Kristine Langley Mahler
@suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Memoirist experimenting with the truth. Author of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING (Autofocus 2026), A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN (Autofocus 2023) and CURING SEASON: ARTIFACTS (WVU Press 2022). Director of @splitlippress.com. More: linktr.ee/suburbanprairie
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I am losing my mind that I finally get to share its cover and announce preorders are live for TEEN QUEEN TRAINING, my erasure essay collection deconstructing and reconstructing the rules of being a teenage girl!
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
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Reminder that our FREE SHIPPING code (found in our 11/1 newsletter) is good through Dec 1. Works on orders of all sizes! This holiday season, don’t retreat to the couch with your phone when you need to escape your relatives—BRING A BOOK!
www.splitlippress.com
www.splitlippress.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reminder that our FREE SHIPPING code (found in our 11/1 newsletter) is good through Dec 1. Works on orders of all sizes! This holiday season, don’t retreat to the couch with your phone when you need to escape your relatives—BRING A BOOK!
www.splitlippress.com
www.splitlippress.com
that man is out here yapping and trying to get attention because he wasn't invited to a funeral
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
that man is out here yapping and trying to get attention because he wasn't invited to a funeral
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I spent a lot of time today talking with folks or answering questions about my novella that’s coming out in February with @splitlippress.com and it’s really cool to see there might be readers out there who respond to this weird little creature. On presale now! www.splitlippress.com/krackles-las...
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I spent a lot of time today talking with folks or answering questions about my novella that’s coming out in February with @splitlippress.com and it’s really cool to see there might be readers out there who respond to this weird little creature. On presale now! www.splitlippress.com/krackles-las...
Reposted by Kristine Langley Mahler
Happy Publication Anniversary to @anarkissedpoet.bsky.social's essay collection HOLD ME,
"an electrifying multiplicity of novel forms, spanning the lyric to the diagnostic, the ghost note to the terminally online" (thx Blake Butler!)
We're so happy to have it—and jade—with us at SLP! Ebook now $5!
"an electrifying multiplicity of novel forms, spanning the lyric to the diagnostic, the ghost note to the terminally online" (thx Blake Butler!)
We're so happy to have it—and jade—with us at SLP! Ebook now $5!
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Happy Publication Anniversary to @anarkissedpoet.bsky.social's essay collection HOLD ME,
"an electrifying multiplicity of novel forms, spanning the lyric to the diagnostic, the ghost note to the terminally online" (thx Blake Butler!)
We're so happy to have it—and jade—with us at SLP! Ebook now $5!
"an electrifying multiplicity of novel forms, spanning the lyric to the diagnostic, the ghost note to the terminally online" (thx Blake Butler!)
We're so happy to have it—and jade—with us at SLP! Ebook now $5!
Reposted by Kristine Langley Mahler
Please help us welcome five new readers to our 2026 Short Story/Flash Fiction reading team! Joining returning readers Elena, Victoria, Kaleena, Aysha, and Kim (and SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social ), please say hello to Blake, Elaina, Allison, Nirica, and Gina!
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Please help us welcome five new readers to our 2026 Short Story/Flash Fiction reading team! Joining returning readers Elena, Victoria, Kaleena, Aysha, and Kim (and SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social ), please say hello to Blake, Elaina, Allison, Nirica, and Gina!
I used a calculator to make sure I did this correctly because I was so stunned I did not believe it:
Our family's ACA plan is going up 1000.52% in 2026.
1000% and that is no exaggeration. For a plan that already has a $2000 per-person deductible before anything kicks in. WE CANNOT AFFORD IT!
Our family's ACA plan is going up 1000.52% in 2026.
1000% and that is no exaggeration. For a plan that already has a $2000 per-person deductible before anything kicks in. WE CANNOT AFFORD IT!
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I used a calculator to make sure I did this correctly because I was so stunned I did not believe it:
Our family's ACA plan is going up 1000.52% in 2026.
