In research notes, PJ Blumenthal writes about SELF-PORTRAITS from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/researchnote...
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@necessaryfiction.comReposted by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social"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.
@exactingclam.bsky.socialReposted by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialOur 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.
@jmwwjournal.bsky.socialReposted by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialPoint of View: An Interview with PJ Blumenthal by Curtis Smith An inner urgency remains the lowest common denominator in my creative motivation.
@ocreviewofbooks.bsky.socialReposted by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialNew 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
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialHAFFMAN. Oops.
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialIn 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_...
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social"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/
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@saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialCOVER 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/
@mixedmetaphors.bsky.socialReposted by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialI 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. 💙📚
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialWe will make manifest a sagging minifest soon!
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialSorry, Brooklyn Saggers and Clam People, no festival this weekend! Let's find another way to meet up soon, shall we?
@davidcollard.bsky.socialReposted by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialAs featured in last night's online gathering. A savagely hilarious satire about men at war. Vonnegut turned up to 11. Strongly recommended!
@ericracher.bsky.socialReposted by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialI'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.
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialNow available in the Sagging Shorts series: Norman Conquest's WHAT'S HECUBA TO HIM OR HE TO HECUBA? https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/hecuba/
@clmporg.bsky.socialReposted by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialWill 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...
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social"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/
@jgoldsmith.bsky.socialReposted by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialReading 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.
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.socialHappy Publication Day to Lee Upton, whose TABITHA, STAY UP is released today on every imaginable platform!