The Ewoks are edible actually. You can eat them and it doesn’t matter.

You should read this book. It’s available from all the usual suspects but we are down to 24 copies of the first edition, with Asterism being the only place to get them: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

Don’t forget to RSVP, fam! We hope to see you there. buff.ly/w6ScxVp

It even came with a cool banner

In addition to the best in new fiction & poetry, Elegant Variations will be the home of book reviews, something I know is needed more of in our lit world, starting later this month w/ a beauty about @suzyeynon.bsky.social's Terrestrial (@malarkeybooks.bsky.social) by @jonathanin2k.bsky.social. 2/2

Saw my first house centipede of the season in the bathroom this morning, and boy was it a big one!

the first issue of Agita, the new magazine of flash horror and sci-fi from @agitapublishing.bsky.social, is live! co-edited and with an intro by yers truly, it's a pretty great collection of three fantastic little tales of BAD SCIENCE! check it out! agitamag.com/issue/issue-...

Biggest culture shock coming back from Iceland? How many fewer Sbarros we have here. Really missing out on all the Sbarros they have over in Iceland

Tried to do that "uninterrupted walks" thing with my dog, and man did she milk it!

Yeah buddy, I really want to watch a weird nerd with a lisp star in a rom-com for 90 minutes. C'mon. Aside from how this is shredding to bits that whole "movies are empathy machines" thing, does anybody really want this?

I hope by “Z Library” they mean “the library” but like with a German accent, cause … just go to the library dude

On beautiful days like this you can really feel the existential conflict between the old guys drinking outside the 7-Eleven and the young hipsters staring at their phones at the bus stop in my neighborhood.

prepare yourself

Is the cure for male loneliness just listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers' "By the Way" over and over for days on end? Check out my contribution to the @major7mag.bsky.social mixtape, and thank you to the amazing @keersteemack.bsky.social for selecting it: www.major7mag.com/post/by-the-...

Just finished the expansive and excellent book The Walls Are Closing In On Us by @joshuatrentbrown.com from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. Trent really showed how George straddled two worlds. I loved the part that gave the book its title.

Drove out to Manassas to sell some books at McKay, and wow, life is so much simpler* here *gas is like 30 cents cheaper

Finished @joeyhedger.bsky.social's book in under a week (with a packed work week and kid's open house and tae kwon do classes). Great read and I could almost imagine the smell of his fictional Illinois town.

** GIVEAWAY I am giving away three copies of I Am Idris Elba. All you have to do to be eligible is to REPOST/SHARE THIS ON WHATEVER PLATFORM YOU SEE THIS ON. (1 copy per Platform) Here’s an excerpt: alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/s... Names will be drawn on May 1st.

Should be fun. Pizza, wine, music. Several insult comics I’ve paid to come and heckle people during the readings www.eventbrite.com/e/804-dinner...

Get my story collection "How to Write an Emotionally Resonant Werewolf Novel" as part of this bundle!

“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes…you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

My book is having one hell of a morning.

Evening House isn’t a big building, but we do move paper A special joy is selling visiting indie author’s books In the past 24 hrs, sold some @tyler-m.bsky.social, @kristinaten.bsky.social, @leannareneehieber.bsky.social Running low on all signed copies! The people yearn for good indies 🤘💀🤘

I have a couple other CS pieces (it's a fantastic magazine, always putting out really great stuff that I love reading!!) that IMO also fall into the "spiral into madness" category.

"...there’s more Jeffs being born each minute, and more Jeffs dying too, dying from car accidents, cancers..." @joeyhedger.bsky.social spirals into madness, squinting hard into the self-forged lens we view others through & the world beyond www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff

More put together thoughts coming but: Pretty Joey Ross (zoom in on that kindle) is a beautiful and meticulously detailed story -- I think even better than @patricknevins.bsky.social last novel (which I loved). In 2027, some of y'all are going to be real jealous that I got to read this before you!

"...I have a cousin named Jeff and an uncle named Jeff too, and you know, there’s a lot of Jeffs in my life, because my dad is named Jeff and so is my mom and so is the mailman and all the guys who empty the recycling bins on my street..." www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff

Apparently, we're "celebrating" the "release" of Trent's latest "novel" The Walls Are Closing In On Us. Anyway, should still be fun. How cool is it that Kramers, which is the coolest bookstore in DC, is not only putting up with but actively welcoming our Malarkey!!!

The Supreme Court found that a school acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people was such a violation of freedom of religion that they had to allow opt outs but now the 5th circuit says kids being exposed to the ten commandments isn't. The law is such a joke.

Kind of obsessed with this poetry collection I saw in a bookstore in Iceland centering one of their grocery store chains that is described as "a mythological journey through a Bónus supermarket based on the Divine Comedy by Dante." andrimagnason.com/books/bonus-...

Jeff, by Joey

Send this story to a Jeff in your life (ie, anyone)

My guy “Jeff” is up. Come meet him. Much thanks to @completesentence.bsky.social for being the best and pubbing this one!! www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff

Apparently the best way to get hundreds of likes on bluesky is to post a pic of my wife alongside a Star Wars reference … in case anyone needs engagement advice

Diamond Beach!!!

Kate called me a dork for saying that these ice caves reminded me of Hoth. But, I mean, come on!

They’ve got a yoda cave here in Iceland

Excellent haul from @joeyhedger.bsky.social and @sabrinahicks.bsky.social !!!

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Standing between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates!!

In all seriousness, Suzy’s book Terrestrial is really such a beautiful, meaningful book. It really draws you into the mind and life of Daisy as she navigates feeling like an outsider, understanding herself and her family, and, oh, seeing lights in the sky. Truly a great read!

Buy it!! Look how great this great book looks!!

Strange thing happens, when we don’t post about books for a while we don’t sell many books, so this is a post about books and fingers crossed it will help us sell some! malarkeybooks.com/store

Gonna start every conversation with, “they should call it Niceland instead” and see how long it takes before they throw me out of the country

This whole let’s-only-do-carry-ons-for-our-trip-to-Iceland plan has been going perfectly until now* *we started packing

gonna need me a copy of sufjan stevens' piss poem chapbook tbh

Owls about at Huntley Meadows

ACAB includes … me?

Oh phew, they’re back. All is right again. That was a close one.