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@alexmiller77.bsky.social
Author of White People on Vacation (Malarkey Books) and some other things. Taking up space in Denver https://alexmillerperson.weebly.com/
Like a scene from @alexmiller77.bsky.social’s novel white people on vacation
For the past 24 hours I've seen National Guard every time I've left my house. Farmers market, yoga class, taking my kid to the playground, just going for a walk. There is no crisis here, no emergency, no natural disaster.
The Trump voter who loved ICE—until they arrested his wife www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport.
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.
nytimes.com
thought I was done with the laundry but was not, in fact, done with the laundry: a horror story
Friday Links is UP! Featuring @geoliminal.bsky.social @kdonhoops.com @jwashing.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658713
just fyi—Starbucks will start serving pumpkin spice on Aug. 25, so if you're planning on doing a funny post about it, the time to workshop it is now
Silo is dour and slow, and everybody has had bad hair for 500 years
Here's a book review that does a great job of comparing what works on tv versus what works as a book. Also this book sounds terrible www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/b...
Book Review: ‘Under the Falls,’ by Richard Russo (Gift Article)
In Richard Russo’s new novel, “Under the Falls,” a singer reckons with his troubled past and the community he left behind.
nytimes.com
ALSO this has become an EXTREMELY expensive trip so, if you are there, why not stop by the Paradise Editions table down in the Bazaar of the Bizarre Merchants' Hall and buy some books by me. There'll be TOADSTONES and NIGHT FEARS available!
come see me at my many appearances at NecronomiCon '26 next week!
@mallorysmart.bsky.social talks to @joshdale.co about WE ALL GO A LITTLE MAD SOMETIMES novella chapbook and what’s it like to be a writer and publisher. Read it now on Afterimages. Copies of the chapbook are ready to ship and come with free extras. open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...
An Interview with Mallory Smart
Mallory Smart and Josh Dale
open.substack.com
occasional reminder that another world is possible
THE CAPTAIN'S BEEN DRINKING, a new novel from @thedrevlow.bsky.social will be out August 18th from CJ Press. Preorder the ebook now. Paperback and ebook available on the day. Dig it: a.co/d/04NbbwGB
watching The Drama and I promise not to live post it like I did with the He-Man movie
meanwhile, in Colorado ... www.denverpost.com/2026/08/03/v...
Victor Marx warns that the media is coming for Christians. We’re not. (Opinion)
By conflating journalism with religious persecution, Marx is not just deflecting responsibility; he is indulging in identity politics, the kind of us-versus-them rhetoric that inflames the body politi...
denverpost.com
Don't let anyone tell you there's no more literary men. I'm the most literary man of them all. Put a Taco Bell reference in it and be a man
You can get White People on Vacation as an ebook FREE today. You can get ANY ebook in the Malarkey catalog free today! Why? Because some things are more important to us than money, like getting you to read my book!
Hello friends and happy Friday we are making all our ebooks free today with code FREEFRIDAY malarkeybooks.com/ebooks
El-Sayed's win is a message to the remaining Islamophobes in the Democratic Party: fix your heart or lose the primary
Journalism is a public good. It needs to be publicly funded, for the same reasons that health care needs to be publicly funded. The privatization of public information has created a true crisis. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/paying-for...
Paying for News Is Cheaper Than Not Having It
The consequences of privatizing public information.
hamiltonnolan.com
logging into my work vpn but maybe I should log in to battle.net instead??
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys