December 7, 2024

Bundles Up

it's cold out there!

Joshua Trent Brown, author of The Walls Are Closing In On Us (Malarkey 2026), put together this list of Christmas bundles, although they will go together any time of year. I recognize that our books aren’t ideal gifts for everyone; I would be excited to get a book I’ve never heard of, but I guess I know people who would go, oh, a book I’ve never heard of. Thaaaaaaaaanks. If you do know someone who might like a book they’ve never heard of, then now would be a good time to check out these bundles. You can follow Trent’s advice, or make your own combo with our 3 for $45 special. Do note the publication date: if a book is set to to come out in 2025 it won’t get to you by Christmas. If you’ve got your eye on a preorder, though, you could order all three now, give one book to that special book lover at the holidays, hold one back as self-care, and then the third in however many months. Probably how I would do it.

Trent’s Malarkey Christmas (But Not Necessarily Limited to Christmas) Bundles (which by the way, if I’m putting orders together and I see any of these combos I will make sure to put issue 20 of King Ludd’s Rag in the order because it has a story by Joshua Trent Brown in it):

• Dark, Humorous, Puke All Over Your Heart Poetry

  • Hair Shirt

  • Thumbsucker

  • Your Favorite Poet

• Death of Print Pack

  • Detective Novel

  • Francis Top’s Lost Cipher

  • Awful People

• Scary (or, interpretations of scary) Backwoods?

  • The Barre Incidents

  • Where the Pavement Turns to Sand

  • Gloria Patri

• Funky, Weird Horror

  • Backmask

  • Consumption and Other Vices

  • Kill Radio

• We’re All Just Figuring It Out Five-Pack

  • Sleep Decades

  • Still Alive

  • The Muu-Antiques

  • First Aid for Choking Victims

  • Sophomore Slump

• Genres? Where we’re going, we don’t need genres!

  • Thunder from a Clear Blue Sky

  • Don Bronco’s (Working Title) Shell

  • Hope and Wild Panic

• Everybody’s Got Family Shit

  • Un-ruined

  • Gloria Patri

  • Guess What’s Different

• Experiments? Ambitions? Monkeys? Pigs? Spiders?

  • Fearless

  • Man in a Cage

  • Un-ruined

• Funky short stories

  • The Great Atlantic Highway

  • I Blame Myself But Also You

  • Toadstones

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