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Biblioasis is a literary press based in Windsor, Ontariowith a commitment to publishing outstanding poetry,fiction, and non-fiction in beautifully crafted editions.SMALLPRESSSPOTLIGHTBIBLIOASISTHIRD MAN BOOKSThird Man Books is publishing the best in poetry, fiction, speculativefiction, SF/F, and non-fiction with the hallmark diversity and award-winning design of their partner company, Third Man Records.TWO DOLLAR RADIOTwo Dollar Radio is a family-run outfit founded in 2005with the mission of revitalizing the cultural and artisticspirit of the publishing industry.

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Two Lines Press is an award-winning press committedto publishing daring and original literature in translationin striking editions.SMALLPRESSSPOTLIGHTTWO LINES PRESSDEEP VELLUMDeep Vellum is a bookstore located in the heart ofDallas, Texas and the largest publisher of literature intranslation in the United States.DOROTHY, A PUBLISHIN G P R O J E C TDorothy, A Publishing Project is an award-winning feministpress dedicated to works of fiction or near fiction andwriting about fiction.

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SPOONFULRECORDSThese albums were selected by artist and Spoonful Records owner Amy Kesting foran art installation at Spoonful called “Cover - No Cover,” featuring her paintings ofthe album covers. The paintings will be displayed starting on 11/13. The albums are available at Spoonful Records, an independent record store inColumbus, Ohio, located at 144 E. State Street.Mac Miller - Circles The Beatles - Revolver A Tribe Called Quest -Low End TheoryThe 13th Floor Elevators- Psychedelic Sounds of The Ramones - End ofthe Century Sinead O’Connor - TheLion and the Cobra Television - MarqueeMoonThe Sex Pistols -Nevermind the Bollocks Johnny Cash - TheAmerican Recordings Big Star - #1 Record Funkadelic - MaggotBrain King Crimson - In theCourt of the Crimson King

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HANDPICKED LIT FROMYOUR LOCALBOOKSELLERSCreated by generations of Blackpunks, this bold, urgent anthology sets a new precedent for BlackPunk Lit, featuring both newvoices and those from the not-so-recent past.Black Punk Now edited byJames Spooner & Chris L.Terry (Soft Skull Press)Not Even the Dead by JuanGoméz Barcenà, translated byKatie Whittemore (Open Letter)Not Even the Dead is the story of ahallucinatory journey thattranscends territories andcenturies, from 1500's colonialMexico to Trump’s border wall.Dayswork by Chris Bachelder& Jennifer Habel (Norton)Absorbing, charming, andintimate, Dayswork considers theblurry lines between life andliterature, the slippage betweenwhat happens and what getsrecorded, and the ways we locateourselves in the lives of others. The MANIAC by BenjaminLabatut (Penguin)A haunting story centered on theHungarian polymath John vonNeumann, tracing the impact ofhis singular legacy on the dreamsand nightmares of the twentiethcentury and the nascent age of AI.Negatives: A PhotographicArchive of Emo 1996-2006 by Amy Fleisher Madden(Chronicle Books) A gorgeous hardcover time capsule ofthe emo music scene from 1996 to2006, featuring never-before-seenphotographs and never-before-toldstories from key emo musicians,photographers, and icons.Hell: The People & Places by Seymour Chwast & StevenHeller (PrincetonArchitectural Press) A descent into different variations ofhell and its torturous realms fromliterature, religion, culture, andfolklore, gorgeously illustrated andaccompanied by writing on the originsand details of each hell.With Bloom Upon Them andAlso with Blood by JustinPhillip Reed (Coffee HousePress)From the author of The MalevolentVolume and National Book Award–winning Indecency comes a gory newmutation in the shape of nonfiction andcriticism.Morning and Evening by JonFosse (translated by DamionSearls)Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literaturein 2023.Morning and Evening is a novelconcerning the beautiful dream thatour lives have meaning.

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A darkly evocative compendium ofimages exploring natural,constructed, imaginary, andsubconscious underworlds,curated by renowned imagecollector and social media figureStephen Ellcock.Underworlds by StephenEllock (Thames & Hudson)The End of August by Yu Miri,translated by Morgan Giles(Riverhead)An extraordinary, ground-breaking, multi-generational novelabout a Korean family living underJapanese occupation from aNational Book Award winningauthor. Hot Springs Drive by LindsayHunter (Roxane Gay Books)The third title in Roxane GayBooks’ inaugural list, Hot SpringsDrive is an urgent, vicious blade ofa novel about a shocking betrayaland its aftermath that asks justhow far you’ll go to haveeverything you want.Opinions by Roxane Gay(HarperCollins)From beloved and bestsellingauthor Roxane Gay, “a strikinglyfresh cultural critic” (WashingtonPost), comes an exhilaratingcollection of essays on culture,politics, and everything inbetween.We’re Safe When We’re Aloneby Nghiem Tran (CoffeeHouse Press)Son is real. Son was saved from alife he cannot remember. Son is ahuman in a mythical world ofghosts. This is what Father tells him. Out There Screaming editedby Jordan Peele (RandomHouse) The visionary writer and director of GetOut, Us, and Nope, and founder ofMonkeypaw Productions curated thisgroundbreaking anthology of all-newstories of Black horror, which explore notonly the terrors of the supernatural butthe chilling reality of injustice that hauntsour nation.My Work by Olga Ravn,translated by Sophia HersiSmith & Jennifer Russell (NewDirections)From the acclaimed author of TheEmployees, a radical, funny, andmercilessly honest novel aboutmotherhood. The Comfort of Crows byMargaret Renkl (Spiegel &Grau)The Mysteries by BillWatterson & John Kascht(Andrews McMeel)From Bill Watterson, bestsellingcreator of the beloved comic stripCalvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht,one of America's most renownedcaricaturists, comes a mysterious andbeautifully illustrated fable about whatlies beyond human understanding.Dearborn by GhassanZeineddine (Tin House)A sharp, tender, and uproariouslyfunny portrait of the lives of ArabAmerican community members inDearborn, Michigan.Margaret Renkl presents a literarydevotional: fifty-two chapters thatfollow the creatures and plants inher backyard over the course of ayear.

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From the bestselling author of Wethe Animals, Blackouts mines losthistories both personal andcollective.Blackouts by Justin Torres(FSG)Black Metal Rainbows edited by Daniel Lukes & Stanimir Panayotov (PM Press)This unique volume envisions blackmetal as open, inclusive, andunlimited: a musical genre whosevital spirit of antagonism rebelsagainst the forces of politicalconservatism.The Hunger of Women byMarosia Castaldi, translatedby Jamie Richards (& OtherStories)A gorgeous, erotic, queer,feminist, experimental novel fullof excellent recipes.Dispatches from the DistrictCommittee by VladimirSorokin, translated by MaxLawton (Deep Vellum)Grotesque, deconstructive, andabsolutely genius, Dispatches from theDistrict Committee is an offbeat,revelatory portrait of Soviet lifebeyond the propaganda and state-sponsored realism.The Loneliness Files byAthena Dixon (Tin House)Athena Dixon invites us to considerthis question with depth, heart, andferocity, investigating a lifetime ofloneliness and the gaps thattechnology cannot fill.How to Protect Bookstores &Why by Danny Caine(Microcosm)Through examples, analysis, and well-informed advocacy, Caine offers acohesive road map to a sustainablefuture for bookstores, including policysuggestions, strategies for community-based action, and tips on whatconsumers can do to help.The Delivery by MargaritaGarcía Robayo, translated byMegan McDowell (CharcoPress)Another Last Call: Poems onAddiction & Deliveranceedited by Kaveh Akbar & PaigeLewis (Sarabande Books)The Fraud by Zadie Smith(Penguin Press)From acclaimed bestselling novelistZadie Smith comes a kaleidoscopicwork of historical fiction set against thelegal trial that divided VictorianEngland, about who gets to tell theirstory—and who gets to be believedAmerican Precariat: Parablesof Exclusion, edited by ZekeCaligiuri et al. (Coffee HousePress)Fifteen essays coedited by a collective ofaward-winning incarcerated writers,featuring contributions from Lacy M.Johnson, Kiese Laymon, Kao Kalia Yang,and more, with a foreword by Zeke Caligiuriand an introduction by Eula Biss.This moving anthology on thelived experience of addictionfeatures work from poets like JoyHarjo, Sharon Olds, JerichoBrown, Ada Limón, and OceanVuong, as well as many new andpowerful voices.From the acclaimed author of FishSoup, a novel of motherhood,memory, and possibility just thisside of the uncanny.

