Submarines Summer
If you know Mike Andrelczyk for his poetry you will be delighted to know he also writes prose. If you don’t know Mike Andrelczyk you will be delighted once...
It's Buy One Get One + Four Zines Weekend
Partly to pay some bills, partly to clean up space, partly to get books to people who might not have got them otherwise, we’re doing a Buy One Get One + Four...
I Feel Like an Alien Right Now
“It was easy to disappear if you were quiet.” This is the line that hooked me. I lived a quiet life like that for a long time and getting myself to reappear...
Our First Award Winner
Congratulations to Craig Rodgers, whose novel Drift, published in 2023 under our Death of Print imprint, has won the 2026 Dactyl Award. Drift has never sold...
Back in Stock!
I picked up five boxes of books yesterday in overstock from AWP. I had originally intended to have them all get forwarded to the Asterism warehouse, but for...
A Dispatch from Not at AWP
AWP 2026 wrapped up today. It seemed like fun. I put in a lot of work getting books and zines ready, but since I wasn’t able to go out to Baltimore I had to...
Release Day: The Walls Are Closing In On Us
Hey y’all. Joshua Trent Brown here. Alan is letting me take over for today’s newsletter because today is a special day! Today is the day my book enters the...
AWP and a Cure for FOMO
The walls are closing in on us. We’re just a week and change away from both the release of Joshua Trent Brown’s novel and AWP in Baltimore. For those of you...
A Bougie New Stapler
I got a stapler for my birthday. It’s a Bostich long reach, to replace the Swingline that now jams with pretty much every staple. The new one staples real...
Good
A couple weeks ago I gave my students a pretty easy assignment: make an argument for what grade you should get, based on your contributions in class this...
5 Poetry EPs
Sometime last year I was feeling regretful that we weren’t going to publish any poetry collections in 2026 or 2027 and I got to thinking about what we could...
Beautiful Poetry
Most times I plan what to do for poetry club on my plan, the day of poetry club, if I have time to plan at all. This last week I was looking for a sestina,...
The Walls Are Closing In On Us
Let’s start with a poem: Everybody Tells Me Everything Ogden Nash I find it very difficult to enthuse Over the current news. Just when you think that at...
Life Is Short and the World Is More Like 42% Terrible + A Cover Reveal!
I have been thinking about Maggie Smith’s poem “Good Bones” this week. It begins with the line “Life is short, though I keep this from my children.” A...
1342
We sold 1,342 books in 2025. This figure does not include book club orders, zines, or anthologies. I’m just looking at the books we have to pay royalties on,...
Cover Reveal: The Inaccessible Rail
Roger Vaillancourt, author of Un-ruined (Malarkey, 2022), has a new book coming out called The Inaccessible Rail. This is what the cover looks like: This...
To Do
Happy Friday. I thought it was Thursday. It’s been a somewhat restful break for me so far, in that I got to take a nap yesterday in that nice lull when the...
Five Years of Ludd
Five years ago I had the idea to make a zine that would feature long stories. I set the minimum at 4,000 words and determined to pay $50 per story. I also...
Malarkey Public Radio
We have a podcast. One of the nice things about this podcast is you don’t have to jump ahead three minutes to bypass the ads because there are no ads....
Blue Jays in Cottage Country
One of the things I learned before I dropped out of journalism school was that stories had to be timely. I’ve always tried to not live by that rule, but I am...