not actually Malarkey but "Malarkey in spirit"

Malarkey’s running a sale! If you haven’t had a chance to read BOXCUTTERS, I’m deeply proud of the collection + the book and would love for you to give it a shot! BUT also, their book club is one of the best subscriptions out there. Malarkey books will always surprise you + carve singular paths

Also a new installment of Good Reads in here where we read Sonnet 73:

From now to the end of the year we’re offering 15% off anything we’ve got with code MALARKEY. Will post book links below but this is a great opportunity to join the book club even cheaper. A year of book mail for $120 but with the discount it’s $102. malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...

the real Black Friday deals are the friends we make along the way bookshop.org/p/books/whit...

Just remembered the time someone reposted with a comment like “Jonathan Franzen? No thanks!” As if they would have put down $5 otherwise.

Holiday season is lean times for us so time to lean in to the grift! malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2

Sis in law made a bunch of tiny books as a way to track what she’s been reading and made me one

Gonna try a little poetry broadside assignment. Will report back.

So cool to see The Barre Incidents is at the B&N in Sioux Falls!

V, in Still Alive malarkeybooks.com/store/stilla...

Been a slog this week but one bright spot is I introduced a student to The Decemberists and Rasputina. Also clued in a class of seniors to the lore of Pizza Rat.

Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I've got a weird little piece in here.

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Been a long week!

#💙 #booksky #bookreview #stillalive STILL ALIVE By lj pemberton @malarkeybooks.bsky.social 5💀s My full review is on goodreads , where I yammer on for awhile about this book, this author , Vonnegut, Time and that elusive thing called "home"

Read this in poetry club today. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

Retrieval practice is bullshit... open.substack.com/pub/bernarda...

it occurs to me that i have a book coming out in like six days and i have not yet told you what it's about my bad if you like any of the following you might fuck with it 💕 ✅ indie sleaze ✅ chaos duos ✅ sexual tension ✅ dual POV with frankly unhinged voice ✅ rock n roll

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

In an unintentional Halloween-themed #booksky, I'm reading The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, published by @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. Very ghosty and spooky so far, terrific writing, very character-driven, wonderful atmosphere. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

One of the things I wind up telling college students (bear with me) is that although they are fluent readers of English, their reading skills have not stopped improving. If they keep reading things that challenge them, they will be better readers from year to year. Part of what improves is … (1/7)

Kind of curious how leaning on audio of texts in the classroom impacts reading stamina.

👀🌵🛸 malarkeybooks.com/store/terres...

it's not good for kids to read books because it will prepare them for college, or for work, or for seminary, it's good for them in the moment because it helps them grow, in any number of unpredictable directions

“Dataism is nihilism. It gives up on any and all meaning. Data and numbers are not narrative; they are additive. Meaning, on the other hand, is based on narration.” Between teaching The Circle and the endless AI discourse on my timeline, I think about Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics daily.

I wrote about Weapons and all the stuff it brought up for me about active shooter trainings. Link, as they say, below 👇

They’re all live! Listen to the last ten episodes of Malarkey Public Radio in any order. There’s something good for writers in every single episode. It’s been fun to dip my toe back into podcasting for @malarkeybooks.bsky.social after a long hiatus.

Frankenstein was also like a tech bro in that he had a lot of family wealth and at the end of the day all he really wanted was male friendship

After ditching substack our podcast was left in limbo but we finally have all the episodes of Malarkey Public Radio 2.0 back up, hosted on our squarespace site but available through whatever you use to listen to podcasts. Ad-free! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

The Barre Incidents is a Horror/Sci Fi book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, and learning cryptids and banished, embittered gods are real. You can order here through @malarkeybooks.bsky.social ! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

Trying to help students get comfortable in with Dickens’ syntax, I stumbled across a post about sentence diagramming by a classical education guy; nothing against sentence diagramming but there’s probably no way to accurately describe it as “classical education.”

I'm here at what Republicans are calling the Hate America Rally in Des Moines where an Iowa Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame singer just sang a rendition of the National Anthem while people waved American flags. They must be up to something...

Teaching tip: recite a poem from memory. 👍

This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to @wired.com

Finally got some Malarkey books in an NPR article!

Excited about this new role and to read your work later this month!

I have two copies of Detective Novel that were supposed to go somewhere and now they're not. Send me $5 for shipping and I'll just mail you one.

Once again trying for a small print run with Bookmobile and every preorder gets us closer to this goal.

Dropping Sinykin and Winant’s 5 steps to close reading on my pre-AP students tomorrow and made a meme to go with it. All love to William Carlos Williams.

Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Gonna have students write an I Don’t Get It essay where they explain a thing to an audience that either doesn’t understand or fails to appreciate said thing—like explain Twin Peaks or Rothko paintings or John Waters films—and I am seeking model essays/articles.

This is today! Come say hi if you’re near Algonquin. I love this Barnes & Noble. It’s my local one. 💜

Finally watched the Tom Cruise Mummy and regret to say it is terrible.

the free shipping bookshop dot org sale is a good time to buy my collection of original weird fiction which i guarantee you'll love bookshop.org/p/books/toad...

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