More lo-fi samizdat for the wandering mind... a n[o]vella of s[o]rts... a text machine... $4.44 US: https://t.co/t88kpEMsBf UK: https://t.co/a9Zm38kGNL CA: https://t.co/wwVo9UhLBM ES: https://t.co/3SydDX8bOE

Looking forward to our early-December release of Tobias Ryan's first novel, GLANTZ. For everyone's weekend enjoyment, here's an Equus blurb, a sneak preview of its cover, designed by @YaninaSpizzirri, and a link to a recent @3ammagazine "appreciation" article by Tim MacGabhann

JONATHAN MARTIN, a novel - first page https://t.co/Ie2zAOZLGI @EquusPress

👉🏻IN MEMORIAM: PHILLIP O'NEIL (1965--2025)👈🏻 We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Phillip O’Neil, author of MENTAL SHRAPNEL (2020), a singular literary voice of uncompromising intelligence, wit, and poetic ferocity. Phillip’s work was always driven by a

“the billions of words that buzzed in my ears rarely unsettled me by what people wanted them to mean; as to all those words I myself uttered to others, I always felt they were distinct from my thinking—for they became unchanging.”

UK lo-fi experimental filmmaker & performance artist Zak Ferguson smuggled my Prague-NYC quartet of microbooks to the 2K25 Prague Microfestival (despite almost causing an international incident at Václav Havel Airport because the CT X-Ray scanner could not "read" my books!)

Louis Armand reading for Rick Harsch last night

Still from Zak Ferguson's, Mourir en Silence.

Sci-fi goes lo-fi when @rg_vasicek stalks the roiling wastelands of factories, media, tech, vague politics and debased human relationships. He transforms each into something achingly odd yet instantly familiar. J.G. Ballard would surely approve. https://t.co/ywVFHLjoNw

More @praguemicrofest set-up fun!

Setting up for this year's PMF @praguemicrofest at Kampus Hybernská

"What is a diary in this century? An archive of live combat with the self? Aphorisms? Notations? Small detonations of clarity? A mind making a flank attack on its own habits?" https://t.co/MLu1GrYGVE

“[T]he artist is ineffectual. He has no place in the world. It is not that he belongs to what we ordinarily think of as the other world. If he is allied to the sacred, this is because he belongs neither to this world nor to any other, but to the ‘other of all worlds’ in our own.”

Rick Harsch update: Rick is awake & interacting, which is good news. The stroke was serious & his recovery is expected to take some time. I'll relay any further developments anon.

More great literary disorientation from @rg_vasicek - Let it flow over you like static. Clarity's for amateurs. In the end, you'll get the message. Narrative = nothing/everything ... Words x images can sooth or destroy ... Future shock is now. https://t.co/ElNGZOGBaA

"The collision of vasicek's increasingly desperate human voice with siratori's cold, inhuman code enacts the Beckettian themes of linguistic failure, entropy, and the struggle for meaning against aphasic silence..." https://t.co/czJfcbXUGA

Rick Harsch update: Rick is in a stable condition, no longer in a coma, though still not awake after surgery. Doctors are apparently optimistic, so things are looking up.

Devastated that Rick Harsch, publisher of Corona/Samizdat & writer of extraordinary books, has suffered a stroke & is presently in a coma. Hoping like hell that he'll recover. Expecting further news in the coming days.

A thing of beauty arrived today...

The fictions of Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai are the latest in a rich tradition of allegorical speculation that can be traced back to the ruined visions of Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett. László Krasznahorkai’s universe | Jared Marcel Pollen https://t.co/JDAhfXRXFW

EQUUS PRESS SEPTEMBER RETROSPECTIVE 30. @AnsgarAllen, JONATHAN MARTIN (2025) JONATHAN MARTIN (forthcoming 1 Nov 2025) presents itself less as a “life novel” than as a necromantic reanimation of biography as ruin, disjunction, and haunted fragment. “On 27 May 1838, Jonathan