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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 26d

CHILD OF LIGHT by Jesi Bender (@whiskeytit.com). Reviewed by @emilyannwebber.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/chil...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Sep 7

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jesi Bender / @whiskeytit.com ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jesi Bender

Jesi Bender is the author of the novel Child of Light (Whiskey Tit 2025), the chapbook Dangerous Women (dancing girl press 2022), the pla...

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David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social · Aug 12

"This novel is a work of experimental historical fiction that explores the tension between the pursuit for scientific advancement and the unending human interest in magic and myth."

Jesi Bender shared a playlist for her novel Child of Light at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/11/j...

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Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social · Aug 12

Q&A with Jesi Bender about her new novel, CHILD OF LIGHT.
tinyurl.com/ftfttyt8

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · Aug 15

A beautiful review by @katenblackwood.bsky.social of the stunning new novel out this week by Jesi Bender, from @whiskeytit.com!

I agree 💯 with Kate that it's marvelous. Get yourself a copy and support this independent press!
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...

Love and electricity: The novel ‘Child of Light’ – Kate Blackwood

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KERNPUNKT Press @kernpunktpress.bsky.social · 24d

Come visit us at the #BrooklynBookFestival this weekend!

Map of Brooklyn park where Brooklyn Book Fair is happening. KERNPUNKT is at table 621

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David Leo Rice @raviddice.bsky.social · 24d

@1111press.bsky.social @wakeisland.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @kernpunktpress.bsky.social @altcurrent.bsky.social

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 25d

The newest Episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! I talked to @raviddice.bsky.social about his new book The Squimbop Condition ( @1111press.bsky.social ), and all that wild ride of a book entails. Take a listen.

Rejoinder: The Squimbop Condition with David Leo Rice

YouTube video by Joe Bielecki

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KERNPUNKT Press @kernpunktpress.bsky.social · 28d

Thrilled that KERNPUNKTers N/A Oparah and Isabel Sobral Campos will be reading together at @poetshouse.bsky.social in celebration of their new @futurepoem.bsky.social books!

Two book covers for Isabel Sobral Campos and N/A Oparah's books from Futurepoem. They are advertising a reading at Poets House in NYC on September 23rd.

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KERNPUNKT Press @kernpunktpress.bsky.social · Sep 6

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“Child of Light” and Friends – KGB Bar

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KERNPUNKT Press @kernpunktpress.bsky.social · Sep 1

"In this wildly inventive book two artists, both poets and painters, wrestle with the hidden God. The collaboration takes place in 77 love letters that are by turns carnal, hilarious, despairing, and philosophical." Coming October - www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p45/de...

Deus Absconditus and Love Letters from Outer Space

KERNPUNKT Press is an independent publisher of experimental literary fiction

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David Leo Rice @raviddice.bsky.social · Aug 25

@1111press.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @altcurrent.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social @fullstopmag.bsky.social @johnreedwrites.ft.com

Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · Aug 22

📌 ICYMI, from the homies at @1111press.bsky.social: THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by @raviddice.bsky.social

Out 11-SEP & ALL pre-orders come w/ the fall issue of SwR. Jump now bbs 💥 1111press.com/the-squimbop...

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TNBBC @tnbbc.bsky.social · Aug 19

oooh baby. Child of Light gets a review in Kirkus and I think they liked it

"Patient, perceptive, and charged with a quiet emotional power."

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

CHILD OF LIGHT | Kirkus Reviews

In Bender’s historical novel, a sensitive girl awakens to her spiritual gifts in late-19th-century New York.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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TNBBC @tnbbc.bsky.social · Aug 13

Child of Light featured in @reactorsff.bsky.social's Can't Miss Indie Press Spec Fic list for July and August.

File under Wait, Are We In A Cult?!

reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...

Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2025 - Reactor

New titles for your summer reading, covering everything from eldritch horrors to career highlights...

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KERNPUNKT Press @kernpunktpress.bsky.social · Aug 6

@vol1brooklyn.bsky.social recommends #ChildofLight - coming 8/12 from @whiskeytit.com <3 <3 <3

Vol. 1 Brooklyn @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social · Aug 6

We recommended some August books. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/08/06/r...

Recommended Books: August 2025

At the best of times, August is a weird month. (Ask our managing editor to tell you about his childhood experience of insomnia, which could also be described as an allergy to the month in question.…

www.vol1brooklyn.com

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Vol. 1 Brooklyn @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social · Aug 6

We recommended some August books. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/08/06/r...

Recommended Books: August 2025

At the best of times, August is a weird month. (Ask our managing editor to tell you about his childhood experience of insomnia, which could also be described as an allergy to the month in question.…

www.vol1brooklyn.com

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David Leo Rice @raviddice.bsky.social · Aug 4

@1111press.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @specktor.bsky.social @wakeisland.bsky.social @beyondthezero.bsky.social @kernpunktpress.bsky.social @altcurrent.bsky.social @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social

Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · Aug 4

Introducing THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by the homie @raviddice.bsky.social 🔥

This collection includes stories previously published in SwR so we're collabing with @1111press.bsky.social

Pre-order the book and get our fall issue FREE 💥

1111press.com/the-squimbop...

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KERNPUNKT Press @kernpunktpress.bsky.social · Jul 31

beautiful!!

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KERNPUNKT Press @kernpunktpress.bsky.social · Jul 26

ah, thank you Brian!!

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KERNPUNKT Press @kernpunktpress.bsky.social · Jul 25

New excerpt of #ChildofLight up - bigindiebooks.com/2025/07/22/e... @whiskeytit.com

Excerpt from Child of Light by Jesi Bender – BigIndieBooks.com

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · Jul 15

32 more needed now!
Can you jump on board and help this book reach its target before the end of the week?

Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · Jul 15

We've got 3 days left on our Kickstarter for @donyatodd.bsky.social's The Witch's Egg! By my GCSE (if those are still valid) maths, we need approx 35 more backers. This is a great way to support us and our creators and it's also an incredible book. #comics
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The Witch's Egg by Donya Todd

A gorgeous intergenerational family story of promises made, promises kept, and a mother who would do anything to protect her daughters.

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TNBBC @tnbbc.bsky.social · Jul 13

Holy Big Other review of Jesi Bender's Child of Light:

It’s time to translate the past and save the future. If the meaning of Bender’s Child of Light is dark, its very language is light, flexible, revivifying. This is serious play.

bigother.com/2025/07/12/s...

Serious Play: A Review of Jesi Bender’s Child of Light

By Jared Joseph A work of both experimental and historical fiction, Jesi Bender’s Child of Light serves as a memento mori, but in the literal sense of the Latin: “remember (that you have to)…

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KERNPUNKT Press @kernpunktpress.bsky.social · Jul 12

Beautiful new review of #ChildofLight up at @bigothermag.bsky.social - bigother.com/2025/07/12/s... @whiskeytit.com

Serious Play: A Review of Jesi Bender’s Child of Light

By Jared Joseph A work of both experimental and historical fiction, Jesi Bender’s Child of Light serves as a memento mori, but in the literal sense of the Latin: “remember (that you have to)…

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · Apr 3

I'm incredibly lucky to be reading an advance copy of CHILD OF LIGHT by Jesi Bender, coming 8/12 from Whisk(e)y Tit!

So far the best way I can describe it is Lauren Groff's Matrix meets nothing I've seen before.

Get on it by preordering!
whiskeytit.com/product/chil...

Child of Light

Thirteen-year-old Ambrétte Memenon has lived her entire life estranged from her family. After a series of financial failures, they reunite in rural upstate NY in the Spring of 1896. Together in the…

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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · Jun 29

"Smart, sad, and horribly beautiful."

Jesi Bender on 'The N-Word of God', a graphic novel by Mark Doox, from Fantagraphics Books.

https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-17-summer-2025/mark-dooxs-emthe-n-word-of-godem/

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