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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · Sep 3
The long-awaited second novel by Guillermo Stitch, coming this Bloomsday. Available now for preorder at  https://thecoastofeverything.com and https://saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything. "A timeless, extraordinary work.”—Nuala O’Connor
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guillermostitch.bsky.social
New Substack
“The first ray of light,” he said, as if in a reverie, “which illumines the gloom.”
The line completes a long goodbye in a long book of goodbyes.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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In PopMatters,  John Loonam on Devin Jacobsen's THE SUMMER WE ATE OFF THE CHINA: “Every reader will find their favorites here while gaining a broad and complex view of how much humanity ... one writer can depict.” https://www.popmatters.com/summer-we-ate-off-the-china
January 15, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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terenabell.bsky.social
Hey hey, Michiganders: Don't miss Kurt Luchs this Fri at Ann Arbor-bookstore @literatibookstore.bsky.social. He'll be reading from TRIBUTARIES, the latest poetry collection fresh off the @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social press: literatibookstore.com/event/2026-0...
Poetry at Literati: Kurt Luchs
An independent bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Staff picks, curated displays, author events, book clubs, book subscriptions, and more.
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January 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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augstone.bsky.social
V pleased with this line - "Instead small groups preferred to sit chastely beneath the nightingales, the females in the crowd listening with great patience as the males expounded upon the tonal qualities of each strain and its place in the history of birdsong."
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/01/11/s...
Sunday Stories: “Aping the Ark”
Aping The Arkby Aug Stone Just as the rumor persists that Noah’s actual name was Yoah and therefore an anagram of ‘Ahoy’, so do reports of other ark-itects attempting similar salvation at the time …
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January 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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guillermostitch.bsky.social
Genuinely honoured to be included in the @irishtimes.com round-up of books to look forward to in 2026. Deepest thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social. The book, that Sagging Meniscus has made so beautiful, can be pre-ordered at www.thecoastofeverything.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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davidcollard.bsky.social
I write about this remarkable recording in 'Multiple Joyce: 100 essays about James Joyce's cultural legacy.' www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/mult...
The essay is titled 'Ramones of the Day' (see what I did there?)
January 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Thanks to Youssef Rakha, author of THE DISSENTERS (Graywolf, 2025), for this reading from Guillermo Stitch's, THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming in June. Preorder at thecoastofeverything.com.
Youssef Ralha Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Thanks to Youssef Rakha, author of THE DISSENTERS (Graywolf, 2025), for this reading from Guillermo Stitch's, THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming in June. Preord...
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January 5, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Book mail from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social via @asterismbooks.bsky.social

Mike Silverton and Kevin Johnson. This is a FEAST!
January 3, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books Forage Like a Bear by Chris Fink & Wrongful by Lee Upton. See alt-text.

@johnporcellino.bsky.social @leeupton.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for Forage Like a Bear by Chris Fink, ill. by John Porcellino (Bored Wolves): Chris Fink’s collection of short prose, Forage Like a Bear, contains a whole lot: whistling acorns, scribbling clams, gossipy geese, technicolor ducks, turkeys (including human ones), roving bands of chipmunks, chimneys, fires, chainsaws, lice, thin ice, approximately 30,000 blueberries, cars rolling uphill, the leaves of a mulberry tree drifting down, Peace Trail meanders, and maybe just maybe, a holy grail morel. https://www.boredwolves.com/product/forage-like-a-bear-by-chris-fink-john-porcellino Book cover for Wrongful by Lee Upton (Sagging Meniscus): Mystery featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "In this smart romp, celebrated mystery novelist Mira Wallacz disappears from a conference held in her honor—but when she’s found dead, no one is especially broken up about it." https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/wrongful/
January 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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davidcollard.bsky.social
1/2 The Guardian's list of forthcoming 2026 fictions (www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...) overlooks these indie highlights (alphabetically, by title):

Anti-social Behaviour by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo
As If by Isabel Waidner
The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch
Books to look out for in 2026 – fiction
Maggie O’Farrell, Yann Martel and Julian Barnes are among the authors publishing new novels this year
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Ho ho ho! Get your literary eggnog! @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social poet Kurt Luchs on Drunken Pen Writing Podcast about his new release: www.youtube.com/watch?si=DI_... @calebjamesk.bsky.social
DPW Podcast #208: The Funny Side Of Poetry With Kurt Luchs
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December 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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This made my day. An IG comment about my Sporting Moustaches @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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On the Drunken Pen Podcast, Kurt Luchs talks TRIBUTARIES and much more.
DPW Podcast #208: The Funny Side Of Poetry With Kurt Luchs
we sit down with humor writer and poet Kurt Luchs to discuss his new book, Tributaries: Essays & Verses Flowing From & Celebrating Favorite Poems.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen, @johnnymuggins.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Thanks to @johnnymuggins.bsky.social, author of TEETH, FINE, and SPINE, for this reading from @guillermostitch.bsky.social's forthcoming THE COAST OF EVERYTHING. Preorder at thecoastofeverything.com.
John Patrick Higgins Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Thanks to John Patrick Higgins, author of TEETH, FINE, and SPINE, for this unexpectedly polysyllabic reading from Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING....
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December 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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A phenomenal conversation with the brilliant Kurt Luchs! TRIBUTARIES, his new collection from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social, is now available. Hope you join us!

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December 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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ljabouttown.bsky.social
this year i spent the majority of my time working on my next book, but i also wrote this, and i’m proud of it

www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...
December 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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We're especially proud of Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS. It's an expensive book to print and to buy, but we promise it's worth it, & there's a discount on preorders of the paperback edition at Asterism. https://asterismbooks.com/product/new-and-used-poems-and-objects-mike-silverton
December 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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exactingclam.bsky.social
"Except those conversations, while normal in speed and rhythm, were anything but normal in terms of content."

Rufo Quintavalle's tribute to the late Ian Monk. Winter '25 DADA issue. 

https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/ian-monk-19602025/
December 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Congratulations to Devin Jacobsen, whose THE SUMMER WE ATE OFF THE CHINA is the winner of the Southern Literary Review's Short Fiction of the Year award! https://southernlitreview.com/reviews/southern-literary-reviews-2025-books-of-the-year.htm
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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ericracher.bsky.social
I am terribly pleased to announce that my book of sonnets, Glosses and Ligatures, will be published by Sagging Meniscus Press in the autumn of 2027.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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guillermostitch.bsky.social
New Substack. Horses, Stanbridge, mud in your eye.
“To find the centre, begin at the edge”, he had scribbled in a margin.
Two months ago you were God.
guillermostitch.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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terenabell.bsky.social
Congrats to client Kurt Luchs, whose TRIBUTARIES has made @clmporg.bsky.social's list of top hybrid book releases of the year. Read it now from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social! www.clmp.org/news/art-dra...
Art, Drama & More of 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
We’re excited to share this year-end roundup of multi-genre anthologies, art and comic books, drama and performance books, cross-genre/hybrid books, and more published in 2025 by independent literary ...
www.clmp.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM