TMB publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, music history, children’s books and more. Nashville, TN.
Hello book friends. Happy 2024. It's a new year; let's get the banned back together!
Please mark your calendars for our next happy hour, in which we'll have read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison: January 18 at 6pm. We'll meet again at The Blue Room heated patio. Please RSVP to by January 10.
MERRY BOOKMAS, BOOKLOVERS.
We hope you have a great holiday with your favorite books!
— TMB
Good poems resonate forever.
I lived in the first century of world wars.
“A group of Democratic members of Congress this week introduced new federal legislation aimed at combating the surge of book banning in schools. Introduced on December 5 by Florida’s Maxwell Alejandro Frost and Frederica Wilson, and Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Fight Book Bans Act would offer school districts funding to defend against the ongoing surge in challenges to books and educational materials that has led to thousands of titles being pulled from school library bookshelves.”
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Artist ’s SWEETHEART PARTY is a super, limited edition collection of photographs. Looking for something special for the holidays. This is it.
“Third Man gifted Marlos a Third Man Photo Studio x Retrospekt Polaroid camera to which the artist would take on many travels for the past 2 years documenting life, death, birth, people and places. Somewhere along the journey, Marlos decided 2 bring this collection of experiences back to the people in the form of their new book, SWEETHEART PARTY! This collection of Polaroids includes intimate moments in the artist's life that serve as a way to get closer to Marlos even if you’ve never met them. Highly magnetic, SWEETHEART PARTY is just that, a party; one where all kinds of emotions are in the room at the same time. SWEETHEART PARTY puts you in different worlds without leaving your couch; you dont have 2 have FOMO because we literally put you in the experience." Find out more at thirdmanbooks.com!
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As the holiday season quickly approaches, let us take the worry off of you when it comes to determining if your books will arrive in time! Check out our holiday shipping deadlines to find out when the deadline to order products (for delivery before December 25th) will be in your country. 🎁
*For UK shipping please head to thirdmanstore.co.uk or see the post*
For the kids (and adults) of all ages!!! Three excellent children’s books about friendship, growing, . . . and music!
Last night’s first meeting of BANNED: A BOOK HAPPY hour was a success! We had a good (and important) time reading and discussing excerpts of banned books. The book club voted to read in their entirety these two banned books for their next meetings:
THE BLUEST EYE by Toni Morrison for January
And MELISSA by Alex Gino for February
Many thanks to BANNED: A BOOK HAPPY HOUR organizers and for allowing Third Man Books to be involved. Watch out for future dates. Let’s keep filling the patio with book lovers!!
Congratulations to author and his novel STRAY DOGS selected by the Welsh Literature exchange for their 2023 Bookshelf! If you’re looking for a page-turning-thrill-ride, this is the book for you!
Repost from - As book bans continue to rise & allow some people in this nation to further marginalize certain voices, I’m on a mission to read more banned books. Want to read with & me? We’re kicking off a new book happy hour this month. We’re grateful the kind crew at are letting us meet on their patio. During this first time together, we’ll meet and enjoy one another, imbibe at the Blue Room bar (alcohol-free options, too), read some excerpts from potential selections, and decide which books we plan to read together over the next year.
Please join us and help us shape this new book gathering.
ps—The Blue Room is open at 7:30 pm for music trivia night with , so you can make an entire night of it if you’d like.
Did you know that books like Forrest Gump and Dune have been banned by school systems in the USA? Join us Nov 16 patio to discuss and READ banned books.
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Repost from - In Collier County, FL more than 300 book titles are now banned. Titles include literary classics, books adapted into films and TV shows, & young adult books.
A list of books from October 2023 identified hundreds of titles for removal from classroom and school libraries. The books were removed out of an effort to comply with Florida’s HB 1069, censorship legislation that extends school board oversight on classroom and school libraries
Banned: Along Came a Spider by James Patterson (), the first in the Alex Cross detective series, named one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads.” The book is recommended for ages 13+ or grades 9-12
Banned: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (), recommended for ages 13+, a novel-in-verse and Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Other works banned: blockbuster hits like A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin and Dune by Frank Herbert and Forrest Gump, the 1986 novel by Winston Groom
Even Atlas Shrugged, which paints a picture of a dystopian United States and is frequently considered the culmination of Ayn Rand’s career as a novelist, is banned.
