My letter in this week’s issue of @thetls.bsky.social Finding myself in uncharted waters, I felt it necessary. Share if you care about making room in our literary culture for work that swims against the tide.
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The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. From @saggingmeniscus. Quarterly, in print and online, since 2021.
Here's a hot take about Guillermo's book. He could've simply published Tale of Three Voyages as a standalone novel and critics would've praised him for picking up where he left off with Lake of Urine. But where's the fun in that?
"With his novel, The Coast of Everything, author Guillermo Stitch swims against a particularly challenging tide." Many thanks to @jeffchon.bsky.social and @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social for this review. ocreviewofbooks.org/2026/08/04/t...
The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch
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"What each review has in common with the others is that it reads like the report of a surveyor who can’t find the front door, and so (for his supper) surveys the facade." A response to some baffling reviews of The Coast of Everything. Share if you care. www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-litera...
David Rose's latest story AMERIKA online at @exactingclam.bsky.social 👇 www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21...
AMERIKA | Exacting Clam
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In the @thetls.bsky.social, re @guillermostitch.bsky.social, 'The Coast of Everything,' and the necessity of messy, drunken literature.
1/ In a reply to @thetls.bsky.social's review of @guillermostitch.bsky.social's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, @cdrose.bsky.social argues our case: "Stitch and his publisher ... may not indeed have received the memo, and I am pleased they did not, or wholeheartedly ignored it if they did..."
Deeply grateful for this amazing review from an amazing writer.
Sagging Meniscus@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 2w agoCharles Holdefer on Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING in Dactyl Review: "a remarkable novel by a writer who does not play safe." https://dactylreview.com/2026/07/21/the-coast-of-everything-by-guillermo-stitch/
Many thanks to Emily Firetog and the good people at @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this excerpt. #booksky
The Coast of Everything
“What a lot of people don’t appreciate these days is that as recently as the first half of the last century, what they called literature was a very, very different thing to the thing we have now. A…
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Add these lit mags to your summer reading list! New issues just came out from @afterdinnerconversation.com, @alocasiamag.bsky.social, @exactingclam.bsky.social, @fahmidangroup.bsky.social, @lilithmagazine.bsky.social, @newenglandreview.bsky.social, and more: www.clmp.org/news/june-20...
June 2026 Roundup of Member Magazines - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
We’re proud to share this list of literary journals—all members of CLMP—publishing new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and more in June 2026. After Dinner Conversation | June 2026 Featuring…
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North Americans, you can now pre-order my Novel-prize shortlisted book Porcupine. The rest of the world, being less favoured, must wait a little longer I am afraid. Console yourselves with football, laudanum, whatever (or whoever) is at hand asterismbooks.com/product/porc...
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*Porcupine* recreates the first meeting of pioneering art historian and Renaissance scholar Aby Warburg and philosopher Ernst Cassirer in a Swiss asylum in 1924. Warburg’s mounting fears of political ...
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You can now read ‘Necessary Hypocritical Luddism’, a piece by our founder @jgoldsmith.bsky.social, from Summer issue 21 @exactingclam.bsky.social online! The Barbellion Prize is open for subs for books of prose literature that represent the experience of chronic illness & disability until Sept. 1st.
This Thursday 25th June at 7pm (BST) join Guillermo Stitch live online to celebrate publication of his magnificent novel 'The Coast of Everything.' Guillermo will be in conversation with Luke Kennard. If you haven't already been invited contact me via my website davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
Roll up, roll up.
David Collard@davidcollard.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis Thursday 25th June at 7pm (BST) join Guillermo Stitch live online to celebrate publication of his magnificent novel 'The Coast of Everything.' Guillermo will be in conversation with Luke Kennard. If you haven't already been invited contact me via my website davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
Had a great time; was lovely to meet everyone (in the physical, non-digital realm). I look suitably grumpy in the photograph here but I can assure you I was highly focused and enjoying myself. Also, everyone must buy a copy of @guillermostitch.bsky.social's 'The Coast of Everything' double please
David Collard@davidcollard.bsky.social · 2mo agoTonight's launch at The Wheatsheaf Tavern in Fitzrovia of Guillermo Stitch's 'The Coast of Everything.' You had to be there.
I may have infiltrated BookTok. #booksky
Shelf Tour tomorrow !!! #booktok
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Can’t believe you found a pic of my fave muesli! Breakfast of kings 😋
"It was a good day for birds on Springfield Lane. I saw a song thrush, a dunnock, a Robin and a jackdaw." @kevinboniface.bsky.social is out and about. Issue 21 of @exactingclam.bsky.social https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21-summer-2026/a-big-day-thursday-5-march-2026/
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"She thought they were paulownias, and I didn’t care." More thoughts from @uselessthings.bsky.social , unsavory and sweet. Issue 21 of @exactingclam.bsky.social . Time to subscribe: digital-only now available https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21-summer-2026/unsavory-thoughts/ #booksky
"And who among our current rulers, or saleable pundits, shows any prudence or fit memory?" @jgoldsmith.bsky.social on livable Luddism. Issue 21 of @exactingclam.bsky.social https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21-summer-2026/necessarily-hypocritical-luddism/
This reading is absolutely mesmerizing, and exquisitely chosen. Deepest thanks to PJ Blumenthal.
Sagging Meniscus@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 2mo agoThanks to P.J. Blumenthal, author of WINSTON HEWLETT'S IMPOTENCE and the forthcoming SELF PORTRAITS, for this reading from Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING: