Samuel M. Moss

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Novel: 'The Veldt Institute' (Double--Negative, 2025) https://asterismbooks.com/product/the-veldt-institute-samuel-m-moss Pubs: Keep Planning, Always Crashing, minor lit[s] Runs @ergot.bsky.social More: perfidiousscript.com Photo: linktr.ee/doomstache

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'The Veldt Institute' book release event on September 27th, 6pm at Lost Avenue in Portland Oregon with Laura Cranehill and music by Pulse Emitter
'The Veldt Institute' book release poster
'The Veldt Institute' book release poster: Saturday September 27th at Lost Avenue Books in Portland Oregon with Samuel M. Moss and Laura Cranehill
Copies of 'The Veldt Institute'
A quote from the novel 'The Veldt Institute': "If we can know it, it is not worth mentioning. It can be known. What can be known? Not to mention, not to know. To know it is to say it. To know it. To mention. Ah, the mentioning, the knowing. Ah, and to be known and to mentioned? But even more so? To be not mentioned!"
'Under the Influence' reading at Et al. gallery in San Francisco on Thursday September 18th 2025 at 6pm
A quote from the novel 'The Veldt Institute' by Samuel M. Moss: "There is the hidden. What we call the cryptic: that which is stored in the crypt. Both hidden and dead, hidden in a temporary death. As dead: hidden from life and yet, able to return to life, to reflect in living."
A sonic literary experience to celebrate the release of The Veldt Institute a novel by the writer Samuel M. Moss with support from Laura Cranehill and sound by Pulse Emitter Hosted by Lost Avenue. 6PM, Saturday September 27th. 2732 MLK Jr. Blvd Portland, OR 97212
Quote from the novel 'The Veldt Institute': "When the tape starts, there are always a few seconds of grainy noise, which recalls the unsilent silence of no sound, the eigengrau of the auditory channel."
Quote from the novel 'The Veldt Institute': "As one progresses it becomes possible to see world as art, self as art and, later, self as world, world as self and even world as self as art as self as world."
Quote from the novel 'The Veldt Institute': "It's an interesting phenomenon...these memories, that at one moment feel like a great weight, in the next lift off and float away. One not recognize, at the time, that once the past has gone, it has gone for good."
A quote from the Novel 'The Veldt Institute': "Emptied of the divine charge, one breathes freely."
Quote from 'The Veldt Institute': “One can know, quite rationally, that the Institute might be anywhere within the veldt, even close to the veldt’s edge, but, when staring out of those windows, one comes to feel, ineluctably, that not only is the Institute at the center of the veldt, but one’s very self is situated at the absolute center.”
Screenshot of the cover of the book 'New Paltz, New Paltz'
Blurry-ass photo of some bushes and grass in central California taken from the other side of a train window.
A screenshot of the one-thousandth poem
A stack of books including 'Miss Macintosh, My Darling', 'The Empusium', 'Rakesfall', 'Inland' and others
Sam, barely visible and in the distance, crouches at the top of a hill. There are a trees and bare bushes. All of this is partially obscured by fog under overcast skies