Sagging Meniscus
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
Independent publisher of nonconformist literature.
Lee Upton on writing WRONGFUL: "while writing, like our readers we too have to develop an advanced tolerance for getting things wrong." https://bigindiebooks.com/2025/11/06/the-art-of-being-wrong-on-writing-a-literary-mystery/
November 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Lee Upton on writing WRONGFUL: "while writing, like our readers we too have to develop an advanced tolerance for getting things wrong." https://bigindiebooks.com/2025/11/06/the-art-of-being-wrong-on-writing-a-literary-mystery/
At Sagging Central we've got a copy of Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS—and it's unbelievable. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_... Preorder it for a special discount at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/new-...
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
At Sagging Central we've got a copy of Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS—and it's unbelievable. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_... Preorder it for a special discount at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/new-...
In the Sundress Blog, Tassneem Abdulwahab calls Kat Meads' WHILE VISITING BABETTE "a surreal magnifying glass.... enchanting ... feeding the reader just enough input to be tantalizing, a delicate balance in the space between repetitive and perplexing". https://bit.ly/3JFXgrv
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In the Sundress Blog, Tassneem Abdulwahab calls Kat Meads' WHILE VISITING BABETTE "a surreal magnifying glass.... enchanting ... feeding the reader just enough input to be tantalizing, a delicate balance in the space between repetitive and perplexing". https://bit.ly/3JFXgrv
Come hear Sagging Meniscus in London at The Poetry Society: @davidcollard.bsky.social , Melissa McCarthy, Rufo Quintavalle, @julianstannardpoet.bsky.social , and Philip Terry. 20 November! RSVP at http://bit.ly/3Jl0JLN
October 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Come hear Sagging Meniscus in London at The Poetry Society: @davidcollard.bsky.social , Melissa McCarthy, Rufo Quintavalle, @julianstannardpoet.bsky.social , and Philip Terry. 20 November! RSVP at http://bit.ly/3Jl0JLN
Coming January 20th: Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS, including 70+ color photographs of this poet's fabulously imaginative art. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_and_used_poems_and_objects/
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Coming January 20th: Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS, including 70+ color photographs of this poet's fabulously imaginative art. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_and_used_poems_and_objects/
We're tickled to annonuce that Lee Upton's TABITHA, GET UP has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 2026 Thurber Prize for American Humor in Writing! https://www.thurberhouse.org/2026-thurber-prize-in-writing-semifinalists
October 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We're tickled to annonuce that Lee Upton's TABITHA, GET UP has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 2026 Thurber Prize for American Humor in Writing! https://www.thurberhouse.org/2026-thurber-prize-in-writing-semifinalists
In Heavy Feather, Jason K. Friedman on Devin Jacobsen's "beautiful and wide-ranging" story collection, THE SUMMER WE ATE OFF THE CHINA: "[Jacobsen] eschews a fashionable cool in favor of big language and deep feeling." https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/09/29/we-ate-off-the-china/
September 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
In Heavy Feather, Jason K. Friedman on Devin Jacobsen's "beautiful and wide-ranging" story collection, THE SUMMER WE ATE OFF THE CHINA: "[Jacobsen] eschews a fashionable cool in favor of big language and deep feeling." https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/09/29/we-ate-off-the-china/
The original PDF of this poster describing last year's giveaway, which we'll repeat this year, has gone missing. Perhaps we should print this photo, and next year print a photo of that, in its worn crumpled state, and continue in this lossy way until we forget why, thereby achieving sanctity.
September 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The original PDF of this poster describing last year's giveaway, which we'll repeat this year, has gone missing. Perhaps we should print this photo, and next year print a photo of that, in its worn crumpled state, and continue in this lossy way until we forget why, thereby achieving sanctity.
