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BODY DOUBLE by Kira Johansson (trans. by Kira Josefsson) is an April 2026 @americanbookseller.bsky.social Indie Next Pick!!! As always, a huge thanks to all of the booksellers who nominated us! 🫶

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10 new books we can't wait to read in March Spring arrives with a heavy-hitting literary lineup: delve into haunting Japanese fiction, a propulsive debut mystery and essential new dispatches on authoritarianism and forest ecology.

THE DISAPPOINTMENT is one of @latimes most-anticipated books of March! 📚 👏

The Art of Murder

“Langsfeld, who lives in Western Colorado, writes with bone-deep knowledge of his setting. He paints a portrait of collective isolation, of the ways in which men turn inward rather than reckoning with their deepest selves.” — @nytimes.com on SALVATION—out now!

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Congratulations to Sarah Aziza for being named a finalist for the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for her memoir THE HOLLOW HALF! 🥳

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Scott Broker on The Disappointment: Grief, Art, and the Brutal Honesty of Love - Debutiful Life is anticipation.  Are the moments that shape our lives the result of our own actions?  Or are they the culmination of the long-dammed reservoirs of other peoples’ desires:  The delayed dreams of…

" I like (and fear) the idea that every relationship in one’s life is informed by every other relationship in one’s life."

@scottjbroker.bsky.social chats with @debutiful.bsky.social about grief, art, the brutal honesty of love, and his new novel THE DISAPPOINTMENT. buff.ly/EgUpbB3

Happy pub week to these gorgeous paperback repackages of Wendell Berry's classic poetry! The perfect trio to add to your collection 📚 🌿

🌿 "The pieces have a timeless quality . . . Berry’s writing has the remarkable quality of being both traditional and revolutionary." — @southrevbooks.bsky.social

PIECES YOU'LL NEVER GET BACK by @samina-ali.bsky.social is now available in paperback! 🪻

✨ "A powerful, intensely personal book." — @sfchronicle.com
✨ Heartbreaking yet hopeful." — @ala-booklist.bsky.social
✨ "A vivid and visceral portrait." — @washingtonpost.com

INTERVIEW: @scottjbroker.bsky.social on The Disappointment: Grief, Art, and the Brutal Honesty of Love, interviewed by Doug Jones

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Happy pub day to GRAVITY by @elizabethrosner.bsky.social! ✨

A fearless work from the prize-winning acclaimed author, composed over a period of some twenty years, GRAVITY is Elizabeth Rosner’s profoundly searching account of her experience as the daughter of Holocaust survivors.

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Recommended Books: February 2026 Is it still snowy outside your door? Despite slightly non-polar weather the last few days, the snowdrifts remain high and the puddles are murky. Also, we have some literary recommendations for you …

"When someone falls in love with a statue, is that relationship doomed from the outset?"

WHEN THE MUSEUM IS CLOSED is one of Volume 1's favorite books of February!

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So thrilled to see so many of our titles on the Story Prize longlist! Congratulations to @karenebender.bsky.social, Canisia Lubrin, and Amanda Peters!

The Reservation Table Fourteen Seat #1 let his wife do the talking at the host stand. It wasn’t like she had any more experience with this kind of thing—fine dining—than he did, but she was more outgoing of the tw…

“Table Fourteen Seat #1 let his wife do the talking at the host stand.” Read from Rebecca Kauffman’s new novel, The Reservation.

What Fetishists Can Teach Us About Consumerism and Desire A new book asserts that we all might learn something from fetishists, who exist in playful surrender to the things that they covet.

