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Sharing news about my endeavors and enthusiasms. Publicist since 2001. Independent. Logo design: Mark McCoy. Photo: Joanna Tillman. laurencerand.com
“I should be outlawed. There should be campaigns to convince people I’m fatally uncool.” Read new fiction by Leonard Meldbath on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/shel...
Shelby
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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Later this month, I'll be moderating a @bookcritics.bsky.social panel on literary podcasts, featuring people from Otherppl, @bythebywater.bsky.social, Limousine, One Bright Book, and Reading Writers! Register here... us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Literary podcasts have established themselves as a place for insightful conversations about books and reading. For this virtual event, representatives of five bookish podcasts will discuss the ways in...
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Clara Schumann’s Diaries: I was a little surprised with some of this information! Author Boman Desai in this clip from the podcast. Boman's wonderful novel "Brahms Comes to Dinner" is published by @schaffnerpress.bsky.social
"Brahms Comes to Dinner" a wonderful novel about Clara Schumann and Brahms. Hear how this work came out of Boman Desai’s larger novel “Trio” and he shared stories about several of his other acclaimed novels: www.leahroseman.com/episodes/bom... @schaffnerpress.bsky.social @laurencerand.com
For @sarahstoneauthor.bsky.social's Marvelous Paragraph Project, I wrote about the gaps between our creaturely selves and the world and how fiction—in particular, Jung Yun's terrific novel All the World Can Hold—can help bridge them. Thank you, Sarah! sarahstoneauthor.substack.com/p/leah-de-fo...
Leah De Forest on Jung Yun’s All the World Can Hold
(Guest post by Leah De Forest)
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“This is not a video game. It’s not a movie. It’s not Scotland Yard. It’s fucking real life.” Read five new poems by Marie Buck on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...
Five Poems
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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I'll be reading from my newly reissued novels DESTINY EXPRESS and THE GREAT EASTERN this Sunday, 6pm, at Riffraff Books in Providence. In conversation with the great and good Laura Colella. Merriment guaranteed, and a dollop of what Don Barthelme used to call "unhealthy mental excitement." Join us!
“No one knows me I am most unknown to myself yet language is self-generating so in its use I must be being me knowing me” Read four new poems by Pat Nolan (@xileinparadise.bsky.social): www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
Four Poems
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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Tonight! Reading/signing. East End Books, Provincetown. Details and tickets:
Howard Rodman “The Great Eastern” & “Destiny Express” 7/19 at 6pm - Ptown
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“What the readings are, what Father Hank mumbles for a homily—that I can’t say, because it’s not long after the priest gets to the pulpit that this psycho wanders inside the church.” Read new fiction by Alexander Sammartino on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/the-...
The Only English Mass
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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Scott McClanahan on otherppl podcast the same day Fights! is being delivered to my house. We might be back
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Penina Roth@peninaroth.bsky.social · 3w agoTONIGHT, 8PM: At the Franklin Park Reading Series, we’re celebrating lit legend Scott McClanahan’s new novel Fights! and hosting trailblazing indie press stars @geoffrickly.bsky.social, Michael Seidlinger, David Simmons, Hallie Elizabeth Newton, and Kathy Joyce! Free Admission! 618 St. Johns Pl, BK
I don’t have an American publisher for this novel (yet). But I do have a lovely American review!
Damian Barr@damianbarr.bsky.social · 3w agoThe first American review of the Two Roberts. And I’m chuffed to bits. I hope somewhere Bobby and Robert are dancing. 🙏🏻 ❤️
The first American review of the Two Roberts. And I’m chuffed to bits. I hope somewhere Bobby and Robert are dancing. 🙏🏻 ❤️
@timpfaff.bsky.social · 4w agoTHIS MONDAY, JULY 13, 8PM: Franklin Park Reading Series celebrates Scott McClanahan and his new novel Fights! He'll be joined by @geoffrickly.bsky.social, Michael Seidlinger, David Simmons, Hallie Elizabeth Newton & Kathy Joyce. #Free! 618 St. Johns Pl, #crownheights www.facebook.com/share/1EAi1x...
