Tolstoy

Welcome to the Dirt x Rose Books hotline! We’re continuing our homage to the suburbs with a special foray into audio. 

Rose Books is an independent press founded by writer, editor and teacher Chelsea Hodson. Dirt interviewed Hodson in 2023.

For the next two days, you can call in to the Rose Books Hotline (1-844-300-ROSE) to hear one writer read a piece about the suburbs. Today’s hotline reading is Tolstoy by Joshua Hebburn.

You can also listen on SoundCloud below. 

Joshua Hebburn is an assistant fiction editor for X-R-A-Y. His own fiction has appeared recently in Hex, Had, Vlad Mag and New World Writing. He lives in L.A.

Have you written something about the suburbs you would like to share? Email a m4a or mp3 file under three minutes to [email protected] for a chance to be featured on Dirt and Rose Books. Leave your name, the title of your piece, and your social handles. One submission per person. Submissions close on September 15th. 

You can listen to past Rose Books hotline readings here. ☎️

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