What do all these works have in common? Aside from being banned, it’s unclear. Per our program director, freedom to read: “Once again we see a Florida school district erring on the side of extreme caution due to vague legislation and in turn leaving thousands of students without access to hundreds of books.”
Read more at link in bio.
The book nook! DETROIT BOOK CITY!!
The , featured an excerpt from . Read via link in bio the essay written by official historian and TMR co-founder . Blackwell’s excellent essay is one of three introducing the lyric collection. The other two intros are written by and .
Congratulations to Third Man Books poet Sampson Starkweather whose poem ‘What if We Call This Tenderness’ was published by The New York Times today! We’re very proud of his book PAIN: The Board Game. Find it at thirdmanbooks.com, Third Man storefronts, or a bookstore near you. Also, is that really Sam’s number? Give it a try and find out!
Repost from - feels wild and wide open and a little like electricity is running through my veins to have a poem in the New York Times today, especially one that has my phone number in it (which was part a call for love & tenderness & openness, and part a test to see if anyone actually reads poetry), and one selected by one of my heroes and favorite poets, writers, thinkers and people Anne Boyer (a beautiful heart-soul-mind) who is a gift to the world.
"Sampson Starkweather’s 'What if We Call This Tenderness' is a poem that overlays love onto a previously loveless surface of the world. The ardent and persistent calls of a collection agency are notoriously unlikely to be resolved by poetry, but through this poem’s comparisons, their meaning is transformed. The poem becomes a charmed terrain where the “tender” that is money bows to a greater concept, tenderness." -- Selected by Anne Boyer
What if We Call This Tenderness
some corporation or collection agency
calls me 3 or 4 times a day
maybe they are kind
of another mother
or ex-lover
genderless & savagely patient
either way they are after me
I’m convinced they want my poetry
I take it wizard-level
at dodging incoming calls
go invisible at the grocery store
pretend to live
in a world without money
my answering machine
is me crying
(in French, oui)
call me
914-573-9721
please leave me
something tender
On 27th September in The Blue Basement, we’ll be marking the anticipated release of ’ Tarantino-esque ‘Stray Dogs’ with a reading and signing by the author and 60ft Dolls rock group founder, Richard J Parfitt. Tickets are on sale now at thirdmanstore.co.uk 🏎💨
The novel is a “blood-soaked fever dream of Toronto teens at the turn of the 80s which reads like Taxi Driver turned upside down; the street kids remix” - John Williams (The Cardiff Trilogy)
“Third Man Books has extended our 50% off sale for select titles: HIDDEN WATER SPECIAL EDITION boxset by poet Frank Stanford, THE LANGUAGE LESSONS multi-media boxset by v/a, and books MY DINNER WITH RON JEREMY by Kendra DeColo and LUCY NEGRO REDUX by Caroline Randall Williams. Visit thirdmanbooks.com to purchase!
Congratulations to Richard J. Parfitt on the book launch for his debut novel Stray Dogs and all the well deserved press:
“Raw, powerful, and the most apt book title ever….Fasten your seat belt, Richard John Parfitt has a journey for you—Wow!” —Murder in Common
“Summer can be an ideal time to read a coming-of-age story and a tense crime drama; in Stray Dogs, you get a novel that brings together the best elements of both.” —Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“A tough growing-up novel, tautly written and full of reflective energy.” —The Critic
“A melodramatic plot, which may on any other kind of paper seem quite difficult to believe, is expertly tempered by something very real; Parfitt’s sublime gift for nailing the romantic yet unruly teenage voice” —Rachel Tresize, Nation.Cymru (UK)
“Richard John Parfitt has been writing taut, tense, economical rock songs since he lived in the same block of flats as my grandmother in Croesyceiliog South Wales. His band the 60ft Dolls ruled the roost in my hometown back then. Now he writes taut, tense, economical, prose and this novel is as fierce, catchy and full of hooks as any of his brilliant songs.” — Jon Langford, The Mekons
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Just a reminder that the last day of our 20% off sale ends Thursday! Visit thirdmanbooks.com to view our entire catalogue.
