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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 1d

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 1d

Great books come in all sizes. Some snapshots of our recent season, including the forthcoming ANALOG DAYS, TERRY DACTYL, VERY COLLECTED POEMS, & THE AQUATICS. @mbsycamore.bsky.social @tomcomputer.bsky.social @pipadam.bsky.social

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 1d

"The vibe of being receptive to the beauty in the world while that openness makes it hard to fend off bad news and terrible things." - Damion Searls on ANALOG DAYS, out next week!

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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Grady Chambers (Great Disasters) Julia Ioffe (Motherland: A…

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 2d

Love seeing Mónica Ojeda's JAWBONE in The New York Times' "Dark Academia: A Starter Pack" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...

Dark Academia: A Starter Pack

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 4d

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 4d

DARK ACADEMIA: A Starter Pack, from today's New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 6d

Author readings, a silent auction, an evening with the literary community, and special surprises? What more could you want?
Link here to RSVP: givebutter.com/WhatsBrewing...

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 7d

🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to Omar Khalifah and translator Barbara Romaine on being shortlisted for the 2025 National Translation Awards!!! #ALTA @littranslate.bsky.social

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 7d

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 8d

A fantastic event last night in Minneapolis celebrating 30 years of RAIN TAXI! Congratulations to Eric Lorberer and all the poets, writers, and artists involved in decades of independent publishing. #Minneapolis

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 9d

Huge thanks to Vulture for recommending THE MIND REELS as one of the 7 books to read this October. 💥💥💥https://www.vulture.com/article/new-books-to-read-released-october-2025.html @vulture.com

7 New Books You Should Read This October

Thomas Pynchon’s account of rising fascism, a millennial cheating novel, and a memoir from a James Beard winner.

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 9d

Happy pub day to Fredrik deBoer and THE MIND REELS. "A searing portrait," - Publishers Weekly
"Slim but powerful," - Chicago Tribune. ‼️Out now.‼️

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 10d

Dallas! Next weekend, catch us posted up at our mecca @texastheatre.bsky.social for the @hayfestival.bsky.social ☀️

We're sponsoring the heat w/ convos feat. Manuel Sánchez Viamonte, Fernando A. Flores, Rodrigo Fresán, Mark Haber, & @lorifeathers.bsky.social

Fit checks @ the door! 🥵

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 10d

Yes, you can now preorder signed copies of TERRY DACTYL from Elliott Bay Book Company💎💐Out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, book launch at Seattle Art Museum on Saturday, October 25 at 3 pm so signed preorders will go out early, here's the link💎⚡ elliottbaybook.com/item/dKS8Yes...

SIGNED PREORDERS AVAILABLE NOW!
At Elliott Bay Book Company, black text on bright pink background with the cover image of open mouths on the same bright pink, dazzling glitter gem pills flying all around and then bigger ones on the background, floating into the book and off the page

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 10d

This incredible book is coming December 2nd!!!

Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 11d

★ Osvalde Lewat makes her English-language debut with a shocking morality tale about a woman torn between her bureaucrat husband and her artist friend, whose homosexuality is a high crime in their fictional country of Zambuena. This one hits hard. @coffeehousepress.bsky.social buff.ly/oA5zuaN

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 11d

Honey, look, it's a gorgeous final copy of TERRY DACTYL, out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉 Book launch on Saturday, October 25, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum, and you can preorder signed copies from Elliott Bay Book Company, or preorder from your favorite indie, get ready 💎⚡✨

Bright magenta cover with black border. Floating open mouths in magenta, with tongues out and teeth visible, TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL in one of the mouths. Floating iridescent sparkling glitter pills in spot gloss like jewels. Title at top of black border, author name at bottom, on the side a blurb from Sarah Schulman, "The historical novel on acid"

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 11d

★ Osvalde Lewat makes her English-language debut with a shocking morality tale about a woman torn between her bureaucrat husband and her artist friend, whose homosexuality is a high crime in their fictional country of Zambuena. This one hits hard. @coffeehousepress.bsky.social buff.ly/oA5zuaN

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 12d

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 14d

Psss.... everything is 20% off through October 31st, including this little explosion. 🌋"Psychedelia, volcanoes, disintegration. Following Ojeda on this journey is, without a doubt, an intense experience," Mariana Enríquez 🌋
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 14d

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 15d

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Eugene Lim @eugenelim.bsky.social · 15d

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 15d

Great books all around! Congratulations to @alexhigley.bsky.social and TRUE FAILURE!

Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 15d

We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for 2025 CHIRBys!!! Congratulations to all of our finalists 🥳🥳🥳

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 15d

Introducing Brewed for You! For a donation of just $1 (or more!), take the quiz and get a personalized list of books recommended to you by your favorite authors and indie booksellers! (for example...)
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Tom Comitta @tomcomitta.bsky.social · 17d

See you tonight, Boston and Cambridge!

Can't wait to talk text collage and beyond with the brilliant @drbibliomane.bsky.social at the great @harvardbookstore.bsky.social !

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 18d

Boston-area friends, if you're in the vicinity of Harvard tomorrow, please come to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for a conversation about novels, LLMs, public opinion polls, collages, cut-ups, and patchwork with me and @tomcomitta.bsky.social. It will be a wild ride--hope you can join us for it!

Poster showing Tom Comitta (big photo) and Deidre Lynch (smaller one) and the covers of their two new novels: Patchwork and People's Choice Literature. Monday, September 29th, 7 p.m., Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA

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