Luke Hartwell

• May-2026
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• Jul-2025
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Aside from Desire is a complete collection of Luke Hartwell's shorter fiction as of August 2025. Many of these stories also appear, with commentary from the characters, in Hartwell's novel Jeremy Bardon. Handsome Johnny provides a surprising follow-u...

• Sep-2020
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Luke Hartwell's latest novel, Desire, is a penetrating, subterranean magnum opus that combines leitmotifs from his earlier work with unexpected new ones. Characters include Layton, a handsome bartender who has trouble keeping his mouth shut; the fetc...

• Aug-2018
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Baby Self Hate is a sultry but funny story of sex and infatuation. As always with Hartwell, the brilliance of the narrative voice shines brightest. Cam, like other Hartwell narrators, is angry but funny, purposeful but confused, and humorous but unex...

• Aug-2018
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Luke Hartwell explores the relationship between gay and straight best friends in this sparse, moving, revised story previously published as "Jimmy." Chris has been in love with his best friend Jimmy since childhood. While Chris is at col...

• Aug-2018
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In Luke Hartwell's Hooves Are a Horse's Glue (But You Still Need a Nail for the Shoe), a high school senior in small town Arkansas finds a new boy in class on the first day of school--a handsome exchange student from Turkey whose presence in town cau...

• Aug-2018
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Space is a love story that rivals the best in the genre. When a young boy at a bowling alley has his cheeseburger delivered by a handsome future air force cadet, an infatuation develops so strong that three years later, when he learns the older boy's...

• Jul-2018
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A groundbreaking merger of genres, Luke Hartwell's latest novel, Love Underneath, is as distinctive as its predecessors. Using characters and early chapters from his deleted novel Locomotives in Winter, Hartwell has created a beautiful, sexy story of...

• Jul-2018
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Luke Hartwell's second novel, Who You Are and Where You Come From, is his most autobiographical. Ironically, it is also his only work of fiction to be written from third person point of view. The award-winning novel follows Arkansas country boy Ben G...

• Apr-2018
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Four Walls and a Passion contains five of Luke Hartwell's best stories. In "Hooves are a Horse's Glue (But You Still Need a Nail for the Shoe)," a high school senior in small town Arkansas finds a new boy in class on the first day of sch...

• Apr-2018
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A likeable, intelligent high school senior, Mateo Bernard is new to Little Rock. Cody Redan has lived there all his life. Yet, when they meet, there's a familiarity, a sense they've known each other before. By turns funny, romantic, insightful, an...

• Apr-2016
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This collection of Luke Hartwell's short stories-Jimmy, Michael, Nothing Strikes Back, and Toller-showcases his ability to create intriguing characters then tell their stories in a voice so accurate readers are transported. "Jimmy" has been compared ...

• Apr-2016
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*Contains Jack London's The Iron Heel, H.G. Wells' The Sleeper Awakes, and Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World, three dystopian novels that were published within ten years of each other and ushered in the genre. *Contains an introduction by Luke H...

• Jul-2015
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This collection of Luke Hartwell's short stories--Jimmy, Michael, Nothing Strikes Back!, Handsome Johnny, Hand, Two Baby Creek, and Toller--showcases his ability to create intriguing characters then tell their stories in a voice so accurate readers a...

• Jul-2015
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• Jun-2015
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Luke Hartwell does it again! "Toller" is a sultry story of sex and infatuation. As always, the brilliance of the narrative voice shines brightest. Cam, like other Hartwell narrators, is angry but funny, purposeful but confused, and humorous yet unexp...

• May-2014
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• Nov-2013
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Hunter, a high school senior, finds himself with no place to go and ends up sharing a bed with the friend and classmate he once had abandoned. Brandon, who has been in love with Hunter since ninth grade, finds having Hunter in his bed every night lea...

• Nov-2013
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What do you do when your girlfriend's younger brother is the best-looking person on the planet and has a thing for you? Parish doesn't know what he's going to do, but he's about to find out. Luke Hartwell, author of Memory and Madness and other works...

• Nov-2013
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Luke Hartwell's first three acclaimed short stories, hitherto published individually, appear here in one volume. "Jimmy," "Michael," and "Nothing Strikes Back " showcase Hartwell's ability to create characters then get inside their head and relate th...

• Jul-2013
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• Jun-2013
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Luke Hartwell's Nathan's Story combines elements of his coming-of-age novella Space with characters from his provocative novel Atom Heart John Beloved. Hartwell intertwines the story of Nathan and Harper with the story of Nathan and John while avoidi...

• Jan-2013
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"Jimmy" is out of print, replaced with the slightly revised "Blue South."Luke Hartwell explores the relationship between gay and straight best friends in this sparse, moving, revised story previously published as"Jimmy." Chris has been in love with ...

• Jul-2012
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Mateo and Cody from Keith Hale's novel Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (Cody) reunite as Devon and Colt in an epic novel by Luke Hartwell that includes updates to the characters in many of his and Hale's novels and short stories. This novel is a m...