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Third Man Books TMB publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, music history, children’s books and more. Nashville, TN.

Shhhhhh, here’s a secret hot tip for the holidays: Third Man storefronts might have a few signed YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PI...
12/16/2025

Shhhhhh, here’s a secret hot tip for the holidays: Third Man storefronts might have a few signed YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS, the graphic novel by . Go visit them. (Because they can’t take orders via phone etc and ship.) Books are available only while supplies last.

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Pre-order the definitive story of pop-culture changing, pioneering company Electro-Harmonix. In 1968, Mike Matthews foun...
12/15/2025

Pre-order the definitive story of pop-culture changing, pioneering company Electro-Harmonix. In 1968, Mike Matthews founded Electro-Harmonix (EHX) and began assembling a worldwide team of the most talented engineers, creatives, and musicians he could find — people who would create imposing metal boxes with odd names that changed the sound and attitude of music forever. But the story of Electro-Harmonix is far more than the story of a company and its products. It’s a testament to what can happen when someone trusts the people around them to do their best work.
Written by Josh Scott and Daniel Danger (with Dan Epstein), MADE ON EARTH FOR RISING STARS is 500+ pages of photographs, facts, incredible story-telling, and testimonial. Order at Thirdmanbooks.com or link in bio.

We’re excited to be part of Press Play presented by in Brooklyn this weekend, Dec 13 - 14. We have a table selling our ...
12/13/2025

We’re excited to be part of Press Play presented by in Brooklyn this weekend, Dec 13 - 14. We have a table selling our books plus excellent TMB poets Rachelle Toarmino and Sampson Starkweather will read their poems today (Saturday) at 2pm as part of the Small Press Poetry Hour (location : Science Studios at Pioneer Works).

It’s going to be really special; they will be reading alongside Ted Dodson and Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim of Wonder Press, as well as Funto Omojola and Nora Treatbaby of Nightboat Books.

is excited to be part of Press Play presented by in Brooklyn the weekend of Dec 13. TMB will have a table selling our...
12/02/2025

is excited to be part of Press Play presented by in Brooklyn the weekend of Dec 13. TMB will have a table selling our books plus excellent TMB poets Rachelle Toarmino and Sampson Starkweather will read their poems Saturday afternoon 2pm as part of the Small Press Poetry Hour!

Repost • 🤸‍♂️⁠ Come shop, eavesdrop, gawk, and conspire IRL at 𝕻𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝕻𝖑𝖆𝖞 on December 13–14, 2025. Buy tickets now! ⁠
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Press Play brings writers, provocateurs, and thinkers to disturb the peace. Including , , , , , , and many others for a weekend of banned books, , collective refusal, the erotics of research, and beyond. Curated by , this year’s program confronts the complexities of 𝕕𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕣𝕖 from writing longing to living it, internet depravity, and what radical actions are possible in this new hellscape.⁠
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🚍️ 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬? 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠!: presents Silvia Federici in conversation with and Cheryl Rivera on collective refusal as strategy in 1970s Italy as we look to Zohran’s New York.⁠
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🕹️ 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐯 gathers writers , .kolitz, and to discuss the sexual preoccupations of very online men. ⁠
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🎙️ 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭: and discuss the erotics of research and JonBenét Ramsey for the launch of the podcast.⁠
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📋 See our full exhibitor list and program schedule on our website. All talks and DJ sets will stream live on .⁠
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🔗 Secure your ticket at the link in bio. Grab a Limited-Edition Ticket Bundle, which includes a smutty grocery bag designed by , the newest issue of Broadcast, and general admission.⁠ Flash your contraband in style!

Third Man Books is very excited to announce MOJORHYTHM By is now available from USA Third Man storefronts, Thirdmanbook...
11/24/2025

Third Man Books is very excited to announce MOJORHYTHM By is now available from USA Third Man storefronts, Thirdmanbooks.com, and your favorite bookstores. UK release will be December! MOJORHYTHM is the first of the three book The Root and Sky Series of short stories.

“The lyrical gifts of Thomas invokes the rhythms of African-American ring shouts and the dense, humid atmosphere of the American South. “ ―Publishers Weekly

The award-winning Sheree Renée Thomas, author of Nine Bar Blues, returns with a new collection steeped in Hoodoo, fantasy, magic myths, and lore. This is a multigenre brew, strange and wondrous, exploring the supernatural currents of music, history, and culture, Hoodoo as an ancient modern spiritual force and living folklore, the exquisite whimsy and profound horrors found in existence, and the boundless territories of the impossible.

