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Matthew Zanoni Müller

@matthewzmuller.bsky.social
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Writer, educator. First Aid for Choking Victims (Malarkey books). Writing in Denver Quarterly, Cottonwood, Southeast Review, and others. www.matthewzanonimuller.com

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16h
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Excited to dive into this one! @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social
A picture of the book Submarines by Mike Andrelczyk, which features a very pleasing painting of a yellow schoolbus on a green field below a red sky.
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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today's the day! THE SHITBIRD is officially out in the world! spencerfleury.substack.com/p/today-is-t...
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Today is the day
My new novel The Shitbird is officially out in the world
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It’s my birthday. If you buy my book, that will be the biggest present of all. @malarkeybooks.bsky.social malarkeybooks.com/store/firstaid
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First Aid for Choking Victims, Stories by Matthew Zanoni Müller — Malarkey
This book publishes in November 2024. Preorders will be signed by the author. First Aid for Choking Victims is a collection of mostly longer short stories set in rural areas around Western Massachu...
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Embarking on my fifth year as an academic Dean, though it feels like I just started yesterday. How does this happen?
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Spent much of the day revising and napping and feeling guilty about napping and not revising and then revising and feeling good enough to do more napping.
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We have quite a few cool books, and a good way to introduce yourself to them, or build your Malarkey collection, is with the bag of books: 5 books (selected based on your favorite book), 5 zines, and a tote bag for $50. We just have a few left. malarkeybooks.com/store/bag
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bag of books — Malarkey
A tote bag, two zines, and a selection of zines from Malarkey Books.
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Will’s book comes out in April and it is beautiful. As it’s our first book of strictly flash fiction we are offering a flash sale. Code AFTERLASTCALL gets 50% off anything in our store today only (8/1/26). Great day to preorder Will’s book but the code will also work on all of our other titles!
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It'd mean everything to me if you preorder my book. But definitely pick up some other Malarkey titles. They're all amazing reads 💙💙💙
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Guido Schmidt @narkerns.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Yes. #writingcommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
A cozy bookstore filled with shelves and stacks of books, overlaid with a social media post by Allyson Cagle. The post reads: “If I ever feel bad about spending $ on books, I just tell myself I’m supporting a writer whose parents told them they’d never make any money.”
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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
We are going to print this week! www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Image of a book cover titled Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment. The cover image is a tangled nest against a black background.
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Lost Balloon @lostballoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
You are going to love our new story by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social! Check out “Counting to Ten in Japanese.” lost-balloon.com/2026/07/15/c...
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Counting to Ten in Japanese by Mario Aliberto III
Ichi, ni, san, shi… Benny’s only been a Wal-Mart stockboy a couple of weeks, part time after school, and he’s already managed to screw it up. He grinds his teeth, literally bites his tongue, listen…
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Submarines
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Finished my novel. It took me ten years or more. So nice to be able to print it out and make it that little but more real.
Printed manuscript of my novel, The Cape House, with the cover page listing the title, my name, and the word count (120,000). There is a blue coaster with a sea shell hiding my address on the top left and the bottom of my lego typewriter is also visible.
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Current vibe.
A small folding table with a bouquet of flowers and two books stacked on one another, The Salt House and Lonesome Dove, on my back porch, my white pine visible in the background.
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Be independent, folks.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Preorders make the world go round, although truthfully by “world” one means “tiny press” and by “go round” one means “not go defunct,” which is considerably less catchy. Below are some books that are available or preorder, all signed by their respective authors.
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
As Amazon buries the world in deals this week, we are bringing back the two books and a t-shirt bundle, at a lower price. The shirts are comfy, made and printed in the U.S. The books, too, are comfy. malarkeybooks.com/store/twoboo...
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Two Books and a T-shirt — Malarkey
A comfy Gildan Softstyle t-shirt printed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by the nice folks at Mythic Press . Choose from three colors, galapagos blue, paragon red, and natural, which is an off-white. The shirt w...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/06/2026
The story of New York City is shaped by the story of its immigrant communities. Our Newest New Yorkers report explores the lives of the city's 3.1M immigrant residents — where they come from, the languages they speak, the neighborhoods they call home, and the communities they build every day.
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Cottonwood Magazine @cottonwoodku.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Cottonwood 82 is here! Sixteen contributors make up this year's selection of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Learn more (and secure your own copy) by visiting the link below: journals.ku.edu/cottonwood/i...
Fiction by: Emily Ellerbe, Anne Chen, Vishwas Gaitonde, and Jim Daniels

