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01/16/2025

"ROMANCE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING IN THE WORLD. Second is a short blade." —from 'Good Dick' by Richard Chiem

01/15/2025

X-Ray Mag interviewed Derek about Container!

Is there something up with modern dread? Derek Fisher’s enigmatic collection Container (With an X Books, 2024) strokes the lid of contemporary malaise, and teases the release on stories that simmer like a broiling pressure cooker. This is writing cast adrift on strange currents, Fisher’s domain ...

11/04/2024

Featured in The Aither today!

Born in the late 1980s in Florida, USA, Jon Nix has had an interest in creativity from a young age - Taking photos with disposable camera's his mom bought

10/21/2024

Shots from the release party for You Private Person!

10/02/2024

Copies have arrived! See you in New York!

09/25/2024

We'll be heading to New York to celebrate the rerelease of Richard Chiem's You Private Person!

08/27/2024

It is our great pleasure to announce the rerelease of the long out of print, You Private Person by Richard Chiem! 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.

Now with a new forward by the great Rachel Bell
And stunning new cover art from Tori Huynh

Pre-order now!

08/21/2024

We will be out in Lawrence Kansas next weekend to table at Paper Plains Zine Fest! While we're out there we'll be doing a free screening of Don't fall in Love with Yourself with Bread & Roses Press!

07/30/2024

All Container preorders are now shipped! If you haven't ordered your copy yet, now's the time!

In sold out stadiums, top recording booths, sounds of ripping steel, snapped elevator cables, shattering feedback, eardrum surgery, masses devoted until death, a music landscape possessed by this singular, multi-platinum colossus of scar and bone; an infamous architect, who travels the world with he

07/29/2024

Photos from Derek Fisher’s book release party hosted at Little Ghosts Books in Toronto!

07/24/2024

Coming up fast!

07/24/2024

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