Nothing chases away the midwinter blahs like a little literary retail therapy.

The books I finished in January (Still making my way through a few doorstops) Not pictured: The God Of Endings - Jacqueline Holland Pink Slime - Fernanda Trias Slow Productivity - Cal Newport A Month In Siena - Hisham Matar

Contributing to the meme

Does anyone know this book? I assume it’s a standalone and not one of the sections of Antagony?

Back on our old BS - a much needed date day in Boulder.

We’re joined by the amazing poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert to discuss books we think about all the time. We each share 3 books that are always on our minds and discuss the reasons some works become an important part of who we are. Which ones would you pick? open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p/e…?

Schattenfroh proofs have been sent to the printer

It’s been a terrible start to 2025, but — thanks to Michael Lentz, Max Lawton, Matthias Friedrich, and the folks at Deep Vellum — it seems the beginning of a fantastic rest of year (in reading, at the very least).

Some (more) new additions to our library from the past month or so.

Come celebrate with us! For our 100th episode, Mookse and I answer all kinds of listener questions (mostly about books) during this three-hour extravaganza. Here’s to the next 100! Thanks for listening! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p/e…

shoutout to all the opium’s ladies & committed suffragettes on International Women’s Day! you rock!! (two of the most badass female characters & im not even kidding)

reaching page 100 of Finnegans Wake after months of delightfully intoxicating reading

Confirmed in a different interview, with a nice link to Leaf by Leaf ourculturemag.com/2025/03/28/des…

Okay 6,236 followers so I started a fundraiser via Deep Vellum’s site to make up for the $20,000 NEA grant the Racism in Chief terminated yesterday. Let’s do it? 🥰

Burgeoning authoritarian cancels grant to independent publisher — preorder our book about the legacy of totalitarianism to help make up the 20k shortfall store.deepvellum.org/products/schat…

Schattenfroh & Sugar Kremlin are two of the projects targeted by the politically weaponized Trumpist NEA canceling Deep Vellum’s grant for this year. They can’t cancel literature, they can’t cancel dialogue. Donate & let’s fight this bullshit together! secure.givelively.org/donate/deep-ve…

I encourage you to donate: gofund.me/380751d8

You heard it from the most ambitious publisher of literature in translation Will Evans . In 2027, The Troiacord will be published in its entirety. No instalments, no postponements. Just uninterrupted 4D madness. theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/the…