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The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. From @saggingmeniscus. Quarterly, in print and online, since 2021.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
TY @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social for shouting out my @exactingclam.bsky.social essay, Unusually Credible and Precise, about an early career humiliation and the long, long shadow I let it cast. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/09/04/a...
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Afternoon Bites: Julie Kliegman Interviewed, Miriam Gershow Nonfiction, Revisiting Nancy Lehmann, and More
In our afternoon reading: an interview with Julie Kliegman, talking music with Justin Broadrick, and more.We’re taking the weekend off; normal posting will resume Monday.
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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Welcome to my late summer deckchair, autumn 2026 issue @exactingclam.bsky.social Delighted to have a story in it alongside my @cbeditions.bsky.social pal @juliangeorge-abhf.bsky.social Details here: exactingclam.com
the autumn 2026 issue ‘Bone Head’ by John Patrick Higgins — resting on blue stripy fabric
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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Will you spend some time behind the scenes in my new piece @exactingclam.bsky.social: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-22... 🙏 🖤
Image used on the website with this story: a skeleton pointing a spear at a seated writer gentleman (The Dance of Death, colour lithograph by Edward Hull)
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W. J. Davies @wjdavies.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My short story, 'By Water', is published in the autumn issue of Exacting Clam. Thank you to the editors, particularly for making it free to read online. Do subscribe, not least so you can more reliably mark the passing of the seasons. @exactingclam.bsky.social www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-22...
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By Water | Exacting Clam
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R J Dent @rjdent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Very pleased to have my English translation of Rodrigo, or The Enchanted Tower, An Allegorical Tale by the Marquis de Sade published in the Autumn 2026 (No.22) issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social Thank you to the editors for giving it such a prestigious home. www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-22...
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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A new book from our prolific contributor @kurtluchs.bsky.social is always an event!
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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
COVER REVEAL: Paul Kavanagh's EVERYBODY IS INTERESTED IN PIGEONS, now preorderable at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/ever...
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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
On reading Gerald Murnane’s INLAND. 1st pub. @exactingclam.bsky.social, 2026. 10/
Behind the Scenes with Gerald Murnane: A First Reading of Inland
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My letter in this week’s issue of @thetls.bsky.social Finding myself in uncharted waters, I felt it necessary. Share if you care about making room in our literary culture for work that swims against the tide.
The first half of a letter from Guillermo Stitch to the TLS in response to the review of his book there.The second half of the letter.
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Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Here's a hot take about Guillermo's book. He could've simply published Tale of Three Voyages as a standalone novel and critics would've praised him for picking up where he left off with Lake of Urine. But where's the fun in that?
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"With his novel, The Coast of Everything, author Guillermo Stitch swims against a particularly challenging tide." Many thanks to @jeffchon.bsky.social and @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social for this review. ocreviewofbooks.org/2026/08/04/t...
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The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch
Reviewed by Eric Bies
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"What each review has in common with the others is that it reads like the report of a surveyor who can’t find the front door, and so (for his supper) surveys the facade." A response to some baffling reviews of The Coast of Everything. Share if you care. www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-litera...
The front cover art for The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch
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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
David Rose's latest story AMERIKA online at @exactingclam.bsky.social 👇 www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21...
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AMERIKA | Exacting Clam
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Great to see the book get some support! Thanks to writer and critic Lee Rourke. #booksky
An instagram post by writer and critic Lee Rourke, calling The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch "747 pages of sheer brilliance"
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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In the @thetls.bsky.social, re @guillermostitch.bsky.social, 'The Coast of Everything,' and the necessity of messy, drunken literature.
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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
1/ In a reply to @thetls.bsky.social's review of @guillermostitch.bsky.social's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, @cdrose.bsky.social argues our case: "Stitch and his publisher ... may not indeed have received the memo, and I am pleased they did not, or wholeheartedly ignored it if they did..."
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Deeply grateful for this amazing review from an amazing writer.
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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WHEREIN MR GUILLERMO STITCH, AUTHOR OF THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, INTERROGATES MR DAVID COLLARD OF LONDON, THE BOOK’S FIRST READER.
GS: To break the ice, why don’t you tell us a little bit about myself?
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Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
You have to take The Coast to the coast @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Many thanks to Emily Firetog and the good people at @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this excerpt. #booksky
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The Coast of Everything
“What a lot of people don’t appreciate these days is that as recently as the first half of the last century, what they called literature was a very, very different thing to the thing we have now. A…
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Add these lit mags to your summer reading list! New issues just came out from @afterdinnerconversation.com, @alocasiamag.bsky.social, @exactingclam.bsky.social, @fahmidangroup.bsky.social, @lilithmagazine.bsky.social, @newenglandreview.bsky.social, and more: www.clmp.org/news/june-20...
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June 2026 Roundup of Member Magazines - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
We’re proud to share this list of literary journals—all members of CLMP—publishing new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and more in June 2026.   After Dinner Conversation | June 2026 Featuring…
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Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
North Americans, you can now pre-order my Novel-prize shortlisted book Porcupine. The rest of the world, being less favoured, must wait a little longer I am afraid. Console yourselves with football, laudanum, whatever (or whoever) is at hand asterismbooks.com/product/porc...
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Porcupine | Asterism Books
*Porcupine* recreates the first meeting of pioneering art historian and Renaissance scholar Aby Warburg and philosopher Ernst Cassirer in a Swiss asylum in 1924. Warburg’s mounting fears of political ...
