Joe Veix

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// Huh?

I'm a writer slash artist slash person based in Oakland, CA. You can find my work in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Wired, Vice, and .pdf.

// Fiction

Channelvue (2025)

Wedding Registries Through the Ages (2017)

Ghosts of North America (2016)

Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World (2016)

Goodbye, New York (2015)

Application to Rent (2015)

I Love a Good Cigar (2015)

Armoire for Sale (2014)

Unpublished Mark Twain Quotes (2013)

The Lonely Zamboni Driver (2011)

// Nonfiction

Into the Wild on an E-Scooter (2019)

Your Pretty Face is Going to Sell (2018)

Searching for Mark Zuckerberg's Trash (2018)

LinkedIn GameFAQ (2018)

The First Viral Video (2018)

Broken Sex Dolls (2018)

Pretty Good Private Letters (2017)

The Ska Emoji (2016)

Surfing the Lonely Web (2016)

Live Long and Die Out (2015)

The Instagram of Shit and Garbage (2015)

A Personal History of Voicemail (2014)

Eating Fruit for the First Time (2014)

50 Shades of “Argh” (2012)

// Misc

1-855-LADYFUN (2016)

The Findings May Surprise You (2016)

Fullest House (2016)

Watch Paint Dry on Facebook Live (2016)

Horsechat (2015)

PublikFacebook™ (2015)

Wrong Number Art School (2014)

Angry Chair (2014)

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