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Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jun 13

We’ve been hit with a few waves of bookstore returns. Frustrating situation for us but our solution is to resell them at a discount. $13. There’s a pretty good variety available and we send free zines out with them. Malarkeybooks.com/returns

Graveyard scene with book covers rising out of the ground (with amateur execution). Text reads “Return of the Living Returns.”

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jun 13

Submarines and Comic Sans by @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social. Preorder here for $15 malarkeybooks.com/store/submar...

Copy of Submarines, a novel, and Comic Sans, a poetry zine, by Mike Andrelczyk.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jun 10

Here’s the cover for @willmusgrove.bsky.social’s story collection After Last Call. Drops next April, reserve a signed copy now. Thanks to @mrwojorising.bsky.social for another great cover! malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...

Book cover, features a hops plant that appears to have mugs of beer as buds. Text reads:

After Last Call
Stories
Will Musgrove

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jun 8

I should find a better time to post this than Sunday night but true art can’t wait. Malarkeybooks.com/submarines

An osprey soars through the sky, holding a fish that has half a sub sandwich for a head. Text: It was April. Two days after Opening Day of the 2011 Major League Baseball season. I was twenty-five years old, living with my grandmother, hungover and unemployed.
An osprey was frozen in place like a glitch in an old Nintendo sky. He was locked in.
The shadow of death was near at hand. Oh shit.

Submarines
A novel by Mike Andrelczyk
Malarkeybooks.com/submarines

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jun 5

Big thanks to @neonpajamas.bsky.social for this delicious blurb of Submarines. @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social is one poet who is not out of his depth writing a novel.

Sub sandwich and this blurb

"Submarines is a pristine slacker comedy. Laugh out loud, lonely, hysterical, relatable, and increasingly surreal. Mike Andrelczyk, a writer I previously knew as a master of the tiny poem, the joke poem, and the haiku, comes correct with his debut novel."
- Ben Niespodziany, author of No Farther Than the End of the Street
Malarkeybooks.com/submarines

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jun 5

Get it

Three six inch sub sandwiches , a blue sky with light clouds in the background. The subs are meant to be clouds. Text: A smooth and snappy novel written with a real poet's eye for beauty, full of both silly gags and deeply profound truths. Submarines made me both ruminate darkly on the decaying corpse of the American dream - the bleak death-march of our own doom, of grief and loss and pointless disaster - and lol.
- Zac Smith, author of Everything is Totally Fine
Malarkeybooks.com/submarines

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jun 5

Just in time for Subs Summer, a nice Graham Irvin blurb for @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social’s novel, Submarines: malarkeybooks.com/store/submar...

Subway sandwich on white background. Text:
"Mike Andrelzyk's prose makes me ache not only for the narrator but for the narrator's pain. It's familiar in a tragic sense, like many great novels before it, about fuckups who continually fuck up;
Submarines makes me miss something I shouldn't."
—Graham Irvin, author of I Have a Gun
Malarkeybooks.com/submarines

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jun 4

Submarines Summer malarkeybooks.com/submarines

Overlaid on the Yankees outfield, this text:
"Submarines is one of those books that feels like it's emerged from the fathoms of collective human experience, to reveal its unspoken mysteries, if only for a nanosecond, before sinking into the marrow of our subconscious, haunting us when we we least expect, but desperately need, to be reminded that the 'everyday nothingness of life' is all that matters. In other words, Mike Andrelyzk's debut novel is a gift."
-Jillian Luft, author of Scumbag Summer
Malarkeybooks.com/submarines

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jun 3

Buy more books so we can hire a real graphic designer.

A black-crowned night heron stands in front of the pitcher’s mound, a bunch of Dodgers in the dugout in the background, with mostly Phillies fans in the stands. In a white text box above there is a blurb from Aaron Burch, author of Tacoma: “I loved Submarines for lots of reasons, but maybe most of all for what I felt like while reading it. Like any good hangout story, as soon as I'd finished it, I immediately missed hanging out in that world, with those characters. I challenge you to slip open to any page and not find a sentence and a passage that doesn't make you want to read more.”

