Join us tomorrow at 3 pm ET for a members-only virtual conversation between deputy editor Nathan Goldman and novelist Mark Haber, whose lively and uproarious new novel Ada examines the derangement of dictators. jewishcurrents.org/event/on-ada...
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Out of the Blank by Elaine Equi
Reviewed by Eric Bies
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The US edition of YÑIGA is officially out in the world. (Hint: it's incredible!) 🔥🐈⬛🐀🌳♥️
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I trust @coffeehousepress.bsky.social for excellence but pleased to report this novel by @monicaojeda.bsky.social has BARS. Psychedelic Ecuadorian music festival horror, suffuse with poetry, insight & phantasmagoria “To have a voice is to be alive & kicking, and to be alive is to rejoice & suffer”
😊😊😊 HELEN OF NOWHERE
The Booker Prizes@thebookerprizes.com · last wk.Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman is a novel that is at once intimate and cosmic in scope, and asks: what must we give up in exchange for true happiness? Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-longlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
“Haber’s satire turns from a story about sexual desire or love or infatuation to a tale about the ridiculousness of male grandiosity” Read Efrén Ordónez Garza on Mark Haber's new novel, ADA, out now via @coffeehousepress.bsky.social 💥 southwestreview.com/the-indiscre...
The Indiscreet Charm of the Royal Dunces | Mark Haber’s Ada
By Efrén Ordóñez Garza
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🎉🎉🎉 Enormous congratulations to Makenna Goodman and her incredible HELEN OF NOWHERE being longlisted to The Booker Prize 2026! We're ecstatic! 🎉🎉🎉
Just pre-ordered this one, looking forward to adding it to the Czech shelf in my library.
Coffee House Press@coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 4mo agoExtraordinarily excited to have galleys of A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF JOY by renowned Czech author, Radka Denemarková. Her first English translation in the US (trans. by Julia & Peter Sherwood). "Denemarková's prose is a magic mirror." - Olga Tokarczuk
Brian Evenson galley day! Phantom Limb is due out from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social in October. A companion to Evenson's novel Last Days published in 2016.
Hyper is a remarkable novel by @agri.bsky.social recommended by @c4noff.bsky.social, whose @coffeehousepress.bsky.social subscription introduces books she might not ever find on her own. For both of us, Hyper is a happy discovery. I've reviewed it at readthinkdraw.substack.com/p/2nd-genera...
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Ismail’s Novel, Hyper, Explores Paths Through Western Materialism
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"Haber creates a character that encapsulates all the follies and cruelties of inherited wealth and turns it into a work of hilarious beauty." - Michael Kennan Gutierrez, Southern Review of Books
Southern Review of Books@southrevbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago"Haber is more empathetic toward his ridiculous tyrant than you’d expect, and that’s what moves the story from a stylistic exercise and absurdist concoction toward an unexpected end that moved me." New review of ADA by Mark Haber. @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
“The tantrum novel is propelled by little more than its own voice. And when the tantrum runs out of steam, invariably the novel ends.” Drew Basile reviews Mark Haber's new book, "Ada": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tantrum-literature-drew-basile-ada-mark-haber/
Enormous thanks to Subtext Bookstore for their kindness and support! Swing by this Saturday! Indies supporting Indies. 😊📚
Subtext Bookstore@subtextbookstore.bsky.social · 4w agoSupport local press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social at a local bookstore (Subtext Books)!!! This Saturday, July 11th, 30% of your purchase at Subtext Books will go to Coffee House Press! #localpress #localbookstore #TwinCities
ONE NIGHT TWO SOULS WENT WALKING (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social) shows the power of human connection, as a hospital chaplain spends a night (and a life) working to help others deal with life and loss: turnedpagereview.substack.com/p/review-of-...
Review of One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney
Coffee House Press, 2020
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Thanks as always to LitHub for highlighting so many great books, including a couple coming from yours truly. @literaryhub.bsky.social
Congratulations to Pip Adam and all the other nominees! What an enormous honor!!! 🎉🎉🎉 @pipadam.bsky.social
Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · last mo.We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
Via Cameroon by way of @coffeehousepress.bsky.social comes this translated tale of brutal violence. It is the world's norm for Others like QUILTBAG people. THE AQUATICS by OSVALDE LEWAT and translated by Maren Baudet-Lackner. #Booksky 🌈📚 #PtideMonth expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
THE AQUATICS, brutal violence is, always has been, the world's norm for Others
THE AQUATICS OSVALDE LEWAT (tr. Maren Baudet-Lackner) Coffee House Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $18.00 all editions, ava...
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#PrideMonth reading via @coffeehousepress.bsky.social from K-MING CHANG: a tale of sapphic obsessive love and bodily fixation in gorgeous prose, CECILIA. 🌈📚 #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2024/05/ceci...
CECILIA, sapphic obsessive love and bodily fixation in gorgeous prose
CECILIA K-MING CHANG Coffee House Press $14.95 trade paper, available now Rating: 4.5* of five The Publisher Says: A surreal novell...
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An outstanding review of HYPER over at A FEW MORE WORDS. www.afewmorewords.net/p/still-wait... @agri.bsky.social Thanks Christopher Conner!
Still Waiting On, and Needing, the Revolution: "Hyper" by Agri Ismaïl
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Huge congratulations to Elaine Equi and OUT OF THE BLANK for winning the Reader's Choice Award at the 2025 Big Other Awards, calling her collection, "a masterclass in poetic attention." 🎉🎉🎉 bigother.com/category/awa...
An absolutely 🔥🔥🔥 review of ELECTRIC SHAMANS: "The power of the novel lies in the beauty and skill of Ojeda’s language, which boils complex philosophical ideas down into short aphorisms and laces them together into flowing, poetic monologues reminiscent of the best of Virginia Woolf."
Ancillary Review of Books@ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 2mo agoThe Ear Is the Organ of Fear: Matthew Eatough reviews Mónica Ojeda’s ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social, tr. Sarah Booker)
The Ear Is the Organ of Fear: Matthew Eatough reviews Mónica Ojeda’s ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social, tr. Sarah Booker)
The Ear Is the Organ of Fear: Review of Mónica Ojeda’s Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun
Matthew Eatough Under Review:Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun. Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker. Coffee House Press, May 2026. It’s fascinating to consider why cutting-edge devel…
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Happy Pride Month from Coffee House Press! This June, we’re featuring some of our recent titles that discuss queerness, including OUR HOURS ARE MARRIED TO SHADOW, galleys of which just arrived in the office :)
Poet Greg Hewett published a #PrideMonth debut novel, NO NAMES, via Minneapolis's estimable @coffeehousepress.bsky.social #Booksky 🌈📚 expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/05/no-n...
NO NAMES, a #PrideMonth debut novel from a poet via Minneapolis's estimable Coffee House Press
NO NAMES GREG HEWETT Coffee House Press ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $17.99 ebook, available now Rating: 3.75* of five The Publis...
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In Minnesota, we protect the lives and liberties of all our neighbors - including your right to love who you love. Happy Pride Month!
