KERNPUNKT Press

Map of Brooklyn park where Brooklyn Book Fair is happening. KERNPUNKT is at table 621

Come visit us at the #BrooklynBookFestival this weekend!

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Two book covers for Isabel Sobral Campos and N/A Oparah's books from Futurepoem. They are advertising a reading at Poets House in NYC on September 23rd.

Thrilled that KERNPUNKTers N/A Oparah and Isabel Sobral Campos will be reading together at @poetshouse.bsky.social in celebration of their new @futurepoem.bsky.social books!

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Deus Absconditus and Love Letters from Outer Space KERNPUNKT Press is an independent publisher of experimental literary fiction

"In this wildly inventive book two artists, both poets and painters, wrestle with the hidden God. The collaboration takes place in 77 love letters that are by turns carnal, hilarious, despairing, and philosophical." Coming October - www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p45/de...

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CHILD OF LIGHT | Kirkus Reviews In Bender’s historical novel, a sensitive girl awakens to her spiritual gifts in late-19th-century New York.

oooh baby. Child of Light gets a review in Kirkus and I think they liked it

"Patient, perceptive, and charged with a quiet emotional power."

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Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2025 - Reactor New titles for your summer reading, covering everything from eldritch horrors to career highlights...

Child of Light featured in @reactorsff.bsky.social's Can't Miss Indie Press Spec Fic list for July and August.

File under Wait, Are We In A Cult?!

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@vol1brooklyn.bsky.social recommends #ChildofLight - coming 8/12 from @whiskeytit.com <3 <3 <3

Recommended Books: August 2025 At the best of times, August is a weird month. (Ask our managing editor to tell you about his childhood experience of insomnia, which could also be described as an allergy to the month in question.…

We recommended some August books. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/08/06/r...

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beautiful!!

ah, thank you Brian!!

New excerpt of #ChildofLight up - bigindiebooks.com/2025/07/22/e... @whiskeytit.com

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Can you jump on board and help this book reach its target before the end of the week?

Serious Play: A Review of Jesi Bender’s Child of Light By Jared Joseph   A work of both experimental and historical fiction, Jesi Bender’s Child of Light serves as a memento mori, but in the literal sense of the Latin: “remember (that you have to)…

Holy Big Other review of Jesi Bender's Child of Light:

It’s time to translate the past and save the future. If the meaning of Bender’s Child of Light is dark, its very language is light, flexible, revivifying. This is serious play.

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Serious Play: A Review of Jesi Bender’s Child of Light By Jared Joseph   A work of both experimental and historical fiction, Jesi Bender’s Child of Light serves as a memento mori, but in the literal sense of the Latin: “remember (that you have to)…

Beautiful new review of #ChildofLight up at @bigothermag.bsky.social - bigother.com/2025/07/12/s... @whiskeytit.com

Child of Light Thirteen-year-old Ambrétte Memenon has lived her entire life estranged from her family. After a series of financial failures, they reunite in rural upstate NY in the Spring of 1896. Together in the…

I'm incredibly lucky to be reading an advance copy of CHILD OF LIGHT by Jesi Bender, coming 8/12 from Whisk(e)y Tit!

So far the best way I can describe it is Lauren Groff's Matrix meets nothing I've seen before.

Get on it by preordering!
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"Smart, sad, and horribly beautiful."

Jesi Bender on 'The N-Word of God', a graphic novel by Mark Doox, from Fantagraphics Books.

https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-17-summer-2025/mark-dooxs-emthe-n-word-of-godem/

Screaming at the Window, a story of Blanche Monnier The Prisoner of Poitiers (La Séquestrée de Poitiers) by RJ Dent KERNPUNKT Press is an independent publisher of experimental literary fiction

Blanche Monnier was imprisoned in an upstairs room by her mother and her brother. In 1901, an anonymous letter alerted the police to the fact that Blanche had been imprisoned for twenty-five years. When they found her, she was half-starved, naked, & screaming. www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p42/sc...

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Now Beacon, Now Sea by Steven Hendricks KERNPUNKT Press is an independent publisher of experimental literary fiction

Sasha is stabbed in a random attack. While in the hospital, he is visited by "Someone", who reads to him about Dante and Greek mythology. Sasha undergoes a transformation, which results in an uncertain and complex dynamic between himself & Someone.
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Dream Elevator, poems by Marisa Lin KERNPUNKT Press is an independent publisher of experimental literary fiction

DREAM ELEVATOR is an exploration of girlhood, displacement, and movement. The collection traces the trajectory of a daughter and mother from Quanzhou, China to the snowy plains of Rochester, Minnesota.
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don't let the mother fucking bastards get you down 🇺🇸

Electricity, feminism, mental health, spirits and seance, haunted houses, death, and first loves - CHILD OF LIGHT, coming soon! whiskeytit.com/product/chil...

Six Ridiculous Questions: Jesi Bender The guiding principle of Six Ridiculous Questions is that life is filled with ridiculousness. And questions. That only by giving in to these truths may we hope to slip the surly bonds of reality an…

Come see what ridiculousness Jesi Bender gets herself into with this 6 Ridiculous Question interview over at @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social

www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/06/23/s...

Then check out her upcoming release Child of Light because it's too good to let it fly under your radar

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Six Ridiculous Questions: Jesi Bender The guiding principle of Six Ridiculous Questions is that life is filled with ridiculousness. And questions. That only by giving in to these truths may we hope to slip the surly bonds of reality an…

"Apropos of nothing in particular, I am thinking a lot about the French Revolution lately." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/06/23/s...

David Leo Rice on 'The Berlin Wall' | Harvard Magazine David Leo Rice explores the strange, unseen forces shaping our world.

Honored to be profiled in this month's HARVARD MAGAZINE -- huge thanks to Nina Pasquini for the fantastic interview! @whiskeytit.com @kernpunktpress.bsky.social @1111press.bsky.social

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