New Yorkers: please come say hello tomorrow (Sunday, Sep. 20) at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We'll be at Booth 333 with books old, new and forthcoming, and we'll have a video giveaway: read an excerpt on camera, get a book. @bkbookfest.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
New Yorkers: please come say hello tomorrow (Sunday, Sep. 20) at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We'll be at Booth 333 with books old, new and forthcoming, and we'll have a video giveaway: read an excerpt on camera, get a book. @bkbookfest.bsky.social
Cover reveal: Joseph D. Reich's monumental SCENES FROM THE PLANET EARTH, a book-length poem, coming in October. Preorders at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/scen...
September 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Cover reveal: Joseph D. Reich's monumental SCENES FROM THE PLANET EARTH, a book-length poem, coming in October. Preorders at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/scen...
Coming in December: Kurt Luchs' TRIBUTARIES, an anthology of favorite poems with accompanying essays and poems written in response. Preorder at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: https://asterismbooks.com/product/tributaries-essays-verses-flowing-from-celebrating-favorite-poems-kurt-luchs
September 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Coming in December: Kurt Luchs' TRIBUTARIES, an anthology of favorite poems with accompanying essays and poems written in response. Preorder at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: https://asterismbooks.com/product/tributaries-essays-verses-flowing-from-celebrating-favorite-poems-kurt-luchs
Vick Mickunas on John Patrick Higgins' "brutally hilarious" SPINE in the Dayton Daily News: "Fortunately after a few pages I recognized the author has a warped somewhat gallows sense of humor." https://bit.ly/42oIdsg
September 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Vick Mickunas on John Patrick Higgins' "brutally hilarious" SPINE in the Dayton Daily News: "Fortunately after a few pages I recognized the author has a warped somewhat gallows sense of humor." https://bit.ly/42oIdsg
Published today: Jake Goldsmith's IN EXTREMIS: brilliant essays on cultural decline and what may sustain us through it, and even on the pleasures of annoyance and the tendency to judge bookshelves. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_extremis/
September 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Published today: Jake Goldsmith's IN EXTREMIS: brilliant essays on cultural decline and what may sustain us through it, and even on the pleasures of annoyance and the tendency to judge bookshelves. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_extremis/
The long-awaited second novel by Guillermo Stitch, coming this Bloomsday. Available now for preorder at https://thecoastofeverything.com and https://saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything. "A timeless, extraordinary work.”—Nuala O’Connor
September 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The long-awaited second novel by Guillermo Stitch, coming this Bloomsday. Available now for preorder at https://thecoastofeverything.com and https://saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything. "A timeless, extraordinary work.”—Nuala O’Connor
Trailer for the astonishing new novel from Guillermo Stitch, THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming Bloomsday 2026! Preorders are live at https://thecoastofeverything.com and https://saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything.
September 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Trailer for the astonishing new novel from Guillermo Stitch, THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming Bloomsday 2026! Preorders are live at https://thecoastofeverything.com and https://saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything.
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IN EXTREMIS, new essays by @jgoldsmith.bsky.social, is available now for preorder at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/in-e...
July 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
IN EXTREMIS, new essays by @jgoldsmith.bsky.social, is available now for preorder at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/in-e...
Interviewed by Reggie Chamberlain-King in Pop Matters about his new book, SPINE, John Patrick Higgins is forthright in the defense of self-deprecation and daytime TV. https://www.popmatters.com/john-patrick-higgins-spine
July 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Interviewed by Reggie Chamberlain-King in Pop Matters about his new book, SPINE, John Patrick Higgins is forthright in the defense of self-deprecation and daytime TV. https://www.popmatters.com/john-patrick-higgins-spine
It's John Patrick Higgins, notoriously witty, secretly profound author of SPINE (& FINE, & TEETH) on Beyond the Zero this week, and he's in FINE form, though the book of the moment is the SP- one: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-patrick-higgins-spine/id1578980767?i=1000715589334
July 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It's John Patrick Higgins, notoriously witty, secretly profound author of SPINE (& FINE, & TEETH) on Beyond the Zero this week, and he's in FINE form, though the book of the moment is the SP- one: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-patrick-higgins-spine/id1578980767?i=1000715589334