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The Barbellion Prize @barbellionprize.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
You can now read ‘Necessary Hypocritical Luddism’, a piece by our founder @jgoldsmith.bsky.social, from Summer issue 21 @exactingclam.bsky.social online! The Barbellion Prize is open for subs for books of prose literature that represent the experience of chronic illness & disability until Sept. 1st.
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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This Thursday 25th June at 7pm (BST) join Guillermo Stitch live online to celebrate publication of his magnificent novel 'The Coast of Everything.' Guillermo will be in conversation with Luke Kennard. If you haven't already been invited contact me via my website davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
The front cover of 'The Coast of Everything' by Guillermo Stitch, published by Sagging Meniscus Press: https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything/
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Roll up, roll up.
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thanks to @hotpress.com for this piece in the current issue.
A page from Hotpress magazine, the first page of an interview with Guillermo Stitch.The second page of the interview with Guillermo Stitch in Hotpress magazine.
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Jake Goldsmith @jgoldsmith.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Had a great time; was lovely to meet everyone (in the physical, non-digital realm). I look suitably grumpy in the photograph here but I can assure you I was highly focused and enjoying myself. Also, everyone must buy a copy of @guillermostitch.bsky.social's 'The Coast of Everything' double please
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Huge thanks to @ronanhession.bsky.social for this!
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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
👀 @exactingclam.bsky.social is open for submisisons olasubs.com/project/68fb...
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Exacting Clam | Ola
<p><em>Exacting Clam</em> is an online and in print quarterly journal from Sagging Meniscus Press, publishing essays, short fiction, poetry, and criticism.</p>
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I may have infiltrated BookTok. #booksky
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Shelf Tour tomorrow !!! #booktok
TikTok video by Brady
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
These people know what they're talking about.
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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Can’t believe you found a pic of my fave muesli! Breakfast of kings 😋
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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"It was a good day for birds on Springfield Lane. I saw a song thrush, a dunnock, a Robin and a jackdaw." @kevinboniface.bsky.social  is out and about. Issue 21 of @exactingclam.bsky.social  www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21-s…
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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Anyone in Ireland - preorder your copy here with free delivery ! thebookshop.ie/guillermo-st... @guillermostitch.bsky.social
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Guillermo Stitch - The Coast of Everything - PB - BRAND NEW
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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Thanks @susannacrossman.bsky.social!
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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"She thought they were paulownias, and I didn’t care." More thoughts from @uselessthings.bsky.social , unsavory and sweet. Issue 21 of @exactingclam.bsky.social . Time to subscribe: digital-only now available www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21-s… #booksky
A drawing of paulownias with hanging trumpet-like purple flowers and green leaves
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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"And who among our current rulers, or saleable pundits, shows any prudence or fit memory?" @jgoldsmith.bsky.social on livable Luddism. Issue 21 of @exactingclam.bsky.social  www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21-s…
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This reading is absolutely mesmerizing, and exquisitely chosen. Deepest thanks to PJ Blumenthal.
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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Issue 21 of Exacting Clam is officially out today and just as stunning on the inside as it is on the front and back covers. The new digital-only subscription which will soon deliver the entirety of back issues online. www.exactingclam.com
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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Love Poem to My Love Poems | Exacting Clam
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Eric T. Racher @ericracher.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Today's post from @exactingclam.bsky.social
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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Quite by accident, but also understandably, none of the books I have read this year have been written by Americans. Until I read these sly critical fictions of elfland by @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social
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Tyler C. Gore @tylergore.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I might be the art director he's talking about. Cover art: @johnnymuggins.bsky.social (John Patrick Higgins), inspired by @guillermostitch.bsky.social's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING (Dickens weeps over breakfast cereal). Back cover, me, inspired by John Patrick Higgins ;) @exactingclam.bsky.social
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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Wendy Walker's Sexual Stealing | Exacting Clam
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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The new @exactingclam.bsky.social is out now. Great cover! I'm thrilled to be among the contributors. On March 5 this year I was passed by a google mapping van while out on my post round, something I've long dreamt about. I marked the occasion by writing the piece featured here : )
Front cover of the Summer 2026 edition of Exacting Clam. Pencil Drawing of a downcast Charles Dickens wearing a Nixons t-shirt and eating a bowl of breakfast cereal (Little Dorrits?) Back cover of the Summer 2026 edition of Exacting clam. Advertisement for Little Dorrits breakfast cereal featuring cartoon Little Dorrit.
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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Today RTÉ has an excerpt of Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING:
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The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch - read an extract
To find the center, begin at the edge . . .
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Turns out getting an Art Director in has its advantages. Best cover yet, front and back. And this assessment has NOTHING TO DO with the artwork being inspired by my book. @tylergore.bsky.social @johnnymuggins.bsky.social @exactingclam.bsky.social
The back cover of Issue 21 of Exacting Clam, featuring a box of breakfast cereal called 'Little Dorrits'. Artwork by Tyler Gore.The front cover of Issue 21 of Exacting Clam, featuring an artwork by John Patrick Higgins which depicts a tearful Charles Dickens eating some breakfast cereal.
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Jake Goldsmith @jgoldsmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
My essay ‘Necessarily Hypocritical Luddism’ is in the latest issue of Exacting Clam. (also included in my essay collection ‘In Extremis’, published by Sagging Meniscus Press) www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21... @exactingclam.bsky.social
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Ice Cube Press / Steve Semken @steveicecubepress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Review of John Price’s Goethe’s Oak in @exactingclam.bsky.social by @charlesholdefer.bsky.social exactingclam.com/issues/no-21...
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John T. Price's Goethe's Oak | Exacting Clam
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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Things are gearing up! Launch events in Dublin, in London and online in June, and other celebrations. Keep watching the skies.
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