There's a new excerpt from my first novel, Our Saturnalias, over at @new-sinews.bsky.social. A warm thank you to @illepitaph.bsky.social. You can read it here: newnewsinews.com/issue9/actaeon

I am terribly pleased to announce that my book of sonnets, Glosses and Ligatures, will be published by Sagging Meniscus Press in the autumn of 2027. @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

Our books won’t save the world but they can remind you of how good this place can be.

We're thrilled to have @israelbonilla.bsky.social —"One of the great prose stylists around right now" according to our very own @alvinlu.bsky.social— back in our latest issue! bit.ly/4rkNQT7

One of the great prose stylists around right now, @israelbonilla.bsky.social, takes a turn to noir, in Guadalajara, with this excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites. Just a hint of what's to come in this novel, where modes and settings journey further afield. For now, though, you'll have this.

Here is an excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites, my second novel: yourimpossiblevoice.com/from-citysca... As ever, very grateful to Alvin and Keith.

One year later, this collection still stuns. “We have two sides and two sides only: that of the *potheads* and that of the *tietwats*. I, who have had my stay with both, wish to call attention to a true middle position.”

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. malarkeybooks.com/sleep-decades

Melville indulging his inner (and always irrepressible) Thersites—

i think a publisher agreeing to publish my second short story collection, "The Eyes of Saint Lucia" (~80K words in length) is just the sort of good, hopeful news that could bring this troubled nation together

Ah, lists. What I came up with for my Top 5 Books. @israelbonilla.bsky.social @nateknapp.bsky.social @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social

A dialogue on Luigi Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal: israelabonilla.wixsite.com/website/post...

Picked up the print proof from Bookmobile just now and it is gorgeous. Our first book to feature color photos and it is printed in the most glorious paper.

#017 – "3 Poems from 'Lyrics'" by Israel A. Bonilla (@israelbonilla.bsky.social)

Get 20% off @israelbonilla.bsky.social’s collection, Sleep Decades, with code SELLOUT. An impossible book to sum up or pitch in one sentence, but if you care about sentences, this is a must-read. Will post a review below: malarkeybooks.com/store/sleepd...

Lovely post today from @paradiseeditions.bsky.social Phoretics, by @israelbonilla.bsky.social Beautiful production by @unpaginated.bsky.social Exquisite layout and typesetting. Hand-sewn.

It took a long time but here are the books we’re going to publish in the next three years: malarkeybooks.com/news/2025/6/...

Waddington

"In every conquest of expression, we seem to find an affront to our feigned versatility. That is what we are—standing against time, no longer fleeting ..." Phoretics: After Hazlitt — @israelbonilla.bsky.social @paradiseeditions.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/06/19/p...

-The artist must remember that art traverses the body. Inspiration is the tremor that entangles with a sudden image.- Absolutely glorious stuff from @israelbonilla.bsky.social [exceptional morning bath reading for sick girls]

New excerpt from Phoretics (@paradiseeditions.bsky.social) in @minorliteratures.bsky.social: minorliteratures.com/2025/06/19/p... A playful set of aphorisms on the interstices of Hazlitt's oeuvre. It's always a pleasure to appear in such an out-of-the-way magazine.

and coming up this week ... — more adventures in anonymity — an extract from @israelbonilla.bsky.social 's new book with @paradiseeditions.bsky.social PHORETICS

an incredible (and hand-made!!!) pamphlet from @paradiseeditions.bsky.social and written by @israelbonilla.bsky.social. strongly encourage you to get this one!

Putting four of these story bag bundles together: for $60 you get a Malarkey tote and books by @israelbonilla.bsky.social, @badguybirnie.bsky.social and @matthewzmuller.bsky.social malarkeybooks.com/store/storybag

New poem in the latest issue of RIC journal: ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/d...

Seven months—and a small but altogether lively group of readers. malarkeybooks.com/sleep-decades

If Homer were alive today, he'd be three thousand years old and I like to think would have written something like "The Temperance of Heretics". I also recommend taking in this mind-bender—actually by Steve Barbaro of @new-sinews.bsky.social fame—in one sitting if at all possible for maximum effect.

Phoretics by @israelbonilla.bsky.social is ready to be printed and assembled. Get yourself a copy while they last: paradiseeditions.net/products/pho...

A few copies left of this limited run (@paradiseeditions.bsky.social): asterismbooks.com/product/phor...

This is a great collection of stories.

This is a good book.

Free copy is claimed but you can certainly buy one! malarkeybooks.com/store/sleepd...

"Israel Bonilla’s debut short story collection, Sleep Decades, is a feverish example of erudite style ... exuberant without bouncing off the walls, and Bonilla throws highbrow cultivation around himself like hoops." Hugh Blanton reviews Sleep Decades by @israelbonilla.bsky.social

It was a pleasure working with Matthew—he is a great designer and editor.

just learned that the next @paradiseeditions.bsky.social release is a rad-as-hell-sounding pamphlet by @israelbonilla.bsky.social, extremely excited

Nice review of @israelbonilla.bsky.social’s book!

honestly wild to see the amount and range of books @malarkeybooks.bsky.social has put out in a mere 3 years. truly one a the greats!

Sleep Decades by @israelbonilla.bsky.social is kind of a perfect small press book. Not terribly commercial but the writing is delicious. We have copies and will sell one to you. malarkeybooks.com/store/sleepd...

A passage from Sleep Decades: asterismbooks.com/product/slee...

3 of the best short-shorts I ever wrote—Carnival of Souls; Fat, Sugar, and Salt; and Style—got collected in the latest, fancily produced issue of @cherrytreelit.bsky.social. Thank you to Fiction Editor Sarah Blackman—the author of a haunting and complex novel called Hex that I really dug.

"Bonilla writes an exquisite and sonorous prose, Victorian in its resonance and haunting in its effect upon the reader." @ericracher.bsky.social  on Sleep Decades by @israelbonilla.bsky.social , from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social  Spring '25 issue. Subscribe for full access and your discounted rate.

My review of @israelbonilla.bsky.social's Sleep Decades, published by @malarkeybooks.bsky.social is in the latest issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social Many thanks to the editors. www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...

For the Almanac, I wrote about an aphorism by @israelbonilla.bsky.social and the rural dumping of carrion: www.paradise-almanac.net/publish/post...

"When man's maturer nature shall disdain / the playthings of its childhood;—kingly glare / will lose its power to dazzle." P. B. Shelley

Coming in March!

I have four poems in the new issue of Copihue Poetry: www.copihuepoetry.com/profesor. They're part of "Versiones del desencanto," a small volume of poetry I wrote when I was twenty-three. Disquieting days, those.

Some wild news - 'Still Alive' has been longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, after nomination by the DC Public Library. I'm - just wow. dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/...

A few of the many books I loved this year.

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