Should have posted this BKMN IBD update here. I’ll be over by one or so. Kelly a little later. Will leave the Small Beer discount up until Monday morning: We’ll have (some of these) exclusive goodies which will be available as of Saturday morning. If...

When I was a kid my dad liked getting a whole stack of Sunday newspapers — which was easier in early years in Ayrshire than in later years in Argyll. Walking, or occasionally biking, a mile down to pick up the Times, Observer, and Sunday Post(!) at t...

Because I cannot keep up with time I hadn’t realized March was coming up so quickly and now we are a day away from rights to Amalia Gladhart’s translation of Angélica Gorodischer’s Trafalgar reverting to the estate. I’d meant to make a fuss a few wee...

Being chronically ill gives insight into how the world will go on when one is no longer part of it. We’ve all moved on from social circles, jobs, schools, cities, towns, countries, and we know that life goes on in those places without us. But to lie...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Good Day,I've had this newletter open all week but been unable to write. There are so many interesting things going — where "interesting" means "fascinating" not " — in the bookish world but the Stupid World keeps interrupting. Imagine voting for som...

Dear Readers,As you probably know (since I'm coming up on my 3-year Long Covidversary — party time!), I have long Covid; noted here as everything about distributing this book will be done slowly.We've opened orders for our four-volume limited edition...

Edited to add: something went kaput yesterday and this email didn't go out to most people so here I try again. I voted by mail and today we went to our polling place to hit up the election day bake sale and support the school PTO. I hope you will vot...

Hi all,If you are eligible to vote in the USA, I hope you have already voted for Harris/Walz or have a plan to do so tomorrow. If you are voting, please vote the whole ballot. Sister District reported that Republican voters are more likely to vote th...