Sacred Parasite
@sacredparasite
Publisher Books Made in Berlin since 2023 www.sacredparasite.com
Sacred Parasite's Summer Pause is nigh. Get those orders in. Any orders between July 28th and August 12th will be sent out on the 13th. See you back here in mid-late August... Photo by JWGoll
Missing my latest 7 books here but I like this photo and if you like the looks of anything you can find most of it at sacredparasite.com as most are "PRE-SP" books, meaning most are fundraisers FOR Sacred Parasite, thus another way to SUPPORT Sacred Parasite.
Sacred Parasite has published: William Minor, Howie Good, Ian Seed, John Dorsey, Brian Evenson, Andrei Codrescu, and me. The next five forthcoming Sacred Parasite authors are: JWGoll, Jeff Young, Rob Doyle, Rae Armantrout, and Kim Addonizio. www.sacredparasite.com
Very nice to have had @brianevenson.bsky.social in town and over and to be able to announce that all Salt Lake City copies I have left are now SIGNED copies. Order one at sacredparasite.com. When gone, they are: GONE.
The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Potsdamer Straße) has a new Photo Book exhibition that I went to today to be able to flip through the pictured book by Miron Zownir. Enjoyed catching a glimpse of a photogenic and lebendig Berlin in the very early 90s as well.
In Too Loud a Solitude Bohumil Hrabal makes a point of repeating that no man, that NOTHING, is humane. Well, maybe. But if you want to talk about approaching said chimera, then you needn't look much further than this book/narrator/character. This Solitude is my favorite Hrabal so far.
Clowns of the Absolute, William Minor's newest book (2026), is now available at Printed Matter in New York City. Other Sacred Parasite titles in NYC can be found at Troubled Sleep and Quimby's. And if you're not in the northeast US? Simply/securely shop here: www.sacredparasite.com.
NO DOG combines Andrei Codrescu's writing with Catherine Tafur's art. It's Sacred Parasite's newest book and it is available here: www.sacredparasite.com. Sacred Parasite needs your support. It needs sales to keep doing what it's doing, and I would love to see a huge summer wave of them this week.
Starting this September, these 10 Sacred Parasite books will be on sale at Bookartbookshop, SP's 2nd London location, so today I'm sending a big Dankeschön west to owner Tanya Peixoto, to her and to all the other bookstore owners seeing Sacred Parasite through door after door.
Ended last week with big SP news, going to begin this one with some of my own. My next book, Disco Pam Pam, will be published in September by Bateau Press. 48 stories. Letterpress cover. Classic Bateau size. Classic Bateau quality. www.bateaupress.com/kevintosca
No one leaves me, I'm the one that chooses. I show up like money on the sidewalk. from "Muse" YES, those words and that picture mean: Kim Addonizio + Sacred Parasite = Coming Soon www.kimaddonizio.com
Howie Good: Words. Marcel Herms: Art. The Dark was the 1st Sacred Parasite "S" Art Series book. I have 6 copies left. When they're gone, they're gone. No reprints. No new editions. Such is the Art Series. Limited = Limited. www.sacredparasite.com/product/the-...
@andreicodrescu.bsky.social's NO DOG, Sacred Parasite's newest release featuring art throughout by Catherine Tafur, with a piece of what's left of the Berlin Wall. Only 350 of these hand-numbered beauties were, and will be, made. Get one here: www.sacredparasite.com.
Corona. Covid. Whatever you prefer to call it it shaped and twisted my early Berlin, and this book. Here's the title story from SP's Stolpersteine (2024). Copies available here: www.sacredparasite.com/product/stol...
@ianseedauthor.bsky.social's "Woman Next Door." Lupo Sol's "lady and jesters" (2020). From My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat. Buy it here: www.sacredparasite.com/product/my-o...
Re-reading John Dorsey's 100 Mornings today and wanted to share "The Youngest One in the Room." The art here and everywhere in the book is by Juliane Hundertmark. This one: "be happy" (2019). www.sacredparasite.com/product/100-...
Here's my Lou Reed story from The World Will Go On Escaping Me Forever, Sacred Parasite's first book (2023). Not many of these left. www.sacredparasite.com/product/the-...
This is a beautiful sight, a little army of @andreicodrescu.bsky.social's NO DOG at Cărtureşti & friends in Romania.
True Crime. Howie Good's third book with Sacred Parasite. www.sacredparasite.com
NYC Bookstore #2: Troubled Sleep. No Dog and Trapped In Toronto just waiting for you this weekend on that table there in Brooklyn. Pics 2 and 3 are how both books begin. www.sacredparasite.com
NO DOG. Alexanderplatz. Berlin. Get your copy of Andrei Codrescu's latest book of poetry featuring art by Catherine Tafur at www.sacredparasite.com and at the growing list of select, hand-picked, international, truly independent bookstores you will find listed at Sacred Parasite's website/shop.
My contributor copies of Tough Poets Review 1 + 2. 2 just arrived. Within it you'll find my story "How I Came to Live in South America Though Everyone (Note: "Everyone" Is Being Used Artistically Here) Believes I Live in Europe." www.toughpoetsreview.com
Andrei Codrescu's No Dog, William Minor's Clowns of the Absolute, and Howie Good's True Crime now gracing the window of Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Buy them there. Buy them here: www.sacredparasite.com.
Sacred Parasite. Berlin. Art Series. Each of these will never be published like this again. Only available at www.sacredparasite.com and in select, hand-picked bookstores.
No Dog now in @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social, in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
No Dog now in Saint George's English Bookshop, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.
Andrei Codrescu's and Catherine Tafur's NO DOG in Galerie Linger in Berlin next to prints by la Culm.
Riding the streetcar and cleared for takeoff. NO DOG, featuring 22 poems by @andreicodrescu.bsky.social and 23 pieces of art by Catherine Tafur, is now out and available to buy at sacredparasite.com.