David Leo Rice

Huge thanks to @hank_jost for this incredibly thoughtful and eloquent essay on THE BERLIN WALL and its relation to simulations, kitsch, reality, Sorokin, Cronenberg, and much, much more! @WhiskeyTitBooks @vol1brooklyn @1111Press @altcurrent @blakebutler southwestreview.com/nightmares-in-…

First official blurb for The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me At Night, courtesy of the one and only Sadie Hartmann, aka Mother Horror. Cover by Matthew Revert. Out Sept. 22 via @CLASHBooks.

Fantastic piece by the great Gnostic Pulp — an honor to find SQUIMBOP among the virus-carriers! @SouthwestReview @WhiskeyTitBooks @vol1brooklyn @lgnbrry gnosticpulp.substack.com/p/the-hidden-d…

Mortals by Norman Rush -- good?

I have updated this staff pick card to include a disclaimer and I still don’t feel like I am preparing you enough

A good concept for a novel is like a hock of spongy bread that can soak up all kinds of greasy ideas lurking at the edges of your mind.

looking for writers who are a little evil, a little immoral, who don’t have my best interests at heart

New Volodine day! kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a…

In just one week we'll be at The Twisted Spine bookstore in Brooklyn for the Indie Publisher Book Fair! Will we see you there? I can't wait to check out the store and hang with the other publishers. twistedspinebooks.com/upcoming-events

As we wrap up issue 6, a reminder issues 2-5 are still available, now through our new website: beyondthelastestate.com

Discovered this Afrikaans novel at AWP -- really excellent, thanks @EuropaEditions ! europaeditions.com/book/979888966…

-h/t Kevin Maloney - Badmotorfinger still rips -h/t Adam Al-Sirgani for hipping me to Harvey Danger frontman Sean Nelson’s 3 (!) solo albums. Feels like finding snarky money -h/t @raviddice for Richard Dawson. Psych folk throwback with teeth -Satan is Real, and he’s spectacular

@TobiasvRyan love him!

paying respects

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last week @MinorLits ... — an interview with @raviddice — @Templeton1963 on digital culling links below 👇

Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with @raviddice — Danny Elfanbaum minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/hol… A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — @Templeton1963 minorliteratures.com/2026/02/26/a-s…

another great review. Thanks for taking the time, CDP wherever you are

New Spine & Arp! spineandarp.substack.com/p/arp-in-sicily

Great talk between Tom Kendall and Chris Zeischegg! youtube.com/watch?v=6NOIIZ…

There is something in Derry which should be twenty-seven years dead and yet is somehow not...

now up @MinorLits Monthly Dispatch link below