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March Books: McDonald, Franck, Ismaïl Poems by Matthew McDonald and novels from Julia Franck and Agri Ismaïl, plus some gossip from our new correspondent.

"It takes an immensely talented writer to draw us through all this material and keep the story humming with dramatic tension. Ismaïl delivers." A stunning review of HYPER by @brynstole.bsky.social
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Traps and Prisons | Evangeline Riddiford Graham Rather than create opportunities for similarly milquetoast morality and wobbly reasoning, Adam forces her readers to commit to the giants outright and upfront, and base our solidarity purely on the pr...

An incredible review of Pip Adam's work over at n+1, including the phenomenal AUDITION. @pipadam.bsky.social www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Literature's very existence is a political act.

Letter From Minnesota: Waiting For the Barbarians to Get the F*ck Out When I came home from prison in 2022, I moved back to the Powderhorn Park neighborhood where I grew up. I was 21 years old when I left, I was 44 when I returned. It was supposed to be a much differ…

Author and editor, Zeke Caligiuri, on Minneapolis, home, and the importance of place to a person and community. lithub.com/letter-from-...

Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with these incredible books and more @ coffeehousepress.org/collections/...

Very thoughtful mail from California. ❤️

"WELCOME TO AMERICA AN UNFINISHED ARMAGEDDON
ACTIVE SHOOTER DRILLS FIRE DRILLS FALSE ALARMS
AT LEAST AI WRITES OUR THOUGHTS & PRAYERS"

. ..AGAIN 4/7/26

“Individually we are writers and poets and artists, but collectively we are power and possibility” (from AMERICAN PRECARIAT)

⭐Today, we’re highlighting some of our novels, short story collections, and nonfiction works by Black authors and editors. ⭐

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CLOWN It was an exciting thing for a guy like him to become a clown overnight. For a while, he was quite a success. You wouldn't believe how many people saw him. Only he didn't know any games or funny things to say. He would just show up at kids' parties looking weird and sit there.

Elaine Equi

@elaineequi.bsky.social / @coffeehousepress.bsky.social

FWIW, newspaper book review sections are part of the mission of journalism. Every year, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles tell us something we didn't know before, or advance the craft of verse and prose in new ways. This is the purpose of reviews: to alert us to the shaping of our culture.

Celebrate Black History Month with these incredible books. coffeehousepress.org/collections/...

Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman review – a perfect fairytale for our times What does good living look like? With his marriage and career in meltdown, a man tries to get back to nature in this thought-provoking fable

Makenna Goodman and HELEN OF NOWHERE in today's Guardian! ♥️📚 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Author Agri Ismaïl sitting on a beige couch with his dog.

“Surely, I think, if someone can write or play the ‘Hammerklavier,’ I should be able to describe a peach,” writes @agri.bsky.social, author of Hyper (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social). Enjoy more: at.pw.org/WRIsmaïl

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3 poetry books: l to r: Michael Bazzett's The Echo Chamber, Danez Smith's Bluff, Saeed Jones' Alive At The End Of The World. Then 3 stickers from the(engine idling & a card with an owl that says "warm wishes"

Epic poetry mail day! 3 books from Minneapolis presses, ordered through a Minneapolis bookstore, plus a lovely note & some stickers from @dehm000.bsky.social @the-engine-idling.bsky.social !

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Bilbao–New York–Bilbao On a transatlantic flight between Bilbao and New York City, a fictional version of Kirmen Uribe recalls three generations of family history—the inspiration for

Readers new to his work in English should begin with Bilbao–New York–Bilbao, winner of Spain’s National Prize for Literature, translated by Elizabeth Macklin and published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social coffeehousepress.org/products/bil...

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In Solidarity, Read a Book From a Minnesota Press | Kirkus Reviews Publishers like Coffee House, Graywolf, and Milkweed are international in outlook and open to voices beyond the mainstream.

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For all you beautiful folks ordering books from us.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Winner of the 2025 John Dos Passos Prize Revealed | Kirkus Reviews Eugene Lim won the award given annually to an American author.

Huge congratulations to Eugene Lim! 🎉https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/winner-of-the-2025-john-dos-passos-prize-revealed/

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The Aquatics Check out The Aquatics - <b>An extraordinary novel of loyalty, strife, and empowerment from Peabody Award-winning Cameroonian filmmaker Osvalde Lewat.</b> <p/>In the fictional African country of…

Next is THE AQUATICS by Osvalde Lewat (tr.@marenbaudetlackner.bsky.social) published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, “a story of governmental oppression and private hypocrisy”: bookshop.org/a/169/978156...

Recent books/ forthcoming books. Books.

For fans of absurdity, hijinks, and obsessive novels under 100 pages, galleys of Mark Haber's forthcoming novel, ADA, have arrived! Coming this July, Haber's fourth novel is "an eccentric and visionary work." —Andrea Bajani