full of Bread and Cie bread on the concrete patio after all his night shifts. Even though the patio now has a fancy wrought iron fence around it, I could see weird posters and candles shoved into wine bottles on the window sills, superficial signs of interesting inhabitants, and I smiled up into the tiny windows of the $150 a month closet I’d lived in, where the cats would ninja-kick through the weak wooden slats of my sliding door and once or twice relieved themselves on my bed which was not a bed, which was two stacked egg crate foam pads. Why didn’t I buy a mattress? I spent way too much of my early twenties without an actual mattress, and I can���t remember why I was that cheap. None of this is important. Especially in regards to this book, which I bought and quickly devoured, finishing it on Christmas Day in the worst place to finish a good book with this much food-nostalgia—the Hertz rental car office at Newark Airport, where I was stuck for 2 hours with only a day-old peanut butter and honey sandwich in my purse (#momlife) to sustain me. You pretty much need to be reading this book in your favorite taqueria/diner/dive with your mouth full if you don’t want to hate yourself and your situation. 

I guess what I’m really getting at, what "After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different,” is really getting at, is that all of this is important and all of this matters. These moments you live and forget about until someone like Adam Gnade revives them through familiar or relatable experiences...childhood bliss and trauma...friends of the charming dirtbag variety...rumination on films, books, albums, family, dirtbag friends, meals (especially meals) and so on. The novel (I had to check the back cover several times to confirm it was a novel, so much of it feels like memoir, like personal essay, but maybe that’s me projecting “radio guy” assumptions onto the narrator) will fuel your appetite and your nostalgia such that you’ll go meandering down your own food holes, your own sordid and beautiful youthful experiences, and that’s a hell of a thing. There’s an amazing line about nostalgia that I sadly cannot quote because I gave the book to my sister-in-law, but you should go dig it up yourself. 

“Thoroughly enjoying this.” Quote and book photo by aforementioned sister-in-law. College photo Halloween 1997 by somebody’s roommate, Argo Hall, UCSD, cellblock K-8. 

#adamgnade sandiego 1997 afterthiseverythingwillbedifferent

[manicpixietradwife]

comfort in the darkest hours 

#bandcamp #adamgnade latestagecapitalisim depression

[artlung]

the shabby complicated beauty of @adamgnade wonderful reading #sandiegowriters at @libelula_books_co tonight (at Libelula Books & Co) https://www.instagram.com/p/CigvYf-rcko/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#sandiegowriters

[helloamerica]

After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different is out today. Get a copy at https://adamgnade.com/shop

#adamgnade #hello america stereo cassette #Three One G #books #pizza #burritos #food books #sandiego #san diego authors

[sleeparalysispoems]

4.6.19

I picked up an old copy of Adam Gnade’s The Do-It-Yourself Guide to The Big Mother Fuckin' Sad from my bookshelf this morning. 

It has been 3 months since 2018 became 2019. 5 months until I turn 27 and 3 years until I am 30. I keep staring out of my bedroom window expecting to feel something. I have been watching this bird fly around frantically in the same spot for ten minutes now. I picture myself doing the same but without wings and years intead of minutes. Everything I have been writing lately is garbage but I keep reading that gabrage is better than nothing. Garbage is suppose to get you where you need to be. 

Gnade writes, “find the life you want and then fight until it’s yours.”

#adamgnade #books #writing #words

[wearepioneerspress]

Get the Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad by Adam Gnade as a paperback, ebook, or audiobook at https://pioneerspress.com/collections/best-sellers-this-week/products/the-do-it-yourself-guide-to-fighting-the-big-motherfuckin-sad

#adamgnade #depression #artadvice #onworking #onwork #PioneersPress #purpose #findyourpurpose #advice

[thinkibetterfollowyouaround]

Adam Gnade & Demetrius Antuña live at the Good Faith Gallery. 10/8/21 @adamgnade #adamgnade @demetrius.antuna #demetriusantuna @helloamericalit #helloamerica #helloamericalit #helloamericastereocassette @threeoneg #threeoneg #31g @goodfaithsd #goodfaithgallery #goodfaith @sdzinefest #sdzinefest #concert #concertphotography #itibfya #ithinkibetterfollowyouaround (at Good Faith Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU1T_sMLcVo/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[adamgnade]

Get a set of these at my shop.

#author merch #pins #frogs #buttons #adamgnade

[jessie-duke]

SUPPLIES RUNNING LOW! We're down to just 50 COPIES of @Adam_Gnade's best-selling book "The DIY Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad." These will go SUPER FAST and then they'll be OUT OF PRINT for a couple months so GRAB ONE TODAY! @pioneerspress

#depression #suicide #anxiety #mental health #mental illness #adamgnade #pioneers press #small press #books

[threeonegrecords]

Check out the video premiere of the Adam Gnade/ Demetrius Antuñacollaboration, “Voicemails from the Great Satan, Daytime Suite” released by Three One G Records over at IDIOTEQ.com. This is an audio and visual insight into the current political climate that these artists find themselves in, and possibly where the rest of the world is finding themselves in as well. #adamgnade #demetriusantuna #threeoneg #idioteq #thechain @adamgnade @demetrius.antuna @idioteq_com @thechainworld (at San Diego, California)

#adamgnade #idioteq #demetriusantuna #thechain #threeoneg

[bartschaneman]

Thanks to Trident Press @tridentbooks and Nate Perkins @nkperkins for giving this book new life. I wrote it about 15 years ago and tried like hell to get it published at the time. (You can read all about that saga in the new foreword Adam Gnade @adamgnade wrote for it.) Some of you might have read the version that I put out myself back then. Thank you for that. This new printing cleans up some of the formatting errors and typos, and the cover’s much better. I’m very happy with the work Nate did and how it turned out. It’s weird to see something you wrote so long ago finding its way back out into the world. But I’ve always believed that once you write something and put it out it no longer belongs to you. That’s especially true with this. I’ll link to the Trident page in my bio if you’re interested in ordering it. And happy pub day to Nicole Morning @rabbit_in_bloom. I haven’t read her book yet, but it comes highly recommended by people I trust. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPYkei6h7OC/?utm_medium=tumblr

[astroxra]

Hey! I bought a book from @adamgnade . Came super quick and not only did I get a book, but they threw in some pins, stickers and a HAND WRITTEN note! Thank you Adam, Elizabeth and everyone else! You all rock!

#adam gnade

[helloamerica]

The cover story for this week's edition of San Diego's Reader newspaper is an excerpt from Adam Gnade's Bread & Roses Press/ThreeOneG-released novel After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different. 

Go here to read the piece or grab a paper copy if you're in San Diego. 

You can buy the book at Three One G, AK Press, or via Adam's shop.

#sandiegoreader #sdreader #adam gnade #adamgnade #gnade #adam #aftertonighteverythingwillbedifferent #foodbook #books #threeoneg #breadandrosespress #pizza #sandiego #sdca #san diego

[wearepioneerspress]

Please check this out (and share it!) if the DIY Guide to Fighting the Big Sad has ever made a difference in your life or helped someone you love. https://www.patreon.com/adamgnade

#pioneers press #adam gnade #adamgnade #depressionguide #depressionbooks #depression guide #depression #depressed #anxiety #panic attack #sad #sadness #seasonalaffectivedisorder #selfcare

[kdhume]

I woke up before 7 this morning and remembered to check the mail. My zine bundle from #pioneerpress had arrived, so I'm having fun reclining in bed, looking through the bundle and seeing what I got. #everyonegoodisnecessary #adamgnade #zines #smallpress

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