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Bud Smith is the author of Teenager (Tyrant Book), Double Bird (Maudlin House), WORK (CCM), Dust Bunny City (Disorder Press), among others. He works heavy construction, and lives in Jersey City, NJ.

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Teenager: A Novel

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Work

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Or Something Like That

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Calm Face

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Dust Bunny City

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Everything Neon

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The End of Good Luck

Hello hello,


I just wrapped up a year long (plus some) project called Good Luck, which is an experimental novel that was serialized, as it was written, at The Nervous Breakdown.


The project is about memory/the self, art, labor, and love.


The project was initially spurred by the death of my dear friend Chuck Howe, upset by the absurd news of his passing (he died of heart failure while laughing on the

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