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STILL ALIVE By lj pemberton
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5đs 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"
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Matthew Zanoni MĂŒller
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My book came out a year ago today. I tried as best as I could to create a level of depth in the readerâs access to each characterâs interior world. If you like that kind of narrative intimacy, give my book a try!
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First Aid for Choking Victims, Stories by Matthew Zanoni MĂŒller â Malarkey
This book publishes in November 2024. Preorders will be signed by the author. First Aid for Choking Victims is a collection of mostly longer short stories set in rural areas around Western Massachu...
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LJ Pemberton
2 days ago
If you buy my book from
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, youâre supporting an independent bookstore AND two
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authors! Also add Boxcutters to the cart while youâre at it. ;)
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Still Alive - Evening House Books
A hero's journey through a dying empire. On the Road for a beaten generation. After V meets Lex, a butch painter, at an underground punk show, they enter a multi-year [âŠ]
https://eveninghousebooks.com/product/still-alive/
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What if you bought a book of poetry?
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Hair Shirt, poems by Adrian Sobol â Malarkey
Published April 1, 2025 Get a free sample here HAIR SHIRT, Adrian Sobolâs second full-length poetry collection, continues his particular take on poetry. Filled with trademark black humor and...
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As we look toward 2026, we need more book club members. Join up now for a year of book mail and, while we have them, a free t-shirt.
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2026 Book Club â Malarkey
Buy a yearâs worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 youâll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
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John Chrostek
5 days ago
As a debut indie author, Iâm really grateful to have found the readers I have with these two books. Would be honored to have them considered alongside 2025âs other great new releases!
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Jamey Gallagher
6 days ago
So many amazing small presses out there putting out interesting stuff you'll never find anywhere else. Four of my favorites are:
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@shotgunhoney.com
@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Cornerstone Press They've all put out great stuff this year, with more about to be released
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Lauren Bolger
6 days ago
Zombie miners đ§ Dark Fantasy đ X-Files vibes đœ Romance đč Sometimes you can have all four of those. Not always, but sometimes.
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Israel A. Bonilla
8 days ago
[Review] Eric T. Racher â Exacting Clam, Issue 16
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...
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Trent Brown
7 days ago
Some early praise for The Walls Are Closing In On Us
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Joey Hedger
7 days ago
Okay, I'm gonna be at the
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table at AWP in Baltimore, so y'all need to find me, hang out, buy books, and make me look cool so Alan doesn't regret sending me!
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Israel A. Bonilla
8 days ago
It has been a year since the publication of Sleep Decades (
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), my debut short story collection. Throughout the month, I will be sharing a couple of reviews and some notes on the stories.
malarkeybooks.com/sleep-decades
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Death to AI.
10 days ago
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Phineas
10 days ago
New awareness campaign
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Cannonball Adderall
13 days ago
I know this fascist shit is doomed when I see late 50s and early 60s white guys in their Costco Shopping Finest screaming âfuck youâ in DHS officersâ faces
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Joey Hedger
13 days ago
Had an idea for a last-minute Halloween costume. Is this anything?
#SoRandomHouse
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Ăde âof Marchâ Hennessy
13 days ago
đ§”5 - my story of crushing depression in King Luddâs Ray from
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Get it here:
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Mixed Metaphors
13 days ago
In an unintentional Halloween-themed
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, I'm reading The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, published by
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. Very ghosty and spooky so far, terrific writing, very character-driven, wonderful atmosphere. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
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The Baffler
14 days ago
âIn my country, South Korea, literature must be easy, with no exceptions. A reader must grasp the meaning at once. Otherwise, the book wonât sell. It wonât be read. Poetry, too, must be simple.â
thebaffler.com/salvos/brain-rot-without-borders
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Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum
Thereâs no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/brain-rot-without-borders
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Katie Croonenberghs Art
17 days ago
Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box.
www.zdnet.com/article/how-...
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How to turn off Gemini in your Gmail, Docs, Photos, and more - it's easy to opt out
It's a little hidden, but there is a way to remove Gemini from your favorite Google services.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-turn-off-gemini-in-your-gmail-docs-photos-and-more-its-easy-to-opt-out/
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LJ Pemberton
16 days ago
Theyâre all live! Listen to the last ten episodes of Malarkey Public Radio in any order. Thereâs something good for writers in every single episode. Itâs been fun to dip my toe back into podcasting for
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
after a long hiatus.
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LJ Pemberton
17 days ago
@yoadrianididit.bsky.social
always manages to be so quotable in every conversation we have; itâs no wonder his poetry slaps. Listen to to this episode and then buy books from
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
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LJ Pemberton
17 days ago
Talking with
@johnchrostek.com
was a delight! I frequently think about this idea that genre mixing and literary fuckery grow naturally from an anti-fascist view of the world and John is doing all of the above in heaping measures. Give it a listen! Then buy books from
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
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LJ Pemberton
18 days ago
Sunday is a great day to catch up on Malarkey Public Radio.
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Pulpfiction Books
19 days ago
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.