1000% and that is no exaggeration. For a plan that already has a $2000 per-person deductible before anything kicks in. WE CANNOT AFFORD IT!
Our family's ACA plan is going up 1000.52% in 2026.
1000% and that is no exaggeration. For a plan that already has a $2000 per-person deductible before anything kicks in. WE CANNOT AFFORD IT!
Reposted by Kristine Langley Mahler
extreeeemely my jam
I am losing my mind that I finally get to share its cover and announce preorders are live for TEEN QUEEN TRAINING, my erasure essay collection deconstructing and reconstructing the rules of being a teenage girl!
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
extreeeemely my jam
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I'll get a copy in my @autofocusbooks.bsky.social Seasonal Box, but I'll be ordering MANY more copies to give as gifts to all the women I grew up with in the 90s. Cannot WAIT.
I am losing my mind that I finally get to share its cover and announce preorders are live for TEEN QUEEN TRAINING, my erasure essay collection deconstructing and reconstructing the rules of being a teenage girl!
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'll get a copy in my @autofocusbooks.bsky.social Seasonal Box, but I'll be ordering MANY more copies to give as gifts to all the women I grew up with in the 90s. Cannot WAIT.
I am losing my mind that I finally get to share its cover and announce preorders are live for TEEN QUEEN TRAINING, my erasure essay collection deconstructing and reconstructing the rules of being a teenage girl!
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I am losing my mind that I finally get to share its cover and announce preorders are live for TEEN QUEEN TRAINING, my erasure essay collection deconstructing and reconstructing the rules of being a teenage girl!
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
"The crush on that person who sucks, the breakup that came out of nowhere, the feeling that love will never find you, no matter how hard you try—we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law."
Hell yes to this essay; also love the "yelling is how you release sadness"
Hell yes to this essay; also love the "yelling is how you release sadness"
"when I, with my supposed iron stomach for sadness, try to think of the saddest song I've ever heard, my mind goes to that CD that Sam gave Jennifer, and the one song I couldn’t believe was on it."
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
marchxness.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"The crush on that person who sucks, the breakup that came out of nowhere, the feeling that love will never find you, no matter how hard you try—we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law."
Hell yes to this essay; also love the "yelling is how you release sadness"
Hell yes to this essay; also love the "yelling is how you release sadness"
Reposted by Kristine Langley Mahler
Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”
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I don't think they should release the Epstein files, I think they should give the Epstein files to Joyce Carol Oates and let HER release them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I don't think they should release the Epstein files, I think they should give the Epstein files to Joyce Carol Oates and let HER release them.
The last two times the aurora were supposedly visible for my area, I couldn’t find them no matter how far out of town I drove, and I couldn’t stand looking at everybody’s pictures because I was so jealous. So just give me this. I finally got them!
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The last two times the aurora were supposedly visible for my area, I couldn’t find them no matter how far out of town I drove, and I couldn’t stand looking at everybody’s pictures because I was so jealous. So just give me this. I finally got them!
I'll be in MSP this weekend for the TCBF--come talk to me at the SLP table (and compliment our felt banner, my perennial greatest achievement for Thee Fynest Presse)
Guess who's back at the the Twin Cities Book Festival this Saturday? We'll be slingin' books, chattin' with y'all, and featuring two of our favorite Twin Cities authors (yes they happen to be SLP authors), @tashacoryell.bsky.social and @jeannineouellette.bsky.social.
November 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'll be in MSP this weekend for the TCBF--come talk to me at the SLP table (and compliment our felt banner, my perennial greatest achievement for Thee Fynest Presse)
What a goddamn joy it is to scroll through all these BLUE WAVE reports tonight!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
What a goddamn joy it is to scroll through all these BLUE WAVE reports tonight!!!
I’m wrecked for the rest of the day because Cat’s Eye was dedicated to “S” and in her new book, Margaret Atwood confirmed after all these years that Cordelia was real and her name was Sandra 😭😭😭
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’m wrecked for the rest of the day because Cat’s Eye was dedicated to “S” and in her new book, Margaret Atwood confirmed after all these years that Cordelia was real and her name was Sandra 😭😭😭
This is why you preorder from your local indie bookstore—SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS FROM YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORRRR (to join the copies of Cat’s Eye and Morning in the Burned House she signed for me in 2000 and 2014)! I’ve been connecting likely-truths in her books for the past 25 years and I AM SO EXCITED!
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is why you preorder from your local indie bookstore—SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS FROM YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORRRR (to join the copies of Cat’s Eye and Morning in the Burned House she signed for me in 2000 and 2014)! I’ve been connecting likely-truths in her books for the past 25 years and I AM SO EXCITED!
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Dolly Parton releases “9 to 5” 45 yrs ago today.
“I knew what it was like to be a working woman trying to make a decent living, trying to be taken seriously. .. I wanted a song that sounded playful on the surface but spoke to that frustration .. A song about women .. saying, ‘We deserve better.’”
“I knew what it was like to be a working woman trying to make a decent living, trying to be taken seriously. .. I wanted a song that sounded playful on the surface but spoke to that frustration .. A song about women .. saying, ‘We deserve better.’”
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Dolly Parton releases “9 to 5” 45 yrs ago today.
“I knew what it was like to be a working woman trying to make a decent living, trying to be taken seriously. .. I wanted a song that sounded playful on the surface but spoke to that frustration .. A song about women .. saying, ‘We deserve better.’”
“I knew what it was like to be a working woman trying to make a decent living, trying to be taken seriously. .. I wanted a song that sounded playful on the surface but spoke to that frustration .. A song about women .. saying, ‘We deserve better.’”
if they’re doing this right in front of our faces here on main, it’s worse behind the scenes
November 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
if they’re doing this right in front of our faces here on main, it’s worse behind the scenes
Happy Halloween, which is also Happy 2nd Birthday to my 2023 heartbreaker A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN 🐍🌙👻
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Happy Halloween, which is also Happy 2nd Birthday to my 2023 heartbreaker A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN 🐍🌙👻
Went grocery shopping last night and paid way more than usual for the same food that I could actually afford prior to January 20, 2025.
The Significant Role Bread Played In The French Revolution - Tasting Table
Bastille Day is celebrated each year on July 14, and it marks the anniversary of the Bastille fortress storming — the beginning of the French Revolution.
www.tastingtable.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Went grocery shopping last night and paid way more than usual for the same food that I could actually afford prior to January 20, 2025.
I say this with much humility: yea, I was the one to blame for our old site, I am not a web designer and it was obvious BUT NOW IT'S GOLDEN!
We've got news! Our amazing creative director Maggie made us a new website (and those of you who've suffered through our barely-functional mobile phone version are going to LOVE how much easier it is to click through our site now)!
www.splitlippress.com
www.splitlippress.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I say this with much humility: yea, I was the one to blame for our old site, I am not a web designer and it was obvious BUT NOW IT'S GOLDEN!
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What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.
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In the last 72 hours or so Donald Trump has:
• Demolished a large section of the White House
• Posted a video of himself dropping shit on the American people
• Demanded a $230 million payout from his own Department of Justice
Also the federal government is still shut down, but, y’know…
• Demolished a large section of the White House
• Posted a video of himself dropping shit on the American people
• Demanded a $230 million payout from his own Department of Justice
Also the federal government is still shut down, but, y’know…
October 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
In the last 72 hours or so Donald Trump has:
• Demolished a large section of the White House
• Posted a video of himself dropping shit on the American people
• Demanded a $230 million payout from his own Department of Justice
Also the federal government is still shut down, but, y’know…
• Demolished a large section of the White House
• Posted a video of himself dropping shit on the American people
• Demanded a $230 million payout from his own Department of Justice
Also the federal government is still shut down, but, y’know…
Happy Best American Essays Day to everyone but especially to ME because I have a Notable this year!!!
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Happy Best American Essays Day to everyone but especially to ME because I have a Notable this year!!!