Sacred Parasite
@sacredparasite.bsky.social
Publisher Books Made in Berlin since 2023 www.sacredparasite.com
What an immense, and invigorating, offering from the small presses you'll find in Good Press, in Glasgow. The store's an absolute gem and will, in addition to the Sacred Parasite @andreicodrescu.bsky.social book already stocked there, add four more SP titles at the end of next month.
This origami dragon was made in Typewronger, in Edinburgh, recently, by Tee Hodges, and yesterday Tee wrote and told me that Sacred Parasite is officially on their shelves, so go in there and buy a sackful of those books, or even just one, and you too will get to experience their origami magic.
The day I made my way over to Crofton Books I was told, unfortunately, that I just missed owner Jason Shelley, but I did get to visit the shop (where Sacred Parasite is available), buy some books, and realize I would very much like to return to Brockley and get that timing right.
Bookartbookshop was my first (literary) stop in London on my recent trip to the UK. This bookshop is one of a kind (SO many zines and small press—including their own: Atlas Press—books) and I love that 11 Sacred Parasite books will soon be available when they re-open in September.
The next 2 Sacred Parasite books are @wildtwin.bsky.social's Latchkey and JWGoll's The Terminal Art and you still have time (1 week) to become a HOST for one or the other or both. Hosting a single book: 75 euros. Both: 100 euros. More info: www.sacredparasite.com/hosts
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.
My rec last week: Brian Evenson's Salt Lake City story collection, with artwork by Torsten Bohm, from @sacredparasite.bsky.social. "A delightful, and scary, little volume." www.deadofnightletter.com/morbid-energy/ #filmsky #horrorsky
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.
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.
