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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 11h

A fantastic event last night in Minneapolis celebrating 30 years of RAIN TAXI! Congratulations to Eric Lorberer and all the poets, writers, and artists involved in decades of independent publishing. #Minneapolis

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 1d

Huge thanks to Vulture for recommending THE MIND REELS as one of the 7 books to read this October. 💥💥💥https://www.vulture.com/article/new-books-to-read-released-october-2025.html @vulture.com

7 New Books You Should Read This October

Thomas Pynchon’s account of rising fascism, a millennial cheating novel, and a memoir from a James Beard winner.

www.vulture.com

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 1d

Happy pub day to Fredrik deBoer and THE MIND REELS. "A searing portrait," - Publishers Weekly
"Slim but powerful," - Chicago Tribune. ‼️Out now.‼️

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 2d

Dallas! Next weekend, catch us posted up at our mecca @texastheatre.bsky.social for the @hayfestival.bsky.social ☀️

We're sponsoring the heat w/ convos feat. Manuel Sánchez Viamonte, Fernando A. Flores, Rodrigo Fresán, Mark Haber, & @lorifeathers.bsky.social

Fit checks @ the door! 🥵

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, you can now preorder signed copies of TERRY DACTYL from Elliott Bay Book Company💎💐Out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, book launch at Seattle Art Museum on Saturday, October 25 at 3 pm so signed preorders will go out early, here's the link💎⚡ elliottbaybook.com/item/dKS8Yes...

SIGNED PREORDERS AVAILABLE NOW!
At Elliott Bay Book Company, black text on bright pink background with the cover image of open mouths on the same bright pink, dazzling glitter gem pills flying all around and then bigger ones on the background, floating into the book and off the page

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 2d

This incredible book is coming December 2nd!!!

Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 3d

★ Osvalde Lewat makes her English-language debut with a shocking morality tale about a woman torn between her bureaucrat husband and her artist friend, whose homosexuality is a high crime in their fictional country of Zambuena. This one hits hard. @coffeehousepress.bsky.social buff.ly/oA5zuaN

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 3d

Honey, look, it's a gorgeous final copy of TERRY DACTYL, out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉 Book launch on Saturday, October 25, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum, and you can preorder signed copies from Elliott Bay Book Company, or preorder from your favorite indie, get ready 💎⚡✨

Bright magenta cover with black border. Floating open mouths in magenta, with tongues out and teeth visible, TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL in one of the mouths. Floating iridescent sparkling glitter pills in spot gloss like jewels. Title at top of black border, author name at bottom, on the side a blurb from Sarah Schulman, "The historical novel on acid"

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 3d

★ Osvalde Lewat makes her English-language debut with a shocking morality tale about a woman torn between her bureaucrat husband and her artist friend, whose homosexuality is a high crime in their fictional country of Zambuena. This one hits hard. @coffeehousepress.bsky.social buff.ly/oA5zuaN

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 4d

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 6d

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 6d

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 7d

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Eugene Lim @eugenelim.bsky.social · 7d

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 7d

Great books all around! Congratulations to @alexhigley.bsky.social and TRUE FAILURE!

Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 7d

We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for 2025 CHIRBys!!! Congratulations to all of our finalists 🥳🥳🥳

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 7d

Introducing Brewed for You! For a donation of just $1 (or more!), take the quiz and get a personalized list of books recommended to you by your favorite authors and indie booksellers! (for example...)
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 9d

See you tonight, Boston and Cambridge!

Can't wait to talk text collage and beyond with the brilliant @drbibliomane.bsky.social at the great @harvardbookstore.bsky.social !

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 10d

Boston-area friends, if you're in the vicinity of Harvard tomorrow, please come to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for a conversation about novels, LLMs, public opinion polls, collages, cut-ups, and patchwork with me and @tomcomitta.bsky.social. It will be a wild ride--hope you can join us for it!

Poster showing Tom Comitta (big photo) and Deidre Lynch (smaller one) and the covers of their two new novels: Patchwork and People's Choice Literature. Monday, September 29th, 7 p.m., Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA

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Lynne Perednia @perednia.bsky.social · 12d

Finished HELEN OF NOWHERE a few days ago and am still thinking about it. What a remarkable story. #literaturesky

Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 29d

Happiest of pub days to Makenna Goodman and the brilliant HELEN OF NOWHERE!!! Below is an interview with the equally brilliant Idra Novey for @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
This slim novel contains MULTITUDES. Get it now! 📚
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/09/c...

City, Country, and Continually Evolving Truths: An Interview with Makenna Goodman about "Helen of Nowhere" - Chicago Review of Books

Our interview with Makenna Goodman, author of "Helen of Nowhere"

chireviewofbooks.com

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 12d

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 12d

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 13d

Tonight! 👇👇👇

Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 13d

See you tonight for the launch of Patchwork, NY friends! Doors at 6:30, reading at 7! xoxo

@coffeehousepress.bsky.social @gideonjacobs.bsky.social

Tom Comitta presents Patchwork, ft. Gideon Jacobs

"This is insane. But insanity has always played an innervating role in the Novel." —Sergio de la Pava, author of Lost Empress

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 17d

📚 [TMR BOOK CLUB]

Host Rana Asfour (@bookfabulous.bsky.social) welcomes you Sept. 28 for “Sand-Catcher” (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social) with author Omar Khalifah and translator Barbara Romaine joining us for the discussion!

🔗 RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#TMRBookClub #OnlineEvent

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 26d

“My wife was, at one time, a very beautiful woman. But over time, her beauty faded, and with it went her desire for me.” Read from Makenna Goodman’s new novel, Helen of Nowhere.

Helen of Nowhere

My wife was, at one time, a very beautiful woman. But over time, her beauty faded, and with it went her desire for me. There were so many years of notoriety that had held us together, my success, h…

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 21d

“Sometimes the walking and talking serves simply as a form of oral diary, a way to cleanse my mind of noise and create room for insight,” writes Makenna Goodman, author of Helen of Nowhere (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social). Read on: at.pw.org/WRGoodman

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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 22d

Next week kicks off the East Coast Patchwork tour featuring @drbibliomane.bsky.social and @gideonjacobs.bsky.social . See you soon, New York and Boston friends!

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 22d

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 23d

Join The Markaz Review Book Club to hear and discuss the ALTA Longlisted SAND-CATCHER. They'll be joined by author Omar Khalifah and translator Barbara Romiane!

The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 23d

🗓️[UPCOMING EVENT]

Join us on Sept. 28 at 1pm EST for #TMRBookClub! We’ll discuss “Sand-Catcher,” (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social) a moving fable of Palestinian memory. Author Omar Khalifah and translator Barbara Romaine join us. Hosted by @bookfabulous.bsky.social

🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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