A reading from Paul Kavanagh's profoundly pigeon-less novel, EVERYONE IS INTERESTED IN PIGEONS:
41 Days of Rain
41 Days of Rainby Paul KavanaghSagging Meniscus Press, 2026
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Here's another conversation between uniquely freewheeling filmmaker and interviewer Gerry Fialka and Sagging Meniscus publisher Jacob Smullyan. Everything is discussed except cheesecake recipes.
InnerViews#859 PartTwo Jacob Smullyan
TUESDAY oct16 at 1:00pm PDT for 90m min live on YouTubeInnerViews#...
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Deepest thanks to @lukekennard.bsky.social (fingers crossed for the Booker!) for joining @davidcollard.bsky.social to talk, wonderfully, about my book. Available now on the Exacting Clam podcast alongside a conversation with @dawnraffel.bsky.social (who gets a separate post). #booksky
Boundless as the Sky is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read, btw.
Exacting Clam@exactingclam.bsky.social · 4d agoIn this week's Cephalopodcast, David Collard talks w/ Dawn Raffel (author of Boundless as the Sky) & Luke Kennard (author of Booker-shortlisted Black Bag) about publishing and criticism.
Enjoy two ten minute natters with two fine writers who both have skin in the game.
Exacting Clam@exactingclam.bsky.social · 4d agoIn this week's Cephalopodcast, David Collard talks w/ Dawn Raffel (author of Boundless as the Sky) & Luke Kennard (author of Booker-shortlisted Black Bag) about publishing and criticism.
In this week's Cephalopodcast, David Collard talks w/ Dawn Raffel (author of Boundless as the Sky) & Luke Kennard (author of Booker-shortlisted Black Bag) about publishing and criticism.
In Conversation with David Collard: Dawn Raffel and Luke Kennard - The Exacting Clam Cephalopodcast
This episode continues David Collard's ongoing series of conversations about criticism and small press publishing with guests Dawn Raffel, author of Bou...
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P.J. Blumenthal's SELF PORTRAITS is out today. Here's a playlist for it he put together for Largehearted Boy:
P.J. Blumenthal’s Book Notes music playlist for his story collection Self Portraits – Largehearted Boy
Categories Author Playlists P.J. Blumenthal’s Book Notes music playlist for his story collection Self Portraits “During the act of writing, I never listen to music. External music is a distraction for me. My ears need to concentrate on an inner music: the music of language, of vowels and consona...
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Suspicious Minds: An Interview with Nick Holdstock by Curtis Smith I learnt that you can save yourself a lot of time and trouble later if you actually know what you're trying to achieve before you start.
Suspicious Minds: An Interview with Nick Holdstock by Curtis Smith
I learnt that you can save yourself a lot of time and trouble later if you actually know what you're trying to achieve before you start.
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...he believed that the asylum staff were trying to feed him the flesh of his children... @nickholdstock.bsky.social's Porcupine sound fascinating, particularly Kreuzlingen, Warburg & Cassirer Great interview by Curtis Smith in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/s...
Suspicious Minds: An Interview with Nick Holdstock by Curtis Smith
I learnt that you can save yourself a lot of time and trouble later if you actually know what you’re trying to achieve before you start.
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In research notes, PJ Blumenthal writes about SELF-PORTRAITS from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/researchnote...
"Writing is a combination of truth, magic, hope, philosophy, fury, poetry, and imagination" — Michelle Ross interviews Merrill Joan Gerber in Cutleaf Journal with an excerpt from SOMEONE SHOULD KNOW THIS STORY.
Someone Should Know This Story (excerpt) - Cutleaf Journal
“‘Someone Should Know This Story’ is both the name of this book and the wish of my heart,” writes Merrill Joan Gerber in the introduction to her retrospective
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Our occasional podcast sputters to life with a series of conversations with David Collard, starting off in style with C.D. Rose, author of We Live Here Now.
In Conversation with David Collard: C. D. Rose - The Exacting Clam Cephalopodcast
With this episode, we kick off a series of conversations between the distinguished critic David Collard (author of Multiple Joyce and A Crumpled Swan) a...
