his ass is not listening
Light and drawing, Nikita Busyak
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self portrait. Everything is a diary.”
— Chuck Palahniuk (via quotemadness)
Lorde’s latest email update:
THE 100 REWATCH ▸ Season 6: Episode 5 – “The Gospel of Josephine”
“So we can judge them and not ourselves?” “You know I judge myself every day.”
Fleabag 2016 - 2019
“This is a love story”
Do you know, I often thought it strange that of all my pieces you chose to take her.
Why?
She was based on your mother.
I know some of you have been sent home from schools, have been laid off from jobs due to the pandemic, are doing social distancing, and/or have been quarantined so there’s a lot more alone time, lack of routines, and huge amounts of stress. People may need some escapism to just deal.
So I’ll be posting ebooks that publishers are generously discounting, giving away, etc. due to the current pandemic.
I’d normally put a long formatted list together but I honestly don’t have the heart so in pieces. I’ll add update posts when/if there’s more.
First ones:
- Horse Crazy: A Novel by Gary Indiana - free ebook until March 17 (today) 12:30pm EST
- Out-Spoken Press - Ebooks - All free for now
- Invisible Publishing - Ebooks - Have been made Pay What You Can
- Influx Press - Ebook Subscriptions
- Fly on the Wall Press - 50% off until March 20 with coupon EBOOK50
- the earthquake room by Davey Davis - free PDF
- 11:11 Press - Ebooks - Pay What You Can
- 3 of Cups Press - discounted, owner was giving free ebooks away before but the response was too overwhelming
Oh, and if you’ve a book release that’s been affected please send me a link.
- The Earth Will Shake Us Off Like Fleas by June Gehringer - PWYC, donates to QTPOC affected by COVID19
- Gigantic Worlds ed. Lincoln Michel - free
- Only Shallow by Jasmine Gibson - free
- Ugly Music by Diannely Antigua - YesYes Books poetry ebook
Presses
- Metatron Press - ebooks $6.00 CAD/$4.38-ish USD
- Book*hug Press - all ebooks $5.00 CAD/$3.65-ish USD - 100% goes direct to the authors during the COVID-19 crisis
- Commune Editions - chapbooks - free PDFs
- Commune Editions - books - older books available as free PDFs
- Garden-Door Press - ebooks - a couple of their OOP ebooks are available as $5 PDFs, all proceeds go to the author
- Birds, LLC - ebooks - older books available as $5 PDFs and a couple are available as $6.99 audiobooks
- Vaultzine - ebooks - $6 CAD/$4.38-ish USD, authors include Doretta Lau, Sennah Yee, & Hann Shafi
- Ghost City Press - microchaps - free PDFs
- knife | fork | book - ebooks - $6.00CAD
- Maverick Duck Press - ebooks - free PDFs
- Black Lawrence Press - ebooks - $4.95 through Friday (March 20)
- New Michigan Press - ebooks - $5 PDF (& frontline)
Subscription Services
- Scribd available for free for 30 days with no credit card or commitment needed - https://twitter.com/Scribd/status/1240276773985812480
Magazines/Journals
- The Arsonist Magazine - print magazine made available in PDF
- Brick: A Literary Journal - all issues available online for free for the next month
- The Chronicles of Now - short fiction from today’s headlines commissioned from major authors - free
Ebooks
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg - free PDF
- Takahē by Stacey Teague - PWYC
- Dead Tongue by Bunkong Tuon and illustrations by Joanna C. Valente - $3.00
- Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon by Colette Arrand - free PDF
Online
- UNREST by Simone White
- BARF MANIFESTO by Dodie Bellamy
- DEFORMATION ZONE by Joyelle McSweeney & Johannes Göransson - free chapbook
- A PANIC THAT CAN STILL COME UPON ME by Peter Gizzi - free chapbook
- I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO SING by Alexis Almeida - free chapbook
- SWALLOWER by Lyric Hunter
- NOVELTY ACT by Maureen Thorson
- INSTANTS by Philip Metres
- THAT WE COME TO A CONSENSUS by Sara Veglahn and Noah Eli Gordon
- POETRY IS NOT A PROJECT by Dorothea Lasky
- FALSE FRIENDS by Uljana Wolf
- Ugly Duckling Presse - Online Chapbook Archive
- Ugly Duckling Press - google search - made this since not all are listed in their Online Chapbook Archive page
Audiobooks
- Dear Universe: Poems on Love, Longing, and Finding Your Place in the Cosmos by Pierra Calasanz-Labrador - $3.95
Kindle
- The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg - graphic memoir - $4.99
- Collection of Free Audiobooks on Audible - these audiobooks were made free to stream while school is out during the pandemic - no login/account required
- Verso - 10 free ebooks available and 80% off all the rest
- Archipelago Books - 30 ebooks free to download
- AK Press - Ebooks - all have been discounted to $1.99
- 2040 Books & Santa Fe Writers Project – Ebooks - all have been discounted to $1.99 - use their website to access their Kindle links so they get an additional boost as a referrer
- Inanna Publications - Books & Ebooks - 40% off with coupon code iwd2020
- Fuck the Apocalypse by Stuart Buck - free to download or read online - if you’d like to donate there is a link to their Paypal
- Poetry Wales - print magazine made free to read online until April 19
- The Elephants - Ebooks - free PDFs for their ephemera/chapbooks & $5 PDFs for their regular books
- A Hair From Milk by Never Angeline Nørth - $10 - All proceeds from this sale go to Blacktransfutures, a fund for directly supporting the material needs of black transgender people.
