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Dave Levitan
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I’ll vote for anyone who pledges to remove all replay reviews from every sport in the world
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Ed Burmila
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Spontaneity is a key ingredient of joy and it’s very difficult to feel much joy watching sports anymore because every time something happens, you have to stop and wait while a bunch of fucking lawyers look at monitors for five minutes to decide whether or not the thing you saw happen, happened
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Daniel Miller
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Have written v little this year, so it’s such a boost and thrill to see my lil poem on this list. so so grateful to
@burialmagazine.bsky.social
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Sheldon Birnie
1 day ago
More Strange Visions coming 2027 from
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
baby! Let’s go!
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I tried to apply for a writing grant last summer—by tried I mean thought about it, then forgot to actually apply—but honestly if the grant doesn’t also come with childcare it’s not going to be super useful for me. Maybe when they go to college.
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Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol
1 day ago
Get the tote bag they're saying was designed by yours truly (it was). It holds everything, your books, your umbrellas, even your grudges (especially your grudges).
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Will Musgrove
1 day ago
You can't see it, but I'm blushing. I'm honored to have a book coming out with Malarkey, and it would mean the world to me if you pre-ordered it đź’™
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I’m about 1/3 through copy edits on this book. I want to plow through it just because I’ve got so much other stuff to check off my list but it fully resists plowing through. Malarkey has published some excellent story collections but this one will forever be one of the best.
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Malarkey
1 day ago
Preorders make the world go round, although truthfully by “world” one means “tiny press” and by “go round” one means “not go defunct,” which is considerably less catchy. Below are some books that are available or preorder, all signed by their respective authors.
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I have to pull out all these wild plum trees because they’re going gangbusters at the edge of our lateral lines, and it feels like a poem. It also smells so good.
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Eric Williams
3 days ago
do your part to help a short story writer get recognized!
bookshop.org/p/books/toad...
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Marcus Luther
3 days ago
There are A LOT of complicated things in education, but a simple one, I think: we're all better off when more voices from actual classrooms and schools are being centered in the bigger conversation. So am I excited that
@edutopia.org
is trying to bring in even more of these voices? 100% yes!
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I bombed a baseball tryout and had to retake (and repay for) an entire year of college (to name just two examples) because of depression, so I can definitely understand why a person would disappear from their job in Congress for four months and be like I’ll explain it all later, and yet…
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Made the mistake of playing “Stan” for my fourteen-year-old a few months ago, just to build cultural background knowledge, and now my life is unbearable.
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Malarkey
5 days ago
With shipping this comes to $40 but you get a t-shirt, two books, and three or four zines. A pretty nice deal and a nice way to help us restore our coffers.
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By a happy accident, I’m reading back to back books—Morvern Callar and Sad Janet—in which the narrator refuses to refer to her boyfriend, in one case deceased and in the other, mostly ex, by name.
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Jeffrey Austin
10 days ago
One of the reasons we need a less cynical and more human vision for English education is because its current structures, a product of ed reform word salad, has open the door to charlatans. Let’s not give ownership of the ELA classroom to actors like Lemov by staying silent about our values.
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Why do so many people who hate the aesthetics, art, and ethos associated with punk rock want to claim that whatever dumb thing they want you to believe in is the new punk rock?
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Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol
8 days ago
Okay, babes, I'll be reading poems tomorrow at 5:45 at the Logan Square Arts Festival. It'll be the Milwaukee Avenue Stage if you're looking to be in what my lawyers are calling "the splash zone"
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Matt Seybold
8 days ago
Alberto Romero has been among the more even-handed "insiders" of the AI boom. He has generally contended there are several paths commercial AI might follow, but the most likely is a mild post-hype crash followed by profitable diffusion (no AGI). Yesterday, he turned uncharacteristically bearish.
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Mike Andrelczyk
10 days ago
My first novel “Submarines” comes out with
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
in less than a month. You can learn more about this book, read blurbs, and preorder to receive a signed copy + a poetry chapbook with original drawings:
malarkeybooks.com/store/submar...
Here’s a thread of excerpts:
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Stanchion
10 days ago
So excited to open up the pre-order sale for The Shitbird, the new novel by
@spencerfleury.bsky.social
, author of the remarkable short story collection I Blame Myself But Also You and other stories (
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
)!! This novel is FUN AS HELL!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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Sheldon Birnie
9 days ago
Looking forward to this one
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
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Mike Andrelczyk
10 days ago
Nice review of Submarines from
@zacsmithtweeto.bsky.social
blog:
nofuturetshirt.blogspot.com/2026/05/brie...
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LJ Pemberton
10 days ago
In my experience about one in ten readers will rate your book somewhere, and one in twenty will write a short review. One in fifty will post about it on social media. One in a hundred will write you directly.
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Watched Mercy, the movie with Chris Pratt and the AI judge, and as a movie to enjoy uncritically it is okay, not on a par with a movie like Speed or Con-Air. Its greatest strength is at least it’s not another Marvel movie.
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David Jón Fuller 🇨🇦
12 days ago
Enjoyed the trip to Barrie with some creepy, weird and fun(ny) fiction by
@badguybirnie.bsky.social
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Suzy Eynon
13 days ago
Excited to see Terrestrial on this list of weird fiction!
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Adam
13 days ago
New from me in The Rumpus, on a recently reissued diary written by a young man who travelled from Switzerland to Montpellier to study medicine in the 1550s.
therumpus.net/2026/06/19/b...
