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Piżama Press

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if you're in Chicago, there will be Piżama books available at this holiday market! Did we mention it's inside of a chicken & fish spot? Did we mention there's beer?

Press & Presents Holiday Market: Makers and Small Publishers. 2p-5p at Parsons Chicken and Fish (2952 W. Armitage Ave.)

December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM

Piżama Press

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December 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM

Piżama Press

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gold or red?

physical (gold) is 20% off today

asterismbooks.com/product/disi...

digital (red) is 22% off today

www.neonpajamas.com/pizama-press...

Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi's Disintegration Made Plain and Easy (gold cover, physical version)

Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi's Disintegration Made Plain and Easy (red cover, digital version)

December 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM

Piżama Press

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And if you still haven’t grabbed a physical copy of Kiik’s book, it’s currently 20% off on Asterism for the next week! If you purchase a physical copy during these next seven days, I’ll personally email you the digital deluxe version.

asterismbooks.com/product/disi...

November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM

Piżama Press

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The digital download comes complete with a PDF & EPUB & is only $7 from now until next Friday

www.neonpajamas.com/pizama-press...

November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM

Piżama Press

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DISINTEGRATION DELUXE! Today is the six month anniversary of our first release! To celebrate, we're releasing a digital edition for the very first time

🎨 Feat. 20 additional poems & illustrations (as well as a remixed red cover), this one’s for the superfans who need more Kiik

about the author

Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi’s work has been translated into sixteen languages. Kiik performed the translations though he has never been able to learn a foreign language and is mildly illiterate in English. The translations exist as conjectures of what Kiik’s voice might do if he was a Swedish, a Chinese, etc. As a result the Swedish and Chinese work is very clever. A literary critic once wrote Kiik please stay out of my garden I need those vegetables to make soup. In his pocket the locks of twelve children. Doused and scoured using twelve emulsions. Milky swampy perfumed. In his garden a row of twelve scalped turnips. Pale ghost riders. Paw of snowmelt resting on its heart of mud.

on thursday we made love

Upon dead camellia blooms

Caterpillars fell from the foxglove

Stuck spines in us as we rolled through

I saw your neighbors in their window above

Holding those rosemallows they rescued

I burned every sweet thing in the oven

Twice yikes I was thinking about you

you're still here? really? with the lights out and everything? ok...

November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM

Piżama Press

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"I was absolutely blown away by this book. These poems are vulnerable, funny, irreverent, surprising...these poems are like sitting at the lunch table with the funniest kid in school and realizing how profoundly sad they are."

Much love to @thecorlew.bsky.social for reviewing Kiik's book!

November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM

Piżama Press

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one of our favorite writers, Barton Smock, had some moving things to say about Kiik's debut collection

you have a book for a long time bc you know what to say and then you try to read it again and the weeping reminds you that you never stopped, well, weeping...

anyway Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi's 'Disintegration Made Plain and Easy' needs no saying from the sayers beyond it should begin being read and not ended

October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM

Piżama Press

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four slim books you need to read

📚 The Swallowed Man (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social)

📚 McGlue (@fencebooks.bsky.social)

📚 When All Our Days Are Numbered... (Big Lucks)

📚 Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta (@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social)

October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM

Piżama Press

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four novels (under 200 pages) we’re still thinking about

📚 Temporary (Coffee House Press)

📚 Boy with a Black Rooster (The Indigo Press)

📚 Ghosts of East Baltimore (Broken River Books)

📚 Light Boxes (Penguin)

October 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM

Piżama Press

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four quick reads you need on your shelf

📚 The Hearing Trumpet (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social)

📚 Potted Meat (@tarpaulinsky.bsky.social)

📚 Reinhardt’s Garden (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social)

📚 The Deer (@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social)

October 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM

Piżama Press

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four novels (under 200 pages) we can’t recommend enough

📚 The Flat Woman (@fictioncollective2.bsky.social)

📚 Grief is the Thing with Feathers (@graywolfpress.bsky.social)

📚 Dan (@dorothyproject.bsky.social)

📚 Henrytown (Graver Goods Press)

October 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM

Piżama Press

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speaking it into existence so next month can calm down 😴💆‍♂️ anyone else catching up on reading this fall & winter?

October 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM

Piżama Press

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From 2011 to 2015, Edward Mullany released a trilogy of books with @pubgen.bsky.social that we return to often. Tiny poems & microfictions both haunting & hilarious. He ended these 3 books with a trio of novellas (The Three Sunrises), a series of fever dream fables not to be missed.

October 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM

Piżama Press

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yes, it’s quite true this wild mammoth of a poem has it all

October 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM

Piżama Press

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You can find Kiik's book at any of these awesome stores!

- Alienated Majesty Books
- Arundel Books
- The Astoria Bookshop
- The Daily Planet
- Kinokuniya Bookstore
- Leviathan Bookstore
- Open Books
- Perelandra Bookshop
- Powell's Books
- Topos Bookstore
- Unnameable Books
- Village Books

October 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM

Piżama Press

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six of the rarest books in our collection

📚 The Butcher’s Tales
📚 POOL
📚 The Battlefield where the Moon Says I Love You
📚 Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me
📚 The Zoo Club
📚 I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur