The film Send Help is awesome

Grateful for this 5-star review from @lmbayley.bsky.social 🧡

Toni Morrison talked about how much racism wastes time and I think about that every day right now, and how too misogyny wastes time, and how these right wing ghouls are stealing time from us, stealing futures, stealing attention. We have to live to make them as irrelevant as their backwards ideas.

One weird thing abt substack is that you can find a second life if you were cancelled for being a TERF or a misogynist, and if you're an eugenicist . Talk shit about rich people, though, and you're gonna hear it.

I’m incredibly honored THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES was named to Southwest Books of the Year. Thank you, Pima County Public Library, and thank you, @mathitak.bsky.social, for the incredible write-up.

So ready to get into this month’s Haymarket Book Club shipment ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

I kinda wish people just being respectful didn't feel magical because I know that means I'm still healing, but this time round, I'm just gonna appreciate the novelty because it does feel lovely.

Well the good news is that I went to a literary event yesterday without having a panic attack!!!

Happy V’s Day to everyone but my heart will always bleed most for lonely and single people. Fall in love with yourself, you’re gorgeous!

My favorite flash creative nonfiction I've seen this year

a collection of the weird fic in translation that appeared in WEIRD TALES magazine, which i argue in a very long intro was a part of editor Farnsworth Wright's very focused effort to shape the genre of weird lit in very specific ways: asterismbooks.com/product/nigh...

a great collection of thoughtful, fun weird fic in the classic vein: asterismbooks.com/product/toad...

Ericmas eve (i'll be 43 tomorrow), but if ya'll haven't bought your sweetheart a present yet, don't worry: you can still purchase my books (TOADSTONES, Malarkey Books 2022, original weird fiction, and NIGHT FEARS: WEIRD TALES IN TRANSLATION, Paradise Editions 2023) over at asterism dot com

When: Thursday, March 5, 7 p.m. Where: Golden West Cafe, 1105 W. 36th St.

I recently ordered this beautiful chapbook, AS SMALL AS A HAZELNUT by Kortney Garrison, + preordered Erin Mizrahi’s TO WHAT END

Happy Friday the 13th! Come get a tattoo, see some strippers and hear readers read

After I read the book, I had to listen to the interview. Everything's pretty fucking awesome.

Issue 22 of @variantlit.bsky.social is out! New prose & poetry from these amazing contributors: variantlit.com/issue-twenty...

I just finished the reading the last line of Burn about 10 minutes ago. I have to think about it. It’s a book that will stay with you and demand you think about it. But my gut reaction is “Well, thank motherfucking God, I read that book!”

Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for this publication in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Check out the whole issue, which includes stupendous work by @happilander.bsky.social, @amymarques.bsky.social, @pdforan.bsky.social and others! gooseberry-pie.com/obituary-sis...

The house passed the SAVE Act last night. If you need to know more about why that’s bad and why we need to stop it in the senate, let me explain it to you (in comic form)! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act

I just finished the reading the last line of Burn about 10 minutes ago. I have to think about it. It’s a book that will stay with you and demand you think about it. But my gut reaction is “Well, thank motherfucking God, I read that book!”

This is me! Had a super fun chat with Sophie Newman on zoom and now here it is in Electric Lit. In her intro, she calls me "the Rick Rubin of online literary publishing," which seems really funny but also I'm kinda into it.

This morning I sent @joeyhedger.bsky.social stickers to put on my books at the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social AWP table since I won’t be there this year. Be sure to go say hi and buy a bunch of great books. There will probably be other cool Malarkey merch too. (P.S. I’ll be back next year!)

Coming in 20 days!

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

'A more vibrant arts sector brought myriad benefits such as greater economic activity, improved mental wellbeing, critical thinking and innovation...' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

What even is the first amendment, y’all?

If you're a book creator and people in your life don't understand why book bans are such a sore point for you then by god show them this film. It really gets people fired up.

This is why cats are menaces.

We are sending a lot of books to AWP and on that note, great time to buy books through our website!

One of my favorite movies of all time. Idc if you don't think it's bad & cheesy. There is so much cozy. If I'm having a really bad day or week or year, I watch this film & for 1h 43m I get to be somewhere else. I will see the sequel for my birthday and I will buy tickets to the musical .

Always fun to see your book on a bookstore shelf, and the neighbors it finds. Just me and Herta hanging out. @malarkeybooks.bsky.social

Bring back earnestness and sincerity.

Thursday March 5, at 7 PM, I’ll be reading with the good folks at @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social at Golden West Cafe in Baltimore. Hopefully see you there!

“‘Will you stay on the phone with me until I fall asleep?’ I ask. I go into my room, pull the covers up and stay there. ‘Tell me a story,’ I say. So he does.” Burn, a novel by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social, out this week from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social (congratulatons, Stephanie!)

My debut novel Burn came out this week from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and I'm so happy to welcome her to the world. www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/burn.html

Coming in 22 days!

She is to me like the breeze That blows up from the sea Now if she is like the breeze That blows from Corpus Christi Then I must be like the trees 'Cause Caroline blows through me Born on this day in 1947: the great Joe Ely

Waking up to Trump supporters on FB mad as hell

You can buy The Grift to support Malarkey Books. You can buy The Grift to read my story Fruit Of Decay (fungus, cannibalism, the fae, art scenes etc). You can buy The Grift to read the other work in there. Your reasons matter less than that you buy The Grift!

Putting grief and humor, girlhood and the real world side by side has been my vibe for 2026. (also obligatory shoutout to my @smokelong.bsky.social group!)

"And that’s when he told me I reminded him of his dead daughter because we both have red hair, freckles, and look like we’re keeping everybody else’s secrets." @christinaltudor.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

This was a fun one to write with an even better title! "My Neighbor Pays Me $100 to Dress Up Like His Dead Daughter" is now up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social: mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Getting a new long-reach stapler for my birthday and after binding 50+ copies of this zine today with a stapler that jams after every staple I don’t know if I’ve ever been more excited for a birthday gift.

Happy Birthday, Still Alive! Thank you, all you beautiful souls, who have helped this book find the right nightstand, book bag, and shelf to live in. If you haven’t given the story of V a chance, get it today from @eveninghouse.bsky.social, @powells.bsky.social, or bookshop.org!

New essay up on my substack on having OCD and writing a novel, and everything in between.

The Grift volume 2 malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2