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Happy book birthday to #DeusAbsconditus 🎂https://www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p45/deus.html
Deus Absconditus and Love Letters from Outer Space
KERNPUNKT Press is an independent publisher of experimental literary fiction
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October 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Happy book birthday to #DeusAbsconditus 🎂https://www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p45/deus.html
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CHILD OF LIGHT by Jesi Bender (@whiskeytit.com). Reviewed by @emilyannwebber.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/chil...
September 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
CHILD OF LIGHT by Jesi Bender (@whiskeytit.com). Reviewed by @emilyannwebber.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/chil...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jesi Bender / @whiskeytit.com ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jesi Bender
Jesi Bender is the author of the novel Child of Light (Whiskey Tit 2025), the chapbook Dangerous Women (dancing girl press 2022), the pla...
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September 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jesi Bender / @whiskeytit.com ;
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"This novel is a work of experimental historical fiction that explores the tension between the pursuit for scientific advancement and the unending human interest in magic and myth."
Jesi Bender shared a playlist for her novel Child of Light at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/11/j...
Jesi Bender shared a playlist for her novel Child of Light at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/11/j...
August 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"This novel is a work of experimental historical fiction that explores the tension between the pursuit for scientific advancement and the unending human interest in magic and myth."
Jesi Bender shared a playlist for her novel Child of Light at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/11/j...
Jesi Bender shared a playlist for her novel Child of Light at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/11/j...
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Q&A with Jesi Bender about her new novel, CHILD OF LIGHT.
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August 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Q&A with Jesi Bender about her new novel, CHILD OF LIGHT.
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A beautiful review by @katenblackwood.bsky.social of the stunning new novel out this week by Jesi Bender, from @whiskeytit.com!
I agree 💯 with Kate that it's marvelous. Get yourself a copy and support this independent press!
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I agree 💯 with Kate that it's marvelous. Get yourself a copy and support this independent press!
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Love and electricity: The novel ‘Child of Light’ – Kate Blackwood
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August 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
A beautiful review by @katenblackwood.bsky.social of the stunning new novel out this week by Jesi Bender, from @whiskeytit.com!
I agree 💯 with Kate that it's marvelous. Get yourself a copy and support this independent press!
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
I agree 💯 with Kate that it's marvelous. Get yourself a copy and support this independent press!
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
Come visit us at the #BrooklynBookFestival this weekend!
September 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Come visit us at the #BrooklynBookFestival this weekend!
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The newest Episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! I talked to @raviddice.bsky.social about his new book The Squimbop Condition ( @1111press.bsky.social ), and all that wild ride of a book entails. Take a listen.
Rejoinder: The Squimbop Condition with David Leo Rice
YouTube video by Joe Bielecki
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September 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Thrilled that KERNPUNKTers N/A Oparah and Isabel Sobral Campos will be reading together at @poetshouse.bsky.social in celebration of their new @futurepoem.bsky.social books!
September 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Thrilled that KERNPUNKTers N/A Oparah and Isabel Sobral Campos will be reading together at @poetshouse.bsky.social in celebration of their new @futurepoem.bsky.social books!
"In this wildly inventive book two artists, both poets and painters, wrestle with the hidden God. The collaboration takes place in 77 love letters that are by turns carnal, hilarious, despairing, and philosophical." Coming October - www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p45/de...
Deus Absconditus and Love Letters from Outer Space
KERNPUNKT Press is an independent publisher of experimental literary fiction
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September 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"In this wildly inventive book two artists, both poets and painters, wrestle with the hidden God. The collaboration takes place in 77 love letters that are by turns carnal, hilarious, despairing, and philosophical." Coming October - www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p45/de...
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📌 ICYMI, from the homies at @1111press.bsky.social: THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by @raviddice.bsky.social
Out 11-SEP & ALL pre-orders come w/ the fall issue of SwR. Jump now bbs 💥 1111press.com/the-squimbop...
Out 11-SEP & ALL pre-orders come w/ the fall issue of SwR. Jump now bbs 💥 1111press.com/the-squimbop...
August 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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oooh baby. Child of Light gets a review in Kirkus and I think they liked it
"Patient, perceptive, and charged with a quiet emotional power."
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"Patient, perceptive, and charged with a quiet emotional power."
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CHILD OF LIGHT | Kirkus Reviews
In Bender’s historical novel, a sensitive girl awakens to her spiritual gifts in late-19th-century New York.
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August 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
oooh baby. Child of Light gets a review in Kirkus and I think they liked it
"Patient, perceptive, and charged with a quiet emotional power."
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
"Patient, perceptive, and charged with a quiet emotional power."
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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Child of Light featured in @reactorsff.bsky.social's Can't Miss Indie Press Spec Fic list for July and August.
File under Wait, Are We In A Cult?!
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File under Wait, Are We In A Cult?!
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Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2025 - Reactor
New titles for your summer reading, covering everything from eldritch horrors to career highlights...
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August 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Child of Light featured in @reactorsff.bsky.social's Can't Miss Indie Press Spec Fic list for July and August.
File under Wait, Are We In A Cult?!
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File under Wait, Are We In A Cult?!
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We recommended some August books. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/08/06/r...
Recommended Books: August 2025
At the best of times, August is a weird month. (Ask our managing editor to tell you about his childhood experience of insomnia, which could also be described as an allergy to the month in question.…
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August 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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We recommended some August books. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/08/06/r...