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Happy Anniversary to us! Thank you so much to poets Sommer Browning, Kendra DeColo, and Caroline Randall Williams for making Sunday not only special for Third Man Books but also for everyone who attended. So much good energy. But the biggest thanks is due to everyone who has read a TMB book, come to a TMB event, and supported the poets & writers that we’ve had the honor to publish. Book people are good people!
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Hidden Water Special Edition: The Definitive Frank Stanford Boxset: This boxset is the definitive collection of poet Frank Stanford and includes two books (totalling over 900 pages) of poems, letters, photos, rough drafts, two broadsides featuring Stanford’s original artwork, and even a custom notepad based on the pad Stanford used to write his poems while at his land surveying job. Order now using the link via bio, half price!
Part savvy lit crit, part blues chart, part hip revenge-femme-lyric, part imagined In*******al romance saga disguised as poems, in Lucy Negro, Redux: the Bard, a Book, and a Ballet, poet Caroline Randall Williams plays the literary race card and cuts the whole deck, revealing the person and identity of Shakespeare’s legendary lover, the “Dark Lady.” “An unflinching investigation of otherness and a dead-sexy exploration of the intersection of identity and desire.”—The New York Times. Order your copy, on sale now, using the link in bio.
As a reminder, the Third Man Books Anniversary Party is tomorrow at The Blue Room at Third Man Records. Doors are at 12 pm, with the show starting at 1 pm. Stop by to experience the one-woman play, Good Actors, written and performer by Sommer Browning, with guest appearances from Kendra DeColo, Adia Victoria, and Caroline Randall Williams.
Third Man Books is celebrating our birthday in August. Come to the Blue Room to see poetry, comedy, and a play. Sommer Browning, Kendra DeColo, Adia Victoria, and Caroline Randall Williams are guaranteed to make your afternoon a good one. Suggested donation $5-$10. No person will be turned away! For more info, visit the link in bio.
Poet Caroline Randall Williams will be performing live at TMB’s Anniversary Party. The New York Times described her book Lucy Negro Redux “… An unflinching investigation of otherness and a dead-sexy exploration of the intersection of identity and desire." Join us this Sunday! Doors noon. Show starts 1pm. Thank you for nine great years!
A double LP, hardcover book, and 5 posters for $20?! Third Man Books inaugural publication, The Language Lessons boxset, includes two LPs and a 300+ page hardcover book with over 20 award winning musicians, poets and authors. The boxset features music and writing by contributors such as Richard Hell, Destruction Unit, Ken Vandermark, Paul Wine Jones, Carlton Melton, C.D. Wright, Adrian Matejka, Frank Stanford, Steve Stern, Sampson Starkweather, besmilr brigham, TJ Jarrett, Sommer Browning, Chet Weise, and more!
Third Man Books is excited to announce that the 2023 Heartland Fall Forum opening event will be hosted at the Third Man Records Cass Corridor Detroit storefront. Keynote Speaker, Jack White, will be featured in discussion with writer Hanif Abdurraqib and Third Man Records co-founder, Ben Blackwell, about White's forthcoming book, “The White Stripes COMPLETE LYRICS”. Adrian Matejka and Caroline Randall Williams, poets published by Third Man Books, will also be performing.
"The Heartland Fall Forum is the premiere gathering place for those interested in doing business with independent bookstores throughout the Midwest. Hosted jointly by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association and the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association."
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Third Man Books would like to congratulate the incredible contributors and editors of “Trouble the Waters”. The anthology is a finalist for BOTH the 2023 World Fantasy Award and Locus Award. What an absolute honor for TMB to have published such a groundbreaking collection!
