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Defector @defector.com · 19h

"'The Life of a Showgirl' is the weakest and least interesting album Swift has ever made. It has no heart, no purpose, no emotional core." defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 20h

Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!

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Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 21h

Signing up for the 2026 Malarkey Book Club won’t save the publishing industry or the world but it will bring good mail to your house next year.

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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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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · Nov 15

Reminder that while bookshop.org is amazing and you should be directing your online book sales there, I'll echo others and say that for small publishers, one of the most impactful things you can do is buy directly from our website, putting money in our bank account today for operations.

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 23h

Most of our books are available through Bookshop, and you can also support your local bookstore with your order! bookshop.org/shop/malarke...

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · 3d

here's @malarkeybooks.bsky.social with an example of how it can & should be

copyright page of The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, including the statement "The Barre Incidents is a work of fiction created without the use of artificial intelligence by Lauren Bolger. As a small, independent press, we are committed to celebrating human creativity. We welcome
and encourage quotes from this book for review and/or scholarly purposes. Use of this text in AI or large language models for any purpose is absolutely prohibited."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

Aside from Vance, who as veep is functionally unemployed, farming the approval of racist trolls for validation, this is their worldview: white people are true Americans and are entitled to be here, the rest of us are guests and must behave accordingly

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Zach Kocanda @zacharykocanda.bsky.social · 4d

I’m reading at The Mill, a new literary variety show hosted by the journal Millstone at Burlington Bar on Thursday, October 16—there’s also an open mic! Free ticket link below.

The Mill | Poetry Variety Show & all-genres open mic

Literary variety show & open mic for the freaks & the geeks. Merging literature with other kinds of performance art. Come watch & perform!

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, Gabino! Always looking to for an opportunity to boost BACKMASK

Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

Had a dream that Harold Bloom wrote a really nice review of @ossuary.bsky.social’s novel Backmask, so maybe there is an afterlife? Anyway get it on bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/back...

Backmask

Check out Backmask - <p>Inspired by pop music history and written in the style of 60s horror pulp, BACKMASK is the fake history of a conspiracy theory surrounding the Satanic agenda to control childre...

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Eric T. Racher @ericracher.bsky.social · 4d

"Abandon the conviction that success, by any metric the industry approves, has worth. Buy books second-hand, share them with your friends, pirate. Read less [...]; read better."

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 5d

Monthly Dispatch #27 —
ft. @addisonzeller.bsky.social
@robrubsam.bsky.social
@andrewgallix.bsky.social Charlotte Northall, Adam Judah Krasnoff, Joseph Nechvatal, Tim MacGabhann @alinaetc.bsky.social Austyn Wohlers, reviews & more — now up ...

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Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025

A letter from the editor[s]

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 4d

Got a few left, a small handful, and you might as well buy one!

Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 11d

Thought we were sold out of Hellarkey but @renbolger.bsky.social conjured some extra haunted copies. Get one, if you dare: malarkeybooks.com/store/hellar...

Hellarkey vol. IV — Malarkey

Hellarkey IV 56 pages. 6.14 by 9.21 inches. This item will ship in September or early October. Hellarkey is a horror-themed magazine published by Malarkey every October. Each summer, mystical ed...

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 5d

Don Bronco’s (Working Title) Shell smells like eggs. Or does it?

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 5d

"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 5d

You know you can get the ebook of @renbolger.bsky.social’s The Barre Incidents for $5? Plus free shipping!

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The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger (ePub) — Malarkey

An ePub file suitable for reading as an ebook on most devices. The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, author of Kill Radio Cover design by Matthew Revert When Kara's miner father dies of Silicosis...

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Lazy & Entitled @lazyandentitled.bsky.social · 5d

WHAT YOU DOING NEXT WEDNESDAY

WE GOT A READING

WE GOT @thecorlew.bsky.social WE GOT @bnothing.bsky.social WE GOT @renbolger.bsky.social WE GOT @tvayyyy.bsky.social ALL READING

COME OUT AND GET SCARED IN ROGERS PARK

flyer for a reading saying Lazy & Entitled presents Scary Stories To Tell In Rogers Park October 8th 7 PM celebrating new books from Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. and Lauren Bolger additional readings and music by Chris Corlew & Brendan Johnson Rivers & Roads Cafe espresso bar and snacks available 1259 W Devon Ave

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chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 5d

this is gonna be such a good reading man y'all I cannot WAIT

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scary as hell! new books from two incredible authors!

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you to the most thoughtful and kindest of chefs, @dryan.bsky.social , for choosing and editing my "Kitchen at the Top of the Stairs," a savory on @malarkeybooks.bsky.social 's Mealarkey Fall Menu 2025.

I hope you find it tasty!

Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 6d

It’s not a true kitchen without a few unexpected hiccups but @malarkeybooks.bsky.social’s Mealarkey Fall Menu 2025 is finally live, featuring tasty treats by @ttbrader.bsky.social, @adamshaw502.bsky.social, and William Weissinger!

Fall Menu 2025 — Malarkey

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 6d

It’s not a true kitchen without a few unexpected hiccups but @malarkeybooks.bsky.social’s Mealarkey Fall Menu 2025 is finally live, featuring tasty treats by @ttbrader.bsky.social, @adamshaw502.bsky.social, and William Weissinger!

Fall Menu 2025 — Malarkey

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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · 7d

happy October! I'm biased, but I think this is a great little scary-season collection, ft. Halloween staples like "baptism in blood" "your horrible husband falling prey to a cosmic horror" and "second-person stories written entirely in one sentence."

d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · 7d

if I have to keep hearing about Brandon Sanderson, you have to keep hearing my about my weird, gross, pro-apostasy post-Mormon stories: menshevixen.itch.io/son-of-perdi...

Son of Perdition: A Collected Rage by Dee Holloway

A collection of weird LDS short fiction.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 7d

Today, The Barre Incidents is officially released upon the world. A Horror book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, learning cryptids are real, and banished, embittered gods. Happy born day TBI! You can order here! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

Cover for The Barre Incidents by me (Lauren Bolger). A statue’s face with a graveyard superimposed behind it. Cover art is by Matt Revert!

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 7d

Spooky season starts today, with The Barre Incidents!

Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 7d

Today, The Barre Incidents is officially released upon the world. A Horror book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, learning cryptids are real, and banished, embittered gods. Happy born day TBI! You can order here! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 8d

I've always been fascinated by Milton's dual career as an epic poet and a polemicist. I try to combine both of these registers in my writing and in the formats I use to deliver it

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the Dreadful POINT

serial & short fiction

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t have the money for it but it would be really fun to finally do a Worst American Poetry anthology.

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 7d

This is why it’s good to be in the book club!

Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 7d

Fine, Sticker Guy, we will order some heart-shaped slickers with slime green ink on black vinyl. You had us at heart-shaped stickers with slime green ink on black vinyl.

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