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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Every book that I have gotten from Malarkey has been great to the point I signed up as a Book club member next year. They put out great stuff. Please consider supporting them.

Get some books or even some PDF/ electronic versions. Only 4 bucks. Great to procrastinate at work before the holiday.
Been real slow lately but we’re putting a couple books and a tote bag in the mail tomorrow. We can send you books and stuff. We would love actually!
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Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Holiday season is lean times for us so time to lean in to the grift! malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2
The Grift: Volume 2 — Malarkey
The Grift, the greatest and most important literary magazine in history, is back, this time with work from Jacquelyn Bengfort, Zachary Kocanda, Christopher Stevenson, Neil Willcox , Dereck Heckman, Cr...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I don't know the catalog extensively, but they've got a good eye for short fiction collections if you've got book money and want to take a chance on an independent publisher. Good tote too.
Been real slow lately but we’re putting a couple books and a tote bag in the mail tomorrow. We can send you books and stuff. We would love actually!
Malarkeybooks.com/store
Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I have zero desire to be rich. My big dream in life is the means to sustain a literary life with my partner, writing, running the bookstore, doing the work ourselves. But books cost money and great indie publishers like @malarkeybooks.bsky.social + Deep Overstock deserve compensation for their work
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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this holiday season, remember to buy good books for your friends and *special* books for your enemies
Been real slow lately but we’re putting a couple books and a tote bag in the mail tomorrow. We can send you books and stuff. We would love actually!
Malarkeybooks.com/store
Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
Malarkeybooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
You will look so cool with one of these. Also someone ordered just a tote and it felt weird to only put a tote in a box to mail out so we threw in a free book.
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Been real slow lately but we’re putting a couple books and a tote bag in the mail tomorrow. We can send you books and stuff. We would love actually!
Malarkeybooks.com/store
Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
Malarkeybooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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once again i am coming on bigfoot’s internet to encourage you to shop local businesses and independent bookstores this holiday season

or at minimum, give retail a chance again

ween thyself from Big Delivery
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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The Malarkers sent me a t-shirt! Thanks, @malarkeybooks.bsky.social!
November 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Admit it, you want to win a Cummie.

The most important award in the horror industry is open for nominations until the end of the month. Publishers, authors—I'm going to need you to step up and tell us about your favorite books.

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The Dead Languages' Cummies
For the second year in the row, we are proud to announce the annual Dead Languages' Cummies award. What are the DLP Cummies? The Cummies will juicily celebrate horror authors and presses. These a...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Small press books make great gifts. Pass it on!

Check out beautifully written & well designed books from @thirtywestph.com, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social, @malarkeybooks.bsky.social, @sundresspub.bsky.social & Stanchion. Support small businesses & give the readers in your life something new! Win-win.
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We have about five tote bags left, don’t know that we’ll ever get more. Snag one while you can!

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Tote Bag — Malarkey
A tote bag designed by Adrian Sobol, author of Hair Shirt and The Life of the Party Is Harder to Find Until You’re the Last One Around . Fill it with books! These totes will be printed in Tulsa, O...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Happy Sunday, always a good day for buying books!

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November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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my lil book is now available for purchase

thank you to anyone who reads it

buy it here: a.co/d/9no2Phd

or here: asterismbooks.com/product/bett...
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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As the year ends we've increased the footprint of indie presses from around the country. As times change it's important to support these smaller publishers who are putting out fascinating books. It's not surprising that so many indie pubs are putting out award winners. #smallpress #indiepublishers
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Open the schools! The BOOK schools!!
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Order a copy! Long beautiful stories—and we’ll send stickers and a few zines.
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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#💙 #booksky #bookreview #stillalive
STILL ALIVE
By lj pemberton
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
5💀s
My full review is on goodreads , where I yammer on for awhile about this book, this author , Vonnegut, Time and that elusive thing called "home"
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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My book came out a year ago today. I tried as best as I could to create a level of depth in the reader’s access to each character’s interior world. If you like that kind of narrative intimacy, give my book a try!

@malarkeybooks.bsky.social

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First Aid for Choking Victims, Stories by Matthew Zanoni Müller — Malarkey
This book publishes in November 2024. Preorders will be signed by the author. First Aid for Choking Victims is a collection of mostly longer short stories set in rural areas around Western Massachu...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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If you buy my book from @eveninghouse.bsky.social, you’re supporting an independent bookstore AND two @malarkeybooks.bsky.social authors! Also add Boxcutters to the cart while you’re at it. ;)

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Still Alive - Evening House Books
A hero's journey through a dying empire. On the Road for a beaten generation. After V meets Lex, a butch painter, at an underground punk show, they enter a multi-year […]
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November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
As we look toward 2026, we need more book club members. Join up now for a year of book mail and, while we have them, a free t-shirt.

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2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
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November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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As a debut indie author, I’m really grateful to have found the readers I have with these two books. Would be honored to have them considered alongside 2025’s other great new releases!
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM