This weekend's WSJ Fiction Chronicle leads with Maria Stepanova's 'The Disappearing Act,' an optical illusion of a novel about war guilt and the disavowal of novel-writing. Plus new fiction by Victoria Shorr and a welcome reissue of a lesser-known Sarah Orne Jewett! www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
You don't have to take it from us--none other than @ssacks.bsky.social thinks you should read A MARSH ISLAND too!
"Discerning, tender and pellucid in its beauty, this is the kind of small, perfect novel it is hard to imagine anybody not loving." 🌻 Thank you for this GORGEOUS review, Sam! Read the whole thing below:
Thank you so much, Sam!!
I’ve enjoyed Slow Stories by Bette Adriaanse very much. It’s just out from @unnamedpress.bsky.social.
First look at the cover of Five Strange Languages, book 1, out in October! This time it's an ugly mushroom, surrounded by stars — an appropriate emblem for the narrator, who is haunted by his mother's two obsessions: mushrooms, and the orbits of comets.
On Amazon now for Preorder.
screen grab of the new author website at howardrodman.com Many informative features and some very rare photographs.
Excited to unveil the brand new author website at howardrodman.com. Come visit!
Designed to showcase the reissues of #DestinyExpress and #TheGreatEastern from @rarebirdlit.bsky.social and @unnamedpress.bsky.social. With thanks to Will Amato and @laurencerand.com.
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"A gripping, complex slow burn featuring plenty of old-school tradecraft that will appeal to fans of John le Carré, Graham Greene, and Dan Fesperman."
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NBCC Vice President/Technology and Co-Vice President/Membership Rebecca Hussey, NBCC member Frances Evangelista, and Dorian Stuber, hosts of the One Bright Book podcast, contributed a conversational afterword to a new edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's "A Marsh Island":
A MARSH ISLAND by Sarah Orne Jewett, including a conversational afterword with Frances Evangelista, Rebecca Hussey & Dorian Stuber.
Look what has arrived!! 🎉🎉 @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social @nonsuchbook.bsky.social @ds228.bsky.social
Happy pub day to us! (And, more to the point, @unnamedpress.bsky.social... we are so grateful you asked us to contribute.)
Three sunflowers for each of you! Thank YOU 🌻🌻🌻
This is one you do not want to miss! And I’m not saying that just because we got to chat about it. Jewett called it her favorite among her works. Her subtle examinations of urban vs rural life, queerness, and the ecological landscape she knew well are stunning.
A MARSH ISLAND, the newest S&T Classic is on shelves now! !🌻🌾
Thank you to the hosts of
@onebrightbook.bsky.social for your conversational afterword to the book!
A Marsh Island is available anywhere books are sold, including unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...
Love to see Thomas Morris' OPEN UP rep'd here!
Thank you @thestoryprize.bsky.social
![AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FOR THE FIRST TIME
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AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FOR THE FIRST TIME [images of the covers of Destiny Express, with an image of the False Maria from Lang/von Harbou's Metropolis; The Great Eastern, with an image of Isambard Kingdom Brunel et. al. at the launch of Brunel's ship The Great Eastern] WHEREVER GOOD BOOKS ARE SOLD MAY 19
"Daringly imagined and darkly romantic — a moral thriller." —Thomas Pynchon
Image of the author, black and white, by Brice Portolano. He's wearing a bleu de travail jacket, a striped shirt, think black glasses, and looks like an editor of Cahiers du Cinema circa 1962.
"Complex, unforgettable characters… a kind of return to what adventurous literature used to be." —Brian Evenson, Los Angeles Review of Books
Thrilled today to be able to join with the wondrous folk at @rarebirdlit.bsky.social and @unnamedpress.bsky.social to announce the reissue of my novels DESTINY EXPRESS and THE GREAT EASTERN, coming this May 19.
DX:
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TGE:
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Thank you so much, Tobias! 👻
Wuthering Heights in paperback.
#NowReading (well, rereading for the first time since I was 15, I have fresh eyes now) Wuthering Heights! In celebration of not going to see that movie next month 😂
"Am I a ghost? I asked. I'm sorry to inform you that you are, replied the pigeon."- "Curtain Call, Extra Inning, Last Pang" in WITH THE HEART OF A GHOST
Korean #SFinTranslation from @unnamedpress.bsky.social
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Starting WITH THE HEART OF A GHOST by Lim Sunwoo, tr from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim, from @unnamedpress.bsky.social
#SFinTranslation
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An honor!
Get 20% off all titles at unnamedpress.com until 1/1!
Speaking of war fiction, I recommend (guardedly, since it's so bleak) Michael Jerome Plunkett's 'Zone Rouge,' about the de-miners who are still removing the unexploded ordnance from Verdun a century after the battle. A Dantean allegory that crosses uncannily with the real www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Out running errands? Hiding away from it all? Our Most Anticipated Reads of 2026 episode makes for good company no matter what you're up to this season.
We're joined by @ssacks.bsky.social to chat about the books we most look forward to next year.
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If you want any of my books, including the upcoming new edition of John Cleland's Fanny Hill with an intro by me and a conversation between Stoya and me, now's an excellent time to shop because @unnamedpress.bsky.social is offering a sweet holiday deal.
Henry Henry's US publisher @unnamedpress.bsky.social is currently running their big holiday sale -- if you want a discounted copy of HH, hardback or paperback, without ordering from Am*z*n, now's your chance.
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To celebrate Smith & Taylor Classics' first year we made (fountain pen friendly) notebooks! Thank you for everything. -> unnamedpress.com
Time for ep. 374D! Laura Venita Green stops by to chat about SISTER CREATURES, a gorgeously atmospheric novel about three women in Louisiana whose lives intersect in ways sometimes subtle, sometimes explosive, always transformative. @unnamedpress.bsky.social
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"We’re following our hearts and minds...finding a balance so we don’t inadvertently publish titles that are too similar.”
Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social.
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