New Door Books

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

07/23/2025

CLMP's reading list for from indie presses & magazines:
https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-disability-pride-month-2025/

We also recommend our title THE SPEED OF CLOUDS by Mir Seidel Writer, a novel about a young sci-fi enthusiast who uses a wheelchair:
https://www.newdoorbooks.net/the-speed-of-clouds

07/22/2025

Latest episode in the long-running SAGA OF BOOK BANNING.

A report from EveryLibrary details "attempts to criminalize school librarians and redefine obscenity statutes…cut funding, impose content restrictions, and interfere with local library governance."

The report also includes better news from 9 states.

https://www.everylibrary.org/state_by_state_2025_legislative_landscape_report

07/18/2025

This sounds like a really meaty class from Beth Kephart via Cleaver Magazine.

https://cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/327475/beth-kephart-transcending-the-tumult-write-right-now-july-27-2025

07/16/2025

writes about the great love of Nikola Tesla's life and his duality as a scientist and a profoundly spiritual man. Miriam has penned an opera libretto about Tesla and a forthcoming book about it, rescuing his name from the stigma of a certain car company.

https://miriamseidel.com/2025/07/16/nikola-teslas-extraordinary-love-story/

Most people know Nikola Tesla as an inventor. His breakthroughs in electricity and wireless transmission helped to transform our world; that’s why his name is associated with a well-known electric car (more about that later). But Tesla’s visionary side didn’t just express itself in the world...

07/14/2025

Is the short story having a renaissance?

That's one of many subjects that Janice Deal discusses with Mike Consol on the Novelist Spotlight podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neT41US9A84

07/11/2025

For folk the new episode of Julien Suaudeau's "Song of Philadelphia" podcast is a treasure. It features a car ride & conversation with icon Larry Robin, discussing his early years, his career, his philosophy:

https://hiddencityphila.org/2025/07/i-see-a-spark-larry-robins-philadelphia-life-now-on-sound-of-philadelphia-podcast/

Podcast from Hidden City Philadelphia

Julien follows Moonstone Arts co-founder Larry Robin from his apartment above the old bookshop to the formerly Jewish neighborhood where he spent his earliest years near Mifflin Square to the Jewish Quarter that's now Society Hill and ultimately to industrial North Philly, where Larry recounts his e...

07/09/2025

In our latest newsletter: author Mir Seidel on the attraction of a certain kind of "ritual magic."

https://newdoorbooks.net/so/a4PUTseFC?languageTag=en

07/08/2025

On Anti-Prime Day, you can take advantage of the Bookshop discounted price on THE BLUE DOOR by Janice Deal, just named one of 15 small press books to read this summer by Electric Literature.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-blue-door-janice-deal/21974083

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