Coffee House Press
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Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Final copies have arrived!🎉 “Nghiem Tran has penned a lyrical, moving poetry collection that I expect to dazzle readers as the sleeper hit of the year. I consumed it in a long guzzle, then went back to page one and started again," - Mary Karr OUR HOURS ARE MARRIED TO SHADOW by Nghiem Tran 12/08/26
PHANTOM LIMB is officially yours in one week!!!
Literary fiction I’m working on publicity for now that will be published in upcoming months, in November and January by @schaffnerpress.bsky.social and @coffeehousepress.bsky.social respectively, that should absolutely be on your cultural radar.
Join us next month for our Virtual "Prose-etry Event" with an amazing array of authors with new and forthcoming books. Free to all! Link below🔗
"Denemarková’s prose, poetically rendered by translators Julia and Peter Sherwood, depicts a society of citizens that are hopelessly alienated from their physical selves."
Chicago Review of Books@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago"Depicts a society of citizens that are hopelessly alienated from their physical selves." Sara Batkie's review of “A Contribution to the History of Joy” (by Radka Denemarková, Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood @coffeehousepress.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/09/23/i...
OUT TODAY!!! Radka Denemarková's brilliant and haunting novel, A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF JOY.
Final copies of Brian Evenson's PHANTOM LIMB have landed! Preorders coming your way soon. Publishes October 13th!!!
"ADA is Haber’s themes distilled into a purified form and taken to cartoonish heights." clereviewofbooks.com/on-mark-habe...
The Price of Obsession: On Mark Haber’s “Ada” - Cleveland Review of Books
Obsession is by one turn the way that these characters achieve their meager success, but it is also, by another, the fatal flaw in their efforts to reach the perfection they seek.
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For over 50 years, Coffee House Press has been a staple of independent publishing. Now more than ever, we need your help to continue and expand that legacy. givebutter.com/extraordinar...
Extraordinary Voices, Fueled by You
Coffee House Press Fundraising Campaign
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We're saddened by the passing of poet and wonderful human being Rachel Blau Duplessis. We are equally honored and humbled to have published her decades-in-the-making masterwork, THE COMPLETE DRAFTS. www.inquirer.com/obituaries/r...
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, experimental poet, literary scholar, and Temple professor emerita, has died at 84
She grew up in New York, lived in Swarthmore and Philadelphia for more than 50 years, and taught a variety of classes at Temple from 1974 to her retirement in 2011.
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"the prose is as unrelenting as the BPM of hard techno, pounding at readers to lose themselves in the possibility of transcendence." A fantastic review of SHAMANS in today's World Literature Today. @monaojedaf.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/septemb...
Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Mónica Ojeda
Trans. Sarah Booker. Coffee House Press. 2026. 240 pages.
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A lovely review of Jed Perl's debut novel, WE NEVER CALLED IT FRISCO. 💥OUT TODAY💥 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Review: ‘We Never Called it Frisco’ is a smart, biting novel about art criticism
Jed Perl’s debut novel, “We Never Called it Frisco,” blends San Francisco history, art-world satire and sharp questions about criticism itself.
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A glorious review of Mónica Ojeda's ELECTRIC SHAMANS... "As on the dance floor, you must give yourself over to the movement, the music, the beat. You surrender and then you see." @monaojedaf.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
The Strange Power of the Dance-Floor Novel
A new run of books embrace the literary potential of underground electronic music.
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From Ron Padgett's book, Dot: bookshop.org/a/862/9781566896559 Published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social #poem #booksky #writing
Amid unrest in the Philippines, a tormented woman seeks solace in sleep. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/y... @coffeehousepress.bsky.social #yniga #philippines #booksky #bookreview #filipino
Yñiga: A Novel | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
What’s Piper reading today? Oh look it’s Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman, a novel in six acts centered around a country house and its mysterious owner from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. She’s really reading it, she’s just taking a lil break 📚💙
Arts journalist @sheilaregan.bsky.social does great work for all of us to read, here writing over at @minnpost.com about @coffeehousepress.bsky.social and the Booker Prize 2026 longlist @thebookerprizes.com. I love reading a writer like this, who works and thinks across disciplines.
Big Booker boost for small Minnesota publisher
‘Helen of Nowhere’ is longlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize, joining ‘The Disappearers’ by Marlon James.
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Just preordered this @juliasherwood.bsky.social & Peter Sherwood translation of Radka Denemarková, out next month from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social coffeehousepress.org/products/a-c...
A Contribution to the History of Joy
A complex mix of crime fiction, historical narrative, and feminist social commentary that exposes a decades-long coverup archived in a Prague neighborhood.
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“PATCHWORK is precisely what it sounds like: a densely woven quilt of a book composed entirely of other author’s sentences.” Eric Bies reviews the book by @tomcomitta.bsky.social (from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social). ocreviewofbooks.substack.com/p/copy-termi...
Patchwork by Tom Comitta
Reviewed by Eric Bies
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So excited about this! 🎉🎉🎉Whenever I do a reading, people ask for an audiobook, yes, this has been going on for years but the audiobook industry is so consolidated that it keeps out most indie authors... Get ready for trouble, thanks to @raincorbyn.bsky.social & @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, 💋💋💋
Thirteen opening paragraphs, but which one intrigues you most? 🧐 ⏸️ Pause to read, or find the full extracts over on our website: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Pip Adam's novel Audition is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Here, Pip (@pipadam.bsky.social) introduces the book, then reads from the novel's opening pages. More about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26
Pip Adam reads from "Audition"
YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation
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#WhatIAmReading 'The Murmuring Grief of the Americas' by Daniel Borzutzky @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. BRUTAL 📚
Makenna Goodman’s HELEN OF NOWHERE “has the power to transform.” 👈 A small portion of the quote from this year’s Booker Prize judges Get 30% off your copy now as part of our back to school sale. 📚🎒✏️
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...
