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Amalia and me in Berlin from this summer photo by Naomi friends forever by @earthopensup

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Der kleine Grenzverkehr

Erich Kästner by @earthopensup

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taken in Middlebury, Vermont by @earthopensup

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Artikel 3 des Grundgesetzes in Middlebury by @earthopensup

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End of an email I sent to Edmund White years ago. I miss you, Ed. by @earthopensup

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MESSAGING WITH @earthopensup ♥️♥️♥️ is part of our short form interview series on The Internet Is Dead, intended to highlight guests’ internet history & insight into their medium. Charlie Zacks grew up on Newgrounds, early YouTube, and Skype, staying up until 3 or 4am making electronic music on his laptop and building friendships across the world. He sees the internet more as a tool than a muse and tends not to romanticize it, but that same restless, unromantic energy is exactly what drove him to build something with it.

As the founder of @stimulant0 magazine and @newpubonline, Charlie has carved out space for writing that feels urgent and human, insisting (as New Publishing’s tagline goes) that it’s “made by humans.” New Publishing’s debut release is Magpie, a poetry collection by @lastsong_killsaudience that Charlie describes as feeling like a transmission: careful, immediate, and worth the kind of care he hopes to put into everything he makes. His debut poetry collection Who Will Find My Body arrives with that same conviction, that the people trying to turn art into a commodity are the ones worth writing against. by @earthopensup

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5 23 2026 taken in Berlin, Deutschland by @earthopensup

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poem written to introduce @lastsong_killsaudience 's beautiful book of poetry "magpie". i feel very fortunate to have been able to publish Bernard's first book.

only the best vampire weekend songs
reunion tours
public park first dates
panera bread bowls
mom hugs
dad hugs
instrumental breaks
palms full of goldfish
sweet-ish lemons
stealing your sister's perfume
realizing only when you get to school
you smell a little too much like a girl
skipping gym class to talk to your girlfriend
facetiming the family dog
fixed gear bicycles
old ladies on the subway
old men in comfy shoes
wearing "bennington college grandma" t-shirts
30 rock
pre school graduation
family bands
hummingbird feeders
your favorite jeans
the best free bed frame on the side of the road
buying clothes to grow into
someone new picking up your dropped pencil
upright pianos
lego star wars
couch co-ops
happy birthday to you
happy birthday to you
that awkward moment when you
forget whose birthday it is
but no one cares cuz we all love
each other like family
cuz we're like ... family and
mistakes are mistakes
so you keep on living in the back of the cab
letting that girl with the star eyes drive
knowing there's no road
laughing at the bad things
just enough back fat hanging over your belt
knowing ... yes ... love will find a way
knowing the way
forgiving yourself from the outside in
waking up to the sun in your eyes
seeing so clear you can't believe it
so you write it into your notebook
"pour...
pour everything...
pour everything into love"

#poetry by @earthopensup

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OK OK OK by Charlie Zacks @earthopensup by @earthopensup

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Episode 51: with Charlie Zacks! @earthopensup

GD Charlie ran downhill with this one! I think I gotta put a longer version up on youtube cus there was a lot more to what Charlie had to say, though I still think this gets to the core of his beliefs about books. Beliefs which extend well beyond books. Charlie talks about books so that he can talk about other things. Big things. Godly things!

Humanity! I like the way Charlie always brings it back to the people. He reasserts that the impact of good fictional narratives should be very much non-fictional. That good stories should be about real people. They should be about me and you and you and you and you. By being small we are big. By not knowing, we know a lot. But Charlie says it better.

Charlie is a poet and writer and the editor of the impeccably designed, very original @newpubonline . One of those writers who you don’t know how they do it all so well, so make sure you stay up on all that he is up to.

Thank you so much for making the time Charlie. Such a nice time chatting, for real.
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#readersofinstagram #peterbooksnyc #booksonthestreet #whatareyoureading #streetinterviews taken in Senko Funeral Home by @earthopensup

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New interview up on our site with @earthopensup

We talk about Christianity, Silicon Valley, Gus Van Sant, Chief Keef, "alt lit," "alt right," really most of the alts, and, most of all, Love. by @earthopensup

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Interviewed by Ed Komenda

Link to purchase in the bio

EK: In terms of words-to-meaning, Who Will Find My Body packs a lot of punch with poems that tend to be very short and raw, yet sharp in how you use language to deliver an image. There’s a lot about death and destruction in this book. You even mention Mark Fisher, the late cultural critic who wrote Capitalist Realism and tragically took his own life in 2017. There’s a consciousness to these poems that makes me wonder: Where were you in your life when you wrote these lines? And perhaps a more unruly question — with everything happening in the world today, in this late-capitalism dumpster fire, what role does writing play in these times? Why do you do it?

CZ: I began writing Who Will Find My Body in July/August of 2025 in my last months in Montréal. My life there was so pleasant and easy, surrounded by my friends in a city built for young people. Looking down the barrel at a move back to the U.S. — at a time when it sucks to be an American with a rational conscience — I was scared to upend this comfortable life away from the chaos of the U.S. I started this book as a way to deal with those emotions. I guess the project began as a political one, only because everything felt (and feels) so apocalyptic. The politics were inescapable. But my writing always seems to dig into my body in some way. I’ll start trying to write about the state of the world and inevitably end up writing about myself — my body, sex, whatever. I think that’s how I process the world. Writing in this current world feels like one important way to look inward — to hopefully reorient yourself toward something beautiful and transcendent so you can then look outward. There is so much beauty left in this world, but we have to train ourselves to recognize it. I hope art can continue to teach people to see that beauty and the virtue in sharing it. by @earthopensup

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