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Mar 7

Don’t know if anyone will be interested but Bookmobile sends us unbound print proofs and I’m going to start turning the loose pages into bookmarks. The one pictured (a page from @vikhinao.bsky.social’s book) is in progress; gonna go pick up some washi tape to finish it off.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Feb 7

Preorder @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s book and you will also get a poetry EP by @lyfaulk.bsky.social. malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

Title: Sick Sad Queer
Author: Ly Faulk
A plant goes through four stages of growth, with its bud a human face that grows bigger in each stage until it is full grown and crying, watering itself with its tears.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jan 9

So happy to share the cover for @suzyeynon.bsky.social’s forthcoming novella, Terrestrial (May 2026, preorders open now and copies will be signed by the author). As ever, @angeelio.bsky.social gave us something special. malarkeybooks.com/store/terres...

Front cover features, in the top 2/3 of the space, a close up of a foil eclipse viewer with the pinhole as a focal point. Bottom of the screen features the text: Terrestrial, Suzy Eynon, a novella.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Dec 27

The cover (designed by @johnchrostek.com) for The Inaccessible Rail, a novel by @rogerjva.bsky.social, out in October 2026—the preorder link, if you’d like a signed copy, is accessible now! malarkeybooks.com/store/inacce...

The front cover for The Inaccessible Rail by Roger Vaillancourt. Sort of a digital collage, with the image of a bird within the outline of a bird overlaid against a desert mesa.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Oct 12

Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

Book cover for The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown. Features a winding snake over a river. Blurb by Austin Ross, author of Gloria Patri: “a book that examines not only the soul of a man but—perhaps—the soul of a nation."

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jul 29

My Ardent Love for the Pencil print proof. Poems and photos by Vi Khi Nao. malarkeybooks.com/store/myarde...

Unbound book held together with rubber bands. Cover has gearing of a face, with a fish on the guy’s forehead, orange sun above.

How could she be a lesbian when her hair is so straight?
My camera remembers you.
I want to borrow the tranquility of her desire and make it my own.
I tell her, you can't have me but you can have my memory of you.
Maybe one day I will have a video tape of your memory.
I am trying to put my hand as a placeholder in her body-like reading a book—I just want to know what page I am on.
I can't wait for the world to hide her mouth in my purse.
And just like that I let her go.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jul 29

Four poetry titles on sale for $10 each, now through Thursday. If we sell a bunch of copies at $10 we won’t really make much money but a bunch more people will have these books. Good trade off. Malarkeybooks.com/store

Poetry Sale
With the Sealey, Challenge coming up we thought we'd do a sale: for the rest of July all our in stock poetry titles are on sale for just $10:
Hair Shirt Adrian Sobol
Thumbsucker by Kat Giordano
You're Favorite Poet by Leigh Chadwick
My Ardent Love for the Pencil by Vi Khi
Nao*
*won't arrive in time for Sealey but at least it's insanely cheap

Malarkeybooks.com/store

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jul 26

Want to do more stuff like this, and we are going to try something. Looking for 12 people who will help support a monthly poetry project for next year. More info: malarkeybooks.com/store/poet-o...

An open zine, laying atop another copy that shows part of the cover

Text:

I want to die in a sword fight while standing under a waterfall as someone washes my hair.
SUFJAN STEVENS GAVE ME
TENNESSEE
Limited edition EP by Leigh Chadwick
Recorded in the old RV at Malarkey Books Sound Studios, Armpit, Missouri
Cover design by Angelo Maneage
Leigh Chadwick is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Your Favorite Poet and Sophomore Slump. Her poetry has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Salamander, Passages North, and Identity Theory, among others. Leigh can be found online at www.leighchadwick.com
ON BEING
Stop giving me emotions, I tell my emotions.
Be better at being better. I am always fighting a head cold after walking through December.
I was seventeen when I left my virginity in a basement in Cleveland. The Mississippi one.
That's a lie. I was eighteen and his dorm room smelled like a box of cinnamon that woke up sweating.
I like to drink a glass of orange juice after fucking with the lights on. In all of my dreams, it takes a machete to cut through the fog.
I hope his chemo feels like listening to the Talking Heads for the first time. It's useless to hope for a heartbeat after the second round passes through
what the boy used to call his chest. What have we stepped on that isn't a burial ground?
"Part-Time Celebrity" originally appeared in Bullshit Lit
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Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jul 23

Getting started on the print run of My Ardent Love for the Pencil, poems and photos by Vi Khi Nao. Printing on 80-lb stock because of the photos. Can’t wait to hold a copy finally! Preorder for a signed copy. malarkeybooks.com/store/myarde...

