Third Man Books
@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, TMB publishes fiction, poetry, music history, history, speculative fiction, and more. Visit thirdmanbooks.com to view our full catalog and also for submission guidelines.
So happy that my new fiction collection, RING SHOUT ON SATURN from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social is in the world. And it recently received a review by novelist & engineer @wtalabi.com in the June 2026 @locusmag.bsky.social 💫🪐🌿. Get both from your fave booksellers 😍 More deets here: l1nq.com/okwechh
Loving the brilliant artwork & stunning visual choices Caitlin Mattisson made for MOJORHYTHM. Here is a closer look at the first book in the Root and Sky series, available now from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
Wonderful news: the book I edited, MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social) is a nominee for this year's Shirley Jackson Awards. Congratulations to all the nominees — a huge honor! www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2026/05/28/n...
Nominees Announced for the 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards – The Shirley Jackson Awards
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Jack White @officialjackwhite.bsky.social talks to POETRY editor-in-chief Adrian Matejka. Read the interview: https://bit.ly/41LIF39 Special Thanks to @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social and @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social
"Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller", which I edited for @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social, is a finalist for the Locus Award in the Collection category — a particularly strong category this year. locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...
2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists
Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…
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I'm grateful to the staff of Locus for putting MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social) on the Recommended Reading List of works published in 2025. locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
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Jack White releases ‘Collected Lyrics And Selected Writings Vol 1’, a new book gathering lyrics, rare photos, poems, and essays that spotlight the full scope of his writing and creative vision. zurl.co/nmHbf
Jack White Gathers Words And Vision In ‘Collected Lyrics And Selected Writings Vol 1’ - That Eric Alper
Third Man Books is pleased to announce Jack White Collected Lyrics and Selected Writings Volume 1 by Jack White and edited by Ben Blackwell. The collection compiles lyrics from White’s solo recordings including No Name, The Raconteurs, Dead Weather, and collaborations. Also featured will be exclusive and rare photos of White, selected poems and writing by White, and essays contributed by poet […]
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Since I've been proseltyzing about small presses, I should note how important they were to Carol Emshwiller's career: Mercury, Small Beer, Tachyon, etc. Need a small press book to support? Try 2025's blockbuster from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social MOON SONGS! www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/moon...
Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller — Third Man Books
Carol Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowl...
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The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.
"If our pets could talk, they would most likely just ask for more of what they already have because even for us humans you can't be in love with something you haven't already experienced." -III
"I believe that the mysterious Roman dodecahedrons that have been found were just fancy candle holders for candles of different thicknesses." -III
It's a thrill to see this review by B.D. McClay in The Washington Post of MOON SONGS, which I edited for @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social, with a foreword by @kellylink.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Review | ‘Moon Songs’ showcases the singular inventiveness of Carol Emshwiller
These fantasy and science fiction stories, spanning from 1958 to 2012, feature brilliant experiments that play with meanings and categories.
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Birds and War: @pflugu.bsky.social reviews MOONS SONGS: THE COLLECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER, edited by Matthew Cheney (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social)
Birds and War: Review of Carol Emswhiller’s Moon Songs
Ursula Pflug Under Review:Moon Songs: The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller. Edited by Matthew Cheney. Third Man Books, August 2025. Moon Songs, a new collection of nineteen stories by Carol Em…
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Kirkus gives Moon Songs a star! "This compellingly assembled retrospective gives longtime Emshwiller fans a chance to savor her unique sensibility again, while lucky newcomers enjoy the thrill of discovery." @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
MOON SONGS | Kirkus Reviews
A greatest hits collection of unclassifiable speculative fiction.
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It's publication day for MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social with a beautiful foreword by @kellylink.bsky.social! Go forth! Be free! Read Emshwiller!
If you know the songs of @lou-turner.bsky.social, you know she's a poet's songwriter. But she's also a songwriter's poet, a truth on beautiful display in her connective & inventive book of country music poems, Twin Lead Lines, coming in Sept. & up for pre-order now via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
Here are a couple collections we got in the mail recently! #ThePathofMostResistance #MoonSongs #BeyondAllReasonableDoubtJesusIsAlive! visit linktr.ee/locusmagazine for everything we have to offer! Link in bio! @JessyRandall #CarolEmshwiller @thirdmanbooks @penguinrandomhouse @ellomelissa
Coming Aug 19 from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social: MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER. Now available for pre-order from Third Man and from retailers everywhere (some of which are already shipping books out). www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/moon...
Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller — Third Man Books
Carol Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowl...
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I'm grateful to Niall Harrison for his review of MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER (which I edited). The review is a lovely consideration of Emshwiller's accomplishments and also says nice things about our book, out from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social on Aug 19.
Niall Harrison@niallharrison.bsky.social · last yr.August @locusmag.bsky.social is out! My reviews this month are of books by Emma Sloley, Carol Emshwiller and Yiming Ma locusmag.com/2025/08/issu...
The library book —> the bookmark someone left inside it @harrysword.bsky.social @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
We’re still buzzing from Jack White’s surprise shows at The Blue Room! Pre-order JACK WHITE COLLECTED LYRICS AND SELECTED WRITING featuring his complete solo lyrics, and selected collabs, poems, and more. Order now at thirdmanbooks.com! @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
Yay! "If you’re looking for an excellent overview of Emshwiller’s career, the decades-spanning anthology Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, edited by Matthew Cheney, has plenty to offer — and an introduction by Kelly Link, which is always good news." @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
Tobias Carroll@tobiascarroll.bsky.social · last yr.Previewed some indie press books due out this month and next for @reactorsff.bsky.social. reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...
Hello #London book people, check it out! Benefit for Bookmark Reading Charity! We’ll be giving away (bookplate) signed books by #jackwhite, #alisonmosshart, #willsergeant, #bobbygillespie, and #richardparfitt! 📚 #booksky #blueskybooks @roughtradebooks.bsky.social @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social
"Basking in moonlight, I decide to take a basketful of it home and let it loose inside my world. Gathering it up was not a problem at all, it was free and so am i." -III
Proof copy of MOON SONGS just arrived from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social and the first thing I did was introduce it to its older siblings.
20% off summer sale all weekend on a whole lotta books and lps over at thirdmanrecords.com and Thirdmanbooks.com!
