four slim books you need to read

📚 The Swallowed Man (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social)

📚 McGlue (@fencebooks.bsky.social)

📚 When All Our Days Are Numbered... (Big Lucks)

📚 Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta (@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social)

four novels (under 200 pages) we’re still thinking about

📚 Temporary (Coffee House Press)

📚 Boy with a Black Rooster (The Indigo Press)

📚 Ghosts of East Baltimore (Broken River Books)

📚 Light Boxes (Penguin)

four quick reads you need on your shelf

📚 The Hearing Trumpet (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social)

📚 Potted Meat (@tarpaulinsky.bsky.social)

📚 Reinhardt’s Garden (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social)

📚 The Deer (@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social)

four novels (under 200 pages) we can’t recommend enough

📚 The Flat Woman (@fictioncollective2.bsky.social)

📚 Grief is the Thing with Feathers (@graywolfpress.bsky.social)

📚 Dan (@dorothyproject.bsky.social)

📚 Henrytown (Graver Goods Press)

speaking it into existence so next month can calm down 😴💆‍♂️ anyone else catching up on reading this fall & winter?

From 2011 to 2015, Edward Mullany released a trilogy of books with @pubgen.bsky.social that we return to often. Tiny poems & microfictions both haunting & hilarious. He ended these 3 books with a trio of novellas (The Three Sunrises), a series of fever dream fables not to be missed.

yes, it’s quite true this wild mammoth of a poem has it all

six of the rarest books in our collection

📚 The Butcher’s Tales
📚 POOL
📚 The Battlefield where the Moon Says I Love You
📚 Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me
📚 The Zoo Club
📚 I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur

a surrealist absurdist meandering epic of hysterical Wolverine fan fiction

“skeleton of glass and marmalade” by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi

Did someone say rare books?!

appeasing the robots every time we show human life

5 novels, 3 books of poetry, 1 book of essays, & 1 hybrid assemblage

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