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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A scientist gets called to a mountain for a secret mission. It takes too long to start up but gets better, esp when metaphysical questions arise. Pulpy vibes of ‘Invention of Morel’. I’ve wanted to read Buzzati for a while. The prose was disappointing but maybe something got lost in translation 6/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It’s like a catalog or maybe an encyclopedia of human emotions & how human feelings happen. There’s too much God stuff. I want a version of this where not everything is chalked up to the power and glory of God 5.6/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I read "The Dalkey Archive." 2 friends meet a guy who brings them to an underground lair. One meets an author & has love troubles. A lot of the traits I’ve loved in his other books are here: bikes, drinking. Off-the-wall stuff treated like normal & then banished w/ a hand wave- unpredictable! 8.4/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's a meditation on relationships, the color blue, & quotes about living from Emerson. Comments on Gass's "On Blue," Stein's "Tender Buttons," coitus, & the quest to write & secure funding for this book. It's all contained in 200 very short chapters. It was good 7.9/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's about a guy in his twenties & his roommate. They eat oranges, return movies, & feel bad. The things that come back, like the marquees around the guy's "headhole", were interesting. Zachary German & Melville House vibes - makes me want to explore more on Lazy Fascist Press (RIP) 8.1/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It claims to want to honor diversity through story structure - that use of the D word is interesting. Talks about the four act structure, nested structures, etc. It was useful to think outside of the Freytag box 8/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It continues the story of Lucien from Two Poets. He moves to Paris. There’s people who wear disguises & pretend to be from other races. The deaths surprised me. I got lost who was deceiving whom. The digressions about prisons I liked less than the digressions about bread from Two Poets 5.7/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It’s a deep dive into poetry by Larkin & Shakespeare & an excavation into poem stanzas. I thought it'd be about the layout of words in a sentence in fiction. I'm a bit inspired to read more poetry but ultimately disappointed that this failed to touch on prose like other books in this series 4/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s about fiction & pessimism. It argues that humans should go extinct. Might be the greatest deadpan bonkers essay ever. I disagreed w/ it but the show was too good. It studies death in horror fiction, death in life, pessimism in philosophy. I ❤️Ligotti’s fiction. This boosted his work for me 10/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

3 families intertwine starting w/ a car breakdown. Felt like too many characters even though there were only like 6. I didn’t expect it to end abruptly (blame the ebook). Some major events never dovetail. Yates is a relationship & feeling master. Gives you a tiny misogynistic hangover tho 8/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A young queer woman in the WW1 era grows up, loses people she cares about to death & sometimes they ostracize her. She moves to Paris. I found this via the McCarthy song. It's too long: every feeling is described, melodramatically so. But its social value is crucial 6.3/10

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

new pöem by my hand! dadakuku.com/2026/07/16/o...

Ode to the Wood-Fallen
how you dip toward
the ferns' kiss,
you sponge-rooted catastrophe
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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A gentleman has an affair w/ a lady who shows up at the town where he’s getting engaged. It’s set in the Victorian era but uses words like computer, & comments on the story that’s happening. I loved The Magus. Characters make cool decisions. The hard-to-read confrontation scenes are great 8.4/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This kicked my ass. 95 chapters of making me wonder if I’m placing my commas & clauses wrong. Lutz is one of my fav writers. I’ve wanted to see for a while how she treats non-fiction. I didn’t expect it to be so dense. I was fearful to keep going back to learn what else I need help with lol 9.3/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

📚Here’s my upcoming book's cover! It's a linked story collection - think The Martian Chronicles meets Crying of Lot 49. Advance sales are crucial to small presses' survival. So, please pre-order my debut! Get a copy or 2 into your hot little hands! Thnx!📚 mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/skin...

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I finished The Transitive Vampire last night. It’s a style/grammar/ sentence book with cool gothic illustrations. Its politics around they/them pronouns feel dated. It analyzes comma splices, phrases, verbs, adverb, and more. School read 8/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A pizza chef's friend robs people. Something goes wrong with a robbery. It’s a clumsy, sloppy book. Feels like a Nancy cartoon where people are neither grotesques nor real. But it’s a page turner. Published in the ‘70s but feels more like the ‘50s - characters gripe about potsmoking longhairs 6.1/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It’s an audit of family structure & reproductive labor, claiming to be along Marx & Engels’s historical materialist line. I disagreed w/ a lot. Classic 2nd wave feminism where it seldom throws trans folks a bone. 1st leftist book I’ve read to analyze a kibbutz. It’s entertaining & bonkers 8/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It’s a history of post-punk starting w/ Lydon leaving the Pistols. MTV, PIL, No Wave, mutant disco, emphases on bass & angularity. When I was 16 I discovered Joy Division, Wire, Go4, this helped me rediscover the Birthday Party, Pinback, Pulsallama. The chapter on Ohio & Ubu & Devo was tops 10/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A 30 year old schemes up a love triangle. He escapes to the country & meets family. Fun language & Monty Python-esque madcap vibes where everyone gets punched in the face. I’d read a feminist critique on some character thoughts/behaviors 7.2/10

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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🧡🤎 is it #caturday yet 🤎🧡

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who’s bought a copy of my chapbook! I’m bowled over by the response 🧡🧡🧡 Here’s the link to get a paper or digital copy bottlecap.press/collections/...

Book cover, a light-ish mauve color. Ghost in the Rain Matthew Jakubowski Stories, with a hazy background image of a forest and some ferns

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

As the preface told me, it’s Wright’s first book. My edition was 5 stories. Each 1 boasted a severe drama. Characters face and often receive death. High stakes. Many “oh, shit!” moments. I’d be lying if I said I didn't feel some kinship with my 1st book of 5 stories, due out soon lol 10/10

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Amazon Whole Foods' push to overturn union election results at a Philly store have been denied, allowing the certification of the results, where workers voted to unionize despite Amazon's anti-union campaign

NLRB Denies Amazon Whole Foods Request to Overturn Historic Philadelphia Union Election

Philadelphia, PA — The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has denied Amazon Whole Foods’ request for review of the Regional Director’s decision certifying the January 27, 2025 union election at the company’s Center City Philadelphia store.

In May 2026, the NLRB Regional Director certified the results of the historic union election. Amazon Whole Foods subsequently filed a request for review with the Board in an effort to overturn the certification decision. Today, the NLRB denied the company’s request for review, allowing the certification to stand.

The Board’s refusal to review the Regional Director’s decision confirms what workers and UFCW Local 1776 have known from the beginning: the election was free, fair, and conducted lawfully.

“From the start, Whole Foods told their workers and the public that they would respect the outcome of the vote,” said Wendell Young IV, UFCW 1776 President. “Instead, the company has spent months delaying the process and retaliating against known union supporters. With this ruling, there could not be a clearer obligation to bargain. Enough is enough. It is time for Amazon Whole Foods to do the right thing, respect the workers’ decision, and come to the bargaining table.”

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It’s about shapes in narrative beyond the wave/3 act rising structure. Talks of adapting spirals, fractals, etc from nature. Reminds me of “Making Shapely Fiction.” It’s the 1st writing book I read citing BS Johnson. Part of me thinks u can claim to apply any shape to narrative 8/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It’s an upstairs-downstairs novel about a grotesque dad & his family. Like the other novel of hers I love, it’s all dialogue, which made me work more. I don't think I caught everything, but the raw/high tension moments are fun because all you have is peoples' speech, & a lot happens offscreen 8.3/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It’s about gender and philosophy. Talks about biology, the perils of forced heterosexuality, and the difference betwteen sex and gender. I had to pause a few times to look up words I forgot. I’ve wanted to read this for years 9/10

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Many thanks to the team at @vestalreview.bsky.social for listing my new chapbook of micros & flash, “Ghost in the Rain,” in their 2026 publication listings. Such a great service to provide to short fiction writers working with small indie publishers. www.vestalreview.net/new-flash-fi...

