New Book Review! Associate Editor Cecilia Combs looks at Jesi Bender's, "Child of Light" from @whiskeytit.com Read the full review on our website: rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/r…#BookReviewe#JesiBendere#ChildOfLighth#AmReadingng

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So touched by this piece about my book over at TriYou, which also has the most captivating review opening I may have ever read. To “Midwest, pessimistic, Buddhism” in all its hellacious forms—and better hotel soap! triyou.com/f/more-hell-... @whiskeytit.com

Current situation #booksky

Dream: have booked an appointment for "shoulder slice," a new body mod exactly what it sounds like, only to realize that I'm Prince reincarnated, and as Prince, I'm too cool for such frivolity. But I've already talked it up and don't want to be perceived a big pussy, then remember I'm Prince.

"You're supposed to sit in the proverbial shitty pants that our main character is sitting in." Cannot believe I missed this ace review on Goodreads of @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social's TROLL. Get it and sit in it: whiskeytit.com/product/troll

Excellent new review of THE ASTRONOMER by @brianbiswas.bsky.social . whiskeytit.com/product/the-...

Oh hey what's this??? Just @asterismbooks.bsky.social shining a little on CHILD OF LIGHT by JESI BENDER. asterismbooks.com/blog/post/re...

Coming soon, again. whiskeytit.com/product/the-...

LA Squimbop launch next Tues with @specktor.bsky.social and Chris Zeischegg -- RSVP here! @southwestreview.bsky.social @1111press.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @wakeisland.bsky.social partiful.com/e/C9AkXDbFpP...

Accepting sponsorship offers.

Sharing again for my #booksky friends! Check out Jesi Bender's luminous novel CHILD OF LIGHT. Set in 1896 and obsessed with love and electricity, it provides an important perspective: Technological progress doesn’t make us any less human. 📚💙 from @whiskeytit.com kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...

Just when y'all thought we were done w/ the hype 😅 In addition to our spooky af horror issue, we're hooking you up w/ some new Squimbop lore from the homie @raviddice.bsky.social 🔥 Preorder below... southwestreview.com/subscribe/

Update: there's now a new page for my book on Kill List on @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social's website! www.bloomsbury.com/us/kill-list...

Turn up, Milton, you adorable genius

In the mad abundance of my recent good fortunes—and those of my book, MORE HELL (@whiskeytit.com)—I’ve hardly had time to stop and thank some of the people who’ve made so many wonderful things happen. So a photo dump with some unendingly grateful shoutouts to

Get yourself to a Milton near you:

@1111press.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @southwestreview.bsky.social

Thomas Kendall at Black Spring Books, Brooklyn reading from “How I Killed the Universal Man.” @whiskeytit.com

Fantastic reading of THE BERLIN WALL in terms of the permanent dream-state we've all entered: @whiskeytit.com substack.com/home/post/p-...

Raising MORE HELL in the Quad Cities tonight thanks to @atlascollectiveqc.bsky.social, The Midwest Writing Center, and exceptional local writers Ava Miller and Esther Windt. Come hang with us! Come speak with us! Come get weird, because we can! @whiskeytit.com

TONIGHT at 6:30pm CDT, @adamalsirgany.bsky.social will be reading and signing from his debut collection, MORE HELL (@whiskeytit.com), with special guests Ava Miller, and Esther Windt at The Atlas Collective - Brews & Books! RSVP here: buff.ly/HCtbLO6

240 6th Street in Gowanus with some of the sharpest literary minds .

You should come out tonight and celebrate the good things.

I'll also be signing copies of IN THE SIGHT at @whiskeytit.com's table — booth 621/622 — at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday at 3:00 pm.

@jbradleyamore.bsky.social is coming to Philly— baby's all grown up. Go see!

If you live in Moline, IL, make sure to stop by The Atlas Collective - Brews & Books this Saturday at 6:30pm CDT for a reading and signing of MORE HELL by @adamalsirgany.bsky.social, with special guests Ava Miller, and Esther Windt! buff.ly/HCtbLO6 @whiskeytit.com

@1111press.bsky.social @wakeisland.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @kernpunktpress.bsky.social @altcurrent.bsky.social

What makes midwestern cheeses radioactive orange anyway?

Thursday! Thursday! Thursday! Gettin stoked for Stoughton! Gonna read weird stuff... Maybe gonna film myself eating Limburger on rye while I flip the bird in the general direction of Vermont over their inferior cheeses... @inkcapbooks.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com

"An ode to language and memory, Child of Light is ... nominally about the arrival, in the nineteenth century, of widespread electrification in the United States but is also, and more deeply, about the competing claims of science and spirituality as ways of understanding reality."

One of a few new horizons for the Tit:

Recently acquired books from @bitterkarella.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @kaijupoet.bsky.social @davidscotthay.bsky.social

Best part of Printer’s Row is being in the orbit of such talented local writing. We love our bizarro friends!

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jesi Bender / @whiskeytit.com ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/12-o...

Hey, #LFK, get Friday night's Rock and Roll Reading on your calendar: 6 p.m. at the Replay. @bradleymckellip.bsky.social will blow our minds on guitar, and @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social, among 10 others, will share stories and poems of rock and roll for three minutes or less.

More MORE HELL: A Partial September Events List for Midwestern Enthusiasts of Character-Driven Short Fiction

Getting stoked about returning to some old stomping grounds to sign books at the phenomenal @rubberrosebooks.bsky.social! @whiskeytit.com

What you’ve heard is true— see you in Chicago!

The SIGNED COPY sticker is music.

I'll be out of mobile service this weekend with paper books, recharging for a busy month of book festivals. Help me come back to find many new orders to ship on Tuesday AM:

Finished [NSFW] and went straight into the forthcoming Butcher of Nazareth and was immediately struck by what a versatile writer David Scott Hay is. Two totally different novels, each one captivating in its own way. @davidscotthay.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com

They featured Liminal in a Reel on instagram. (unsure how the link will work here...) #whiskeytit @whiskeytit.com

CHILD OF LIGHT by Jesi Bender is a gorgeous experimental novel out now from @whiskeytit.com www.jesibender.com/child-of-lig...

Stop by @mazebooks.bsky.social TONIGHT at 6:30pm CDT to celebrate the launch of @adamalsirgany.bsky.social's debut collection, MORE HELL, from @whiskeytit.com, with readings by @prettyminotaur.bsky.social, Jenna Goldsmith, Don Heneghan, Rachel León, and Dave Pedersen! buff.ly/ZK0fVyQ