Every time I come back to this book, to tweak the ebook file, to change the acknowledgments page, to pick out some pieces to post on the website, I notice something that I overlooked on a different reading. Here's what I noticed today, from a prose poem that is a microcosm of the book in the way the whole things runs together, although you can't tell here because l'm picking out just one line, a great one: "I wish I could dine with God On a bed of bruised plums and pumpkins so orange they make Florida jealous."

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jul 21

PRAISE FOR THE BARRE INCIDENTS
"Lauren Bolger continues to propel herself forward as one of the most interesting and finest voices in horror with her sophomore novel, The Barre Incidents. She excels at weaving the intangible, like familial relationships, trauma, and existential dread, with the in-your face and gripping terrors of the kinds of creatures that will haunt your dreams. I think it's safe to say The Barre Incidents has cemented Bolger as the Cryptid Queen. Do not sleep on this novel."
—Michael Bettendorf, author of True Cult
"Lauren Bolger's The Barre Incidents is a thrilling mystery about family, love and grief blended with a deep dive into world mythology. The book delightfully
interweaves the voices of friendly residents of a small town alongside ancient and otherworldly voices. A strange and thrilling tale!"
—Ivy Grimes, author of The Gbosts of Blaubart Mansion

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jul 15

Double hard mode

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jul 9

This first pancake notebook stays here, but this is along the lines of the notebooks we’re going to make for book clubbers this year. Really nice paper but gonna have to invest in a guillotine and learn how to bind these with a sewing machine.

Interior of handmade notebook, with a hobby knife laying on the pages.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jul 9

We can also sell just the bag. This is what it looks like!

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jul 9

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Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jul 8

Here’s a prime deal: two books and a t-shirt for $50 and free shipping. malarkeybooks.com/store/twoboo...

Three Malarkey shirts hanging on a clothes line

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jul 8

Today, under our Death of Print alter ego, we publish a book that was almost lost in a fire. This is Detective Novel by @abasketofcraig.bsky.social malarkeybooks.com/store/detect...

Cover of Detective Novel by Craig Rodgers. Features part of a hand gun in a wood background next to the tips of a pair of brown shoes. Tagline:
THE ONLY WAY TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH IS TO WALK A MILE IN THE SHOES OF A DEAD MAN

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jul 1

We have these t-shirts. Comfy. Look pretty good. $20—and we’re gonna send stickers and a zine with it. We A. need these shirts to turn into money and B. need these shirts out of the house! malarkeybooks.com/store/tee

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jun 18

We have a cover, designed by @mrwojorising.bsky.social, for Vi Khi Nao’s forthcoming collection, My Ardent Love for the Pencil! Cover art from Jörn Budesheim. malarkeybooks.com/news/2025/6/...

Front cover of My Ardent Love for the Pencil by Vi Khi Nao. Mostly black and white but a hand drawn sun at the top right above a face of a man with a fish in his forehead.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Jun 11

Bag of books baby

Screenshot showing order receipt for Still Alive, a novel by LJ Pemberton, White People on Vacation, a novel by Alex Miller, and a tote.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· May 31

Going to see the Mission Impossible movie tomorrow, gonna prepare by reading @yoadrianididit.bsky.social’s poem malarkeybooks.com/store/hairsh...

nineteen minute supercut of tom cruise running
You fall off a mountain. You fall off a terrace. You fall off a fire escape. You fall, or you let yourself go. You plummet five stories into a bathtub full of ice. You tire yourself fistfighting the carbine. You run across the carapace of every rooftop in France.
You look down on the streets, where traffic,
small and
anonymous, still holds some memory of you. You climb onto a plane. You climb the light up to high-five the ionosphere.
You tame a horse, then its cavalry. You outpace the generals.
You outflank the tides. You hear the ocean applaud each time you deny it. You're awarded medals. You see your family one last time. You sing yourself to sleep. The words escape you.
The melody turns on you like the fog. Dingy, soft, your voice cracks.
There's little of it left.
You save your strength.
You fall out of love but you fall with grace, wired to the scaffolding of your confidence.
You are ready for contact
wherever it comes. You make peace with surfaces. You place your cheek on the lavish new marble countertop. It's cool, inviting. It offers you little. You ask it for less. How simple a surface is. How uncomplicated There's no room for despair.
Between you or your thousand-yard grin.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks· Mar 29

You love to see it