John Chrostek

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King Ludd's rag No. 20, october 2024. Guest Editer by Wayne McCray, with stories by Joshua Trent Brown and S.R. Jenkins. (Picture of a fancy fountain in the middle, it is probably famous and I should know it, but I don't). The walls are closing in on us by joshua trent brown. The cover is a snake coiled om itself hovering above a rocky river. The snake is a muted green on a grey scale background).

Sick Sad Queer by Ly Faulk. Cover art by Daniel Miller. A plant in 4 parts, blue vase on a yellow quartered background. First plant has a small flower with eyes and a mouth, next the flower is a skull, then a face, then a blue face crying.. The back says " This is a limited run, printed ans published by Malarkey Books as.part of the 2026 Poetry EP series. The series is funded in part by small donations from patrons. The publisher would lillle to thank Sara Gore ans Teresa Ardrey for helping make this publication possible." And the malarkey logo is on the bottom.

At least I can assauge some of my FOMO for not being at AWP, since I got my copy of The Walls are Closing in On Us by @joshuatrentbrown.com and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social.
Look at this cool AF cover by @johnchrostek.com! Included also a poetry EP by Ly Faulk. Look close and ya girl is thanked.

decided it’s my new mission to make Ducks, Newburyport a Mother’s Day staple gift, much like the egg of Easter

Thanks boss man 🫡🫡🫡
Really wish I was there with y’all!!

They call it Hedger’s Law

The Pink Agave Motel / V. Castro
Revenge / Yoko Ogawa

ALT TEXT: (thanks, @izanda.bsky.social)

Persona / Aoife Josie Clements
Tell Me Yours I'll Tell You Mine / Kristina Ten
No Gods for Drowning / Hailey Piper
Girl in the Creek / Wendy N. Wagner
One of Our Kind / Nicola Yoon
Black Flame / Gretchen Felker-Martin
The Night Ship / Alex Woodroe

cont.

Thank you for doing this! I’ll add them to the replies of the original post

It’s Women In Horror month! Here’s some stellar writers on the shelf or on order at @eveninghouse.bsky.social

@ravineangel.bsky.social
@kristinaten.bsky.social
@haileypiperfights.bsky.social
@wnwagner.bsky.social
@nicolayoon.bsky.social
@scumbelievable.bsky.social
@alexwoodroe.com
& more

a woman is crawling in the dark with a green light coming out of her eyes . ALT: a woman is crawling in the dark with a green light coming out of her eyes .

ALISON NOOOOoooooooooooo

Even summarizing a summary has poisoned my soul

I’m just now learning about a Twitter thread regarding the merit of writers who don’t read books.

As such, I’m realizing that yes, Bluesky sucks for promoting things and finding new things, but it does admittedly seem better at snuffing out conversation hells like that one

One of my favorite parts of last night’s election results.

The only Democratic talking point should be: we don’t abandon anyone.

If I end up dying soon, man, at least I got to this

I’m terrified about the dire straits of the world & stressed about being laid off & bringing in less money, but the sun is shining & I’m in Evening House with the door propped open for the first time in months, talking books with good people, and it feels like a miracle compared to much of my life

finally gaining corporeal form after a few months of ghost life

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal.

The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright.

(Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

simply unprecedented

Cosmic Meat Explanations put out one of the best prog albums of 1977, couldn't believe my ears hearing that 32 minute track with the electric fiddle and the babbling brook

so bummed I won't be there for this

I was already intrigued about this book, but this is an exciting new wrinkle

Thanks to everyone who shared. I got an order (thank you! 🎉). Feel free to get in touch if you want in, too!

It was a joy working on this book with Trent & Alan (I designed the cover!) As always, @malarkeybooks.bsky.social knows good books & champions them.

A Malarkey book is a thing of raw, heartfelt humanity. Not raw as in unpolished, but organic, unique, three-dimensional writing

Cheers, Trent!!

Oceans are now battlefields

🫂🍻 ayyyy

Holy shit, seven first edition copies left!!!

Snap! Criticism: Okotie and Thien Dan Hartland In a letter on May 14, 1981, Philip K. Dick was characteristically pugnacious: “I will define science fiction, first, by saying what sf is not. It cannot be defined as ‘a story (or nov…

What future for the novel of the future? What are the bits of SF that might enable it to persist, or help the novel itself survive? How might writers reuse them?

My latest Snap! column for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org: “SF can formally as well as intellectually contribute to the effort of revival.”

Before this, marathoned Krasznorkhai's SATANTANGO in two days for book club and still kind of wrapped up in that whole grim experience

A book about fate and time and love, where everything is predestined and set in stone and yet the beautiful things linger on in sunlight. Medicine for the acutely aware. Loved it

Finished LITTLE LAZARUS by Michael Bible today, pub'd by @clashbooks.bsky.social. A bittersweet fable of two sad Southern teens whose lives intertwine w/two deeply aware tortoises. Like Twin Peaks Ep. 1 before breaking open w/ an insult fetish billionaire, a seersucker suit brotherhood & much more