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John Chrostek
19 days ago
Hey, you can now listen to me yap with the wonderful writer
@ljabouttown.bsky.social
about lifeâs strange journey, being a picky mfer about craft and much more! If this is half as much fun to listen to as it was to record, it should be a hoot
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maureen
19 days ago
the palpable hatred for ICE in every corner of the city is visible with very rudimentary graffiti and tags on every other block in chicago - itâs quite a thing of beauty to be this unified.
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So sick of hearing about AI but we love everyone who hates it.
19 days ago
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Better late than never,
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âs conversation with Boxcutters/Feast of the Pale Leviathan author
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In the Belly of the Beast
Podcast Episode · Malarkey Public Radio · 10/25/2025 · 54m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-belly-of-the-beast/id1830697705?i=1000733479895
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LJ Pemberton
19 days ago
Episodes 1-9 are up now!! Including two fabulous conversations with
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and
@yoadrianididit.bsky.social
and the 10th episode should be up soon!
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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!
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Malarkey Public Radio
Fiction Podcast · Malarkey Public Radio features interviews and discussions with indie writers.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/malarkey-public-radio/id1830697705
19 days ago
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This episode of Malarkey Public Radio has been in the can for a while and we are excited and thankful to finally see it released today.
@ljabouttown.bsky.social
talks with
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about thinking about being dead and having fun with it!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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Maybe You Can Have Fun With It
Podcast Episode · Malarkey Public Radio · 10/25/2025 · 55m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/maybe-you-can-have-fun-with-it/id1830697705?i=1000733479362
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Kelsey Atherton
19 days ago
left wing intellectuals on having kids: wow look at all these little joys, i am gonna make a special scrap book of why the family matters...omg is this conservativism? right wing intellectuals on having kids: look we have to start getting teens pregnant if we're gonna outbreed all the undesireables
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Slowly getting Malarkey Public Radio episodes back online. Hereâs one from a while back featuring
@ljabouttown.bsky.social
and
@giordkat.bsky.social
and
@yoadrianididit.bsky.social
.
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Screaming, Crying, Throwing Up: Poetry
Podcast Episode · Malarkey Public Radio · 10/25/2025 · 57m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/screaming-crying-throwing-up-poetry/id1830697705?i=1000733454669
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Support out mission to spread Malarkey and get quarterly book mail in return with the Malarkey Book Club. $120. Four signed books. Eight new zines.
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2026 Book Club â Malarkey
Buy a yearâs worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 youâll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bookclub
19 days ago
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Buy an in-stock book and weâll send you a bonus: a zine with a story about the â93 Blue Jays!
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Baseball!
20 days ago
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Christopher Stevenson
20 days ago
Emily's story is one I think about a lot. It's wonderful!
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Download the PDF for free
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20 days ago
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Joey Hedger
20 days ago
Iâll be there!!!! Come find me come find me!
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Celebrate the Blue Jays with
@emilyjoythomas.bsky.social
âs story âBlue Jays in Cottage Countryâ from KLR 4, which also features a great one by
@chrisstevenson.bsky.social
. Buy it for $4 or, while the Series is going, get it free with any book order.
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King Ludd's Rag No. 4 â Malarkey
Issue 4 of King Luddâs Rag, our zine of long-form fiction, features stories by Emily Thomas Mani and Christopher Stevenson. KLR is printed on regular computer paper and folded and stapled by hand. 14...
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20 days ago
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Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter
20 days ago
The book is good. The weird little guy is also good. Value added.The bumper sticker also has an odd fella on it. Double your bonus value.
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Johanna Winant
20 days ago
.
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and I put CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY together to help connect what undergrads do in assignments with what we do as scholars then we found ourselves talking to a lot of high school teachers
slate.com/life/2025/10...
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Thereâs a Literacy Crisis. One Classroom Solution Should Be Obvious.
You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.
https://slate.com/life/2025/10/school-books-reading-literacy-crisis-common-core.html
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LJ Pemberton
21 days ago
@lmbayley.bsky.social
left this wonderful review of Still Alive on GoodReads and it's straight đ„ P.S. you can get my book direct from
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for a song right now!
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LJ Pemberton
21 days ago
yâall should make me rich so i can open an indie press only bookstore downtown
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University of Alberta Press
22 days ago
"If you, too, yearn for a way out of the despair and disconnection that is the zeitgeist of our time, let me suggest a tried and true remedy: join a book club." Linda-Marie Barrett
https://bit.ly/48jaF2w
@literaryhub.bsky.social
(Our friend
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runs a silent book club: wow.)
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Why EveryoneâYes, EveryoneâShould Join a Book Club
âBooks are something socialâa writer speaking to a readerâso I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.â âYann Martel * Our âŠ
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Lauren Bolger
23 days ago
The Barre Incidents is a Horror/Sci Fi book about grieving the âeasyâ 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
!
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The Barre Incidents, a novel by Lauren Bolger â Malarkey
The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, author of Kill Radio Cover design by Matthew Revert When Kara's miner father dies of Silicosis, she grapples with the old horror stories in their hometown of B...
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Sheldon Birnie
23 days ago
Friends, very excited for Morning, Fuckers at Winterruption 2026. Weâre gonna make a little magic here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada during the depths of winter, you guys!
www.showpass.com/morning26/
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Ben Arzate
23 days ago
Got some
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from Craig Rodgers today. Thanks Craig!
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