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AK Press @akpress.org · 10h

The first excerpt from our forthcoming book edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, Read This When Things Fall Apart, is a letter by Aaron Goggans about how fascism warps consensus reality—and how organizers can learn how to live well outside of it, without letting conflict and trauma rip them apart.

A Letter from an Organizer on How to Fight While Feeling Broken

An excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart.

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Ariel Gordon @ariel-gordon.bsky.social · 1d

The launch for Blood Letters is TEN DAYS away, friends. It would be great to see you October 17 at @mcnallyrobinson.com! @greatplainspress.bsky.social

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

Kate Cayley considers politics, art, and why we write the extra details.

Why We Write the Extra Details

Some years ago, I saw Yiyun Li interviewed at an event at the Toronto Reference Library. Li, a writer whose stories are compressed and deceptively simple, spoke with humor and a certain hardness, p…

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 16h

“A gloriously surreal 7+ paean to the weird logic of shape and form” START WITH A TEAPOT from @geckopress.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI and RICHARD SIKEN whose collections are finalists for the 2025 National Book Award! 🌟

Winners will be announced at a livestreamed ceremony on Nov. 19th. Register at https://bit.ly/48TAcj9

Congratulations to all honorees—it is an honor to be among you!

Three slides: The first reads "We are honored to announce that two Copper Canyon Press titles are finalists for the 2025
National Book Award!"

The second slide depicts the cover of Gabrielle Calvocoressi's The New Economy and the third depicts the cover of Richard Siken's I Do Know Some Things.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

Last year we had the pleasure of sitting down with Solvej Balle and Barbara J. Haveland for our NBA Interview Series. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

The National Book Award Interviews: Solvej Balle and Barbara J. Haveland - Words Without Borders

Solvej Halle and Barbara J. Haveland's "On the Calculation of Volume" is longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 1d

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER is a FINALIST for the National Book Award @nationalbook.bsky.social for Translated Literature! Congratulations author Anjet Daanje+translator David McKay. "Superb...an unforgettable picture of marital love." @ssacks.bsky.social in @wsj.com.
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Dan Wagstaff @danwagstaff.bsky.social · 1d

I love this book...

The Casual Optimist @casualoptimist.bsky.social · 1d

A new picture book for spooky season

Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole by Cecilia Heikkilä

I don't post a lot of picture books here, but seeing how it's spooky season, I thought I would mention The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole by Swedish illustrator Cecilia Heikkilä, published by Floris Books, which just landed on my desk at work. It's an appropriately autumnal and windswept story about a dark and scuffling monster that emerges from the moor after Mole takes his friendship with his neighbour Fox for granted.

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 1d

"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon"

LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas

www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com

La Lucha ed. Carolina Orloff: Book Review – The Skinny

Charco Press's latest is an incredible collection of essays destabilising traditions of Western feminism through transformative radical ideas.

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 1d

★ Helen DeWitt teams up with Ilya Gridneff for an audacious metafiction in which the pair attempt to cash in on a freewheeling novel they're writing together. Readers will be left breathless. buff.ly/b8P4Jvk

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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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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 2d

Join us on Tuesday, October 14 to celebrate the launch of CIRCUMTRAUMA by Jumoke Verissimo! Verissimo will be joined by Hoa Nguyen at Another Story Bookshop (315 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto), from 7 PM.

RSVP here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/circumtrau...

CIRCUMTRAUMA - Jumoke Verissimo (with Hoa Nguyen)

Join us for the launch of CIRCUMTRAUMA, by Jumoke Verissimo. With Hoa Nguyen.

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 2d

The full trailer for DIE MY LOVE is here!

Read the book before seeing it in cinemas in Nov: charcopress.com/bookstore/di...

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DIE MY LOVE | Official Trailer | In Theaters November | With Jennifer Lawrence & Robert Pattinson

YouTube video by MUBI

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 2d

"There’s a certain level on which you just decide that this is the right word...one of the elements of making the decision is the unconscious.”

Ian Battaglia's interview with Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante's translator, is out now.
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The Translator’s Voice — Ann Goldstein on Translating Elena Ferrante’s “Neapolitan Quartet” - Chicago Review of Books

The Translator’s Voice is a monthly column from Ian J. Battaglia here at the Chicago Review of Books, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly t...

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 4d

Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Fiction: Henry Henry by Allen Bratton! @allenbratton.bsky.social @unnamedpress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 3d

★ In this overdue translation of Fausta Cialente’s vital 1966 novel, her first to be published in English, a family struggles to find harmony while crammed together in a frigid Milan squat. It's an exquisite chronicle of frozen hearts and their gradual thaw. buff.ly/iaCC7n8

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 3d

"Exploring motherhood in feminist discourses across literature and photography helped me to find my voice, to articulate these wounds in writing." Alex Tan speaks with Egyptian author Iman Mersal about her new book “Motherhood and its Ghosts.”https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fissure-from-within/

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 3d

Published in 2022, Matthew James Weigel's Whitemud Walking is an Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive. Matthew uses photos, maps, and treaty documents to create a genre-bending consideration of the colonial history of Canada.

Book cover of Whitemud Walking alongside the text: "Whitemud Walking is an Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive. Matthew Weigel uses photos, maps, and treaty documents, including those related to his own family, to create a genre-bending consideration of the colonial history of Canada. Fun fact: Matthew's visual poems that marginalize treaty texts have occasioned several calls from bookstores concerned the book had printing errors!"

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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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BookPage @readbookpage.bsky.social · 3d

Mamiko Shiotani’s THE GRUMPY GHOST UPSTAIRS is an instant storytime classic and carries within it a wonderful lesson: sometimes it's okay to try new things.

Book review of The Grumpy Ghost Upstairs by Mamiko Shiotani

Mamiko Shiotani’s The Grumpy Ghost Upstairs is an instant storytime classic and carries within it a wonderful lesson: sometimes it's okay to try new things.

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 2d

DUCKY THE SPY from #WalkerBooksAustralia is A “lighthearted, slapstick series starter that’s sure to please” says #KirkusReviews www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

DUCKY THE SPY | Kirkus Reviews

A duck in a trench coat dispatches his duties as barnyard spy.

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PGC Books @pgcbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter, available from Nightboat Books / PGC in Canada later this month, has been shortlisted for @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social!

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The cover of Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter, Nightboat Books ISBN 9781643622002 (on-sale October 31 2025 via PGC Books in Canada)

Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era, both a love story and a lament.

In this profound meditation on grief, Johnny looks back at his relationship with his life partner, Jerry, after his AIDS-related death. When they met, nearly thirty years ago, Johnny was 19, Jerry was 45. They made a life on their own terms in Jerry's flat: 1, Nova Scotia House. Johnny is still there today-but Jerry is gone, and so is the world they knew.

Intimate, visionary, and profoundly original-as well as raw, hot, and hilarious- Nova Scotia House marks the debut of a vibrant new voice in contemporary fiction.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 5d

This year’s Vancouver Writers Fest features an electrifying slate of 130 authors from Canada and around the world, including bestselling novelists, poets, memoirists and thought leaders. #TyeePresents #Sponsored

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