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2025 Recommended Reading List Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…

I'm grateful to the staff of Locus for putting MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social) on the Recommended Reading List of works published in 2025.

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Jack White Gathers Words And Vision In ‘Collected Lyrics And Selected Writings Vol 1’ - That Eric Alper Third Man Books is pleased to announce Jack White Collected Lyrics and Selected Writings Volume 1 by Jack White and edited by Ben Blackwell. The collection compiles lyrics from White’s solo recordings including No Name, The Raconteurs,  Dead Weather, and collaborations. Also featured will be exclusive and rare photos of White, selected poems and writing by White, and essays contributed by poet […]

Jack White releases ‘Collected Lyrics And Selected Writings Vol 1’, a new book gathering lyrics, rare photos, poems, and essays that spotlight the full scope of his writing and creative vision. zurl.co/nmHbf

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...

Since I've been proseltyzing about small presses, I should note how important they were to Carol Emshwiller's career: Mercury, Small Beer, Tachyon, etc.

Need a small press book to support? Try 2025's blockbuster from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social MOON SONGS!

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I have my doubts finally not to tell a strange world flashlight under the chin but to react / right-sized and given / something to do since I smell smoke I buy flowers

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The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.

Where does Ode play when he’s healthy? In other words, how can Trossard and Eze not be in the first 11 now?

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"If our pets could talk, they would most likely just ask for more of what they already have because even for us humans you can't be in love with something you haven't already experienced." -III

"I believe that the mysterious Roman dodecahedrons that have been found were just fancy candle holders for candles of different thicknesses." -III

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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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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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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"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...

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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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