Avery Lane Maxwell · Frisco, Colorado

Everything, in one place.

A novelist and an innkeeper at nine thousand feet. Two books, a scored podcast, a magazine, a reader built by hand, and a fifteen-room house that all of it came out of. Every door below is open, and none of them costs anything to walk through.

The Books

Two novels, one man, twenty years apart.
Out now · The atmosphere
Still, by Design.
A man who mistook motion for purpose, learning to keep still in a house that seems to breathe alongside him.
Finished · The reckoning
Good Little Innkeeper
Eighty thousand words, narrated by a watcher a boy grew at six. A rural Georgia boyhood, and what the charm cost. Looking for a home.

The Podcast

The writer, out loud. Every episode scored, and every one a film.
Start here
Avery Lane Maxwell.
Essays read slow, with original music, ending in a real recipe. New episodes when they are ready, and not before.
The Kitchen
Every recipe an episode leaves
The newest is open to everyone. The archive opens with a letter.
The Sky · Plate I
The Geographies
The places of the essays as constellations, from an atlas that turned out to belong to one man. The amber thread runs between them the way the years went.
Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube In the browser RSS The playlist

Galena House

The press, founded 2023 and run by one person.
Free to read · Issue No. 1
The Amber Thread
The magazine of the house. Avery, Found. is out — a letter from the desk, the features, the photographs, the colophon.
The mythology
The World of the Books
The line that runs under both novels: the twenty-three places, the four geographies, Avery and Elias.
Free · iPhone and iPad
Epopteia
A reading room the author built himself, because a screen should behave like a room.
As it happens
The Journal
What the house is thinking, set down while it is still true.

The Inn

Where all of it was written, before the guests came down.
106 Galena Street · Frisco, Colorado
The Frisco Inn on Galena
Fifteen rooms beneath Mount Royal. He runs it. The novels are set in a house very like it, and the coffee is real.
The shop
Books and goods
Signed copies and the small things the house makes, sent from Frisco.

Stay in Touch

One letter, only when there is something worth sending.
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