Happy book birthday to #DeusAbsconditus 🎂https://www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p45/deus.html

CHILD OF LIGHT by Jesi Bender (@whiskeytit.com). Reviewed by @emilyannwebber.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/chil...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jesi Bender / @whiskeytit.com ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/12-o...

"This novel is a work of experimental historical fiction that explores the tension between the pursuit for scientific advancement and the unending human interest in magic and myth." Jesi Bender shared a playlist for her novel Child of Light at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/11/j...

Q&A with Jesi Bender about her new novel, CHILD OF LIGHT. tinyurl.com/ftfttyt8

A beautiful review by @katenblackwood.bsky.social of the stunning new novel out this week by Jesi Bender, from @whiskeytit.com! I agree 💯 with Kate that it's marvelous. Get yourself a copy and support this independent press! kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...

Come visit us at the #BrooklynBookFestival this weekend!

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Thrilled that KERNPUNKTers N/A Oparah and Isabel Sobral Campos will be reading together at @poetshouse.bsky.social in celebration of their new @futurepoem.bsky.social books!

"In this wildly inventive book two artists, both poets and painters, wrestle with the hidden God. The collaboration takes place in 77 love letters that are by turns carnal, hilarious, despairing, and philosophical." Coming October - www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p45/de...

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oooh baby. Child of Light gets a review in Kirkus and I think they liked it "Patient, perceptive, and charged with a quiet emotional power." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Child of Light featured in @reactorsff.bsky.social's Can't Miss Indie Press Spec Fic list for July and August. File under Wait, Are We In A Cult?! reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...

@vol1brooklyn.bsky.social recommends #ChildofLight - coming 8/12 from @whiskeytit.com <3 <3 <3

We recommended some August books. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/08/06/r...

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New excerpt of #ChildofLight up - bigindiebooks.com/2025/07/22/e... @whiskeytit.com

32 more needed now! Can you jump on board and help this book reach its target before the end of the week?

Holy Big Other review of Jesi Bender's Child of Light: It’s time to translate the past and save the future. If the meaning of Bender’s Child of Light is dark, its very language is light, flexible, revivifying. This is serious play. bigother.com/2025/07/12/s...

Beautiful new review of #ChildofLight up at @bigothermag.bsky.social - bigother.com/2025/07/12/s... @whiskeytit.com

I'm incredibly lucky to be reading an advance copy of CHILD OF LIGHT by Jesi Bender, coming 8/12 from Whisk(e)y Tit! So far the best way I can describe it is Lauren Groff's Matrix meets nothing I've seen before. Get on it by preordering! whiskeytit.com/product/chil...

"Smart, sad, and horribly beautiful." Jesi Bender on 'The N-Word of God', a graphic novel by Mark Doox, from Fantagraphics Books. https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-17-summer-2025/mark-dooxs-emthe-n-word-of-godem/

Blanche Monnier was imprisoned in an upstairs room by her mother and her brother. In 1901, an anonymous letter alerted the police to the fact that Blanche had been imprisoned for twenty-five years. When they found her, she was half-starved, naked, & screaming. www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p42/sc...

We only need about two more backers to reach 50%! Can you help us get there? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

Sasha is stabbed in a random attack. While in the hospital, he is visited by "Someone", who reads to him about Dante and Greek mythology. Sasha undergoes a transformation, which results in an uncertain and complex dynamic between himself & Someone. www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p41/be...

DREAM ELEVATOR is an exploration of girlhood, displacement, and movement. The collection traces the trajectory of a daughter and mother from Quanzhou, China to the snowy plains of Rochester, Minnesota. www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p40/dr...

don't let the mother fucking bastards get you down 🇺🇸

Electricity, feminism, mental health, spirits and seance, haunted houses, death, and first loves - CHILD OF LIGHT, coming soon! whiskeytit.com/product/chil...

Come see what ridiculousness Jesi Bender gets herself into with this 6 Ridiculous Question interview over at @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/06/23/s... Then check out her upcoming release Child of Light because it's too good to let it fly under your radar

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"Apropos of nothing in particular, I am thinking a lot about the French Revolution lately." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/06/23/s...

Honored to be profiled in this month's HARVARD MAGAZINE -- huge thanks to Nina Pasquini for the fantastic interview! @whiskeytit.com @kernpunktpress.bsky.social @1111press.bsky.social www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/07/harv...

See you tomorrow at the #DeepWaterFestival - deepwaterfestival.com/event/deep-w...

"Make art." - Jesi Bender alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/...

We have a cover, designed by @mrwojorising.bsky.social, for Vi Khi Nao’s forthcoming collection, My Ardent Love for the Pencil! Cover art from Jörn Budesheim. malarkeybooks.com/news/2025/6/...

August is right around the corner and with it comes Jesi Bender's genre breaking, experimental, speculative, historical fiction novel Child of Light. Hit me up for a review copy and add it to your goodreads shelves while you're at it : ) www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

I read Grant Maierhofer's book, Ebb, this week. Very much recommend it. I was struck by the agility and blunt sincerity of his prose.

We're thrilled to be publishing Brandi George's next book (a collaboration with Michael Barach) - pre-sales up now! www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p45/de...

Meet us at the next Deep Water Literary Festival! deepwaterfestival.com

Carole Maso said my book is "a dark pleasure" 🖤 🖤 🖤 - whiskeytit.com/product/chil...

Carole Maso said my book is "a dark pleasure" 🖤 🖤 🖤 - whiskeytit.com/product/chil...

“If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” — Malcolm X, Harlem Speech (1964)

Last night's Neon Night Mic at The Whistler was a hit! 📚📚📚 Thanks to the six readers: @danikastegeman.bsky.social, Scott Daughtridge DeMer, @simonemuenchie.bsky.social, @parkeryoung.bsky.social, Hedgie Choi, & Donato Loia 📷 @saramatson.bsky.social

May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.

here's some great indie presses you should also check out: @actionbooks.bsky.social @1111press.bsky.social @incastellated.bsky.social @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social @infestedpublishing.bsky.social @kernpunktpress.bsky.social #IndiePressDay