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I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

This morning I sent @joeyhedger.bsky.social stickers to put on my books at the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social AWP table since I won’t be there this year. Be sure to go say hi and buy a bunch of great books. There will probably be other cool Malarkey merch too. (P.S. I’ll be back next year!)

NEW REVIEW IN FOR MY BOOK: “It’s so hard to believe that this is a debut novel.” Preorder below 🙂

I’ll be reading on Thursday, March 5, for an AWP offsite with authors from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social, @malarkeybooks.bsky.social, and more! Come hang out. I’ve heard Golden West Cafe is cool!

We are sending a lot of books to AWP and on that note, great time to buy books through our website!

Seems impossible but we’re less than month away from the release of The Walls Are Closing In On Us, a novel by @trentbwrites.bsky.social. Here’s our elevator pitch: it’s a damn good read. malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

Great essay here about publishing in this crazy indie lit-o-sphere. Bravo, @ljabouttown.bsky.social

This is an incredible resource if you’ve got a book coming out. Mine is out in September and I’m working this checklist already!

I’d just like to give a shoutout to this incredible guide for writers with an upcoming book from @ljabouttown.bsky.social malarkeybooks.com/publishing/s...

Always fun to see your book on a bookstore shelf, and the neighbors it finds. Just me and Herta hanging out. @malarkeybooks.bsky.social

But also, check out our growing array of not-print on demand books, including Hair Shirt, Boxcutters, The Barre Incidents, and (soon) The Walls Are Closing In On Us.

It is both annoying and liberating to get university press books that are print on demand. On the one hand, they should have more resources than us; on the other, it cuts down on the old inferiority complex for presses like ours.

Amazing books and poetry EPs and zines all year long. They just show up in your mailbox, the only work you gotts do is sign up.

Now would be such a beautiful moment to pick up ten or so new book clubbers. malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

Subject: BABY’S FIRST READING Gonna be at AWP? Free on Thursday at 7pm? Come see a bunch of killer writers and also me at the Golden West Cafe. I’ll be reading from my book! For the first time! Ever! And selling copies!

A bookstore returned some books back to Malarkey and my debut novel, Kill Radio, was among them. They’re going for $13! People told me after reading that they enjoyed the possession stuff in this book malarkeybooks.com/store/returns

AI is trash. Sports betting sucks. But all our stuff is 40% off today.

One must be moved by love rather than hate; nevertheless we find ourselves rooting against the Patriots, rather than for anyone else.

Every radio commercial on rock stations in this part of the country is about erectile dysfunction.

Getting a new long-reach stapler for my birthday and after binding 50+ copies of this zine today with a stapler that jams after every staple I don’t know if I’ve ever been more excited for a birthday gift.

I recommend Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky Gloria Patri and am preodering The Walls Are Closing In On Us

New essay up on my substack on having OCD and writing a novel, and everything in between.

Happy Birthday, Still Alive! Thank you, all you beautiful souls, who have helped this book find the right nightstand, book bag, and shelf to live in. If you haven’t given the story of V a chance, get it today from @eveninghouse.bsky.social, @powells.bsky.social, or bookshop.org!

You can also get bookstore returns of Still Alive at a discount, directly from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social!!!! malarkeybooks.com/store/returns

Happy birthday to a real one! Still Alive is one of our best-sellers for a very good reason, which is that it’s fucking incredible.

You don’t need AI to write a book. You just need some kind of hole inside yourself.

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

You can buy The Grift to support Malarkey Books. You can buy The Grift to read my story Fruit Of Decay (fungus, cannibalism, the fae, art scenes etc). You can buy The Grift to read the other work in there. Your reasons matter less than that you buy The Grift!

On sale. Signed copy. Bonus zine.

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So excited that author copies have arrived! Big thank you to Jeff Bogle at @stanchion.bsky.social. Order your copy below!

The Grift volume 1 malarkeybooks.com/store/grift

Printing copies of this today and it’s coming out great. Our first home printing featuring color, using heavy weight project paper for the cover.

When @malarkeybooks.bsky.social said @danielmiller.bsky.social was doing the art, I had to pinch myself to believe it was really happening! I can’t believe I get to work with both Malarkey and Daniel. Talk about a dream team!!

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Two beautiful books for the price of one!

im so incredibly grateful for the opportunity to make some art for these incredible chapbooks. Ly’s is the first. It’s beautiful. You won’t want to miss it.

This amazing cover is a painting by @danielmiller.bsky.social!

Preorder @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s book and you will also get a poetry EP by @lyfaulk.bsky.social. malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

Punk rock reviewers of the world, please sign up for our digital ARCs list. If you ever want a print copy instead of a pdf just ask and we’ll see if we can swing it malarkeybooks.com/for-reviewers

really good stuff and exactly what i was trying to get at here www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658043

New newsletter out in the world. Kind of do hope it gets read at least a little bit. buttondown.com/MalarkeyBook...

Hope everyone can go to this, sure to be incredible!

The prophecy, fulfilled

Great day to order books from Malarkey (about to drop a lot of $$$ to get books to awp).

Get the evilest book on MK Ultra ever written for $13, and keep a small press running. No downsides! BUY BACKMASK KSAMKCAB YUB

I have been invited to read at the @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social / @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and friends AWP off-site reading. I'm absolutely honored. If you are free on Thursday March 5, 2026 at 7pm, come see this absolutely knockout roster of readers (and me) at Golden West Cafe