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07/10/2025

On a summer evening in the 1990s, Anne learns that one of her husband’s lovers is expecting his child, only a few weeks after learning that she too is pregnant.

He tells her casually, as if describing the weather, and the careful balance of privacy and flexibility that has sustained their open marriage is shattered.

LIKENESS by Samsun Knight: arriving in bookstores July 29th!

Background painting by Paco Felici ()

07/08/2025

👩‍🏭🧰 Happy Pub Day to Dr. Coreen Derifield's WE WERE STILL LADIES 🔧👷‍♀️

Following WWII, women living in small towns across the Midwest woke every morning, packed their lunches, and headed out for nearby factories. Many never envisioned themselves as industrial workers, but the political and economic impacts of WWII marked a shift in new opportunities.

Examining critical pieces of labor history and women's rights movements, WE WERE STILL LADIES follows the women who built working-class solidarity, forever changing the socioeconomics of midwestern culture.

07/05/2025

Don't tell anyone, but here's a peek at some of our forthcoming titles 👀

You can find all these all (for free!) on . We've linked to our account in our story!

We've got:
🖐 THE EXTREMITIES! by Samantha Kimmey (a novel)
🏭 CITY OF CLANS by Geoff Peck (a novel)
🧟‍♂️ LOVE, DIRT by Bruce Johnson (short stories)
📝 FLAGRANT, SELF-DESTRUCTIVE GESTURES by Ted Geltner (a biography of writing legend Denis Johnson)
🎨 BRIGHTENING GLANCE by Pat Lipsky (a memoir of art and life in 1970s New York)
& more!

07/03/2025

We asked Andrew Brininstool for advice on writing about institutions, bureaucracy, and flawed characters. Here is a quick snippet to celebrate the publication of his book, HIGH DESERT BLOOD!

07/02/2025

🏜 HIGH DESERT BLOOD is here 🏜

When a cocksure father hatches a simple insurance fraud scheme, he has no idea its failure will lead his family into the maelstrom of America’s most violent prison riot. HIGH DESERT BLOOD by Andrew Brininstool takes you inside the walls of the Penitentiary of New Mexico.

Meticulously researched and reminiscent of dark irony favored by Joan Didion, Truman Capote, and John Jeremiah Sullivan, HIGH DESERT BLOOD offers an unflinching look at the brutality and corruption that plagued a prison, shedding light on the systemic issues that made disaster inevitable.

Not an easy read, but an urgent one for writers and policy-makers alike.

06/28/2025

🌖Cover reveal 🌘

The shadow of mothering has never been given a richer, fuller, more debased vision than in Youna Kwak’s FOR THIS AND OTHER CRUELTIES.

Dropping on 09/22/2025, Kwak casts a cold eye on the splendid and cruel intransigence of maternal paradoxes in all their impossible double binds, monstrous pleasures, and profane mystifications—envisioning a world where mother is “a creature whose only enemy could be human.”

06/24/2025

🌅 Cover Reveal 🌌

“It takes Bruce Johnson two or three brushstrokes to draw one onto his canvas, concrete and clear and so poetic and resonating. These finely tuned stories of family and place, from Chiloé Island to Nevada, establish a momentum that finally forms into a vast, vibrant world.”—Percival Everett, author, James

A closeted teen on a trip to Chile hides in his parents’ bedroom to avoid being caught fooling around with a local boy. A father becomes convinced that a daycare has swapped his toddler with a near-identical imposter. 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 we craft for ourselves (and others) as we seek connection.

06/21/2025

📢 Cover reveal 📢

“Ted Geltner definitively illuminates the tirelessly questing life of one of the most gifted, mysterious, and lyrical writers of our time. Denis Johnson was an utterly unique generational talent, and in these pages his inspiration and devotion to craft shine through brilliantly.”—T. C. Boyle, author, BLUE SKIES

📚 FLAGRANT, SELF-DESTRUCTIVE GESTURES hits shelves 11/11/2025 📚

06/19/2025

🌟A Juneteenth Reading List🌟

INVISIBLE HAWKEYES: AFRICAN AMERICANS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA DURING THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA - Lena M. Hill & Michael D. Hill

DREAMING OUT LOUD - Horace Porter

WHEN YOU LEARN THE ALPHABET - Kendra Allen

CALL MY NAME, CLEMSON: DOCUMENTING THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY - Rhondda Robinson Thomas

BEHIND THE BIG HOUSE: RECONCILING SLAVERY, RACE, AND HERITAGE IN THE U.S. SOUTH - Jodi Skipper

COLLUSIONS OF FACT AND FICTION: PERFORMING SLAVERY IN THE WORKS OF SUZAN-LORI PARKS AND KARA WALKER - Ilka Saal

ALL BLACK EVERYTHING - Shane Book

CRACKING UP: BLACK FEMINIST COMEDY IN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY UNITED STATES - Katelyn Hale Wood

06/18/2025

🍂Cover reveal🍃

Since her first collection, THE KEEP, Emily Wilson has forged a singular voice in American poetry, one that traces and complicates the dynamic relationships between language and nature, aesthetics and science, material forms and inwardness.

Wilson's newest collection, BURNT MOUNTAIN, drops 10/21/2025 on the rugged slopes of an inauspicious mountain—densely wooded, long ago scoured by fire, and marked by generations of human presence.

Cover 🎨 featuring needlework by Emily Wilson herself!

06/14/2025

🏗Cover reveal🏢

“Brutal but spiked with hope, CITY OF CLANS is the antidote to toxic masculinity we’ve been waiting for."—Salvatore Pane, author, The Neorealist in Winter

As the son of a professional baseball player, Jeremy grew up playing sports and molding himself into a certain type of guy—a type embodied in Jeremy’s best friend and roommate, the hypermasculine Scott Melloy. But when Scott commits an unthinkable act, Jeremy is forced to acknowledge that the friend he idolized is a sexual predator, and his carefully constructed sense of self crumbles. A healing journey, Geoff Peck's CITY OF CLANS hits shelves 09/23/2025.

Thank you Brad Norr Design () for gritty (and yet sleek) design ✨

06/10/2025

🔍Want the scoop on a forthcoming novel? 🔍
Samantha Kimmey, bookseller at and author of THE EXTREMITIES!, chatted with about the connection between Californian wildfires and chronic illness—as well as how to write into universal themes using personal experience.

Link in our story highlights!

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