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"Beloved Son Felix": Coming of Age in the Renaissance - The Rumpus
And yet for all this death, life went on, and what makes the journal truly fascinating are the everyday details of the mid-16th century. On a day trip to Villeneuve, Felix notes that rosemary is so ab...
https://therumpus.net/2026/06/19/beloved-son-felix-coming-of-age-in-the-renaissance/
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Sabrina Hicks
15 days ago
Finally some peace to sit and read
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
’s Terrestrial. This is taking me back—the setting, themes, even the high school name (minus the shadow)! Loving it.
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The Bulb Region
16 days ago
Before tomorrow’s new edition, be a good sport and pre-order our returning contributor aka house favorite
@mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social
’s first novel, “Submarines,” coming out through Malarkey Books next month. I mean, look at how beautiful this cover design is! (Pre-order link below)
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Spencer Fleury
15 days ago
Hey Hollywood, I know of a book with several eminently optionable stories in it …
bookshop.org/p/books/i-bl...
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Ben Williamson
20 days ago
AI-assisted text is deadly for academic journal editors and reviewers. I'm detecting a lot more of it recently as an editor. It's still there in the "Frankencitations" and those little linguistic "tells" like "AI is not the cause. It's the symptom of an underlying reality." But it's more, too. 1/
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In the middle of Dan Chiasson’s essay, “Think For Yourself,” in the new NYRB—gotta pause to watch basketball but I’m already thinking about how I can use this in the classroom. (Knicks in 5!)
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Will Musgrove
23 days ago
COVER REVEAL: I'm super excited to share the cover of my story collection After Last Call, coming out next April from
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
. And thanks to
@mrwojorising.bsky.social
for the amazing work he did designing the cover đź’™ Pre-order link:
malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...
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Malarkey
23 days ago
Here’s the cover for
@willmusgrove.bsky.social
’s story collection After Last Call. Drops next April, reserve a signed copy now. Thanks to
@mrwojorising.bsky.social
for another great cover!
malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...
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Norm Charlatan
24 days ago
I kinda get it from the Knicks’ perspective, I mean, I, too, thought I was doing pretty well and then Donald Trump forced himself into my life and the vibes have gotten a lot worse and I feel like the winning has ended.
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I’m putting together a list of 21st century non-YA books that I could use in a book club unit with high school sophomores. So far I have Klara and the Sun and Station Eleven that I’m almost for sure going to ask for. I want to have a solid five. Any recs?
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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹
27 days ago
everyone, I have produced a report on how to remedy the decline of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. here it is: Executive Summary: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences. Body: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences a hell of a lot more. Please cite this as the Carroll report.
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Matt Seybold
26 days ago
All of us know a prof or two who refused to change their lectures for 20 years or whatever, but those are outliers. Most profs are curious almost to a fault & are always looking to invigorate teaching. Heads not in the sand. To the contrary, those who try AI pedagogy are most radicalized against it
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Malarkey
27 days ago
Been promoting Submarines a lot this week but I don’t want to overdo it. That’s why this post is about preordering The Inaccessible Rail by
@rogerjva.bsky.social
!
malarkeybooks.com/store/inacce...
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The Inaccessible Rail, by Roger Vaillancourt — Malarkey
Publishing in October 2026. Preorder for a signed copy. The Inaccessible Rail , a novel by Roger Vaillancourt, is a set of complete thoughts that aspires to render a pointillist portrait of this new...
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/inaccessiblerail
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LJ Pemberton
about 1 month ago
remember when my story came out i should write more stories
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shome dasgupta
27 days ago
Now this is a trifecta! Congratulations,
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
,
@sabrinahicks.bsky.social
, and
@susanlleary.bsky.social
! I’m such a big fan of each of you, and I’m so looking forward to your words—the cover art, too!
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Trent Brown
28 days ago
Yesterday was very cool for the book (see: my last post) and it finished off with this great review unsponsoredbookreviews on IG.
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Glenn Fleishman
28 days ago
I want to compliment Sam Regal, Editor of Printing History (the Journal of the American Printing History Association) for being braver and franker in his introduction to the current issue about American democracy than nearly all mainstream media in this country.
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Malarkey
28 days ago
Preorder Submarines and you get 1. Signed copy 2. A bonus microchap of
@mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social
’s poems 3. KLR 27 4. Hole, a poem microchao from S A Viau
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Trent Brown
29 days ago
The Walls is the book of the month at the Southern Literary Review. What a wonderful thing to wake up to.
southernlitreview.com/reviews/read...
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Read of the Month: “The Walls Are Closing In On Us” by Joshua Trent Brown - Southern Literary Review
What would your life look like if it were played back for you in your final moments, watched from a lofty vantage like heaven, or the more oblique angle of purgatory? Would you see yourself being carr...
https://southernlitreview.com/reviews/read-of-the-month-the-walls-are-closing-in-on-us-by-joshua-trent-brown.htm
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Mike Andrelczyk
29 days ago
Aaron wrote a great blurb for Submarines! It means a lot to me that he took the time to read this book (& had fun reading it!) and do a blurb. His writing, editing and curation have always inspired me. And reading, and eventually being included in, the Hobart baseball issues were a big deal for me.
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Can’t wait to become a fugue-state robot battery.
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