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Point of View: An Interview with PJ Blumenthal by Curtis Smith An inner urgency remains the lowest common denominator in my creative motivation.
Point of View: An Interview with PJ Blumenthal by Curtis Smith
An inner urgency remains the lowest common denominator in my creative motivation.
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New review of @guillermostitch.bsky.social’s THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, by OCRB founding editor Eric Bies, up at The Metropolitan Review today. @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/metropol...
Beauty, Terror, and Towering Ambition
On Guillermo Stitch’s ‘The Coast of Everything’
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In dishonor of Jeffrey Archer, who, it is reported, died "between writing sessions," may we suggest a therapeutic read of M.J. Nicholls' THE FALL AND FALL OF DEREK HAFFMANN? www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_...
The Fall and Fall of Derek Haffman | Sagging Meniscus Press
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"I think Duchamp ... would be proud of the soapbox derby go-cart Silverton is driving through art and poetry..." Dana Wilde on Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS: https://www.islandinstitute.org/working-waterfront/mike-silverton-taps-the-strange-and-amusing/
Featuring @servinghousebooks.bsky.social, @vineleavespress.bsky.social, @ironoakeditions.bsky.social, @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social, @acrebooks.bsky.social, @abodepress.bsky.social, and more: www.clmp.org/news/books-l...
Books Launching in September 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books released by CLMP members in September 2026. Freely Frayed by Don Mee Choi Wave Books |…
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COVER REVEAL: Joe Taylor's PARADISE MUZZLED, with plenty of pizza and star turns from crowd favorites Satan and Jehovah, coming this December! https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/paradise_muzzled/
I finished reading The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch. It will take me some time to unpack my full thoughts about it, but, as a preliminary review I can say: it is the best. 💙📚
Sorry, Brooklyn Saggers and Clam People, no festival this weekend! Let's find another way to meet up soon, shall we?
Brooklyn Book Festival@bkbookfest.bsky.social · 3w agoUnfortunately, the Brooklyn Book Festival Children’s Day Book Market on September 26th and Festival Day Literary Marketplace on September 27th are cancelled.
As featured in last night's online gathering. A savagely hilarious satire about men at war. Vonnegut turned up to 11. Strongly recommended!
Sagging Meniscus@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 2mo agoCOVER REVEAL: Paul Kavanagh's EVERYBODY IS INTERESTED IN PIGEONS, now preorderable at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/ever...
I'm grateful to Eugene Ostashevsky for his kindness and generosity in writing this blurb for my book of sonnets, Glosses and Ligatures, which will be published by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social in 2027.
Now available in the Sagging Shorts series: Norman Conquest's WHAT'S HECUBA TO HIM OR HE TO HECUBA? https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/hecuba/
Will you be in New York City next weekend? Don't miss the @bkbookfest.bsky.social Literary Marketplace on Sunday, September 27—and be sure to stop by booths 320 & 321 to say hello and learn more about the thriving universe of literary magazines & independent presses! www.clmp.org/event/brookl...
Brooklyn Book Festival - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
FESTIVAL
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"I just pull on the thread." In JMWW, Curtis Smith interviews P.J. Blumenthal about SELF PORTRAITS: https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/point-of-view-an-interview-with-pj-blumenthal-by-curtis-smith/
Reading the Literary Review in Private Eye and it says how, apparently, "British publishing has a strange disdain for essay collections", meaning books that should be essay collections are "stitched together from several separate essays." Strange indeed.
Happy Publication Day to Lee Upton, whose TABITHA, STAY UP is released today on every imaginable platform!
Tabitha, Stay Up | Sagging Meniscus Press
After a shattering disappointment, Tabitha must find new ways to get up—and stay up. In this sequel to Tabitha, Get Up, she faces a determined antagonist and a possible new love, or the return of what appeared to be lost love. She must save the world’s best bar, contend with diabolical twins and...
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Kirkus on PJ Blumenthal's SELF PORTRAITS: "Creative, unsettling, funny, and challenging… [for those able to] let go of the constraints of logic and enjoy a heady freefall through an entertaining house of mirrors." https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/pj-blumenthal/self-portraits-Blumenthal/
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