In which our author declares his forthcoming novel "a failure" (did he clear that with our publicist?) but that (luckily) so is "all art". In that case, long live failure!

Put down your Sunday chores; here is a great distraction 🎡

This is an intriguing teaser campaign in the run-up to the publication of the novel in June 2026: a series of acclaimed authors each reading a passage from 'The Coast of Everything' by Guillermo Stitch. Has this ever been done before?

Read both books, is what we're saying.

Thanks to @cdrose.bsky.social  (author of WE LIVE HERE NOW from @melvillehouse.bsky.social , winner of the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social )  for this reading from @guillermostitch.bsky.social 's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING:

Coming soon: the DADA issue!

I have a little bit of @leeupton.bsky.social hanging around my house, in this collaboration she did with the late, great artist Ed Kerns. One of my favorite pieces of art.

Huge congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social and so emphatically deserved! Read this book.

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉 Congratulations Chris! 👏👏

Lee Upton on writing WRONGFUL: "while writing, like our readers we too have to develop an advanced tolerance for getting things wrong." https://bigindiebooks.com/2025/11/06/the-art-of-being-wrong-on-writing-a-literary-mystery/

Lake of Urine was one of the most important (and funniest) (and most important) (and funniest) books of the last decade. I am very excited for The Coast of Everything. #booksky

At Sagging Central we've got a copy of Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS—and it's unbelievable. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_... Preorder it for a special discount at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/new-...

In the Sundress Blog, Tassneem Abdulwahab calls Kat Meads' WHILE VISITING BABETTE "a surreal magnifying glass.... enchanting ... feeding the reader just enough input to be tantalizing, a delicate balance in the space between repetitive and perplexing". https://bit.ly/3JFXgrv

Kurt Luchs' TRIBUTARIES in Kirkus Reviews: "A refreshing self-awareness grounds the work....A generous, witty guide for readers and writers alike that opens personal pathways to great poets."

My review of Wrongful by @leeupton.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/w... clever book this @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #books

Here's your periodic reminder that Sagging Meniscus relies on your support to publish literature that, quietly or loudly, defies convention, in book form and in the quarterly journal @exactingclam.bsky.social. Make a tax-deductible contribution: fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/sagging-meni...

Supergroup.

Come hear Sagging Meniscus in London at The Poetry Society: @davidcollard.bsky.social , Melissa McCarthy, Rufo Quintavalle, @julianstannardpoet.bsky.social , and Philip Terry. 20 November! RSVP at http://bit.ly/3Jl0JLN

Charles Holdefer reads from Guillermo Stitch's forthcoming THE COAST OF EVERYTHING:

Kurt Luchs interviewed by Shelley Irwin on @wgvupublicmedia.bsky.social  about TRIBUTARIES:

Kurt Luchs chats poetry, comedy, & his new release on the @wgvupublicmedia.bsky.social "Shelley Irwin Show": www.wgvunews.org/the-shelley-... @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

In the latest Exacting Clam Encephalopodcast, a wide-ranging conversation between two authors of unconventional books on poetry: @davidcollard.bsky.social  (A CRUMPLED SWAN) and Kurt Luchs (TRIBUTARIES).

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

#FF It’s Loud Shirt Day! To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “L” or “S”! @scrawlmagazine.bsky.social @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social @lowhangingfruiter.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com

Coming January 20th: Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS, including 70+ color photographs of this poet's fabulously imaginative art.  https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_and_used_poems_and_objects/

New Substack. Subscription is free. guillermostitch.substack.com/p/i-sat-on-a...

Before you can say "More pricks," read @nickholdstock.bsky.social's 2023 essay about writing PORCUPINE: www.rlf.org.uk/posts/journe...

My novel about the art historian Aby Warburg’s struggle with madness, that was shortlisted for the Novel Prize, will be out next year. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/porc...

We're tickled to annonuce that Lee Upton's TABITHA, GET UP has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 2026 Thurber Prize for American Humor in Writing! https://www.thurberhouse.org/2026-thurber-prize-in-writing-semifinalists

The semi-finalists for the 2026 Thurber Prize for American #Humor! 📖🎉 thurberhouse.org/2026-thurber-prize-in-writing-semifinalists @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @henryholtbooks.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social @putnambooks.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social @amistadbooks.bsky.social

Thanks to Michael Hughes, currently appearing in #houseofguinness and author of COUNTRY, for reading this passage from THE COAST OF EVERYTHING by Guillermo Stitch. Preorder the novel at https://thecoastofeverything.com.

Without postal service I know I have books currently suspended in transit somewhere, but I did welcome a new review copy this weekend—a hefty tome due next June, on Bloomsday even. @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

Thrilling to have gotten an early copy of the new Pynchon. My thoughts on it for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/culture/book...

Dawn Major on Devin Jacobsen's story collecvtion In Southern Literary Review's Read of the Month: "The Summer We Ate Off the China is Americana unfiltered, for better or worse. Keep your eye on Devin Jacobsen." southernlitreview.com/reviews/read...

The first full review of In the Suavity of the Rock is out (a couple on goodreads). Thanks to Paul and Metropolitan Review. It's an honor to be read and criticized and celebrated this closely. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/undelivere...

An interview with John Patrick Higgins. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social @tylergore.bsky.social #booksky

In Heavy Feather, Jason K. Friedman on Devin Jacobsen's "beautiful and wide-ranging" story collection, THE SUMMER WE ATE OFF THE CHINA: "[Jacobsen] eschews a fashionable cool in favor of big language and deep feeling." https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/09/29/we-ate-off-the-china/

At the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 21, I had the opportunity to record this video for Sagging Meniscus press. I'm looking forward to reading the book, Wings, by Amir Or, translated from the Hebrew by Seth Michelson: @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #writing

"Go where the readers are. That isn't always where the other books are." This & other #bookmarketing tips on my Hidden Gems Podcast episode that dropped today: www.hiddengemsbooks.com/podcast/trut...

This isn't at all what I had in mind.

But I'm fine with it @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @stephenathomes.bsky.social

Ian Monk, poète, traducteur en anglais de Perec et de Pennac, est mort

Great day at @bkbookfest.bsky.social yesterday. 21 attendees recorded readings from our books at our booth. Here's Laura reading Melissa McCarthy. youtube.com/shorts/-jTUd...

Early access to The Coast of Everything!

Booth 333.

Heading to Brooklyn Book Festival? Stop by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social for a secret look in this title, publishing in Dec. Shh.

Find me today @bkbookfest.bsky.social: 11-noon Meet your sisters in crime fiction @nysinc.bsky.social (#234) 2-2:30 Grab a signed copy of TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE from @whiskeytit.com (#621-622) 3-close Check out the amazing literary stylings of @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social (#333)

The Coast of Everything by @guillermostitch.bsky.social This is a book that is causing stirrings among people that know, like a literary geyser. Whether this geyserade comes out as opus or soup, either way you'll be nourished and it's likely you'll laugh Preorder: link.sbstck.com/redirect/f36...

New Yorkers: please come say hello tomorrow (Sunday, Sep. 20) at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We'll be at Booth 333 with books old, new and forthcoming, and we'll have a video giveaway: read an excerpt on camera, get a book. @bkbookfest.bsky.social