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Spencer Fleury has worked as a sailor, copywriter, economics professor and record store clerk, among other disreputable professions. He is the author of the story collection I Blame Myself But Also You and the novel How I'm Spending My Afterlife. He lives in San Francisco.

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Spencer Fleury I'm juggling a handful of new projects at the moment, one of which is a handful all on its own: my next novel, which is loosely based on my experience…moreI'm juggling a handful of new projects at the moment, one of which is a handful all on its own: my next novel, which is loosely based on my experiences serving in the US Coast Guard in my early 20s. I'd love to tell you more about it, but it's really too early in the process; I don't yet have a handle on what kind of book it'll eventually turn out to be.

I'm also working on a couple of short fiction pieces. One of them is an expanded version of "Fantastic Atlas," the ultra-short I read at the Basement Series back in June, and another is set in London in July 2005 (the week terrorists bombed the Underground).(less)
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HISMA to be reissued by Woodhall Press in September

So here’s one cool thing (though not the only one, of course, since I also got married a few months back) that’s happened to me during the pandemic: Woodhall Press will be re-publishing How I’m Spending My Afterlife in just a few short months.

Hooray!

Pub date is currently set for September 7th, which I understand is the same date as the new Sally Rooney novel, a fact that will likely impact sales i

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