Jedediah Berry on Travel Light

I was looking for something and came across this note on Travel Light that Jed sent me in September 2005 for the Small Beer newsletter: Travel Light is a book that goes places you never quite expect, even when you’re the one who’s writing it. No, I d...

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Jan 23, 2026
Mail Call

Well, yesterday I checked the mailbox at the Small Beer office and there was a rather large stack of mail — lots of LCRW submissions, a couple of checks, a copy of GQ magazine(?), Rain Taxi, and so on — going back to late October. Darn it. That does...

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Jan 22, 2026
Read the Fire Safety Pamphlet First

I recently added cooking columnist Nicole Kimberling’s Cook Like a Hobo from the pre-Reckoning LCRW 33 guest edited by Michael J. DeLuca. You can read more of Nicole’s columns here as well as in the print (or ebook) issues of LCRW. Current issue has...

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Jan 21, 2026
2 Weeks into Q2 2000

In something I was reading the writer mentioned this year started the second quarter of the 21st-century, which gave me one of those I am living in the future frissons. So the new issue of LCRW is the first issue of a new quarter. Maybe a quarter cen...

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Jan 20, 2026
MLK Weekend & Ayize

Meant to post this earlier and may update with a Monday event but if you are in San Francisco this looks like an event worth attending: Ayize Jama-Everett (The Liminal People series) is part of a celebration this afternoon at the San Francisco Public...

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Jan 18, 2026
Cook Like a Hobo

This is LCRW Cooking Columnist Nicole Kimberling’s seventh column for LCRW originally published in LCRW 33. I think almost all of us have, at one point or other, attempted to cook with a campfire only to discover that our skills fall far below modern...

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Jan 16, 2026
LCRW 51

Out into the daft, daft world: a zine. The post LCRW 51 first appeared on Small Beer Press.

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Jan 02, 2026
2025 Holiday Shipping

Orders are going out every week from either the Consortium warehouse or the fab people of Book Moon. Media mail shipping on this site is free. However, if you’d like pre-holiday arrival, please choose Priority Mail. USPS Ground Advantage™ Service Dec...

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Nov 28, 2025
Added Back Images

An agent enquired about language rights for Maureen F. McHugh’s first collection, Mothers & Other Monsters, which is — fingers crossed — good news for Maureen. While looking up information I realized the photos for the limited edition had dropped...

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Nov 10, 2025