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Josh Rothes

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It’s why I stayed away from the convention center hotel nexus!

04.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(I will be talkative, witty, and salesy soon enough; tonight I skulk at the hotel bar)

04.03.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

In Baltimore for the thing.

04.03.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€œA new language is what responds to reality where a moral, epistemological jolt has occurred.”

β€” Ingeborg Bachmann

(from the first Frankfurt lecture)

01.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Taxation season. Be a shame if no one felt they had representation…

25.02.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Email to my landlord re: my prorated rent

25.02.2026 04:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And somewhere in here, drinks?

24.02.2026 04:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely not trying to make the terrible news of the closure of Washington Post's Books coverage about me or anything, but I cannot stress how bad this is for books. The biggest divide between Big 5 and independent/nonprofit press books is not quality--it's the marketing spend.

04.02.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 170 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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Thinking about him again…

16.12.2025 05:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Seattle friends, Asterism is open 10–5 today for a holiday book sale!

29.11.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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since the British 19C poet Amy Levy is in the news (a trove of letters was recently discovered & made available for research), I will share a link to the volume of her collected poems that we pub’d in the Empyrean Series (no. 30) a couple years ago asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

16.11.2025 14:23 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thought you’d appreciate the placement

03.11.2025 05:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t wait for you all to get these in your hands!

30.10.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAnd here the earth returned from its year and flew down from the sun above, and the sound sang ever more beautifully and soft: β€˜Go to your earth, you who have not yet died.’”

β€”β€˜The Parson in Jubilee: An Appendix’ (1797), trans. @unpaginated.bsky.social

24.10.2025 21:03 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Burial of the White Wolf | Asterism Books The second in her Trilogy of the Body, *The Burial of the White Wolf* follows Barbieri's *The Whore* down a different delirious rabbit hole, this time centered on the murder of a woman of many names, ...

asterismbooks.com/product/the-burial-of-the-white-wolf-marcia-barbieri

Pre-orders are available for the second installation of the Trilogy of the Body, written by Brazil's freakiest living writer and brought to you by @sublunary.bsky.social.

30.09.2025 19:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So very cool. Congratulations!

27.09.2025 22:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cochlear Implant Leppard

22.09.2025 00:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Yellow pamphlet, Hydra,
Certain Biological and Psychoanalytical
Considerations of by Joshua Rothes

Yellow pamphlet, Hydra, Certain Biological and Psychoanalytical Considerations of by Joshua Rothes

Not Immune from Politics
What other motto can a collection of heads astride a single body have but one of solidarity? How else would they, this multitudinous maw, treat their collective labor? Should one go hungry because another's jaws snapped shut first? No! Because they, more than we, understand that there may be many gullets, but only one belly!
And so I would posit the hydra as communist agitator.

Not Immune from Politics What other motto can a collection of heads astride a single body have but one of solidarity? How else would they, this multitudinous maw, treat their collective labor? Should one go hungry because another's jaws snapped shut first? No! Because they, more than we, understand that there may be many gullets, but only one belly! And so I would posit the hydra as communist agitator.

Fully excellent post courtesy of @joshuarothes.bsky.social / NOT IMMUNE FROM POLITICS

15.09.2025 16:58 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It was hot today so I made some chapbooks. Will send you one. Inquire within.

26.08.2025 00:03 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

DM me an address!

06.09.2025 01:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Remind me your address and one is yours.

26.08.2025 02:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

DM me an address!

26.08.2025 02:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Usual address?

26.08.2025 02:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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It was hot today so I made some chapbooks. Will send you one. Inquire within.

26.08.2025 00:03 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œArt is utilitarian.

Indeed it is doubtful whether anything like work, war, and money-making is useful to the life of a man.”

β€”Carnevali, notebooks

24.08.2025 00:33 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello a literary prize paid for by submission fees is a raffle thanks.

19.08.2025 22:27 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now would be a good time to ask yourself if you’re working for the clampdown.

10.06.2025 17:14 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hard agree

01.06.2025 02:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Found this FDR stamp (c. 1968) in my copy of Osvaldo Lamborghini’s stories, published in Argentina around 2003. Open to interpretations.

31.05.2025 23:24 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Projects I’ll never have time to finish, part whatever. Please enjoy these prototypes for trading cards based on Fernando Pessoa’s many heteronyms and alter egos.

17.05.2025 18:47 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1