The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. From @saggingmeniscus. Quarterly, in print and online, since 2021. https://bsky.app/profile/exactingclam.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/exactingclam.bsky.social/post/3mknoqe6gkw2cJocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece will reading her story "The Mandrake", which first appeared in Exacting Clam #18, this evening on Story Hour  https://www.storyhour2020.com/calendar29 Apr 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:ngxstdasczajgyuozsviwmry/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknoqe6gkw2chttps://bsky.app/profile/exactingclam.bsky.social/post/3mgzvtyl3mj2n"If you can’t be sure that your dinner won’t escape, then you need to make sure they’re already dead—no ifs, ands, or buts." Carnivorous fiction from Gina DeMartino. Subscribe today. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/human-instinct-easy-recipes-to-craft-flesh-to-perfection/14 Mar 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:ngxstdasczajgyuozsviwmry/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgzvtyl3mj2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/exactingclam.bsky.social/post/3mgxfiiktyv2v"It becomes part of our individual geography: one that is moulded by the landscape of another’s mind." @cclarklewes.bsky.social on Gerald Murnane's 'Inland'. Subscribe today. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/behind-the-scenes-with-gerald-murnane-a-first-reading-of-eminlandem/13 Mar 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:ngxstdasczajgyuozsviwmry/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgxfiiktyv2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/exactingclam.bsky.social/post/3mgkt2v47d22v“It was not Nelle Harper dropping him, it was Truman going away from her.” Kat Meads on Nelle Harper Lee, the real and the fictional. Exacting Clam 20. Digital-only subscriptions now available. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/nelle-harper-lee-character/08 Mar 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:ngxstdasczajgyuozsviwmry/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgkt2v47d22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/exactingclam.bsky.social/post/3mgiclxwmkx2n"It's time for us to die." Thomas Walton's thoughts are getting unsavoury-er. Exacting Clam 20. Subscribe for full online access to each issue. Digital-only subscriptions now available. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/unsavory-thoughts/07 Mar 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:ngxstdasczajgyuozsviwmry/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgiclxwmkx2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/exactingclam.bsky.social/post/3mgdbrcgkqs2o"It’s possible that we have to remain in the dark, ignorant, we have to stay dumb long enough to regenerate the species." Thomas Walton's unsavory thoughts. issue 20, out now. Digital-only subscriptions now available. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/unsavory-thoughts/05 Mar 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:ngxstdasczajgyuozsviwmry/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgdbrcgkqs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/exactingclam.bsky.social/post/3mgara2iw6d2z"The image of the grass having a simple call, like a bird, is straightforward, charming and distinctly inventive. Which is to say, typical Simic." Kurt Luchs on Charles Simic. Issue 20.  https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/listening-to-the-grass-and-to-charles-simic/04 Mar 2026 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:ngxstdasczajgyuozsviwmry/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgara2iw6d2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/exactingclam.bsky.social/post/3mg6arefjeg2e"One envies other lives for the subterranean reason that makes all life so difficult: death." @jgoldsmith.bsky.social  on 'Envying Artists'. Issue 20, out now.  Pick up or gift a digital subscription at a much lower price. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/envying-artists/03 Mar 2026 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:ngxstdasczajgyuozsviwmry/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6arefjeg2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/exactingclam.bsky.social/post/3mg3qcunvxa2oOut now. Issue 20's magnificent cover is by Leigh Gore and Tyler C. Gore. Go to the website to choose your new, low-cost digital subscription or an enhanced print subscription (that now includes digital). Full access to entire issues online! https://www.exactingclam.com/subscribe/02 Mar 2026 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:ngxstdasczajgyuozsviwmry/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3qcunvxa2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/exactingclam.bsky.social/post/3mfz7snms732kBig news! Not only is Issue 20 out today, but from here on in you can create your own account on the website, where all issues will soon be available in their entirety. Some already are. Plus digital-only subscriptions at a much, much lower price! https://www.exactingclam.com/subscribe/01 Mar 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:ngxstdasczajgyuozsviwmry/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfz7snms732k