New Door Books

10/09/2025

"Perhaps I was a little premature" - opening line of Mir Seidel Writer's opera VIOLET FIRE about Nikola Tesla.

Now her volume with the libretto & commentary gets a rave review as "a fascinating, fun book about the world of science, opera and avian love."

https://culturevulture.net/books-cds/teslas-opera-the-real-stranger-than-fiction-nikola-tesla/

Arts Journalist and novelist Miriam Seidel conceived her opera ‘Violet Fire’ in 2006 to commemorate the 150th birthyear of Croatian inventor Nikola Tesla. S

10/03/2025

Just arrived: first package of ARCs for PARTLY STRONG, PARTLY BROKEN by .popkin!

Photographed on the office's official Old Red Chair.

How does the cover look for this book we've dubbed the "most provocative novel of spring 2026"?

10/01/2025

Here it is!

Our Monday newsletter formally announced our next book, due in May:
PARTLY STRONG, PARTLY BROKEN by Nathaniel Popkin.

We think it'll be the most provocative novel of the spring. Read the newsletter to find out why:
https://newdoorbooks.net/so/17Pc2UIcj?languageTag=en

09/26/2025

folks: Great lineup for Sunday Salon Chicago on (you guessed it) SUNDAY at RoscoeBooks, including our own Janice Deal. 7 PM, free!

09/12/2025

area folks:

Coming on 9/28, Sunday Salon Chicago at RoscoeBooks.

Our author Janice Deal deal will be part of a great lineup!

www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

09/05/2025

Our book STRANGE ATTRACTORS by Janice Deal is featured in CLMP's Regional Spotlight for the Great Lakes area!

This is the linked-story collection that's been compared to Sherwood Anderson, Chekhov, & Flannery O'Connor. Its sequel, THE BLUE DOOR, is also available now.

https://www.clmp.org/news/great-lakes-a-regional-spotlight-on-independent-publishing/

Learn more about the landscape of independent publishing in the Great Lakes region, including presses and magazines based in the area, local book fairs and festivals, and regional awards, as well as books set in or about the area. In keeping with the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association,....

08/26/2025

Our latest newsletter just went out, with penetrating remarks on the climate crisis by Nathaniel Popkin, marking the 5th anniversary of his book TO REACH THE SPRING.

https://newdoorbooks.net/so/7ePZYrLf_?languageTag=en&cid=687856dd-7e2f-4ae8-a234-f42c5e31288b

08/15/2025

What the crisis in public transportation funding means to :

Nathaniel Popkin on what's at stake as the transit funding crisis deepens

08/05/2025

Here's the launch info for TESLA'S OPERA, the book that rescues Nikola Tesla's name from disreputable car companies and their billionaire execs:

Tuesday, 9/2, 6-8 pm, Fringe Bar, Fringe Arts Building, 140 N. Christopher Columbus Blvd., Philadelphia.

The book includes the complete opera libretto plus commentary by librettist Mir Seidel, director Terry O’Reilly, conductor Ana Zorana Brajović, critic Merilyn Jackson, and author/poet Andrei Codrescu, along with beautiful performance photos, video stills, and historical images.

Preorders of the book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/tesla-s-opera/8e906bc9016d0627

08/01/2025

On "Book Stew" from WCTV, Janice Deal talks with Eileen MacDougall about fictional characters who won't let go of you - in this case, how her novel THE BLUE DOOR grew out of stories in STRANGE ATTRACTORS.

She also explains why the novel incorporates a fairy tale. AND what happens when a mother says something terribly painful that she shouldn't have said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JztzyFtUvz0

07/27/2025

More from our walking artist friends: "It's a Dog's Life," an online discussion about walking with dogs, with Ann de Forest & Damaris West. Mon., Aug. 4, 2PM Eastern.

With a canine companion, walking becomes a way of connecting with - and understanding our place in - the nonhuman world.

Bring a poem! Or a dog. Or both.

https://walklistencreate.org/walkingevent/its-a-dogs-life/

07/24/2025

Our newsletter going out today:

https://newdoorbooks.net/so/13PWPNA0n?languageTag=en

- What beach walking can teach us
- Radical empathy in a novel
- The great inventor we've forgotten