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No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

"'The Life of a Showgirl' is the weakest and least interesting album Swift has ever made. It has no heart, no purpose, no emotional core." defector.com/taylor-swift...

Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!

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2026 Book Club — Malarkey Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...

Signing up for the 2026 Malarkey Book Club won’t save the publishing industry or the world but it will bring good mail to your house next year.

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Reminder that while bookshop.org is amazing and you should be directing your online book sales there, I'll echo others and say that for small publishers, one of the most impactful things you can do is buy directly from our website, putting money in our bank account today for operations.

Most of our books are available through Bookshop, and you can also support your local bookstore with your order! bookshop.org/shop/malarke...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

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copyright page of The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, including the statement "The Barre Incidents is a work of fiction created without the use of artificial intelligence by Lauren Bolger. As a small, independent press, we are committed to celebrating human creativity. We welcome and encourage quotes from this book for review and/or scholarly purposes. Use of this text in AI or large language models for any purpose is absolutely prohibited."

here's @malarkeybooks.bsky.social with an example of how it can & should be

Aside from Vance, who as veep is functionally unemployed, farming the approval of racist trolls for validation, this is their worldview: white people are true Americans and are entitled to be here, the rest of us are guests and must behave accordingly

I’m reading at The Mill, a new literary variety show hosted by the journal Millstone at Burlington Bar on Thursday, October 16—there’s also an open mic! Free ticket link below.

Thanks, Gabino! Always looking to for an opportunity to boost BACKMASK

"Abandon the conviction that success, by any metric the industry approves, has worth. Buy books second-hand, share them with your friends, pirate. Read less [...]; read better."

Got a few left, a small handful, and you might as well buy one!

Don Bronco’s (Working Title) Shell smells like eggs. Or does it?

"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger (ePub) — Malarkey An ePub file suitable for reading as an ebook on most devices. The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, author of Kill Radio Cover design by Matthew Revert When Kara's miner father dies of Silicosis...

You know you can get the ebook of @renbolger.bsky.social’s The Barre Incidents for $5? Plus free shipping!

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flyer for a reading saying Lazy & Entitled presents Scary Stories To Tell In Rogers Park October 8th 7 PM celebrating new books from Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. and Lauren Bolger additional readings and music by Chris Corlew & Brendan Johnson Rivers & Roads Cafe espresso bar and snacks available 1259 W Devon Ave

WHAT YOU DOING NEXT WEDNESDAY

WE GOT A READING

WE GOT @thecorlew.bsky.social WE GOT @bnothing.bsky.social WE GOT @renbolger.bsky.social WE GOT @tvayyyy.bsky.social ALL READING

COME OUT AND GET SCARED IN ROGERS PARK

flyer for a reading saying Lazy & Entitled presents Scary Stories To Tell In Rogers Park October 8th 7 PM celebrating new books from Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. and Lauren Bolger additional readings and music by Chris Corlew & Brendan Johnson Rivers & Roads Cafe espresso bar and snacks available 1259 W Devon Ave

this is gonna be such a good reading man y'all I cannot WAIT

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scary as hell! new books from two incredible authors!

Thank you to the most thoughtful and kindest of chefs, @dryan.bsky.social , for choosing and editing my "Kitchen at the Top of the Stairs," a savory on @malarkeybooks.bsky.social 's Mealarkey Fall Menu 2025.

I hope you find it tasty!

Fall Menu 2025 — Malarkey

It’s not a true kitchen without a few unexpected hiccups but @malarkeybooks.bsky.social’s Mealarkey Fall Menu 2025 is finally live, featuring tasty treats by @ttbrader.bsky.social, @adamshaw502.bsky.social, and William Weissinger!

happy October! I'm biased, but I think this is a great little scary-season collection, ft. Halloween staples like "baptism in blood" "your horrible husband falling prey to a cosmic horror" and "second-person stories written entirely in one sentence."

Cover for The Barre Incidents by me (Lauren Bolger). A statue’s face with a graveyard superimposed behind it. Cover art is by Matt Revert!

Today, The Barre Incidents is officially released upon the world. A Horror book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, learning cryptids are real, and banished, embittered gods. Happy born day TBI! You can order here! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

Spooky season starts today, with The Barre Incidents!

the Dreadful POINT serial & short fiction

I've always been fascinated by Milton's dual career as an epic poet and a polemicist. I try to combine both of these registers in my writing and in the formats I use to deliver it

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Don’t have the money for it but it would be really fun to finally do a Worst American Poetry anthology.

This is why it’s good to be in the book club!

Fine, Sticker Guy, we will order some heart-shaped slickers with slime green ink on black vinyl. You had us at heart-shaped stickers with slime green ink on black vinyl.

Holy shit it’s almost October! Grab one of the very last signed first editions. We are in the single digits.

Release is tomorrow! Today’s the last day to preorder! Order today and you‘ll get my book, a copy of Hellarkey 4, (Malarkey’s Halloween zine), a sticker and bookmark featuring a mini comic (art by Mary Verhoeven) and a great spinach pie recipe.

Get this! Honored to be included 🎃

Bookstore — Malarkey You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.

Just spent $675 on an AWP table, significantly less than last year because we got the early bird rate and didn’t have to pay a premium table surcharge, but it still means this is an extremely good time for folks to buy books because that’s a lot of money!

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