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I Am Tom Waits! (Janice Margolis)
Peek inside the mind of the fictional Tom Waits as he wanders the streets of El Lay. From the La Brea Tar Pits to the Hollywood Bowl and beyond, the traveling troubadour muses on everything from the nocturnal habits of peacocks to William Burroughs’ dipsomania.
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March is Small Press Month, and IKE: A Publishing Project is celebrating by spotlighting our titles to date—ten chapbooks of short fiction, each crafted with care, intention, and love.
We’re thrilled to share that IKE: A Publishing Project will be publishing Frog Heart, a luminous and unsettling short story by @joybaglio.bsky.social, as a standalone chapbook—arriving April 18th.
Baglio’s work captivates with its blend of the uncanny and the deeply human.
Greetings from "war ravaged Portland."
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.
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It’s launch day for The Modernists—our Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a series of chapbooks by Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Sherwood Anderson.
We’re excited about this project and we’re asking for your help.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ike...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
We’re launching a Kickstarter campaign on September 23rd. It features short stories by: Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Sherwood Anderson.
We ask for your support.
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What do Glenn Gould and Henry David Thoreau have in common? They’re both featured players in upcoming chapbooks from IKE: A Publishing Project.
Pre-order now @asterismbooks.bsky.social
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We’re excited to announce that our books will be distributed by @asterismbooks.bsky.social
Check us out, along with nearly 200 amazing independent presses.
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To celebrate Bob Dylan’s 84th birthday, we’re offering copies of North Of at 20% off. Use code: DYLAN at checkout.
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Thank you so much for your support, and for spreading the word.
$400 to go and 4 days left for @ikeproject.bsky.social's Kickstarter! Check it out, consider donating, and share this around:
Our Kickstarter Campaign was just selected as a "Project We Love." We hope you'll love it too. You can find it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ike...
Our Kickstarter project is live! If you're a fan of short stories, I hope you'll check it out. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ike...
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Heartattack And Vine
#TomWaits
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Kickstarter campaign launches on April 14, 2025.
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People who follow Heyday may know @msatris.bsky.social's work as an editor, but less well known is the fact that she's an excellent poet too! Here's a great new poem and interview with her:
www.readfilterfeeder.com/p/where-the-...
Cover images for upcoming books from IKE: A Publishing Project.
We're dealing with our own March Madness as we prepare our upcoming titles.
Check them out at: www.ikeproject.com and let us know what you think.
Had a marvelous time reading and discussing writing with visionary writer Allegra Hyde a few days ago, at @forbeslibrary.bsky.social in Northampton MA, as part of the Readers & Writers Live series. Read from a new short story forthcoming in One Story! Allegra’s reading was 🔥
“After seventy years of successful maintenance, Lenin’s body was deteriorating faster than the morticians and biochemical scientists could keep up.”
Cover reveal. Pre-orders are underway.
Cover art: Oleksandr Balbyshev
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I extend my sincere apologies to President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine on behalf of the American people.
Cover image - The Future Consequences of Present Actions by Allegra Hyde
Here is a sneak peek at one of our upcoming titles …
“When a boy wakes he must not make a sound. He must kneel beside his bed in silent prayer, like the others in the room, and feel the weight of two minutes. He must feel joy too. And gratitude.
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I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...
Picture of Elizabeth Strout - blond woman
“But the books brought me things. This is my point. They made me feel less alone.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
Happy Birthday.
Random thought:
Who remembers this one episode of Twilight Zone, “Time Enough At Last”?
I’ll be sure to prepare for at least 3 extra pairs of glasses 👓👓👓 😊
“Her perfume smells like Vanity Fair magazine.”
—Marie-Helene Bertino, North Of (upcoming from www.ikeproject.com)
“Speaking of dislocation, for longer than I’d care to admit, I thought harum-scarum was an abandoned ghost town near Addis Ababa.”—Janice Margolis, I Am Tom Waits! (upcoming from www.ikeproject.com)
“If the people at the convenience store on Bloomingdale Road are surprised to see the bloated Voice of a Generation using the candy display to scratch the low part of his back, they keep it to themselves.”—Marie-Helene Bertino (from North Of, upcoming from www.ikeproject.com)
Cover of book called I Am Tom Waits! by Janice Margolis.
I Am Tom Waits!
Janice Margolis
“If you want to read a story version of Being John Malkovich transferred to the mind of Mr. Waits, here you go, minus the scheming plot.”—The Florida Review (Online)
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