Cover Reveal: My Ardent Love for the Pencil by Vi Khi Nao
We are pleased to reveal the cover for Vi Khi Nao’s poetry collection, My Ardent Love for the Pencil, which will be released in September. David...
Bye for Now, a short story by Caitlin Brady
Editor’s note: We just moved this newsletter from Substack to Buttondown. We’ll skip the explanation, as plenty of people have written about their issues...
Detective Novel
The story of this book and a look at the final cover
Eating to Live
I started writing this yesterday, toward evening, and because it is about food I began to think about dinner, and the fact that I needed to make something...
On Going For It
Hello! John here. I’m writing this post for Malarkey’s newsletter because Boxcutters, my short story collection, is coming out today. It’s also my birthday....
Car Dealership
a short story by Lucas Restivo
Sound Cloud Anime Washroom
A short story by Xavier Garcia
We’re Reading
Don’t send your book. I can’t read it. It’s boring really good. I will probably forgot to reply to your email with “Sorry, we’re not looking at books right...
Failure
I wanted to say something funny about failure. I had a sentence typed out, but it felt empty, superficial. Failure is serious, not like we can’t joke about...
Happy Poetry Month
which coincides nicely with this National Hair Shirt Day
AWP Sale
To celebrate the last day of this year’s AWP bookfair, everything in the Malarkey store is 25% off. The code is AWP25. 25% off everything with code AWP25 I’m...
Spring Break Anti-Sale
I should be on my way to Los Angeles. If I was an idle rich, as the Lord intended, I would be there now, just waking up, enjoying a nice cup of coffee...
Bodily Pain and Poetry
Hair Shirt, by Adrian Sobol
Episode 7: Itoro Bassey
LJ talks with Itoro Bassey about her book, Faith, and what writers she returns to again and again, and how she balances journalism, and what they’re inspired...
Malarkey Forever!
I just sent out the file for Malarkey Forever, a digital sampler featuring the work of sixteen of our authors. It’s just under 33,000 words. Everyone who...
An Anniversary, and a Milestone
I knew as soon as I got to the decapitation (third paragraph) that Malarkey was going to publish LJ’s book. No regrets. It’s been out for a year now and...
Still Alive
Happy New Year or whatever. It might not be, or like always it will be a mix, right. It’s hard to celebrate when one is mindful of all the trouble in the...
Up
Amusing anecdote that lays out the theme I made an old-timer laugh at the hardware store the other day. I say hardware store, but it was Lowes. We had a gift...
All or Nothing
We are 51% toward our all-or-nothing fundraising goal, with three weeks left. The best thing about if we make it is I won’t have to promote it anymore....
Gonna Make It
Gonna Make It . . .