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Jamey Gallagher
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AMERICAN ANIMISM out now!
https://bookshop.org/p/books/american-animism/19e3bcc5fc6e8b6c?ean=9781960329714&next=t&next=t
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
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They have met.
Jamey Gallagher's new collection Bodies in Bags on top of his first collection American Animism. The new book is dark green with stylized illustration of an old fashioned car, a gun, and the Bromo Selzer Tower in Baltimore.
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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I loved FES IS A MIRROR by @chantalalive.blacksky.app . Highly recommended. Stylistically adventurous, shifting points of view, important. Depth and language.
The cover for Chantal James's novella Fes is a Mirror. The background features geometric patterns in blue, green, orange, yellow and white.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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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.
The cover for Jamey Gallagher's collection of crime stories, BODIES IN BAGS. A gray-blue background. Illustrations of an old fashioned car, a hand with a gun, a broken mirror, and the Bromo Selzer tower in Baltimore. A stylized illustration that suggests the darkness inside the book.
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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On Dec 4, I'll be part of this reading at Fadensonnen in Baltimore. I hope people will come. No word on whether the pink bunny will show yet.
Flyer for a reading at Fadensonnen. A pink bunny in the foreground, yllow background. The type: MESS AND FRICTION: BALTIMORE READING SERIES + DEC. 4 7PM FADENSONNEN UPSTAIRS TAVERN 3 W 23RD ST, 21218 STEVEN LEYVA JAMEY GALLAGHER PAIGE PASSANTINO TONEE MAE MOLL @MESSANDFRICTION @FADEN. SONNEN • ARTWORK BY EVANGELINE GALLAGHER
November 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Love this pic of my son in Ireland, many years ago.
A young boy stands in front of a castle is Ireland. The boy wears a bright blue raincoat, baggy jeans, and a ballcap. The castle is gray and monumental in back of him.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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What a find!
Uh... a very ornate roccoco vase featuring a goose and a woman (or maybe Leda and a swan?) under an ornately flowering flower painted pinkish and tealish on a bed of like leaves that are purple and gold. The woman sits next to a little bucket spilling something out of it.
October 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Reading and reviewing for the #100smallpress project was a thrill. I already knew small presses were publishing interesting, adventurous, important books, but this project solidified that. Watch for the list of 100 Notable Small Press Books on Dec 1st in Lithub.
image announcing the 100 Notable Small Press Books will be published in Lithub on December 1
October 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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This is a super-cool collection of short stories. GOD-DISEASE by An Chang Joon. Published by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

Recommend.
The cover of An Chang Joon's collection of short stories: a white hand with black fingernails in the center, bisected by red angles
September 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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First Bookfest in the books. Going back tomorrow.
Jamey Gallagher at a vendor's booth behind copies of his novel American Animism.
September 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I will be tabling at the 2025 Baltimore Book Festival in two weeks, September 13 and 14, with copies of AMERICAN ANIMISM and my chapbook CRUMBLEHEAD, and whatever @egallagher.bsky.social has to offer, which is a bunch of cool stuff.

#bmorebookfest25
A Banner advertising the 2024 Baltimore Book Festival and American Animism by Jamey Gallagher
August 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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On our last full day in Iceland, we climbed a motherfucking volcano.
The back of a person on top of a volcano looking into distance.
July 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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I just got my first royalty check for AMERICAN ANIMISM. It's the first time in my 37 years of writing that I've made any money from my writing (modest as it is). DEEPLY grateful, but still need to hustle to reach my goal. Maybe buy one?
Book cover featuring an illustration of various animals: a crow, a dog, a deer, and an old house. The title, American Animism, is in the center, and the author's name, Jamey Gallagher, is at the bottom. The background is red and the illustration is in black and white.
July 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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The Mekons in DC last night. A great show. A great way to feel young and get some of that old punk energy into the fight against fascism.
A shot of The Mekons on stage at the Union in Washigton DC. Tom Greenlagh, Sally Timms, and Jon Langford. The stage is lit blue, Greelaugh and Langford flank Timms, who wears a bright orange dress, playing guitars.
July 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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How could I forget this one?!

