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DIALOGUE WITH A SOMNAMBULIST by Chloe Aridjis is on sale now in paperback! 📚Renowned internationally for her lyrically u...
10/02/2025

DIALOGUE WITH A SOMNAMBULIST by Chloe Aridjis is on sale now in paperback! 📚

Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis offers readers her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy.

💥 “This fabulist work goes beyond the experimental; it is simply an experience—unsettling, monstrous and lovely.” —

💥 “One of the most distinctive voices writing today . . . In Aridjis’s work, every shadow can be a portal to another dimension.” —

💥 “Beautiful. It sits like a jewel in your mind . . . Chloe’s writing matters not because its topics are ripped from today’s headlines but because she is trying to illuminate this world using only words . . . And the single-minded search for words that ‘will surely fit’—better than any template or tailored suit—is what animates every page of this wonderful book.” —

FLAT EARTH by Anika Jade Levy is a November American Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick!!! 🌘 Huge thanks to all of ...
10/01/2025

FLAT EARTH by Anika Jade Levy is a November American Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick!!! 🌘 Huge thanks to all of the booksellers who nominated us, we appreciate you immensely! 🫶

⭐ ADVANCE BOOKSELLER PRAISE FOR FLAT EARTH ⭐

📚 "Anika Jade Levy is no stranger to the art, good writing, or insufferable people you meet in your 20s, and her debut novel homes in on these facts and crafts a dystopian, frolicking book I could not put down." —Grace Sullivan, Fountain Bookstore, Inc.

📚 “It's impossible to book this down. Levy's writing is fantastically witty and shocking real, balancing satire and sincerity perfectly. As the youth would say, I ate it up!” —Amali Gordon-Buxbaum, Books Are Magic

📚 “If you're looking for your newest favorite unhinged narrator, this is the book for you! FLAT EARTH is a wild ride from start to finish, and a perfect reflection of the scattered, deeply unwell times we live in.” —David Vogel, Literati Bookstore

📚 “FLAT EARTH is a clever, sardonic novel about navigating your twenties in modern America where every relationship is transactional. A brilliant satire of the New York art scene, right-wing conspiracy, and female friendship.” —Sophie Chen, Belmont Books

📚 “A lot of marketing copy has been deployed to label many, many books as THE Gen Z novel. I wouldn’t want to make so grand a claim about Flat Earth, but I do think that it captures so much of the zeitgeist without losing its own unique identity. This novel is a bracing mix of witty bemusement at the failings of the modern world and its inhabitants with a slow-building accounting of the high cost of living. A real knockout.” —Keith Mosman, Powell's Books, Inc.

📵 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 📵 We are so excited to share the cover of NO CONTACT: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bart...
10/01/2025

📵 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 📵 We are so excited to share the cover of NO CONTACT: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bartoy! Cover design by the fabulous Nicole Caputo ⭐

NO CONTACT will hit bookstores on April 28th and is available to preorder now!

About the book:
A poignant and galvanizing anthology that illuminates the realities and nuances of family estrangement, with pieces by Stephanie Foo, Nick Flynn, Deesha Philyaw, Cheryl Strayed, and many more.

Estrangement presents an essential existential question: who are we without our family? What kind of person cuts the proverbial umbilical cord and why? And who do we become, once untethered from our kin?

Families fall apart and individuals cut ties for myriad reasons—abuse, politics, mental illness, and addiction, among others—and reunification often is not in the cards. Estrangement can be a positive change, as Emi Nietfeld explains in her essay about finding relief and logic after cutting off her mother. It can be a journey: noam keim rebuilds their sense of self by learning Arabic in their ancestral homeland of Morocco, while Nicole Graev Lipson searches for answers in literature and motherhood after her brother ghosts her. Other writers explore how estrangement complicates life’s big shifts—Domenica Ruta traces the repercussions of severing ties while battling from cancer; Hannah Bae reels from the prospect of cultural alienation when she cuts off her Korean parents; and after twenty years of separation, Soni Brown reluctantly becomes her mother’s caretaker as dementia erases her memory.

Through thirty-two intimate, first-person accounts, NO CONTACT counters the prevalent trope of reconciliation as a happy ending, focusing instead on the complex grief, healing, and authenticity found in the rupture from family.