If you’re in New York, make time to view the Sothebys “Geek Week” exhibition, which includes everything from a T. Rex skeleton to a book by William Gibson designed to self-destruct once opened: www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti... Thank you to my friend @emilyolsen.bsky.social for the mesmerizing tour!
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“Somewhere on this planet of shiny phones and dressed salads, maps of oceans and brass doorknobs, a giraffe is greedily separating seeds from a pod with its violet tongue.” Read two stories by Santiago Craig, translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude: www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...
Two Stories
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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And ICYMI, this profile @crimereads.bsky.social is a fantastic primer on The Great Eastern, which elsewhere in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Brian Evenson called, “a kind of return to what adventurous literature used to be”: crimereads.com/howard-a-rod...
Howard A. Rodman on Melville, Empire, and the Audacity of Resurrecting Literary Giants
The Great Eastern, the new novel by Howard A. Rodman, begins where two of the nineteenth century’s most enduring literary characters leave off and forces them to clash in the most dramatic fa…
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In the Boston area? Meet @rodman.bsky.social @harvardbookstore.bsky.social in Cambridge on Thursday, as he presents and signs his “daringly imagined and darkly romantic—a moral thriller" (per Thomas Pynchon), and more: www.harvard.com/event/howard...
Howard A. Rodman at Harvard Book Store
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After @rodman.bsky.social’s New York launch at the Coffee House Club, happening this Wednesday, sold out this weekend, a handful of tickets were released this morning, and it promptly sold out again! LMK if you’d like to attend, today, and I can likely accommodate: www.eventbrite.com/e/screenwrit...
Screenwriter and Author Howard Rodman | Destiny Express & The Great Eastern
The celebrated screenwriter and author visits the Coffee House to discuss his novels, Destiny Express + The Great Eastern. W/ Robert Polito.
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After @rodman.bsky.social’s New York launch at the Coffee House Club, happening this Wednesday, sold out this weekend, a handful of tickets were released this morning, and it promptly sold out again! LMK if you’d like to attend, today, and I can likely accommodate: www.eventbrite.com/e/screenwrit...
Screenwriter and Author Howard Rodman | Destiny Express & The Great Eastern
The celebrated screenwriter and author visits the Coffee House to discuss his novels, Destiny Express + The Great Eastern. W/ Robert Polito.
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“We need to believe in one another again. We need more presses to put out one or two books a year. We need more people doing it for just the sheer romanticism of it, because there’s some kind of glory in there.” substack.com/home/post/p-...
An Interview with Author Scott McClanahan
Talking to the author of 'Fights!' about fights!
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“Diana deserves a book to herself, maybe a dozen books, but let me dedicate at least a couple of paragraphs to this lovely woman.” Boman Desai, @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social: chireviewofbooks.com/2026/06/23/i... (cc: @damianbarr.bsky.social, the first person to press one of her books into my hands)
If Not For Diana - Chicago Review of Books
In the 1990s, a corner grocery store on Sheridan and Belmont in Chicago served me as a post office. Returning once from an early morning visit, I saw a young woman exit her highrise on Sheridan, dash ...
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My debut article for @theguardian.com: I wrote about the 250th anniversary and the modern resistance that Black Americans are taking by withholding reactions to this country’s racism instead of our anger becoming spectacle: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s America’s 250th birthday. And Black Americans are sitting out the celebrations | Morgan Jerkins
The 250th anniversary is arriving among Black communities as a whisper instead of a roar
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My book is a physical object! Thanks to my co-star Wallaby for his essential role in this video.
“We need to believe in one another again. We need more presses to put out one or two books a year. We need more people doing it for just the sheer romanticism of it, because there’s some kind of glory in there.” substack.com/home/post/p-...
An Interview with Author Scott McClanahan
Talking to the author of 'Fights!' about fights!
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