Non-Fiction by Ira Feinstein

Poetry by: Sarah Carey, James Ducat, Kristin Gifford, Kevin Grauke, Phil Keller, Donald Levering, Priscilla Long, Robert Rinehart, Michael Sacman, Lindsay Wilson, and Matt Zambito

Image Description: A cottonwood tree stands out from a field, green and brown, against a bright blue sky and next to a country road.Table of Contents
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Pretending like I own the place.
Me in front of the Olana state historic site house, which looks a bit like a castle.
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My cactus has grown tiny arms to cheer you on.
A picture of my cactus, which has grown two tiny spiky arms so that it looks a bit like a person.
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It’s buy one get one + 4 zines free weekend at the malarkey site. Excludes preorder titles because they don’t exist in physical form yet, but we currently have a lot of backlist titles in stock. A curated sale, meaning I’ll pick a free book that pairs well with your order. malarkeybooks.com/store
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Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Thinking very seriously about taking a nap. Before I do, I just want to say, buy books!
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 05/06/2026
The convergent forms and spaces of data centers and detention centers
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It’s really hard to write well and with sincerity at the same time.
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The idea of publishing a novel only to have AI gobble it up is so discouraging. It’s like this thing I’ve poured my soul into just gets consumed by a soulless entity to be used for profit. It makes me want to only hand out my work via pamphlet at like parks or train stations.
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My niece is really into the Dragon Masters books by Tracey West so she wrote her a letter and made her a drawing and was thrilled when a month later she wrote back. The postcard was a treasured object. Then she saw that Tracey West would be coming to a local book fair
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Do not want to leave bed in house to go to work at location.
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Megumi Bandicoot @megumibandicot.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Guys... please, stay alive for the books you haven't read, the anime you haven't finished, and the stray cats you haven't petted yet. Stay alive for the smell of rain, your morning coffee, the songs that will become your new favorites, and the versions of yourself you haven't met yet
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Strange thing happens, when we don’t post about books for a while we don’t sell many books, so this is a post about books and fingers crossed it will help us sell some! malarkeybooks.com/store
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Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I actually wrote for the first time in months yesterday. Just a spontaneous burst of 1,200 words on the novel in progress. A scene that I started telling myself in my head when I thought, “Wait, I could just write this down.” And then there my characters were, just as alive and present as ever.
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Good mail has closed in on me. Excited to check these out! @joshuatrentbrown.com @malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Copies of sick sad queer by Ly Faulk and The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown.
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Partying hard in the backyard.
A picture of part of the cover of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, the edge of my cocktail glass, which contains a Manhattan, and my knee, looking out across my backyard with the garage and my garden blurry in the distance.
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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Thrilled to share that my new collection—Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment—is available for pre-order! It’s a book about belonging & becoming & finding our way together. I hope you will read it. ❤️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Image of a nest against a black book cover. Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment by Steve Edwards
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
IT IS IN YOUR SELF-INTEREST TO FIND A WAY TO BE VERY TENDER
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Moved this year and am just now unpacking boxes and found this treasure, still in its shipping envelope. It must have arrived the day before I moved. So fun to get it now, like a belated birthday present. @renbolger.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Copy of Lauren Bolger’s The Barre Incidents and an issue of Hellarky.
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Ross McMeekin @rossmcmeekin.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
...PEPPERLEAF is now available for preorders through @thirtywestph.com! You can find that here: www.thirtywestph.com/shop/p/peppe...
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Pepperleaf - Ross McMeekin - Fiction — Thirty West Publishing House
Pepperleaf is a novel and the 3rd book by author Ross McMeekin
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Minnesotans deserve restitution from ICE's terror campaign. The ICE surge cost Minneapolis $200 million in just one month. That’s before overtime, charter flights, and detention contracts. Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to subsidize their own trauma.
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Trent Brown @joshuatrentbrown.com · 12/03/2026
Some recent informal book reviews
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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I'm planning out coverage for the next six months. Right now the goal is to commission six freelance book reviews per month from writers. Sign up if you want to support books and book reviews www.awritersnotebook.org/subscribe
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Trent Brown @joshuatrentbrown.com · 03/03/2026
My book is out today. It’s nothing short of a dream come true. I hope you’ll read it. @malarkeybooks.bsky.social
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Imagine if we sold 62 books a day every day.
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Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Was at a conference in Portland, Oregon this week and trundled over to Powell’s books where I was pleased to see @malarkeybooks.bsky.social well represented with books by @alexmiller77.bsky.social and @seanennis.bsky.social. If you’re in town, grab yourself a copy!
Cover of Sean Ennis’s Hope and Wild Panic on a wooden bookcase.Spine of Alex Miller’s White People on Vacation in and amongst other indie hits on a wooden bookshelf.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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