My mom and my cousin read it and said they really enjoyed it! Order The Barre Incidents today and you can tell me if they’re only saying that bc they are my family! You can even tell me to eat shit if you don’t like it.* *jk don’t, I’m as sensitive as a wet blade of grass at an outdoor festival

In happier news my copy of Shadow Ticket has shipped.

Every time I think of a cool way to use canvas, when I research how to go about it I inevitably find that a. Someone else has had this idea as well and b. It is not possible on Canvas.

Been doing a lot of paper assignments and I am struggling.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Today, The Barre Incidents is officially released upon the world. A Horror book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, learning cryptids are real, and banished, embittered gods. Happy born day TBI! You can order here! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

Happy birthday to this wonderful book!!

Things are rough but at least I received a threatening letter and some cool reads

still a chance to get a physical copy of the fourth annual issue of the single most important horror series ever produced

One Battle After Another was great. It’s good to have a movie that is actually about freedom.

We have Malarkey t-shirts. They’re simple, comfortable, and only valuable to us when they’re out of our house. malarkeybooks.com/store/twoboo...

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Big week for nature, yesterday a copperhead spotted on the road, today a complete double rainbow right outside our window.

Much needed #BookMail thanks to @malarkeybooks.bsky.social ! (Pencils not included 😁)

Malarkey mail, hell yeah. 😎 @malarkeybooks.bsky.social

The gap between what the right thinks happens on college campuses and what actually happens is absurd. I had some great students and some awful ones; we talked about some difficult topics, from sexual violence to capitalism to exploitation; it was fine. Nobody lost their shit, because we're adults.

There are only 25 signed copies left and ordering one is now the only way to get a print copy of Hellarkey vol. 4.

I am so hungry

short story collection discourse you say? why not purchase a copy of the greatest collection of weird fiction ever produced: TOADSTONES (Malarkey Books '22) a work of sublime, profound genius guaranteed to increase vitality and make you more sexually attractive to prospective partners

Books have always mattered. Only the imagination can challenge the fatalist mindset of capitalist realism. Only the impossible has the power to battle what power wants us to accept as the given. (I’m probably not making sense but yes books matter so much and always)

A few postprandial hours left

Did exquisite corpse poems with students today—pretty fun, and created some interesting word pairs, like “beautiful walmart” (an oxymoron?), “pulchritudinous ford,” and “robust snow.” Not a bad way to make a dollar.

I’ve been a fan of @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social’s work/aesthetic/whole dang deal for a long time, so I’m excited as all get-out to reveal the cover of my upcoming short story collection, dropping 11/18/25

If you’ve been thinking about ordering The Barre Incidents, this is the time to do it because we have only 28 signed copies left.

Buying our books will solve all of your problems. The more books you buy the more problems you’ll solve. Assuming, naturally, that your biggest problems revolve around not owning specific Malarkey titles.

“You can’t believe anything people say. But what they say is all you have.” —Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

99% chance it gets shot down but I’m going to propose a big books class. 8-10 books a year, or as many as we can plow through. Big canonical texts. We read them and talk about them, write a few essays. Moby-Dick. Crime and Punishment. North and South. Swann’s Way. Would be fun!

Best articles/essays about media segmentation and perception of reality?

Preordered the new Pynchon and it ships on 10/7!

We love book mail!

People on TV never learn anything.

I sometimes wonder whether anyone canvas has tried to grade an assignment using a rubric in canvas.

The fortune I got at lunch today.

What is the city but the people?

Been so busy with work it’s been hard to promote the books, which it turns out has had a negative impact on book sales. Wild how that works. Anyway, starting Beowulf next week in honor of which use code BEOWULFOFWALLSTREET to get 20% off anything at makarkeybooks.com/store

In case you missed it I deleted goodreads and replaced it with Good Reads. Much better! buttondown.com/good-reads/a...

Come down to the Bizarro booth this weekend at Printers Row Lit Fest. @malarkeybooks.bsky.social titles come with a copy of Hellarkey, Malarkey’s annual Halloween zine!

my mom is now reading it. You can still get multiple fun free things if you preorder!

September is my birthday month! I have three books for sale; an urban fantasy about gentrification, a historical fiction novel about mind control in pop music, and an illustrated short story collection. If you can't buy, you can request it from the library-- or share this post!

Innovation in the twenty-first century is when you look at something that’s pretty decent overall and ask how can I make this worse while convincing people it’s better.

Who needs a book rec to head into the weekend? 🙋‍♀️ Assistant Fiction Editor @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social recommends BOXCUTTERS by John Chrostek. "There’s a story in here about an artist who lives in a glass house and the ending will stay in my brain forever!"

After all this time there’s still nothing better than books.

Reposting. Come see us at the Bizarro booth At Printers Row Lit Fest this weekend!

And for those who missed it, the piece I read will be in the next issue of @houseofvladpress.bsky.social

We closed out the bookshop. Thank you comrades for having me @giordkat.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @vikhinao.bsky.social

If you’re in NYC you should really really go to this! Very sad that I can’t be there but you can be there and that’s even better!

"We also concur with neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene (2020), that there are four necessary pillars of learning, namely attention, active engagement, error feedback and consolidation. These should be at the core of every classroom teacher’s practice, not the notion of cognitive load..."