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Review | ‘Moon Songs’ showcases the singular inventiveness of Carol Emshwiller These fantasy and science fiction stories, spanning from 1958 to 2012, feature brilliant experiments that play with meanings and categories.

It's a thrill to see this review by B.D. McClay in The Washington Post of MOON SONGS, which I edited for @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social, with a foreword by @kellylink.bsky.social:

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Twin Lead Lines, my first full length poetry collection, is out today via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social !! 🐣

Link in bio to order and RSVP to book events, etc.

If you make time for art (especially other people’s) in your life, this one’s for you. 🪢❤️

Birds and War: Review of Carol Emswhiller’s Moon Songs Ursula Pflug Under Review:Moon Songs: The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller. Edited by Matthew Cheney. Third Man Books, August 2025. Moon Songs, a new collection of nineteen stories by Carol Em…

Birds and War: @pflugu.bsky.social reviews MOONS SONGS: THE COLLECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER, edited by Matthew Cheney (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social)

Amazing. Thank you!!

MOON SONGS | Kirkus Reviews A greatest hits collection of unclassifiable speculative fiction.

Kirkus gives Moon Songs a star!

"This compellingly assembled retrospective gives longtime Emshwiller fans a chance to savor her unique sensibility again, while lucky newcomers enjoy the thrill of discovery."

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Cover of MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER. Black background, orange lettering, blurb from Ursula Le Guin at top declaring her love and devotion to Carol Emshwiller's work. In the center, a trippy image from Ed Emshwiller's movie "Carol" of a woman-like figure flying through space with shards of orange all around her. Cover design by the wonderful Amin Qutteineh!

It's publication day for MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social with a beautiful foreword by @kellylink.bsky.social!

Go forth! Be free! Read Emshwiller!

If you know the songs of @lou-turner.bsky.social, you know she's a poet's songwriter. But she's also a songwriter's poet, a truth on beautiful display in her connective & inventive book of country music poems, Twin Lead Lines, coming in Sept. & up for pre-order now via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social

Here are a couple collections we got in the mail recently! #ThePathofMostResistance #MoonSongs #BeyondAllReasonableDoubtJesusIsAlive!

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Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller — Third Man Books Carol    Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowl...

Coming Aug 19 from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social: MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER.

Now available for pre-order from Third Man and from retailers everywhere (some of which are already shipping books out).

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I'm grateful to Niall Harrison for his review of MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER (which I edited). The review is a lovely consideration of Emshwiller's accomplishments and also says nice things about our book, out from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social on Aug 19.

A book about drone called Monolithic Undertow

A Lord of the Rings themed bookmark

A Lord of the Rings themed bookmark

The library book —> the bookmark someone left inside it @harrysword.bsky.social @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social

We’re still buzzing from Jack White’s surprise shows at The Blue Room! Pre-order JACK WHITE COLLECTED LYRICS AND SELECTED WRITING featuring his complete solo lyrics, and selected collabs, poems, and more. Order now at thirdmanbooks.com!

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Twin Lead Lines — Third Man Books Twin Lead Lines , the remarkably original debut from poet and musician Lou Turner , is born of overlaps: those of ancestry and chosen family, of show business and DIY paths of artmaking, and of liste...

My book has a cover and is comin atcha this fall via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social! Twin Lead Lines is out 9/16 🧡✨♾️

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Yay! "If you’re looking for an excellent overview of Emshwiller’s career, the decades-spanning anthology Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, edited by Matthew Cheney, has plenty to offer — and an introduction by Kelly Link, which is always good news."

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Hello #London book people, check it out! Benefit for Bookmark Reading Charity! We’ll be giving away (bookplate) signed books by #jackwhite, #alisonmosshart, #willsergeant, #bobbygillespie, and #richardparfitt! 📚

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Now available for pre order at Thirdmanbooks.com! 📚

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"Basking in moonlight, I decide to take a basketful of it home and let it loose inside my world. Gathering it up was not a problem at all, it was free and so am i." -III

A book called MOON SONGS: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller face out on a shelf of other books by Carol Emshwiller. Moon Songs has a cover with a black background and orange lettering and in the middle is an orange and black image from Ed Emshwiller's film "Carol" that looks like an orange body floating through orange hyperspace.

Proof copy of MOON SONGS just arrived from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social and the first thing I did was introduce it to its older siblings.

20% off summer sale all weekend on a whole lotta books and lps over at thirdmanrecords.com and Thirdmanbooks.com!

Introducing a book about one of the greatest artists of modern times, #MarvinGaye, written by one of our most beloved and missed music journalists, Ben Edmonds.

‘Marvin Gaye: What’s Going on and the Last Days of the Motown Sound’ is available via Thirdmanbooks.com and bookstores everywhere!

Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller|Paperback "A major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist.” — Ursula K. LeGuinCarol  Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers inc...

Barnes & Noble is having its 25% off pre-orders sale (membership required).
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MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER will be released by @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social in August...

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All TMB #poetry is on sale 25%-50% for #NationalPoetryMonth! Frank Stanford, Ruth Awad, Alison Mosshart, Janaka Stucky, Caroline Randall Williams, Sampson Starkweather, Adrian Matejka and more. View the entire collection: thirdmanrecords.com/collections/...
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For #nationalpoetrymonth the LANGUAGE LESSONS box set is 50% off: 300pg anthology of poetry & prose, double Lp of music & poetry, plus 5 broadsides by CD WRIGHT, FRANK STANFORD, BRIAN BARKER, JAKE ADAM YORK, and CHET WEISE 💙📚 #booksky

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Love contemporary #poetry or want to try some out? Now’s a good time! Check out our poetry collection on sale: thirdmanrecords.com/collections/...

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Event flyer that says: Saturday April 5 at 1pm Liz Pelly & Ann Powers discuss Mood Machine The Blue Room, 623 7th Ave S, Nashville, TN Flyer also includes photos of Liz, Ann, and the book cover

The next Mood Machine event is in Nashville with Ann Powers this Saturday 1pm at The Blue Room! Can't wait @annkpowers.bsky.social @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social

Very excited! We’re lucky to be this amazing collection’s publisher. Honored!

Cover of MOON SONGS. Black background, orange lettering. Spacey orange & black image in center of a body maybe being launched into hyperspace or something. Pretty cool. You'll like this book!

We need some good news in the world, so here's some.

This fall, @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social will release MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER, which I edited. It will include a beautiful introduction by @kellylink.bsky.social.

‘Destruction of Man’ by poet Abraham Smith is an Editor’s Pick for the month and on sale for 20% off direct from thirdmanbooks.com! 📚💙

“Destruction of Man is a compass setting toward musics caught between the hungry teeth of vole and buried bone of river.”
—Tyehimba Jess, author of OLIO