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This is where I'm a little too heated for the bookish crowd. In my Side Era. NSFW. 30s he/him Louisville, KY Love to answer Qs: https://ngl.link/altfire

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about FIND ME WHERE IT ENDS by Cassandra Khaw. A moving horror novella about the weight of suicidal ideation as Antigone confronts the arrival of her death. Powerful, intense, bracing. Our drink is the Black Dog, which I hope be a comfort.

An advance review copy of FIND ME WHERE IT ENDS by Cassandra Khaw alongside a dark red drink in a stemmed glass. Book and drink sit before blooming purple mums.

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about HOUSE, BODY, BIRD by Bernie Jean Schiebeling. A haunted house novella in a dollhouse museum & a propulsive lesbian survival thriller, deliciously dreamlike & pounding with action. Weird, in the best way. Our drink is a Dollhouse.

HOUSE, BODY, BIRD by Bernie Jean Schiebeling alongside a reddish drink garnished with a cocktail cherry on a wooden table in front of a lilac shrub.

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE LOOM TREE by Angela Mi Young Hur. A mythic magical campus novel surging with depth, mother-daughter magic, archetypal agency, fairy tale spells & the stories that unite us. And a hot frog man. Our drink is the Alvsdahl Spritz.

An advance review copy of THE LOOM TREE by Angela Mi Young Hur on a brick plinth alongside a reddish drink in a gold-rimmed glass.

NEW DRINK ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talkin about THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS by Kai Ashante Wilson. This is a science-fantasy sword & sorcery novella of profound poetry & ardent action, as a caravan crosses a deadly magical expanse. A landmark of queer fantasy. Our drink is Demoniac.

A paperback of THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS by Kai Ashante Wilson alongside a bruise-dark purple red drink in a low glass with a salted rom. White hydrangeas bloom in the background.

Wanna have a good time that's also a mega bummer? Might I recommend Peter Watts' new collection: FOLD CATASTROPHES. A grimly powerful set of stories, this is science fiction at its weighty best. Unnerving & unswerving, with a driving force that pulls you toward futures near & far, truly compelling!

A paperback copy of FOLD CATASTROPHES by Peter Watts on a green granite countertop.

It’s Mailbag Monday! This week we have heists planned by dragons, future trials, & ape men of an earlier age, horror in the hollows of the earth, strange magic, thrillers on the edge of reality, and the quests of corvids. I can’t wait to read & I can’t wait to share with all of you. What looks good?

[A stack of books in golden nighttime porch light (bottom to top): KA by John Crowley, THE DEATH AND BIRTH OF ILIANA MAREK by David Liss, IN HER EXQUISITE CLUTCHES by Auston Habershaw, OF THE APES by Steven Erikson, THE FIFTH INFLECTION by Gautam Bhatia, MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS by Kelly Link, UNEARTHED ed. Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi]