John Chrostek
@johnchrostek.com
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, novel: https://shorturl.at/WeXfh
BOXCUTTERS, short stories: https://malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcutters
Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
BOXCUTTERS, short stories: https://malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcutters
Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
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okay my grumpy ass has finally settled on a 2025 year in review/eligibility graphic. I have been a furious little literary badger this year desperately clawing at art from all angles. Any interest/support/awards consideration for this work (mine + Cold Signal contributors) is so appreciated
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MY BOOKS! Both from bellepointpress.com
From left to right, a memoir about my uncle, a convicted art-forger; a collection of short stories.
From left to right, a memoir about my uncle, a convicted art-forger; a collection of short stories.
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
MY BOOKS! Both from bellepointpress.com
From left to right, a memoir about my uncle, a convicted art-forger; a collection of short stories.
From left to right, a memoir about my uncle, a convicted art-forger; a collection of short stories.
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It’s hard to share snippets from FEAST as people who’ve read it might attest, but here’s a page from a chapter following Janice, one of the central characters, as she relives the day she was devoured by the Leviathan when the Empress of Ireland sank in 1914
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It’s hard to share snippets from FEAST as people who’ve read it might attest, but here’s a page from a chapter following Janice, one of the central characters, as she relives the day she was devoured by the Leviathan when the Empress of Ireland sank in 1914
Dear god, they’re playing Snow Patrol at the grocery store
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Dear god, they’re playing Snow Patrol at the grocery store
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
It’s hard to share snippets from FEAST as people who’ve read it might attest, but here’s a page from a chapter following Janice, one of the central characters, as she relives the day she was devoured by the Leviathan when the Empress of Ireland sank in 1914
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It’s hard to share snippets from FEAST as people who’ve read it might attest, but here’s a page from a chapter following Janice, one of the central characters, as she relives the day she was devoured by the Leviathan when the Empress of Ireland sank in 1914
Sometimes the main thing a writing life makes me feel is tremendous sadness, but in all honesty I probably would have felt this way regardless
November 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Sometimes the main thing a writing life makes me feel is tremendous sadness, but in all honesty I probably would have felt this way regardless
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Only 1000 so i can reach my goal
Can you chip in 200 if you have any spare & please match the last donation I’m in bad situation right now we are still fixing our place :(((((
Can you chip in 200 if you have any spare & please match the last donation I’m in bad situation right now we are still fixing our place :(((((
My dearest friend set up the weekly and monthly donation options so that we can stay alive after a tent was destroyed just 100 meters away from us last night. The sand covered our faces while we were still alive.
I’m deeply depressed and can’t keep begging one by one for help anymore.
I’m deeply depressed and can’t keep begging one by one for help anymore.
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Only 1000 so i can reach my goal
Can you chip in 200 if you have any spare & please match the last donation I’m in bad situation right now we are still fixing our place :(((((
Can you chip in 200 if you have any spare & please match the last donation I’m in bad situation right now we are still fixing our place :(((((
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@bsky.app are you kidding me? Goran is a treasure-- unsuspend him now.
Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
@bsky.app are you kidding me? Goran is a treasure-- unsuspend him now.
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Smashcut to a shot for shot remake of the printer smashing scene from Office Space but it's a laptop and three nuns with rulers
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Smashcut to a shot for shot remake of the printer smashing scene from Office Space but it's a laptop and three nuns with rulers
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Holiday season is lean times for us so time to lean in to the grift! malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2
The Grift: Volume 2 — Malarkey
The Grift, the greatest and most important literary magazine in history, is back, this time with work from Jacquelyn Bengfort, Zachary Kocanda, Christopher Stevenson, Neil Willcox , Dereck Heckman, Cr...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Holiday season is lean times for us so time to lean in to the grift! malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2
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Never-Ebbing Story: @casella.bsky.social reviews Eva Meijer's SEA NOW, translated by Anne Thompson Melo (@catransitnerd.bsky.social)
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Never-Ebbing Story: Review of Eva Meijer’s Sea Now
Jake Casella Brookins Under Review:Sea Now. Eva Meijer, translated by Anne Thompson Melo. Two Lines Press, October 2025. Ironically, it’s the very dry humor of Eva Meijer’s Sea Now—a story entirely…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Never-Ebbing Story: @casella.bsky.social reviews Eva Meijer's SEA NOW, translated by Anne Thompson Melo (@catransitnerd.bsky.social)
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Buffalo, you've got such a treasure!
We had such a marvelous, engaged crowd to discuss AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC in October. Even a ghost participated; a rocking chair at the back of the venue started rocking of its own accord.
Join the discussion! Signed copies:
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We had such a marvelous, engaged crowd to discuss AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC in October. Even a ghost participated; a rocking chair at the back of the venue started rocking of its own accord.
Join the discussion! Signed copies:
eveninghousebooks.com/product/amer...
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Buffalo, you've got such a treasure!
