#💙 #booksky #bookreview #stillalive STILL ALIVE By lj pemberton @malarkeybooks.bsky.social 5💀s 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"

My book came out a year ago today. I tried as best as I could to create a level of depth in the reader’s access to each character’s interior world. If you like that kind of narrative intimacy, give my book a try! @malarkeybooks.bsky.social malarkeybooks.com/store/firstaid

If you buy my book from @eveninghouse.bsky.social, you’re supporting an independent bookstore AND two @malarkeybooks.bsky.social authors! Also add Boxcutters to the cart while you’re at it. ;) eveninghousebooks.com/product/stil...

What if you bought a book of poetry? malarkeybooks.com/store/hairsh...

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. malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...

As a debut indie author, I’m really grateful to have found the readers I have with these two books. Would be honored to have them considered alongside 2025’s other great new releases!

So many amazing small presses out there putting out interesting stuff you'll never find anywhere else. Four of my favorites are: @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @shotgunhoney.com @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Cornerstone Press They've all put out great stuff this year, with more about to be released

Zombie miners 🧟 Dark Fantasy 🐉 X-Files vibes 👽 Romance 🌹 Sometimes you can have all four of those. Not always, but sometimes. malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

[Review] Eric T. Racher — Exacting Clam, Issue 16 www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...

Some early praise for The Walls Are Closing In On Us @malarkeybooks.bsky.social

Okay, I'm gonna be at the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social 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!

It has been a year since the publication of Sleep Decades (@malarkeybooks.bsky.social), 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

Death to AI.

New awareness campaign

I know this fascist shit is doomed when I see late 50s and early 60s white guys in their Costco Shopping Finest screaming ‘fuck you’ in DHS officers’ faces

Had an idea for a last-minute Halloween costume. Is this anything? #SoRandomHouse

🧵5 - my story of crushing depression in King Ludd’s Ray from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social Get it here: malarkeybooks.com/store/klr18-19

In an unintentional Halloween-themed #booksky, I'm reading The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, published by @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. Very ghosty and spooky so far, terrific writing, very character-driven, wonderful atmosphere. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

“In my country, South Korea, literature must be easy, with no exceptions. A reader must grasp the meaning at once. Otherwise, the book won’t sell. It won’t be read. Poetry, too, must be simple.” thebaffler.com/salvos/brain-rot-without-borders

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-...

They’re all live! Listen to the last ten episodes of Malarkey Public Radio in any order. There’s something good for writers in every single episode. It’s been fun to dip my toe back into podcasting for @malarkeybooks.bsky.social after a long hiatus.

@yoadrianididit.bsky.social always manages to be so quotable in every conversation we have; it’s no wonder his poetry slaps. Listen to to this episode and then buy books from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social !

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!

Sunday is a great day to catch up on Malarkey Public Radio.

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.

Hey, you can now listen to me yap with the wonderful writer @ljabouttown.bsky.social about life’s 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

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 - it’s quite a thing of beauty to be this unified.

So sick of hearing about AI but we love everyone who hates it.

Better late than never, @ljabouttown.bsky.social’s conversation with Boxcutters/Feast of the Pale Leviathan author @johnchrostek.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Episodes 1-9 are up now!! Including two fabulous conversations with @johnchrostek.com and @yoadrianididit.bsky.social and the 10th episode should be up soon!

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! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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 @yoadrianididit.bsky.social about thinking about being dead and having fun with it! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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

Slowly getting Malarkey Public Radio episodes back online. Here’s one from a while back featuring @ljabouttown.bsky.social and @giordkat.bsky.social and @yoadrianididit.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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. malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...

Buy an in-stock book and we’ll send you a bonus: a zine with a story about the ‘93 Blue Jays! Malarkeybooks.com/store

Baseball!

Emily's story is one I think about a lot. It's wonderful!

Download the PDF for free malarkeybooks.com/ebooks/king-...

I’ll be there!!!! Come find me come find me!

Celebrate the Blue Jays with @emilyjoythomas.bsky.social’s story “Blue Jays in Cottage Country” 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. malarkeybooks.com/store/king-l...

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.

. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social 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...

@lmbayley.bsky.social left this wonderful review of Still Alive on GoodReads and it's straight 🔥 P.S. you can get my book direct from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social for a song right now! malarkeybooks.com/store/stilla...

y’all should make me rich so i can open an indie press only bookstore downtown

"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 @bookgaga.bsky.social runs a silent book club: wow.)

The Barre Incidents is a Horror/Sci Fi book about grieving the “easy” 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 ! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

Friends, very excited for Morning, Fuckers at Winterruption 2026. We’re gonna make a little magic here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada during the depths of winter, you guys! www.showpass.com/morning26/

Got some @malarkeybooks.bsky.social from Craig Rodgers today. Thanks Craig!