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From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial andLot, this irresistible, intimatenovel centers around two youngmen, once best friends, whoselives collide again after a loss.Family Meal by BryanWashington (Riverhead)At Night He Lifts Weights byKang Young-sook, translated byJanet Hong (Transit Books)A disquieting vision of ecologicaldystopia in a collection by a majorKorean writer.A Stroke of the Pen by TerryPratchett (Harper)A delightfully funny, inventivecollection of twenty newlyunearthed short stories by SirTerry Pratchett, the award-winning author and creator of thephenomenally successfulDiscworld series.Daddy Lessons by SteacyEaston (Coach House Books)Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker inthis smart, raunchy look at a queersexual awakening.Self-Care for Black Men byJor-El Caraballo (AdamsMedia)A self-care guidebook for Black meneverywhere, filled with activities forpursuing joy, creating connections,confronting racism, and workingthrough intergenerational trauma.Sonic Life by Thurston Moore (Doubleday)This passionate memoir from thefounding member of Sonic Youthtraces Moore's life and art, from histeen years as a music obsessive insmall-town Connecticut to theformation of his legendary rock groupand thirty years of creation,experimentation, and wonder.Night Side of the River: GhostStories by JeanetteWinterson (Atlantic MonthlyPress)The Fright Before Christmasby Jeff Belanger, Illustratedby Terry Reed (New PageBooks)The Book by Mary Ruefle(Wave Books)Following the acclaimed Dunce, whichwas a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,comes Mary Ruefle’s latest prosepublication, The Book.Let Us Descend by JesmynWard (Scribner)This stunning novel from two-timeNational Book Award winner andMacArthur genius Jesymn Ward tellsthe story of an enslaved girl sold southfrom North Carolina to the slavemarkets of New Orleans.Step into the dark roots ofChristmas past where Krampuspunishes bad boys and girls.A captivating collection of ghoststories from “one of the most giftedwriters working today” (New YorkTimes), The Night Side of the River isas ingeniously provocative as it isdownright spooky.

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The co-founder of The Cure andauthor of Cured delivers afascinating deep dive into the darkromanticism of Goth music, amisunderstood genre and culture.Goth: A History by LolTolhurst (Hachette)So Late in the Day by ClaireKeegan (Grove Press)From the Booker Prize finalist andbestselling author of Small ThingsLike These comes a triptych ofstories about love, lust, betrayal,and the ever-intriguinginterchanges between women andmen.The Apple II Age by LaineNooney (University of ChicagoPress)An engrossing origin story of thepersonal computer, showing howthe Apple II’s software launched amachine from a hobbyists’plaything to an essential homeappliance.The Upstairs Delicatessan byDwight Garner (FSG)Garner gathers a literary chorus tocapture the joys of reading and eatingin this comic-- a personal classic. Bookshops & Bonedust byTravis Baldree (Tor Books)Set in the world of New York Timesbestseller Legends & Lattes,Bookshops & Bonedust takes us ona journey of high fantasy, firstloves, and secondhand books.Emperor of Rome by MaryBeard (Liveright)A sweeping account of the social andpolitical world of the Roman emperorsby “the world’s most famous classicist”(Guardian).Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt(Tor Nightfire)The Honor of Your Presenceby Dave Eggers(McSweeney’s)Critical Hits: Writers PlayingVideo Games edited byCarmen Maria Machado & J.Robert Lennon (Graywolf) A wide-ranging anthology of essaysexploring one of the most vital artforms on the planet today.The Apple in the Dark byClarice Lispector, translatedby Benjamin Moser (NewDirections)The thirteenth and final newtranslation of Clarice Lispector fromNew Directions.A very funny and lyricalreferendum on why humanscongregate and celebrate. From the author of Tell Me I’mWorthless — “a triumph oftransgressive queer horror”(Publishers Weekly) — comes asearing body horror novel ofobsession, violence, and pleasure.

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CHILDREN’S BOOKSWritten by Gianni Rodari, the father ofmodern Italian children's literature,this bright, sweet story reminds uswhat children are really like in themost essential and beautiful way.A Daydreamy Child Takes aWalk by Gianni Rodari &Beatrice Alemagna,translated by Antony Shugaar(Enchanted Lion)The Eyes & The Impossibleby Dave Eggers(McSweeney's)A wild, lyrical, hilarious, andbeautiful story of a wild dogliving and surviving in an urbanpark.The Tailor Shop at theIntersection by Ahn Jaesun(Transit Children’s Editions)A heartwarming story aboutfamily, resilience, fashion, andstaying true to who you are, toldthrough three generations oftailors in a rapidly changing Seoul. One Christmas in OurBuilding by JohannaLindemann & AndreaStegmaier (Floris Books)It's a Christmas catastrophe! Oris it? A unique, heart-warmingstory about community spiritand togetherness.Alebrijes by Donna BarbaHiguera (Levine Querido)An astonishing novel withimaginative world-building thatholds a mirror to our own, for fans ofDhonielle Clayton, Jasmine Warga,and B.B. Alston.The Magicians byBlexbolex, translsted byKarin Snelson (EnchantedLion)It’s a graphic novel! It’s an art book!It’s an action-packed fantasyadventure from French visionaryBlexbolex for readers young andold.The Grand Hotel of Feelingsby Lidia Brankovic (CicadaBooks)A delightfully imaginative picturebook that is both a fun read-aloud and a great way to engagechildren in conversations aboutmanaging emotions.Rebbe Nachman’s The LostPrincess by Jessica TamarDeutsch (Somewhere)A colorful and imaginative retellingof a classic parable from RebbeNachman of Breslov.

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