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12/15/2025

Snag select titles for $7! Use code BOOKJOY7 on our website during checkout. We're trying to get off our screens this holiday season, so we hope you can too! (The irony of posting about it on Instagram isn't lost on us 😅) But if you can, make your escape with one of these novels:
CITY OF CLANS by Geoff Peck ()
LIKENESS by Samsun Knight

12/11/2025

Snag select titles for $7! Use code BOOKJOY7 on our website during checkout.
We're trying to get off our screens this holiday season, so we hope you can too! (The irony of posting about it on Instagram isn't lost on us 😅) But if you can, make your escape with one of these gorgeous short story collections:
The Man in the Banana Trees - Marguerite Sheffer ()
Everything Flirts - Sharon Wahl ()

12/10/2025

Snag select titles for $7! Use code BOOKJOY7 on our website during checkout.

We're trying to get off our screens this holiday season, so we hope you can too! (The irony of posting about it on Instagram isn't lost on us 😅) But if you can, make your escape with one of these gorgeous short story collections:

What Mennonite Girls Are Good For - Jennifer Sears ()
Love, Dirt - Bruce Johnson ()

12/08/2025

🎉 It’s time for a cover reveal 🎉

University of Iowa Press is beyond honored to published CARRYOUT by Hasan Dudar next May. Learn more about this collection of linked stories on our website and mark your calendar for 5/5/2026.

“A delight to read, with moments of great beauty that linger.”—Phil Klay, author, UNCERTAIN GROUND: CITIZENSHIP IN AN AGE OF ENDLESS, INVISIBLE WAR

“You will cheer for these characters’ triumphs and mourn their losses. A powerful new literary voice!”—Susan Muaddi Darraj, author and Pen/Faulkner Finalist, BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA ( )

“These are the sorts of stories that make a reader sit up and pay attention.”—Daniel Alarcón, author and journalist

“I consumed this book.”—Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, author, EVERY DROP IS A MAN’S NIGHTMARE ( )

In the late 1970s, Ziad Idilbi, a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon, marries Salma, a Lebanese refugee escaping the war in Beirut. Resolving to start over for the last time, the couple opens a corner store in Toledo, Ohio. Over the decades, whether it’s bigotry (pre- and post-9/11), financial ruin, or terminal illness, the Idilbis find themselves on life’s outskirts.

Achingly poignant and slyly funny, the linked stories in CARRYOUT follow the Idilbis and their children as they attempt to build something new. Walid, the youngest, navigates the colorful characters who haunt his parents’ corner store and finds himself writing about his father and the long shadow of displacement and occupation. Mustafa, the eldest son, is forever trying to outrun the disasters that seem to seek him out, while Nawal, the only daughter, is dumped by a friend and hatches a scheme to win her back. Unsure whether to run toward or away from each other, the characters in Dudar’s exquisite debut suffer the absurdities and indignities of life in America with striking wisdom.

12/05/2025

🧡 GET OFF YOUR PHONES 🧡

This holiday season, we’re trying to step back from our inboxes, catch up on analog hobbies, and read more on the couch.

To help, we’ve made select titles $7 on our website. Use code BOOKJOY7 (in all caps, like you’re shouting into the void) when checking out.

And yes... the irony isn’t lost on us that we’re posting on social media. But our marketing person did hand-cut most of the graphic, and it was therapeutic!

$7 sale. Log in and log off. Consider this mutual accountability to slow down and share what you’re reading with loved ones 🧡

12/03/2025

Happy pub day to Chandra Owenby Hopkins’s SOUTHERN STAGES!

“SOUTHERN STAGES adds a much-needed new perspective of the US South through the lenses of performance and memory. Hopkins’s work opens the door for a fresh intersectional and interdisciplinary discussion about the American South that fits the current sociopolitical moment in the United States.”—Evan Howard Ashford, author,

“Hopkins offers a sophisticated exploration of the ways in which the American South as an idea imprints itself on places, objects, and people. As the focus shifts from the plantation, the whip, Confederate ‘daughters’ sanitizing the legacies of their ancestors, to activist-artists striving to monumentalize past horrors to prevent their forgetting, the dynamic interplay of race, memory, history, and performance is compellingly revealed.”—Harvey Young, author, EMBODYING BLACK EXPERIENCE

11/26/2025

🗣 Our authors did cool things this past October + November 🗣

Small Business Saturday is the 29th. Remember to shop local, use cash, and tip service workers extra this weekend!