Recommended Books: August 2025
At the best of times, August is a weird month. (Ask our managing editor to tell you about his childhood experience of insomnia, which could also be described as an allergy to the month in question.…
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August 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We recommended some August books. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/08/06/r...
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Introducing THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by the homie @raviddice.bsky.social 🔥
This collection includes stories previously published in SwR so we're collabing with @1111press.bsky.social
Pre-order the book and get our fall issue FREE 💥
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This collection includes stories previously published in SwR so we're collabing with @1111press.bsky.social
Pre-order the book and get our fall issue FREE 💥
1111press.com/the-squimbop...
August 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Excerpt from Child of Light by Jesi Bender – BigIndieBooks.com
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July 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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32 more needed now!
Can you jump on board and help this book reach its target before the end of the week?
Can you jump on board and help this book reach its target before the end of the week?
We've got 3 days left on our Kickstarter for @donyatodd.bsky.social's The Witch's Egg! By my GCSE (if those are still valid) maths, we need approx 35 more backers. This is a great way to support us and our creators and it's also an incredible book. #comics
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The Witch's Egg by Donya Todd
A gorgeous intergenerational family story of promises made, promises kept, and a mother who would do anything to protect her daughters.
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July 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
32 more needed now!
Can you jump on board and help this book reach its target before the end of the week?
Can you jump on board and help this book reach its target before the end of the week?
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Holy Big Other review of Jesi Bender's Child of Light:
It’s time to translate the past and save the future. If the meaning of Bender’s Child of Light is dark, its very language is light, flexible, revivifying. This is serious play.
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It’s time to translate the past and save the future. If the meaning of Bender’s Child of Light is dark, its very language is light, flexible, revivifying. This is serious play.
bigother.com/2025/07/12/s...
Serious Play: A Review of Jesi Bender’s Child of Light
By Jared Joseph A work of both experimental and historical fiction, Jesi Bender’s Child of Light serves as a memento mori, but in the literal sense of the Latin: “remember (that you have to)…
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July 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Holy Big Other review of Jesi Bender's Child of Light:
It’s time to translate the past and save the future. If the meaning of Bender’s Child of Light is dark, its very language is light, flexible, revivifying. This is serious play.
bigother.com/2025/07/12/s...
It’s time to translate the past and save the future. If the meaning of Bender’s Child of Light is dark, its very language is light, flexible, revivifying. This is serious play.
bigother.com/2025/07/12/s...
Beautiful new review of #ChildofLight up at @bigothermag.bsky.social - bigother.com/2025/07/12/s... @whiskeytit.com
Serious Play: A Review of Jesi Bender’s Child of Light
By Jared Joseph A work of both experimental and historical fiction, Jesi Bender’s Child of Light serves as a memento mori, but in the literal sense of the Latin: “remember (that you have to)…
bigother.com
July 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Beautiful new review of #ChildofLight up at @bigothermag.bsky.social - bigother.com/2025/07/12/s... @whiskeytit.com
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I'm incredibly lucky to be reading an advance copy of CHILD OF LIGHT by Jesi Bender, coming 8/12 from Whisk(e)y Tit!
So far the best way I can describe it is Lauren Groff's Matrix meets nothing I've seen before.
Get on it by preordering!
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So far the best way I can describe it is Lauren Groff's Matrix meets nothing I've seen before.
Get on it by preordering!
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Child of Light
Thirteen-year-old Ambrétte Memenon has lived her entire life estranged from her family. After a series of financial failures, they reunite in rural upstate NY in the Spring of 1896. Together in the…
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April 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I'm incredibly lucky to be reading an advance copy of CHILD OF LIGHT by Jesi Bender, coming 8/12 from Whisk(e)y Tit!
So far the best way I can describe it is Lauren Groff's Matrix meets nothing I've seen before.
Get on it by preordering!
whiskeytit.com/product/chil...
So far the best way I can describe it is Lauren Groff's Matrix meets nothing I've seen before.
Get on it by preordering!
whiskeytit.com/product/chil...
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"Smart, sad, and horribly beautiful."
Jesi Bender on 'The N-Word of God', a graphic novel by Mark Doox, from Fantagraphics Books.
https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-17-summer-2025/mark-dooxs-emthe-n-word-of-godem/
Jesi Bender on 'The N-Word of God', a graphic novel by Mark Doox, from Fantagraphics Books.
https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-17-summer-2025/mark-dooxs-emthe-n-word-of-godem/
June 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"Smart, sad, and horribly beautiful."
Jesi Bender on 'The N-Word of God', a graphic novel by Mark Doox, from Fantagraphics Books.
https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-17-summer-2025/mark-dooxs-emthe-n-word-of-godem/
Jesi Bender on 'The N-Word of God', a graphic novel by Mark Doox, from Fantagraphics Books.
https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-17-summer-2025/mark-dooxs-emthe-n-word-of-godem/
Blanche Monnier was imprisoned in an upstairs room by her mother and her brother. In 1901, an anonymous letter alerted the police to the fact that Blanche had been imprisoned for twenty-five years. When they found her, she was half-starved, naked, & screaming. www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p42/sc...
Screaming at the Window, a story of Blanche Monnier The Prisoner of Poitiers (La Séquestrée de Poitiers) by RJ Dent
KERNPUNKT Press is an independent publisher of experimental literary fiction
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July 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Blanche Monnier was imprisoned in an upstairs room by her mother and her brother. In 1901, an anonymous letter alerted the police to the fact that Blanche had been imprisoned for twenty-five years. When they found her, she was half-starved, naked, & screaming. www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p42/sc...