Featuring work by Hannah Bae, Eben E. B. Bein, Soni Brown, Lorne Daniel, Lindsey Danis, Michelle Dowd, Nick Flynn, Stephanie Foo, Gabriela Denise Frank, Susan Ito, Danielle Jernigan, noam keim, Erika Krouse, Monique Laban, Cassandra Lewis, Kate Lewis, Nicole Graev Lipson, Tiffany Aldrich MacBain, Jamal Mahjoub, Onita Morgan-Edwards, Emi Nietfeld, Geneva Phillips, Deesha Philyaw, Anna Qu, Domenica Ruta, Oslyn Serratos, Alyson Shelton, Cheryl Strayed, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Raksha Vasudevan, Jane Wong, and Kristen Millares Young.

"She was like a mouse sniffing cheese in a trap, testing it out with its whiskers to see if it’ll snap shut, then when n...
09/30/2025

"She was like a mouse sniffing cheese in a trap, testing it out with its whiskers to see if it’ll snap shut, then when nothing happens, sticking in its whole head. Doesn’t even notice the trap swishing past its ears."

Read the full excerpt from PLAYING WOLF (on sale now!) via Literary Hub.
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The heat is so scorching it hurts even to breathe. You have to take the air in sips. Heavy, sticky heat clogs the lungs, hot gobs of spit come out your throat as you exhale. The wooden gate at U Fa…

PLAYING WOLF is on sale today! 🐺 Thanks to all who came out to Zuzana & Alex's events over the past week. Here are a few...
09/30/2025

PLAYING WOLF is on sale today! 🐺 Thanks to all who came out to Zuzana & Alex's events over the past week. Here are a few snaps from their events at Volumes and the Czech Consulate General in Chicago!

Big news! We’re so excited to share that FLAT EARTH by Anika Jade Levy will be available as an October Book of the Month...
09/30/2025

Big news! We’re so excited to share that FLAT EARTH by Anika Jade Levy will be available as an October Book of the Month add-on! 📚

In FLAT EARTH, a young woman struggles with the artistic success of her more privileged, beautiful best friend. A ruthless portrait of the New York art scene in which relationships are transactional, men are vampiric, and women have limited time to trade on their youth, beauty, and talent.

🌟 “Not to be missed if you want to keep up with the literary zeitgeist.” — GQ

🌟 “An astute and audacious satire.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Big news!! WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT by Peter Cameron is coming to the big screen and will be starring Leonardo DiCaprio and...
09/19/2025

Big news!! WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT by Peter Cameron is coming to the big screen and will be starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence! 🤩 Huge congrats, Peter!

Read more here: https://ift.tt/STGO93v

Festival weekend is finally here! Come visit us at booth  #306 this Sunday and be sure check out some of the amazing aut...
09/19/2025

Festival weekend is finally here! Come visit us at booth #306 this Sunday and be sure check out some of the amazing author panels happening all day as well! 📚✨

🦉 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🦉 New Uchenna Awoke incoming! We're thrilled to share the gorgeous cover of Uchenna's forthcoming n...
09/19/2025

🦉 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🦉 New Uchenna Awoke incoming! We're thrilled to share the gorgeous cover of Uchenna's forthcoming novel, A SIEGE OF OWLS, designed by Emily Mahon with art direction by Nicole Caputo!

A SIEGE OF OWLS will arrive in May 2026 and is available to preorder now! 📚

About the book:
An urgent and unforgettable work of magical realism following a young man coming of age in rural West Africa as he bears witness to the violence, upheaval, and hope in a rapidly changing society

After touching a forbidden leaf that his father warns will trap him in astral planes, young Ekwe embarks on a journey across West Africa and back to his own village, where his twelve-year-old sister is being pressured to marry a wealthy adult suitor. Ekwe becomes obsessed with how much their lives would improve if she married this man, but Oyibo, stubborn and proud, resists the path that is laid out for her.

A SIEGE OF OWLS does not shy away from tragedy, yet the prose’s lush lyricism and surprising comedy offer hope and grace in spite of its depiction of social upheaval. A love story takes shape as family and land disintegrate and re-form; characters are rendered fully dimensional while still being executors of violence and power.

In a rich poetic style all his own, Uchenna Awoke sheds light on conflicts of land, an ever-shifting diaspora, and the violence of child marriage.

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