"Fedorova seems to understand that sexual deviation is an extension of everyday life . . . SECOND SKIN takes our most uncanny attractions and reveals their eminent humanity." — @newyorker.com

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THEORY & PRACTICE is available now in paperback! 📚

"THEORY & PRACTICE is anything but conventional. It is something new, born of the recognition between holding two truths in mind at once." — @latimes.com

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Rebecca Kauffman is back with a new novel—THE RESERVATION hits shelves today! 🍽️

✨ "From the Mennonite baker to the tattooed chef to the college student hostess, no one creates characters like Kauffman." — @people.com

GLORIA is an @latimes.com Book Prize finalist in the fiction category! Congratulations, Andrés! 🥳

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Reading the West Book Awards Introducing the 36TH Annual LONGLIST We are delighted to present the titles nominated for this year’s Reading the West Book Awards. Click on any of the categories below to explore the lists.…

Congratulations to @justinhocking.bsky.social for making the Reading the West longlist for his memoir A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SUBTERRANEAN! 🥳

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"It was definitely my goal to center multidimensional, complex immigrant characters in the novel."

@annelllopez.bsky.social interviews Ivonne Lamazares about The Tilting House (@catapultbooks.bsky.social).

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Happy publication day to Lauren J. Joseph's LEAN CAT, SAVAGE CAT! 🐈‍⬛

✨ "A salacious romp of breathtaking self-invention and spectacular self-destruction." —Service95

✨ "A strange and wild ride in the best way." — @autostraddle.bsky.social

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We're excited to share that we'll be publishing Chuck Thompson's SASQUATCH COUNTRY this fall! 🥾 🏕️ This true crime investigation dives into the mysterious deaths of two hikers in the Pacific Northwest, last seen in an area where multiple Bigfoot sightings have been reported.

Congratulations to Justin Hocking for being named a finalist in the @literary-arts.org Oregon Book Awards for his memoir A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SUBTERRANEAN! 🥳

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Debutiful Podcast: C. William Langsfeld discusses Salvation - Debutiful Listen and Subscribe: Apple | Spotify C. William Langsfeld, author of Salvation, joined the podcast to discuss growing up on the Western Slope of Colorado, his non-traditional (and unagented) path to…

C. William Langsfeld joined the @debutiful.bsky.social podcast to discuss growing up on the Western Slope of Colorado, his non-traditional path to publishing, and his debut novel SALVATION.

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Milkweed Live : Canisia Lubrin : The World After Rain | Milkweed Editions Canisia Lubrin returns to Between the Covers for a live conversation in downtown Portland, at Powell’s Bookstore, about her latest poetry collection The World After Rain. A private book, that Canisia ...

Don't miss today's conversation—recorded live at @powells.bsky.social, in downtown Portland, Oregon—with poet Canisia Lubrin about The World After Rain
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Recap from an amazing event at Skylight Books with Canisia Lubrin celebrating the release of her new book THE WORLD AFTER RAIN. Thank you to all who came out and said hello! 📚

We are all deeply saddened by the news of Counterpoint author Suzannah Lessard's passing.

Suzannah authored three books during her life, including THE ABSENT HAND, a remarkable work of relentless curiosity and a graceful mixture of observation and philosophy.

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Happy paperback publication day to @amandapetersauthor.bsky.social's WAITING FOR THE LONG NIGHT MOON! 🥳

✨ "Holding grief and joy in each hand, Peters’ latest tells of tradition, systemic discrimination and resilience." — @usatoday.com

✨ "A must-read." — @people.com

Plastic Poet Matthew Rice discusses his new book length poem, Plastic.

You can hear me ramble about my new book here 💙🤍🧡🩷🩵 @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social

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Quite sincerely if Julia Sanches has chosen it to translate that means it's excellent. Even if you read in Spanish (which I do) it's about the best way to find the most excellent books. I've preordered!

Review: This new book about kink might just change the way you see your own 'deviant desires' Anastasiia Fedorova’s ‘Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire’ is a meticulously researched, passionately penned historical and sociological analysis.

"In this American era, with basic human rights being violated in our legislature and on our streets; when being “different”. . . is punishable by death, this book advocates for a person’s right to like what they like and to get it consensually." — @latimes.com
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C. William Langsfeld on Nature, Trauma, and the Healing Power of the Wilderness My life has always been tied to the natural world. I was raised on a thirty-eight-acre parcel of land that, though no longer in my family, still bears my family’s name: the Langsfeld tract. The hou…

"Mother nature is neither cruel nor kind. It’s the sort of benevolent god that created the world then stood back and watched it all play out according to a set of semi-undefined rules."

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