Malarkey
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Books and such
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We are sending a lot of books to AWP and on that note, great time to buy books through our website!
February 10, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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...
Here’s our elevator pitch: it’s a damn good read.
malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...
The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown — Malarkey
Preorder a signed copy. This book publishes on March 3, 2026 . In addition to the book, preorders will come with an issue of King Ludd’s Rag No. 20, featuring a short story by Joshua Trent Brown, ...
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February 10, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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...
Here’s our elevator pitch: it’s a damn good read.
malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...
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Great essay here about publishing in this crazy indie lit-o-sphere. Bravo, @ljabouttown.bsky.social
I’d just like to give a shoutout to this incredible guide for writers with an upcoming book from @ljabouttown.bsky.social
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malarkeybooks.com/publishing/s...
So You've Got a Book Coming Out on an Indie Press — Malarkey
LJ Pemberton And you’re excited, and can’t believe it, but also now you need people to actually buy and read your book! If you’re lucky, you’ve got five to ten people who are already very excit...
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February 10, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Great essay here about publishing in this crazy indie lit-o-sphere. Bravo, @ljabouttown.bsky.social
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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...
malarkeybooks.com/publishing/s...
So You've Got a Book Coming Out on an Indie Press — Malarkey
LJ Pemberton And you’re excited, and can’t believe it, but also now you need people to actually buy and read your book! If you’re lucky, you’ve got five to ten people who are already very excit...
malarkeybooks.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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!
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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...
malarkeybooks.com/publishing/s...
So You've Got a Book Coming Out on an Indie Press — Malarkey
LJ Pemberton And you’re excited, and can’t believe it, but also now you need people to actually buy and read your book! If you’re lucky, you’ve got five to ten people who are already very excit...
malarkeybooks.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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...
malarkeybooks.com/publishing/s...
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Always fun to see your book on a bookstore shelf, and the neighbors it finds. Just me and Herta hanging out.
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Always fun to see your book on a bookstore shelf, and the neighbors it finds. Just me and Herta hanging out.
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
@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.
February 10, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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.
February 10, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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.
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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.
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2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll 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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February 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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...
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
malarkeybooks.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Now would be such a beautiful moment to pick up ten or so new book clubbers.
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
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“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
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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!
@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!
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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!
@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!
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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!
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!
February 9, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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!
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!
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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
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
Returns! — Malarkey
Sometimes we get books sent back to us. Historically, this has always been very unpleasant because it means lost money, that we would count against an author’s royalties. We’re taking a different appr...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
AI is trash. Sports betting sucks. But all our stuff is 40% off today.
February 9, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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.
February 9, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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.
February 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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.
Preorder @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s book and you will also get a poetry EP by @lyfaulk.bsky.social.
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February 8, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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.
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I recommend
Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky
Gloria Patri
and am preodering
The Walls Are Closing In On Us
Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky
Gloria Patri
and am preodering
The Walls Are Closing In On Us
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I recommend
Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky
Gloria Patri
and am preodering
The Walls Are Closing In On Us
Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky
Gloria Patri
and am preodering
The Walls Are Closing In On Us
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New essay up on my substack on having OCD and writing a novel, and everything in between.
February 8, 2026 at 5:39 PM
New essay up on my substack on having OCD and writing a novel, and everything in between.
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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!
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!
February 8, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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!
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!
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You can also get bookstore returns of Still Alive at a discount, directly from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social!!!!
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
Returns! — Malarkey
Sometimes we get books sent back to us. Historically, this has always been very unpleasant because it means lost money, that we would count against an author’s royalties. We’re taking a different appr...
malarkeybooks.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:22 PM
You can also get bookstore returns of Still Alive at a discount, directly from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social!!!!
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
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.
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!
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!
February 8, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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.
February 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM
You don’t need AI to write a book. You just need some kind of hole inside yourself.