- Never Angeline Nørth - ebooks - many available as PWYC
- Comixology - Unlimited - Free trial extended to 60 days
Note: Today (March 20) is the last day Out-Spoken Press will make all their ebooks available for free. They will continue to offer their ebooks at a reduced price.
- Open Letter Books - Ebooks - repriced to $3.99
- Verso Books - #StayHome With Verso - free ebook series
- Time For Kids Digital Library - free for younger kids until the end of the school year
- Yes, Poetry - ebooks - free and $2 poetry chapbooks
- Polis Books - ebooks - discounted to $4.99
- Galley Beggar Press - Ebooks - Ebooks are now being sold on their site for £2.50 (except Ducks, which is £3.50)
- Dostoyevsky Wannabe - ebooks - has added some £2.50/$2.99 ebooks to Amazon and plans to add more (search the titles on US/[your country] Amazon if you’re not from the UK)
- Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov - free on Seven Stories Press until March 24th (today) at 12:59pm EST
Need to take my mind off my incandescent rage at America’s sudden desire for eugenics so here’s more ebooks:
- Metonymy Press - 40% off books & ebooks with coupon code “COVID SURVIVAL” until March 31. 100% of ebook proceeds go to the author.
- Inside the Castle - all books now available as free ebooks
- Backbone Press - ebooks - $4 each
- Melville House - Their most popular ebooks are $1.99 for a couple more days
- Grey Borders Books - online digital archive - available to read free online
- Fairy Tale Review - available to read for free online via JSTOR
- University of Arkansas - new ebooks - on sale
- Cardboard House Press - Chapbooks - They’ve made some of their chapbooks free to read online
- Melville House - Ebooks - Week 2 (with all new selections) of their most popular ebooks on sale for $1.99
- co•im•press - ebooks - $5
- Calamari Press - ebooks - made free to download
- The Operating System - OS Open Access Library - PDFs available with donations requested for the author and/or publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions - ebooks - on sale for $3.99 on Kindle, Kobo, and Apple Books
- Sublunary Editions - their monthly mailings have been made available as free PDFs
- Black Lawrence Press - 50% off with code MARCH50
I’ve tagged the initial post and all updates with #lifeinpoetry books. Also, tagged previous posts with #long post.
- Bloof Books - out of print chapbooks - free PDFs, including today’s addition Ginger Ko’s Ghosts, Models, Visions
- I Love Art by Lisa Carver - free PDF
- Birds of Lace - out of print chapbooks - free PDFs
- Bottlecap Press - FREE Imperfect Books - you only pay S&H
- Duke University Press - Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus - free to read online
- CavanKerry Press - anthologies - free PDFs
- Tinfish Press - Their Retro Chapbook Series & some out of their OOP books are available as free PDFs
- Circumference Books - Their books have been made free to read online
Okay not much to add because my Ativan is not touching this anxiety but this made me crack a smile:
- YesYes Books - A lot of their books have been made into $5 ebooks
& there’s:
- First the Burning by Catie Rosemurgy - now available as a free PDF
- Torrey Peters - Two of her OOP books available as PWYC ebooks
- The Uncertainty of Light: Poems by Alana Saltz - $4.99 PDF + Audiobook
- KRUPSKAYA - Their 2018 chapbook series and a few of their OOP books available as free PDFs
- Bone & Ink Press - ebooks - $4-5 PDFs
March 27th, 2010 - 10 years since Victorious premiered!
LILI REINHART Jalouse Magazine (Spring 2020)
Jenny Slate, from an interview Hozier on twitter Chelsea Hodson, from Tonight I’m Someone Else
doof: perry the platypus, this mac and cheese is delicious! what do you call it?
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doof: perry the platypus’s pussy poppin pasta? oh you make me laugh perry the platypus :)