Adding to the range and the greatness: The Muu-Antiques by @laughingyeti.bsky.social
The cover of the Muu-Antiques by Shome Dasupta
July 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I've read these 4 novels published by @malarkeybooks.bsky.social over the past year. Hugely impressed with the range and depth of Malarkey. All bangers. Read em.

STILL ALIVE by @ljabouttown.bsky.social
FAITH by Itoro Bassey
GLORIA PATRI by @austinross.bsky.social
FEARLESS by Benjamin Warner
The covers of four novels: STILL ALIVE by LJ Pemberton FAITH by Itoro Bassey GLORIA PATRI by Austin Ross FEARLESS by Benjamin Warner
July 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Reading "Le Changelin" by @victorlavalle.bsky.social en francais. (Cover illustrated by my daughter @egallagher.bsky.social) Been working on French since 2020. The first book I can understand the first read-thru. It's magical! Reminds me of first learning to read. At 53, opening a new door.
The cover for Le Changelin, the french translation of Victor Lavalle's novel. Cover illustrated by Evangeline Gallagher, featuring a city in space with fantastical trees growing all around
July 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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This book would look great at the beach, in the sun, in the mountains, in the woods, in the ocean, on a glaciar. Summer, winter, fall, spring. There are stories inside.
Book cover featuring an illustration of various animals: a crow, a dog, a deer, and an old house. The title, American Animism, is in the center, and the author's name, Jamey Gallagher, is at the bottom. The background is red and the illustration is in black and white. Book cover featuring an illustration of various animals: a crow, a dog, a deer, and an old house. The title, American Animism, is in the center, and the author's name, Jamey Gallagher, is at the bottom. The background is red and the illustration is in black and white.
June 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Some touching, some strange, some lovely, some magical stories by @anniejowrites.bsky.social. Loved snacking on them over the last couple weeks.
Anna Vangala Jones's Turmeric & Sugar
June 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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It's making me oddly emotional that someone I don't know took the time to read and write a review of AMERICAN ANIMISM. So incredibly grateful. I know that's the whole idea of this, but, man, it's something.
Review of AMERICAN ANIMISM: I enjoyed these thought-provoking stories very much. The characters were so vividly written that each one, although all different, seemed very real to me. I'm looking forward to his next collection.
May 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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I loved this little (almost) 50 pages wonder by @frecklywench.bsky.social, published by @bullcitypress.com . Short, odd, wonderful, thematically connected stories with some prickly prose.
Maggie Cooper's chapbook collection The Theme Park of Women's Body.
May 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I've been doing some great reading for the #100smallpress project. Currently reading/recently read powerful books by @nassos.bsky.social @shelbyhinte.bsky.social @jonathanin2k.bsky.social @michaelamoscody.bsky.social and @writesloud.bsky.social
The books covers of HOWLING WOMEN by Shelby Hinte, SOUR CHERRY by Natalia Theodoridou, THE LOWEST BASIN by Jonathan Danielson and STREETS OF NASHVILLE by Michael Amos Cody Art for Hannah Greico's collection of stories FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT. A woman in a field with birds flying in the background
May 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I would love people to check out my debut collection of short stories. Some smack of magic realism, weirdness, animals-- darkness and lightness in about equal doses. Thank you!
Book cover featuring an illustration of various animals: a crow, a dog, a deer, and an old house. The title, American Animism, is in the center, and the author's name, Jamey Gallagher, is at the bottom. The background is red and the illustration is in black and white.
May 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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This is a solid, well-crafted thriller set in Nashville in 1989. Songwriters, murder, revenge, sexuality: it’s got a lot going on, and it does it all well. Recommended reading for good regional crime fiction.

@michaelamoscody.bsky.social
The cover of Streets of Nashville, by Michael Amos Cosdy. In shades of brown and tan, a train bridge and Nashville in the background.
April 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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I really enjoyed THE WATERMAN, a short story collection by Gary Schanbacher. Published by Cornerstone Press. Read it for some solid placed-based realism.
The cover of the book "The Waterman" by Gary Schanbacher. White words. A watery landscape in the background
April 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Which reminds me... I have a book out!
Book cover featuring an illustration of various animals: a crow, a dog, a deer, and an old house. The title, American Animism, is in the center, and the author's name, Jamey Gallagher, is at the bottom. The background is red and the illustration is in black and white.
April 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM