Josh Rothes

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

Hard agree

Found this FDR stamp (c. 1968) in my copy of Osvaldo Lamborghini’s stories, published in Argentina around 2003. Open to interpretations.

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.

Remember: Sometimes the other guy dies on the hill. Then you still have a hill.

I emailed some contacts at the local paper. I’m just up the road if I can do anything beyond calling/emailing folks.

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

Which ones? Do tell!

Ending 2024 with an ill-advised text conversation with my brother that ended with “Really little bro? I can deal with the atheism, but socialism?”

“Go to your earth, you who have not died.”

Jean Paul, ‘The Parson in Jubilee’ (1797), tr. Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social [forthcoming 2025]

Congrats!

Fact

Elegize me in DIN

You’re darn right I made it snow asterisks.

Somehow I read “Iowa” instead of “love” even after multiple re-reads. The mind is a funny thing.

Image of part of a dog’s head with his ear sticking up against the arm of a couch. The ear has a long tuft of hair standing straight up.

Update: Merle is now part lynx.

Looking forward to seeing you in your “that’s what I do: I sell books and I know things” sweatshirt

I keep busy…

I received about 120k books this summer… so… feel that.

I’ll do anything for the kids

Thanks, buddy!

My Heresies, Alina Stefanescu — SARABANDE BOOKS Pre-order only. Available April 2025. Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, b...

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Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤
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Wave is getting into this now with some of their titles to, in my opinion, great effect.

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Black background, white foreground text in handwritten script reading: Carolus had stones from Jericho and coarse hairs from Herod's beard; a finger of incalculable age, to the second knuckle, and under the nail, Ederic dirt; wherever it had been dropped, it was said, sprouted an oak. A guileless plunderer, but when a finger bled, he put it back, simple s that.

Black background, white foreground text in handwritten script reading: One who serves discretely need not fear regret. And it is best remembered that revelation is a historical matter first. It is not as important that something happens so much as that something has happened.

Black background, white foreground text in handwritten script reading: No poet should live long enough to confront the porousness of his abstractions. EXTASE, APRÈS LA TOMB.

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Correct

Forgive my lost year…

@jeremymillar.bsky.social DM me your address and I’ll send a stack over!

Always happy to offers words of advice or encouragement!

NBN to Close, Clients Offered Opportunity to Move to S&S The independent distributor of some 150 publishers will close by the middle of 2025, leaving Independent Publishers Group as the remaining independent distributor of significant size in the United Sta...

Awful to see another independent distribution resource for publishers go down.

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Pre-orders for my chapbook, Some Deer @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, are open! 🦌🦌🦌

Huge thanks to Ian McMillan, Alina Stefanescu & Michael Earl Craig for blurbs; to Aaron Kent for publishing; & to Kristofor Minta for putting deer in my head at Seattle AWP.🦌

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