Three tickets to Challengers please.

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Just Dr. Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. at Skylight Books in Los Angeles!

'Readers might be on my side the first time I described a mosh pit or the way that malnutrition fogs up your brain, but seven DIY shows and ten strained lunches later, they might want to hurl my book, and themselves, into the bus lane.'
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23 Indie Presses to Support After the Close of Small Press Distribution | @electriclit buff.ly/49RX933

'Slain habitually by strangers' / atomizer-ambient / sexuality--my hobby / is mortification / by fleet comparisons.' thebaffler.com/poems/green-tu…

Found this one on the shelf at the local bookstore. Just incredible to see the reception José Vadi’s book is getting 🎉

Read an excerpt from 'Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens,' by José Vadi, a collection of essays from Soft Skull Press.

In it, Vadi honors the memory of Thrasher Magazine editor Jake Phelps, who died suddenly in 2019. altaonline.com/dispatches/a60…

Happy #IndependentBookstoreDay !

Go buy a book. Could be one that we publish, I guess. That’d be cool. But I’m not watching, you can get away with whatever.

For the Monday Book Review, writer Emily St. Martin looks at José Vadi's 'Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens.'
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Get there y’all.

In this Ep231 clip, ⁦José Vadi⁩ discusses an essay that captures the fervor and yearning and chaos of a 4th of July.

Buy his subtly powerful collection, Chipped, from ⁦Soft Skull Press⁩: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738576/c…

Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Reminder:

Our National Poetry Month poet for today is Dr. Taylor Byas Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.. sclsnj.org/national-poetr… Soft Skull Press. Follow us for another contemporary poet each weekday in April. #NationalPoetryMonth Academy of American Poets

''I promise you I cannot chill out. I don't have an off switch ... Do you have any idea what I would do for one hour of quiet? Is that something you can help me out with? Can you fix my brain?'

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH IT'S KILLING US BOTH by Mariah Stovall.
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ICYMI: José Vadi was on KQED Forum talking about CHIPPED (@softskull)! We are big Vadi fans, and this new book rocks. He'll join us here at 9th Ave on Thursday, April 25. Details in thread.
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