Matthew Zanoni Müller
matthewzmuller.bsky.social
Matthew Zanoni Müller
@matthewzmuller.bsky.social
Writer, educator. First Aid for Choking Victims (Malarkey books). Writing in Denver Quarterly, Cottonwood, Southeast Review, and others.
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Annual shameless self-promotion! This book is for anyone who has ever wanted to leave civilization behind for a spell of personal growth & refreshment by a stream in the mountains far from town. Makes a great gift!
Breaking Into the Backcountry Book Review
Breaking Into the Backcountry (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), is a memoir of solitude, anxiety, and beauty. It is the story of Edwards’s 2001 experience with the famed Boyden Wilderness Residenc...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:24 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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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 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Sis in law made a bunch of tiny books as a way to track what she’s been reading and made me one
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Coming at you in May 👀@tortoisebooks.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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!

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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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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
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So many amazing small presses out there putting out interesting stuff you'll never find anywhere else. Four of my favorites are:

@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
@shotgunhoney.com
@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Cornerstone Press

They've all put out great stuff this year, with more about to be released
November 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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It has been a year since the publication of Sleep Decades (@malarkeybooks.bsky.social), my debut short story collection. Throughout the month, I will be sharing a couple of reviews and some notes on the stories.

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November 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Hey, you can now listen to me yap with the wonderful writer @ljabouttown.bsky.social about life’s strange journey, being a picky mfer about craft and much more! If this is half as much fun to listen to as it was to record, it should be a hoot
October 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Better late than never, @ljabouttown.bsky.social’s conversation with Boxcutters/Feast of the Pale Leviathan author @johnchrostek.com

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In the Belly of the Beast
Podcast Episode · Malarkey Public Radio · 10/25/2025 · 54m
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October 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Twice-a-week therapy kinda place in my life.
October 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Finally got some Malarkey books in an NPR article!
October 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Hey, this is fun news! Mouth, my fifth book of poems, comes out in January, and I’m delighted to share the cover —
October 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...
October 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Most of our books are available through Bookshop, and you can also support your local bookstore with your order! bookshop.org/shop/malarke...
October 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Spooky season starts today, with The Barre Incidents!
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-...
October 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
My niece working at my typewriter and hitting the letter “a” over and over: “I’m writing a very long story and most of it is people screaming.”
September 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
My ardent love for this bookmail!!

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September 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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BTW - Malarkey Books still has my book, Still Alive, on sale for $13 (!!!!), so if you've been on the fence about taking the plunge, now is the time to do it for cheap.

It was longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Awards and some folks say it's good. <3

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Still Alive, a novel by LJ Pemberton — Malarkey
****Longlisted for the DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD (2025).****&nbsp; ****Named a MUST-READ book&nbsp;by the INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW (2024).****&nbsp; ”Throughout, V’s desire is made palpable vi...
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September 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Major yn Englisshe:
• focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet
• meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• it ys awesome
• books!
September 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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As it was Adorno’s bday yesterday, a little note from Teddy on “the stupidity of cleverness,” addressed no doubt to recent authors of widely disseminated opinion columns in liberal newspapers
September 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Sums up America in 2025 pretty well I’d say
August 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I cut like three long paragraphs from my novel today that I really liked but that warped the story so please be proud of me because I am bad at cutting and good at including EVERYTHING.
August 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM