Zach Kocanda
@zacharykocanda.bsky.social
Illinois’s favorite son.
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Zach Kocanda
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"Cal suggested that his children should meet a 'true American hero,' and maybe John Hinckley Jr. would gift them a guitar pick they could bring to show-and-tell." - Zachary Kocanda mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
New fiction in @mrbullbull.bsky.social today! I’ve been a fan of the journal for years, so it’s an honor to have a story here. Adlai the Last returns for a new gig—with a special guest?
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City building
Norris City, IL
Norris City, IL
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
City building
Norris City, IL
Norris City, IL
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Atwood Lunch Box
Atwood, IN
Atwood, IN
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Atwood Lunch Box
Atwood, IN
Atwood, IN
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Enjoy our smoking lounge
Winneconne, WI
Winneconne, WI
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Enjoy our smoking lounge
Winneconne, WI
Winneconne, WI
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Everything seemed to line up perfectly in layout, but not quite. Last minute decision to redo the poetry analysis layout has expanded this issue from 28 pages to 32, making room now for an explainer on turning off AI in Gmail and a reprint of Shelly’s “The Masque of Anarchy.”
King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 is now available. Edited by @zacharykocanda.bsky.social, this one features new fiction from Jacob Stovall and T.L. Xue.
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
King Ludd's Rag No. 25 — Malarkey
The twenty-fifth issue of King Ludd’s Rag features stories by Jacob Stovall and T. L. Xue. The cover will print in black and white.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Everything seemed to line up perfectly in layout, but not quite. Last minute decision to redo the poetry analysis layout has expanded this issue from 28 pages to 32, making room now for an explainer on turning off AI in Gmail and a reprint of Shelly’s “The Masque of Anarchy.”
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Malarkey’s running a sale!
If you haven’t had a chance to read BOXCUTTERS, I’m deeply proud of the collection + the book and would love for you to give it a shot!
BUT also, their book club is one of the best subscriptions out there. Malarkey books will always surprise you + carve singular paths
If you haven’t had a chance to read BOXCUTTERS, I’m deeply proud of the collection + the book and would love for you to give it a shot!
BUT also, their book club is one of the best subscriptions out there. Malarkey books will always surprise you + carve singular paths
As a press, we are all over the place genre-wise, and nowhere is that represented better than in @johnchrostek.com’s story collection, Boxcutters, which blurs and blends the lines between speculative, horror, and literary fiction
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Boxcutters, stories by John Chrostek — Malarkey
One Amazon delivery stolen from a neighbor’s porch leads to plenty more. To keep the show going, a balding sitcom actress tries out a new wig and discovers a hunger for life. Jesus Christ claims the o...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Malarkey’s running a sale!
If you haven’t had a chance to read BOXCUTTERS, I’m deeply proud of the collection + the book and would love for you to give it a shot!
BUT also, their book club is one of the best subscriptions out there. Malarkey books will always surprise you + carve singular paths
If you haven’t had a chance to read BOXCUTTERS, I’m deeply proud of the collection + the book and would love for you to give it a shot!
BUT also, their book club is one of the best subscriptions out there. Malarkey books will always surprise you + carve singular paths
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Heyyy come get The Barre Incidents for 15% off with the MALARKEY offer code! Still have a few really nice Bookmobile-printed copies and have a few fun things I can add that were part of the preorder package.
In October, which in fact was just last month even if it feels like so much longer ago, we published The Barre Incidents, @renbolger.bsky.social’s second novel (both ever and with us), delighting horror fans worldwide!
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The Barre Incidents, a novel by Lauren Bolger — Malarkey
The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, author of Kill Radio Cover design by Matthew Revert When Kara's miner father dies of Silicosis, she grapples with the old horror stories in their hometown of B...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Heyyy come get The Barre Incidents for 15% off with the MALARKEY offer code! Still have a few really nice Bookmobile-printed copies and have a few fun things I can add that were part of the preorder package.
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There's a few copies of BACKMASK available for $13. Buy yourself or your loved ones a sapphic thriller for the holidays
We’re turning lemons into steeply discounted books. Moving forward, we’ll resell returned copies for $13 flat, allowing us to recoup costs without counting returns against royalties.
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
Returns! — Malarkey
Sometimes we get books sent back to us. Historically, this has always been very unpleasant because it means lost money, that we would count against an author’s royalties. We’re taking a different appr...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
There's a few copies of BACKMASK available for $13. Buy yourself or your loved ones a sapphic thriller for the holidays
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November 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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This a good deal and you should do it. Also, I am good and you like me.
Today only 2026 book club is $40 off, and also today only we will send a free t-shirt with any order over $50, with the caveat that we’re down to 39 shirts. We will email to find out size/color preference.
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2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This a good deal and you should do it. Also, I am good and you like me.
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Today only 2026 book club is $40 off, and also today only we will send a free t-shirt with any order over $50, with the caveat that we’re down to 39 shirts. We will email to find out size/color preference.
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
malarkeybooks.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Today only 2026 book club is $40 off, and also today only we will send a free t-shirt with any order over $50, with the caveat that we’re down to 39 shirts. We will email to find out size/color preference.
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
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We’re turning lemons into steeply discounted books. Moving forward, we’ll resell returned copies for $13 flat, allowing us to recoup costs without counting returns against royalties.
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
Returns! — Malarkey
Sometimes we get books sent back to us. Historically, this has always been very unpleasant because it means lost money, that we would count against an author’s royalties. We’re taking a different appr...
malarkeybooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We’re turning lemons into steeply discounted books. Moving forward, we’ll resell returned copies for $13 flat, allowing us to recoup costs without counting returns against royalties.
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
We struck oil with these two stories—King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 is available now, featuring fiction from Jacob Stovall (“Awl”) and T. L. Xue (“Beautiful Paradiem”), plus another installment of Good Reads!
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
November 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We struck oil with these two stories—King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 is available now, featuring fiction from Jacob Stovall (“Awl”) and T. L. Xue (“Beautiful Paradiem”), plus another installment of Good Reads!
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
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From now to the end of the year we’re offering 15% off anything we’ve got with code MALARKEY. Will post book links below but this is a great opportunity to join the book club even cheaper. A year of book mail for $120 but with the discount it’s $102.
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
malarkeybooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
From now to the end of the year we’re offering 15% off anything we’ve got with code MALARKEY. Will post book links below but this is a great opportunity to join the book club even cheaper. A year of book mail for $120 but with the discount it’s $102.
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
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King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 is now available. Edited by @zacharykocanda.bsky.social, this one features new fiction from Jacob Stovall and T.L. Xue.
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
King Ludd's Rag No. 25 — Malarkey
The twenty-fifth issue of King Ludd’s Rag features stories by Jacob Stovall and T. L. Xue. The cover will print in black and white.
malarkeybooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 is now available. Edited by @zacharykocanda.bsky.social, this one features new fiction from Jacob Stovall and T.L. Xue.
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
I have fiction in here about a catastrophic date at a mall! #MalarkeyForever
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 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I have fiction in here about a catastrophic date at a mall! #MalarkeyForever
We got two more heaters coming atcha. 😎
King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 comes out on Friday. That’s five years of this thing!
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We got two more heaters coming atcha. 😎
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King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 comes out on Friday. That’s five years of this thing!
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 comes out on Friday. That’s five years of this thing!
The billboard on I-80 for Bill Engvall’s show in Shipshewana, Indiana, on October 26, 2018? Still there.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The billboard on I-80 for Bill Engvall’s show in Shipshewana, Indiana, on October 26, 2018? Still there.
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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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Okay, I'm gonna be at the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social table at AWP in Baltimore, so y'all need to find me, hang out, buy books, and make me look cool so Alan doesn't regret sending me!
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Okay, I'm gonna be at the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social table at AWP in Baltimore, so y'all need to find me, hang out, buy books, and make me look cool so Alan doesn't regret sending me!
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Zombie miners 🧟
Dark Fantasy 🐉
X-Files vibes 👽
Romance 🌹
Sometimes you can have all four of those. Not always, but sometimes.
malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...
Dark Fantasy 🐉
X-Files vibes 👽
Romance 🌹
Sometimes you can have all four of those. Not always, but sometimes.
malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Zombie miners 🧟
Dark Fantasy 🐉
X-Files vibes 👽
Romance 🌹
Sometimes you can have all four of those. Not always, but sometimes.
malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...
Dark Fantasy 🐉
X-Files vibes 👽
Romance 🌹
Sometimes you can have all four of those. Not always, but sometimes.
malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...
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As a debut indie author, I’m really grateful to have found the readers I have with these two books. Would be honored to have them considered alongside 2025’s other great new releases!
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
As a debut indie author, I’m really grateful to have found the readers I have with these two books. Would be honored to have them considered alongside 2025’s other great new releases!
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Snoopy
Hooppole, IL
Hooppole, IL
November 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Snoopy
Hooppole, IL
Hooppole, IL
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Post Office
Beaverville, IL
Beaverville, IL
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Post Office
Beaverville, IL
Beaverville, IL
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I want to see Bovino perp walked out of the courtroom to the Sufjan Stevens song
Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I want to see Bovino perp walked out of the courtroom to the Sufjan Stevens song