Happy Potato Press

Potato Bones is an illustrated collection of text works, poems, and prose that I wrote between 2016 and 2024. During this period, I published a wide variety of books under the name Happy Potato Press. Those books, or better said, potatoes, took many forms and ranged from poetry to picture books and from art books to children’s books. The writings in this book never fit into any of those publications, yet they feel essential to them, like the bones inside our bodies—invisible, but without them, we would be mere mush, sliding through the streets.

Written in the familiar language of online reviews and social media comments, Good Reviews offers an absurdist take on modern review culture.

This little book contains 134 fictional book reviews. And contrary to the title, only a few of them are good, others are bad, straight-up terrible, surreal, or simply weird. But I guess, the best way to describe this book is to simply read the reviews and see for yourself.

A young girl sees a big fish all alone in the ocean, crying. A moment later, she sees a lot of small fish locked up inside books at the bookstore, also crying. What’s going on? And how can she help them? Lying awake in her bed at night, she comes up with a plan. Inspired by seeing thousands of animals locked up inside picture books at the Children’s Book Fair in Bologna, The Girl and the Fish is a story about releasing animals from books. But it is also a metaphor for setting free anything that is kept in boxes: animals, people, dreams — especially if it requires secretly climbing out of your bedroom window at night to break into a bookstore.