P.S. — We have a holiday sale running until 1/2/26. Snag select titles, new and classic, for $7. Just use code BOOKJOY7 on our website when checking out. More info soon!

11/24/2025

FOR THIS AND OTHER CRUELTIES by Youna Kwak was named a finalist for CALIBA’s 2025 Golden Poppy Book Awards!

“To be mother or not to be mother is what I kept questioning as I read through Youna Kwak’s stunning second poetry collection—how she muddles as well as mothers the seemingly inconsequential question with her fabulist logic and language. Look carefully, and Kwak’s ‘book of the death of the mother’ grows from the messed-up, bloody bed of race, class, gender, and nation. Kwak’s ‘mother’ is not unlike Kim Hyesoon’s ‘mommy’ in that they perpetually mutate and survive, tragically or not, under the same moon, the same shredded tongue, the same global warfare.”—Don Mee Choi, author, DMZ COLONY

“In this stunning collection, Kwak guides her reader toward the deepest levels of empathy and understanding. Fixing her gaze on the two-headed serpent of domesticity and generational trauma, this is a poet in hot pursuit of new forms, new modes of belonging, new horizons of choice. ‘We had none of us chosen our mothers,’ she writes, ‘our cramped apartments, our bullies or fathers, our stupid haircuts, what we ate, what we wore, and yet here we were, doggedly alive, alike as kin . . . pressing obdurately forward toward burnished human form.’”—Rob Schlegel, author, THE LESSER FIELDS

11/20/2025

Oh, look! Some LOVE, DIRT-themed dirt cake to show love for debut story collection, LOVE, DIRT—out now 🍰🍫🎂🧁

Thank you to for the photos and excitement 🤩

11/12/2025

Happy Pub Day to Bruce Johnson’s LOVE, DIRT

From the intimate confines of a Nebraska farmhouse to the bustling streets of South America, the characters of Love, Dirt traverse uneasy spaces in search of human connection.

A closeted teen on a trip to Chile hides in his parents’ bedroom to avoid being caught fooling around with a local boy. An elderly couple attempts to scale a volcano, wrestling with their own physical limitations and an unbearable loss in their past. A father becomes convinced that a daycare has swapped his toddler with a near-identical imposter. The public relations industry of Las Vegas is at first amused and then scandalized by a businesswoman’s ability to divine people’s birthplaces and childhood experiences just by listening to them speak. And a son’s long-deceased parents return to life as fumbling, inept zombies who are more nuisance than threat.

In these and other stories, Bruce Johnson’s bold, thought-provoking debut explores how we are shaped by the narratives that we craft for ourselves and others.

11/07/2025

🏝️ 11/13 | 6:30pm EST | FL 🏖️

Ted Geltner, author of FLAGRANT, SELF-DESTRUCTIVE GESTURES, the first ever biography of Denis Johnson, will read at !!!

Swing by to learn more about the life of a Gen X icon and one of Literature’s most brilliant, conflicted figures.

11/04/2025

Blocked? 🙃 Good news is you’re not alone!

Recent fiction is teeming with blocked writers: from John Updike’s Henry Bech to Stephen King’s Paul Sheldon and Mike Noonan. From David Foster Wallace’s Mark Nechtr to the autofictional figures of Jordan Castro, Salvador Plascencia, Nam Le, Ben Lerner, Sheila Heti, and Andrew Martin.

Out now, WRITING THROUGH WRITER’S BLOCK offers the first book-length analysis of the archetype of the blocked writer. From the scenes of writer’s block enacted in these fictions, we gather pedagogical lessons that are germane to writers of all kinds—creative and academic, advanced and novice—and particularly useful for the growing contingency of faculty whose teaching responsibilities lie in both literature and academic writing.

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