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A sex worker relates copulation to language & acts in a bawdy version of Gogol’s “Nose”. There were ~10 different fonts + as many ways to read it. Dated regarding gender & women's bodies. I thought, “What’s the use of this beautiful sentence if it doesn't relate to a big picture?" 7.2/10

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Stanchion published its 24th book today. 6 more to go!

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I have a short personal essay up @necessaryfiction.com discussing how, where & when I wrote the 12 micros & flash pieces in my brand-new (and debut!) chapbook, “Ghost in the Rain.” Thrilled to have it in one of my favorite journals. necessaryfiction.com/researchnote...

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It’s about trauma & how it manifests in veterans, kids, car accident victims, etc. How folks fall into detachment & permanent flight or fight. I read that this book is controversial, but it didn’t seem so. It critiques US Rx drug culture & our long delay adopting single payer healthcare 8/10

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AFSCME District Council 47 @afscmedc47.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Najah, Molly, Galia, Anna, and Irene from Adult Social Services are voting YES for workers’ rights and protections on June 9th and 10th. They won’t let Right to Work tear down all that we’ve fought for. Union strong! Union YES! @phillydefenderstaffunion #philly @afscme.bsky.social

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A guy gets questioned in a Soviet interrogation room & talks for the whole book: about life before birth, 2 lost loves, his cats, a beer company. I liked it but was ready to stop b4 the end. IDK why the CP banned this, maybe for the sex & expletives- I only caught a handful of anti-CP stuff 6.6/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A woman gets subjected to all kinds of s3xual violence by everyone she meets. Vibes of "Girl Next Door" & "House of Holes" in its language. I wondered what the point was after tragedy after tragedy, but I wanted to read this since college & stuck with it. It must've said "libertine" 500 times 2/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It's about the overbuilding of Chicago & demolition of its historic buildings. It made me compare Chicago to Philly, esp. in how both cities dealt w/ White Flight. I appreciated the David Harvey citing, & the proposals to reign in profit motives & the practice of developers selling & fleeing 7/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Cool news, @hfr.bsky.social publishes my story “Storn Williams Goes West” today. It’s 1 of my more Twilight Zoney pieces - read the 1st paragraph to see if you want to read on. This is the 2nd fiction of mine that this fine magazine has featured! heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/05/28/s...

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A writer in Tunisia meets people. Eventually his fiancé visits him. Bad things happen. What makes this book weird is how much is left open-ended, what gets pursued & what doesn’t. Are murderous double dealings happening under the surface? I waited for things to wrap up but they didn’t 7.9/10

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Heavy Feather Review @hfr.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Fun with ghosts! Check out Matthew’s new chapbook: bottlecap.press/collections/...

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

3 adults bring some mortally-ill UK kids to Disney World. Haha. I’m surprised Disney didn't sue. The writing's top notch. Whole sections are written in different styles. There's chapters of only dialogue, metaphor, epistolary, etc. I love his short stories but this is the longest I’ve read 8.5/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

So last night I finished Emergent Strategy. It’s about dialectics and meeting facilitation. It was good. A lot of the nature writing sounds like dialectical materialism to my ear. I wonder if the groups she mentioned are still around - Ruckus & others. I guess a revolution has to be facilitated 8/10

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Perry Genovesi 🍐 @beerdistributor.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It’s some idioms & philosophies of writing, how it’s unfun & obsessive behavior lol. The end, where she focuses on a pilot, bored me. The rest is great: dividing writing & painting, & extended metaphors that gel. I like her point to use an idea now rather than save it for later. School read 8/10

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Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Repost of worm moon issue (March 3) index since the changed image . . . this makes us ill, pulling a cover work, we've never done it before (willfully). But these are great writers with great works and check it out check it out, please! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

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