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.

I encourage you to support Malarkey Books. Few in the business will publish a paragraph like this—

The only thing I published in 2024 was this short fiction in @minorliteratures.bsky.social, but it took a huge amount of work (the research conducted almost entirely through my local public library) and I’m pretty proud of it. I’d love to do a whole book of these someday.

Book mail. Looking forward to digging into @israelbonilla.bsky.social’s Sleep Decades

Bookmail from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social today! It never disappoints.

Some notes in dialogue with Goethe's works: israelabonilla.wixsite.com/website/post....