Sheree Renée Thomas is a twice Hugo Award nominated, Locus Award, and three-time World Fantasy Award-winner. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy. The author of four collections, including Mojorhythm, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life, and Shotgun Lullabies. Sheree is a co-editor for Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue, and is the editor of the groundbreaking Dark Matter speculative fiction anthologies that first introduced W.E.B. Du Bois’s work as science fiction and explored 165+ years of Black Speculative Fiction. In 2023 she was honored with the Octavia E. Butler Award.


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11/09/2025

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Repost -: Jack, & Meg. Celebrate The White Stripes and their induction into the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame today, Saturday, November 8.

Third Man was honored to host poets from the Nashville Street Poetry Project and the street newspaper last Saturday. S...
10/21/2025

Third Man was honored to host poets from the Nashville Street Poetry Project and the street newspaper last Saturday. Shawna, Lisa, Norma, and Daniel shared poems from the new anthology IGNITE NASHVILLE: A Community of Shared Stories, which features the voices of unhoused and formerly unhoused persons. The poem pictured was written after Tennessee’s became the first state to make sleeping on public property illegal. with mentor worked hard on this excellent anthology. Purchase copies from to get some good words and contribute to good people!

Thank you for another great year! Very grateful authors , , and had such a great event and space to share their wor...
10/20/2025

Thank you for another great year! Very grateful authors , , and had such a great event and space to share their work.

And of course, so many thanks from us to Sheree, Rachelle, and LT for making the trip and taking the time to read and discuss their words. It was a great weekend!

Repost • “And that’s a wrap! Thank you to everyone who made Vanderbilt University Presents: The Southern Festival of Books, a Program of Humanities a success. From author panels to signing lines, vendor sales to stage performances, Creativity Land to DogMan sightings, this weekend has been a full celebration of the written word. We couldn’t have done it without our volunteers, donors, and sponsors. You made it happen!”

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TMB is excited about in Nashville this weekend. See these great Third Man writers read and discuss their work. Check ou...
10/16/2025

TMB is excited about in Nashville this weekend. See these great Third Man writers read and discuss their work. Check out the schedule for all the many many other writers in town!

Sat. Oct. 18

will be with Mary Robinette Kowal from 1pm - 2pm at the TN State Library and Archives Harpeth Room. Signing immediately following.

Sat. Oct. 18, Rachelle Toarmino () will be with Ashley M. Jones and Denton Loving from 4pm - 5pm at TN State Library and Archives Conasauga Room. Signing immediately following.

Sun. Oct. 19, will be with Paul Burch from 3pm - 5pm at TN State Library and Archives Conasauga Room. Signing immediately following.

Also on Sunday Oct 19, TMB will be hosting an independent offsite event w/ and Project at 1pm in the Third Man Records storefront.

Happy pub day to Rachelle Toarmino! Her incredible collection of poems, Hell Yeah, is available now from Third Man store...
10/14/2025

Happy pub day to Rachelle Toarmino! Her incredible collection of poems, Hell Yeah, is available now from Third Man storefronts, Thirdmanbooks.com, and good bookstores everywhere!

There is also a limited, signed edition with French flaps, broadside, and knuck tats available only from Thirdmanbooks.com!

Viral in the social neon ... Toarmino’s got it.” -Nick Sturm

“These poems sing into the wild. “ -Hoa Nguyen

“I want everyone who loves poetry to read this book.” -CAConrad

Hell Yeah, Rachelle Toarmino’s highly anticipated second collection of poems, is an intimate, ecstatic examination of the wonders of common speech. As automatic and wholehearted as a hell yeah between friends, the poems interject into various sites of the interpersonal—from a work email and doctor’s office to a long-distance call and Yahoo! Answers rabbit hole—to measure the strange, mundane, and ancient ways we relate and respond to one another. In an alternating rhythm of logic and lyric, doubt and doubling down, Toarmino regifts plain and inherited language to arrive at a theory for familiarity and something like faith: how we know what we know and why we share what we know. With curiosity, generosity, oddball intellect, and charm, Hell Yeah captures that gut impulse to feel yes, say so, and sing it.

Third Man Books is excited to welcome the Nashville Street Poetry Project this Sunday 1pm for a FREE reading in the reco...
10/14/2025

Third Man Books is excited to welcome the Nashville Street Poetry Project this Sunday 1pm for a FREE reading in the record store. Come hear excellent words from excellent poets for an excellent cause!

“ is a collaboration between street newspaper and artist and author , supporting homeless and formerly homeless poets through twice-monthly workshops. Ignite Nashville: A Community of Shared Stories is the workshop’s first publication—a collection of personal confessions, idiosyncratic anecdotes, lyrical meta-mythologies, and formally experimental verses. The book spotlights these poets’ creative work while creating a new revenue stream for all of The Contributor’s vendors. “

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