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01/06/2026

Happy 2026 from the TB team. Hope to see you soon. 🥂

12/17/2025

💐National Book Critics Circle Longlist💐

🐅SEA, POISON by Caren Beilin is longlisted for fiction.

📘ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (BOOK III) by Solvej B***e is longlisted for fiction.

🌪️EXOPHONY by Yoko Tawada is longlisted for criticism.

Congratulations all, and thank you ⭐️!

12/16/2025

Newly released with author Joan E. Childs

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. There is one day in Joan Childs' life that she wishes she could do over: the day her daughter, Pam, a brilliant psychotherapist, plunged from a 15-story building to her death. In this vivid memoir, Childs, a psychotherapist, explains how her daughter's l.....

12/06/2025

Getting chills over here listening to Erik Bendix read from Rilke’s “Toward Praise.” Coming soon from ❤️ 🔥

10/24/2025

New reading from HORSE GIRL FEVER by for your listening pleasure...From cult author of The Red-Headed Pilgrim, Kevin Maloney delivers a vision of the world that is hysterical, terrifying, and true. A cuckolded husband finds a new identity as a ghost. A homeowner has a nervous breakdown while building a pergola. An angst-ridden teenager finds his spiritual equal in the mosh pit of an Alice in Chains concert. GET THE BOOK!

09/30/2025

Huuuge congrats to on her wonderful new audiobook, “Dispatches From the Couch,” dropping! The TB team feels so very honored to have been a part of it. ❤️

Make sure to go pick this up ASAP.

Stacey is living exactly the right life before she hits the psychological equivalent of a patch of black ice.

As Professor Hettes, her classes focus as much on neuroscience’s beauty and wonder as its facts and theories. Fellow faculty members see her as a fair but outspoken leader on a campus steeped in the blended patriarchies of academia and southern gentility.

At an emotionally charged forum on sexual violence, she takes a stand against a colleague’s reckless verbal assault, outing herself as a sexual abuse survivor in the process. Professor Hettes must continue her work even as Stacey finds herself resubmerged in the sights, sounds, and smells of her memories with Mr. Jay, a Pentecostal church deacon.
With exceptional candor, Dispatches from the Couch invites readers to take a seat beside her in the office of her new therapist, Piper. This debut memoir reveals the laborious, complex, but promising work of revisiting the past in order to extract its remnants of shame and loneliness from the present.

09/29/2025

Just wrapped up the audiobook recording of Melvin AC Howell’s new book “From A Nobody To The Somebody.” Great stuff. Can’t wait to get this one out for everyone to hear. Special thanks to for lending her lovely voice.

The print drops Oct. 15th with the audio to follow shortly after. Stay tuned.🔥

09/03/2025

Orison Books is pleased to announce the results of The 2025 Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction. POETRY RESULTSPhillip B. Williams has selected "Request to the God Trinket" by Craig Beaven as the poetry winner from a pool of anonymous finalist manuscripts. Beaven will receive $1,500 and publication by...

06/05/2025

New episode with two readings from ! Seven years after its most recent release, You Private Person now returns in a brand-new edition by With an X Books. Named one of Publisher’s Weekly’s 10 Essentials Books of the American West, these stories are sharp, romantic, and heartbreaking to the core. A beloved collection, a cult classic, and a perfect pop song, You Private Person is your favorite writer’s favorite book.