Many thanks to 100 Word Story, who published my nonfiction piece, Extremophiles, this morning! #writersky #booksky #creativenonfiction

I won't be attending the State of the Union address. I’m not interested in hearing another campaign rally full of lies.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

Winding up the yarn I naturally dyed. I used cochineal and alum to achieve this color. Feeling a little tired of winter and hoping to see more color soon! #naturaldye #knitsky #yarnsky 🧶

One day flash sale. Code FLASHY gets you 40% off anything we have at malarkeybooks.com/store

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

Books MATTER. Book coverage MATTERS. #Booksky

New review up at Heavy Feather Review. I really enjoyed this fiesty collection! 🐇 #writersky #booksky

My view while working this morning. Can’t remember ever seeing icicles like this in NC. Reminds me of living back north. 🥹 #writersky #snow

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

It’s been years since my part of NC got heavy snow (ice storms, though, are another story). Snowed in and knitting my cozy classic raglan. Couldn’t be happier. ⛄️ #knitting #garmentknitting #sweaterknitting #knitsky 🧶

Understand that we’re not for everyone and not everyone can buy books and especially that no one can buy every book—but, we have a lot of expenses coming up rapidly and every bit of support, from big to small, helps: malarkeybooks.com/support

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

Doomscrolling cleanse! This amaryllis took forever to bloom, but it was so worth it. It has 6 blooms, and a second stalk right behind it. A lovely gift on this icy morning. What are your favorite winter plants? #gardensky #plant sky

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Our government is murdering the citizens of this country. They are doing it without any checks on their violence

We were supposed to get a snowstorm, but it’s just overcast and rainy. So I made a loaf of seeded bread and curled up with Minae Mizumura’s “An I-Novel” as recompense. #breadsky #bakingsky #booksky

Nothing to see here folks, just a sitting president investing in two companies whose merger he claims sole authority to approve or reject. Totally normal! 🙃

crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"

Was reading a short story for a review I’m writing—the collection is about border crossings and the stories are gut wrenching—and I was feeling such despair when I saw two dogs outside my window meet. They wagged their little tails so hard, and it really helped. It did. #writersky #booksky #writing

‘Editors silently rewrote passages that seemed tawdry, or just left them out; it was routine to excise Pepys’s sexual escapades while preserving his wife’s rages, which just made her seem unhinged.’ @deborahfriedell.bsky.social on Samuel Pepys’s diary. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Took time away from doomscrolling to make something beautiful. This is the Sagebrush shirt by @fridaypatternco.bsky.social in Nani Iro double gauze. The sleeves would make Anne of Avonlea proud. 🫡 #garmentsewing #sewsky #

Had a short, weird piece about fridges, herons, and single-celled organisms accepted this morning by 100 Word Story. 🎉 Not a bad way to start off the year. #writersky #booksky #creativenonfiction

Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.

The very same "president" that asked his generals if they could just shoot the American protesters in Washington D.C. during his first term.

I think Trump failed today’s cognitive test.

If they’re not careful the FIFA Peace Prize is gonna mean nothing

Bragging that you just passed your 3rd dementia test is a great way of telling us they've made you take 3 dementia tests

Hey Helen, you look great in blue. Congratulations to Makenna Goodman and her UK edition of HELEN OF NOWHERE, coming early next year from the lovely @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 👉For those readers across the pond, you're in for a treat. Also, a great gift for "Helen completists".💙

On this last day of 2025 you can take 25% off any order with code 2025 at checkout. malarkeybooks.com/store

So honored to have my avant-garde essay, Misunderstandings, in Blood Orange Review! Issue 17.1 is out today! 🍊 #writersky #booksky #cnf bloodorangereview.com/misunderstan...

It’s 70 here today, so I mordanted some wool and I’m letting it air dry. Hoping to make a Felix pullover with this after I dye it with either madder or cochineal. 🧶 #naturaldye #wool #knitsky

“Don’t read too much.” Writers should always consume MORE books, IMO.

I reviewed Boxcutters earlier this year for @necessaryfiction.com and these stories delighted me to no end. Stories that ridicule the status quo are always necessary, but they are especially needed now. Go buy good books, including this one! #booksky #writersky

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.

Shocked, thrilled, all the things to find my book of stories on this long list. 😳

I love knitting the same patterns over again. This is the Wick Shawl by Curious Handmade. The tweed feels so cozy! What patterns do you turn to again and again?🧶 #shawlknitting #knitting #knitsky

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

Does she…does she know that Kennedy is dead? #politcs #Karolineleavitt

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

can you just release a book covering trump's presidency that calmly explains the events that occured and then shows his posts about them

We’re excited to announce the acquisition of Bill Griffin’s poetry manuscript, Permanence and Flux. It is forthcoming from ironoakeditions.bsky.social in the Fall of 2027.

Brown University is a beautiful place, where people come to work and learn. I am filled with horror by news of this tragedy.

This is a shame. I taught intro to lit courses for 14 years, and I also taught high school. 95% of my students read everything because I chose novels that interested them. I also scaffolded their reading skills. Why give up on students so easily?! #booksky #writersky

Been so busy this year that I’ve visited few brick-and-mortar bookstores (though I order from my favorite indie shops). Today, though, I went in person, and walked out with these lovely surprises. ♥️ #booksky #books #novels

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”