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Eric T. Racher
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Words in Nimrod, Exacting Clam, ballast, Apocalypse Confidential, minor literature[s], Socrates on the Beach, Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere.
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Eric T. Racher @ericracher.bsky.social · May 19
The book is up on @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social's website. Book description coming soon. Link below.
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👇 SCHOPENHAUER book release next Fri 👇
September 18, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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I have another odd little prose piece up at @keep-planning.net today.

As always, many thanks to the extraordinary @davidcporter.net for taking this one.
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#064 – "In a Darke Speakinge: a Ghost Story" by Eric T. Racher (@ericracher.bsky.social)
KEEP PLANNING – Eric T. Racher
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September 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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today in Keep Planning, new prose from returning contributor Eric T. Racher – i call it only "prose" because i'm truly not sure there's any more specific descriptor yet invented for the strange, dark, heady blend of literary forms to be found here. do not miss this one
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#064 – "In a Darke Speakinge: a Ghost Story" by Eric T. Racher (@ericracher.bsky.social)
KEEP PLANNING – Eric T. Racher
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September 16, 2026 at 4:22 PM
ericracher.bsky.social
I have another odd little prose piece up at @keep-planning.net today.

As always, many thanks to the extraordinary @davidcporter.net for taking this one.
keep-planning.net KEEP PLANNING @keep-planning.net · 3d
#064 – "In a Darke Speakinge: a Ghost Story" by Eric T. Racher (@ericracher.bsky.social)
KEEP PLANNING – Eric T. Racher
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September 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Thanks to @jonathangibbs.bsky.social for this thoughtful response.
jonathangibbs.bsky.social Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 5d
2026 Reading 49: The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch. I took this 750pp novel – by another writer acquaintance; you can read his excellent Personal Anthology here: apersonalanthology.com/category/gui... – on a week-long cruise. I knew it needed attention. It needed two cruises, at least.
Paperback book with a vibrant multi-coloured cover. It features two palm trees in silhouette against what might be a view of the sea, or mountains, or shapes on windows: blue, purple, red, blue, turquoise, green, yellow, orange. The title is in white sans-serif capitals, the author name in a somewhat kitsch 70s font.
September 16, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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Many thanks to Ken Gordon and The Sonneteer over on Substack for publishing another poem from my sonnet sequence, Glosses and Ligatures, forthcoming from Sagging Meniscus Press.
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September 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Many thanks to Ken Gordon and The Sonneteer over on Substack for publishing another poem from my sonnet sequence, Glosses and Ligatures, forthcoming from Sagging Meniscus Press.
thesonneteer.substack.com/p/on-the-ide...
September 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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New arrival.
September 11, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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On our home page as of today, in response to MANY reports of scam emails. Be careful out there!
September 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Much gratitude to Ken Gordon and The Sonneteer over on Substack for publishing this sonnet On Reading Maffeo Barberini's Sonetto XXXII, from my collection of sonnets, Glosses and Ligatures, forthcoming from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

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On Reading Maffeo Barberini’s Sonetto XXXII (Qui m'assido pensoso in questo sasso)
A Poem by Eric T. Racher
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September 2, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Elementary Penguin is accepting submissions of:

— Articles on wordplay, etymology, poetry, language history, and related subjects

— Word-based puzzles

I am no longer accepting poetry submissions, except by invitation.

Updated details here: anthonyetherin.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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September 3, 2026 at 9:39 AM
ericracher.bsky.social
Much gratitude to Ken Gordon and The Sonneteer over on Substack for publishing this sonnet On Reading Maffeo Barberini's Sonetto XXXII, from my collection of sonnets, Glosses and Ligatures, forthcoming from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

thesonneteer.substack.com/p/on-reading...
On Reading Maffeo Barberini’s Sonetto XXXII (Qui m'assido pensoso in questo sasso)
A Poem by Eric T. Racher
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September 2, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Extra cheering, somehow, to see a library copy. The book switches register and genre so brazenly that I think a reader is bound to like some parts better than others. I hope you find good things, and enjoy the journey.
widdersbel.bsky.social Widdersbel @widdersbel.bsky.social · 18d
Been intrigued by this since seeing @davidcollard.bsky.social mention it, picked it up from the library the other day and started this morning. Can tell I’m going to like it from the first page - this is a *great* opening… Hope the remaining 746 pages are as good as this! #NowReading
A paperback of The Coast Of Everything by Guillermo Stitch. You can tell it’s a library copy from the protective plastic cover. First page of The Coast Of Everything by Guillermo Stitch, which reads as follows: CEILINGS. Skies. Clara was something of an authority. Ceilings, especially, were the pages of her atlas. On them, she could map worlds. There were five: the low, bowed beams of the school house and the shadows that trembled around the cantilever struts that rose from them to the ridge of the roof; Dr Amstutz's salon with its egg-and-tongue cornice and the dusty glass lampshade in the middle that burned in the daytime, making those parts that fell outside its weak halo seem dirty and dim; the painted church, the pointless cherubs, the bearded men and weeping women, the blue that calmed; the inverted forest of Damocles pans, pots and playthings that hung in the general store from slender threads that made her uneasy; the near-black wood in the kitchen where she sometimes sat while Mila cooked, the glint of its polish that usually lulled her to sleep despite the smell of food and the cook's chatter; and lastly, the frontispiece — the timber square of the room next to the kitchen that had been made her bedroom and where her elderly father, while he still lived, had painted flowers for her to look at, and here and there among them a bird or a honey bee.
September 1, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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The Shibboleth Machine: Compulsory Consensus in Twenty-First-Century American Poetics.
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August 29, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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August 29, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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August 24, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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there's still time to add to our editors' misery ...

minorliteratures.com/submissions/
tobiasvryan.bsky.social Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 27d
reading submissions
August 23, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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The Goodreads giveaway is open as of today. Of interest only to US readers. #BookSky

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Book giveaway for The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch Aug 24-Sep 21, 2026
Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Aug 24-Sep 21, 2026. Enter today to get one of 50 copies of Guillermo Stitch's The Coas...
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August 24, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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August 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Rafael Chwoles
Portrait of Hirsch Osherovich (1956)
August 22, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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COVER REVEAL: Kurt Luchs' A LITTLE BOOK ABOUT THE BEATLES: two dozen sonnets and two essays about the Fab Four. Coming this January!

https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_little_book_about_the_beatles/
August 21, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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Finally finished The Coast of Everything and already excited to read it again. So beautifully layered and crafted so that there's a propulsive sweep through the whole thing, but also echoes and ghosts that criss cross and circle back on themselves as you read. #booksky
Hard copy of the book The Coast of Everything
August 18, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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guillermostitch.bsky.social
I love this review.
marcdefaoite.bsky.social Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · Aug 9
I read The Coast of Everything by @guillermostitch.bsky.social
TL;DR - One of the most original and engaging (and by far the longest) books I've read this year.
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August 9, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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The book is up on @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social's website. Book description coming soon. Link below.
May 19, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Anyone want to read “Your Name Here“ with me? Meaning … you read, I read, we jump on a zoom abd discuss?
August 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM