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bryan seitz @bseitz.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy #WITMonth ! First up: @transitbooks.bsky.social

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CORI WINROCK @coriwinrock.bsky.social · Jul 11

What an honor to be included in this phenomenal roundup! Thank you @karlajstrand.com & Violet! @transitbooks.bsky.social

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Karla J. Strand @karlajstrand.com · Jul 7

My latest Reads for the Rest of Us is live at @msmagazine.com. This month, Violet and I chose 22 new books we're loving this month!

Feat books by @veenago.bsky.social @xbennyboo.bsky.social
@coriwinrock.bsky.social and more!

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July 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us

Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. Check out the top 22 books that we are excited about this month!

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · Jul 1

Book mail!! 🎉🎉🎉 @transitbooks.bsky.social

Front cover: ALTERATIONS by Cori Winrock

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · Jun 29

Pausing to read A Sleepless Night from @transitbooks.bsky.social at #alaac25 Booth 715

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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · Jun 25

“I had to get back home to Vaim, I thought, and why did I always take these boat trips to Bjørgvin anyway, they never really had any point, these excursions”

From Vaim, by Jon Fosse, which will be published in October by @transitbooks.bsky.social‬

Spool of Thought, by Jon Fosse

We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure

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Erik Pedersen @erikpedersen.bsky.social · Jun 24

Celebrate your independents with @michaelschaub.bsky.social’s list of small-press #books out now or coming this summer. #booksky

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33 new books you’ll want to read this summer from independent publishers

Looking for something new or a fresh take on a favorite genre? Check out these small-press titles.

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CORI WINROCK @coriwinrock.bsky.social · Jun 20

Adapted from Alterations out from Transit Books next month! Could not be more excited to have part of the book out in this dream publication today! Please pre-order here: www.transitbooks.org/books/altera... @parisreview.bsky.social + @transitbooks.bsky.social

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · Jun 20

“The astronauts who planted their feet on the moon were outfitted in the same glaring white as a wedding dress.”

Cori Winrock on Emily Dickinson and the moon. buff.ly/KQJorIN

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · Jun 18

LOOK UP from @transitbooks.bsky.social gets a look from
@publisherswkly.bsky.social “Against a primarily earth-toned palette, the birds scatter across pages like multicolored confetti in this soaring celebration of the virtues of looking up” www.publishersweekly.com/9798893380286

Look Up by Azul López

López’s impressionistic paintings emphasize human smallness against nature’s vastness in this ruminative story about a man “alwa...

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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social · Jun 4

Madeleine Watts's intro to Antigone Kefala's THE ISLAND, up today in The Nation:

"The plot is not really the point; the writing is most interested in the process of 'becoming' trying to find a new kind of form in which the experience of being alive will crystalize."

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Antigone Kelefa and the Art of Exile

The Australian writer’s 1984 novel, The Island, is a hypnotic work of fiction about the border between life and art.

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · May 28

From @thehornbook.bsky.social a Recommended Summer Reading List! And it includes DOWNPOUR from @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social and A SLEEPLESS NIGHT from @transitbooks.bsky.social both #picturebooks in #translation www.hbook.com/story/newsle...

2025 Summer Reading List

From the April 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book: Summer Reading.

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · May 23

"Our duty is to tend, to lend ongoing, active attention instead of static remembrance."

Clancey D'Isa's review of “Motherhood and Its Ghosts” by Iman Mersal (@transitbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
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Attending to Our Own Archive in “Motherhood and Its Ghosts” - Chicago Review of Books

Our review of Iman Mersal's new book, "Motherhood and Its Ghosts"

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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social · May 20

📆 Then, next Saturday, May 31, we'll be teaming up with the Los Angeles Review of Books for a little bash and a conversation between R.O. Kwon and @laurenmarkham.bsky.social at our offices in Berkeley. We'd love to see you there.

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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social · May 20

📆 This Saturday, join us for a fundraiser, pop-up, and party, hosted by KQED's ‪@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social‬ and ‪@laurenmarkham.bsky.social‬ at Womb House Books. Bring your friends, your kids, yourselves for an evening of books, wine, and more in the alley.

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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social · May 20

Over the last few weeks, we've seen devastating cuts to federal arts funding. This funding has been critical to organizations like ours. To support our mission and 🎉 celebrate our literary community in the Bay, come out for one (or both!) upcoming Transit events:

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · May 19

Exciting mail day!

@transitbooks.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

A picture of three books on a wooden table: upper left is an ARC of Kate Zambreno's ANIMAL STORIES, forthcoming from Transit Books; on the right is I WAS WORKING by Ariel Yelen, out from Princeton UP; and on the bottom left is Caitlin Lorraine Johnson's IO, a booklet out from The Economy Press.

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · May 13

Thanks to @fuse8.bsky.social for taking note of how special #kidsbooks from @transitbooks.bsky.social are! "Though your list each season is small...your books are mighty” afuse8production.slj.com/2025/05/08/p...

Publisher Preview: Transit Editions (Winter 2025/26)

Though their list is small, their books are mighty. Transit specializes in small books that you wouldn't notice at all, were it not for their concentrated efforts. Take a gander at three they have com...

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · May 12

Thank you, @transitbooks.bsky.social!!!

Two new arrivals from Transit Books: THE ISLAND by Antigone Kefala and MOTHERHOOD AND ITS GHOSTS by Iman Mersal

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · May 10

GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING IN SPACE AND IN TIME TODAY that is oakland review of books' recommendation THE WEATHER IS GOOD www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

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Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social · May 8

Though their list is small, their books are mighty. @transitbooks.bsky.social specializes in small books that you wouldn't notice at all, were it not for their concentrated efforts. Take a gander at three they have coming up. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/05/08/p...

Publisher Preview: Transit Editions (Winter 2025/26)

Though their list is small, their books are mighty. Transit specializes in small books that you wouldn't notice at all, were it not for their concentrated efforts. Take a gander at three they have com...

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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social · May 4

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · May 4

We need indie presses. Certainly more than we need government funds to be spent “foster[ing] AI competency” or “empower[ing] houses of worship to serve communities,” whatever that means.

Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social · May 3

Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.

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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social · May 4

Thanks, Clare, for all you do! 🙏🙏

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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social · May 4

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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social · May 3

We remain as committed as ever to promoting voices and perspectives that represent all facets of the human experience, in one's country, in one's language, and in one's body. If you're able to support our work with a donation, now is a critical time.

www.transitbooks.org/donate

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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social · May 3

Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.

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