We had such a marvelous, engaged crowd to discuss AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC in October. Even a ghost participated; a rocking chair at the back of the venue started rocking of its own accord.
Join the discussion! Signed copies:
eveninghousebooks.com/product/amer...
We had such a marvelous, engaged crowd to discuss AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC in October. Even a ghost participated; a rocking chair at the back of the venue started rocking of its own accord.
Join the discussion! Signed copies:
eveninghousebooks.com/product/amer...
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If you're buying gifts for the holidays, maybe consider supporting artists, writers, creators. Gift someone a Patreon, commission an art piece, buy a book, purchase handmade jewelry, etc. Your support means everything.
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you're buying gifts for the holidays, maybe consider supporting artists, writers, creators. Gift someone a Patreon, commission an art piece, buy a book, purchase handmade jewelry, etc. Your support means everything.
Holy shit. I’m about to be a thousandaire
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Holy shit. I’m about to be a thousandaire
Someone ordering three of the same book is like a gale force wind of good vibes for a book
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Someone ordering three of the same book is like a gale force wind of good vibes for a book
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COVER REVEAL for my 2nd. Yikes. The ARCs for BODIES IN BAGS have arrived.
Illustrated by the great @egallagher.bsky.social. Designed by Cornerstone Press. Blurbed by @jesterholm.bsky.social, @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social , with more to come (I hope!). Very excited.
Illustrated by the great @egallagher.bsky.social. Designed by Cornerstone Press. Blurbed by @jesterholm.bsky.social, @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social , with more to come (I hope!). Very excited.
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
COVER REVEAL for my 2nd. Yikes. The ARCs for BODIES IN BAGS have arrived.
Illustrated by the great @egallagher.bsky.social. Designed by Cornerstone Press. Blurbed by @jesterholm.bsky.social, @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social , with more to come (I hope!). Very excited.
Illustrated by the great @egallagher.bsky.social. Designed by Cornerstone Press. Blurbed by @jesterholm.bsky.social, @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social , with more to come (I hope!). Very excited.
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Buffalo NY
Within about 10 seconds of this picture it started raining horizontally.
Kodak XX
Minolta Maxxxum 8000i
#filmphotography
Within about 10 seconds of this picture it started raining horizontally.
Kodak XX
Minolta Maxxxum 8000i
#filmphotography
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Buffalo NY
Within about 10 seconds of this picture it started raining horizontally.
Kodak XX
Minolta Maxxxum 8000i
#filmphotography
Within about 10 seconds of this picture it started raining horizontally.
Kodak XX
Minolta Maxxxum 8000i
#filmphotography
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I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
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I did the thing :)
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I did the thing :)
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the trick to success is lit posting like you're big on LinkedIn
Here's 14 Valuable Lessons I Learned From Georgi Gospodinov's Latest Book That Will Help Maximize Your Experiential Awareness of Death And Love"
Here's 14 Valuable Lessons I Learned From Georgi Gospodinov's Latest Book That Will Help Maximize Your Experiential Awareness of Death And Love"
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
the trick to success is lit posting like you're big on LinkedIn
Here's 14 Valuable Lessons I Learned From Georgi Gospodinov's Latest Book That Will Help Maximize Your Experiential Awareness of Death And Love"
Here's 14 Valuable Lessons I Learned From Georgi Gospodinov's Latest Book That Will Help Maximize Your Experiential Awareness of Death And Love"
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The Night Ship is fishing up some happy netgalley reviews. Someone called it fun, and Publisher's Weekly called it an "unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller", and that is everything I wanted.
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
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It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
The Night Ship
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Night Ship is fishing up some happy netgalley reviews. Someone called it fun, and Publisher's Weekly called it an "unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller", and that is everything I wanted.
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
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"Movie Theater Manager" by Advance Base is now on streaming services (except for Sp*t*fy)
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November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Movie Theater Manager" by Advance Base is now on streaming services (except for Sp*t*fy)
album.link/i/1855582027
album.link/i/1855582027
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The collection's cover is here! And a newer release date! I’m in love with this design—the watercolor texture, the way it expresses how deeply this collection inhabits the Sonoran Desert and how collage-like these stories are in their styles and sizes. Can’t wait to share the book with everyone.
Cover reveal! Introducing The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by @joelhans.com, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award. Set to release February 3, 2026: Preorder link coming soon.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The collection's cover is here! And a newer release date! I’m in love with this design—the watercolor texture, the way it expresses how deeply this collection inhabits the Sonoran Desert and how collage-like these stories are in their styles and sizes. Can’t wait to share the book with everyone.
Horror is a bubble genre
in that there is a lot of interesting things happening in this moment that falls under the wide umbrella but i believe
the center will not hold
in that there is a lot of interesting things happening in this moment that falls under the wide umbrella but i believe
the center will not hold
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Horror is a bubble genre
in that there is a lot of interesting things happening in this moment that falls under the wide umbrella but i believe
the center will not hold
in that there is a lot of interesting things happening in this moment that falls under the wide umbrella but i believe
the center will not hold