PATRICK DACEY

Old Hard Love

New Work in Zoetrope: All-Story

Malcolm Lowry’s “Under the Volcano”

I’ve read most of the great alcoholic/addict fiction out there (The Lost Weekend, A Fan’s Notes, Jesus’ Son, Carver’s Stories), and believe them to be very accurate and handled well by writers who have lived in such hells, but none of these books seem to come as close to getting inside the mind of an [...]

Sing for Me

My story “Sing for Me” is out in the fall issues of The Greensboro Review. Thanks for reading.

Travelers

My new story “Travelers” is up on Bombsite. Thanks for reading.

Interview with George Saunders (Part 2)

Part 2 of my interview with George Saunders can be read on Bomb Magazine’s Website. Click here to read Part 1.

Cuyutlan

New story “Cuyutlan” out in Salt Hill 27. Thanks for reading.

Interview with George Saunders (Part 1)

Part 1 of my interview with George Saunders is now up on Bomb Magazine’s website. Thanks for reading.

The Place You Are Going To

New Story out in Sou’wester. Thanks for reading.

When the Dying Think, Are They Thinking What We Think They’re Thinking?

An interesting assignment I had in one of my writing classes in college was to try and encapsulate the life of a character in one page. It seemed the character had to die in order to do this and so I wrote from a dying man’s perspective, yet I struggled to get anywhere near the end of [...]

The Responsible Ones

New story, “The Responsible Ones”, in West Branch’s first online edition: West Branch Wired