Transit Books
@transitbooks.bsky.social
Publishing award-winning literature from around the world in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.transitbooks.org
What an honor to be included in this phenomenal roundup! Thank you @karlajstrand.com & Violet! @transitbooks.bsky.social www.transitbooks.org/books/altera...
Karla J. Strand@karlajstrand.com · last yr.My latest Reads for the Rest of Us is live at @msmagazine.com. This month, Violet and I chose 22 new books we're loving this month! Feat books by @veenago.bsky.social @xbennyboo.bsky.social @coriwinrock.bsky.social and more! msmagazine.com/2025/07/01/b...
“I had to get back home to Vaim, I thought, and why did I always take these boat trips to Bjørgvin anyway, they never really had any point, these excursions” From Vaim, by Jon Fosse, which will be published in October by @transitbooks.bsky.social
Spool of Thought, by Jon Fosse
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Celebrate your independents with @michaelschaub.bsky.social’s list of small-press #books out now or coming this summer. #booksky www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/3...
33 new books you’ll want to read this summer from independent publishers
Looking for something new or a fresh take on a favorite genre? Check out these small-press titles.
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Adapted from Alterations out from Transit Books next month! Could not be more excited to have part of the book out in this dream publication today! Please pre-order here: www.transitbooks.org/books/altera... @parisreview.bsky.social + @transitbooks.bsky.social
The Paris Review@parisreview.bsky.social · last yr.“The astronauts who planted their feet on the moon were outfitted in the same glaring white as a wedding dress.” Cori Winrock on Emily Dickinson and the moon. buff.ly/KQJorIN
LOOK UP from @transitbooks.bsky.social gets a look from @publisherswkly.bsky.social “Against a primarily earth-toned palette, the birds scatter across pages like multicolored confetti in this soaring celebration of the virtues of looking up” www.publishersweekly.com/9798893380286
Look Up by Azul López
López’s impressionistic paintings emphasize human smallness against nature’s vastness in this ruminative story about a man “alwa...
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Madeleine Watts's intro to Antigone Kefala's THE ISLAND, up today in The Nation: "The plot is not really the point; the writing is most interested in the process of 'becoming' trying to find a new kind of form in which the experience of being alive will crystalize." tinyurl.com/5n67eu4d
Antigone Kelefa and the Art of Exile
The Australian writer’s 1984 novel, The Island, is a hypnotic work of fiction about the border between life and art.
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From @thehornbook.bsky.social a Recommended Summer Reading List! And it includes DOWNPOUR from @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social and A SLEEPLESS NIGHT from @transitbooks.bsky.social both #picturebooks in #translation www.hbook.com/story/newsle...
2025 Summer Reading List
From the April 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book: Summer Reading.
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"Our duty is to tend, to lend ongoing, active attention instead of static remembrance." Clancey D'Isa's review of “Motherhood and Its Ghosts” by Iman Mersal (@transitbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/23/a...
Attending to Our Own Archive in “Motherhood and Its Ghosts” - Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Iman Mersal's new book, "Motherhood and Its Ghosts"
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Over the last few weeks, we've seen devastating cuts to federal arts funding. This funding has been critical to organizations like ours. To support our mission and 🎉 celebrate our literary community in the Bay, come out for one (or both!) upcoming Transit events:
Thanks to @fuse8.bsky.social for taking note of how special #kidsbooks from @transitbooks.bsky.social are! "Though your list each season is small...your books are mighty” afuse8production.slj.com/2025/05/08/p...
Publisher Preview: Transit Editions (Winter 2025/26)
Though their list is small, their books are mighty. Transit specializes in small books that you wouldn't notice at all, were it not for their concentrated efforts. Take a gander at three they have com...
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GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING IN SPACE AND IN TIME TODAY that is oakland review of books' recommendation THE WEATHER IS GOOD www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...
Though their list is small, their books are mighty. @transitbooks.bsky.social specializes in small books that you wouldn't notice at all, were it not for their concentrated efforts. Take a gander at three they have coming up. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/05/08/p...
Publisher Preview: Transit Editions (Winter 2025/26)
Though their list is small, their books are mighty. Transit specializes in small books that you wouldn't notice at all, were it not for their concentrated efforts. Take a gander at three they have com...
afuse8production.slj.com
We need indie presses. Certainly more than we need government funds to be spent “foster[ing] AI competency” or “empower[ing] houses of worship to serve communities,” whatever that means.
Transit Books@transitbooks.bsky.social · last yr.Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.
Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.
I cannot wait for this!!! Which is often how I feel about this series, but especially with Kate Zambreno!
Transit Books@transitbooks.bsky.social · last yr.Coming in September! Kate Zambreno’s ANIMAL STORIES, an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance, and how we regard ourselves among the animals, part of our Undelivered Lecture series, is now available for preorder ✨ www.transitbooks.org/books/animalstories
All the summer bulbs are in. And I served as a feast of sorts for many swarming insects. I’ve left the bugs to celebrate their victory against me and am stretched out on my favorite sofa reading Immemorial by Lauren Markham. A good Saturday. @transitbooks.bsky.social
Coming in September! Kate Zambreno’s ANIMAL STORIES, an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance, and how we regard ourselves among the animals, part of our Undelivered Lecture series, is now available for preorder ✨ www.transitbooks.org/books/animalstories
In this Spanish import (translated into English), an astronaut lands on a strange planet and is befriended by a creature, who is the narrator of the story. The creature is accidentally killed, and Astro mourns. Push kids to think a little deeper with this unique book & its ethereal vibe. #kidkit 📚👍🏼
Out today: One of the most beautiful and affecting picture books I have ever seen. Astro tells an existential story about friendship, loss, and grief. The mixed media illustrations are absolutely phenomenal. @transitbooks.bsky.social 💙📚
While we couldn’t transport you to #BCBF we can share an interview with Manuel Marsol who was featured there last year with pages from ASTRO published by @transitbooks.bsky.social www.letstalkpicturebooks.com/2025/03/lets...
Let's Talk Illustrators #316: Manuel Marsol
Children's picture book and comic reviews, illustrator interviews, book exchanges, and more from a design and illustration perspective.
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My post on upcoming books from #Yonder & @transitbooks.bsky.social #worldkidlit worldkidlit.org/2025/04/03/n...
New Books, Old Friends: The Joy of a Series
by Paula Holmes I’ve started to read the lists of children’s books coming out in 2025, and I am totally overwhelmed. Thankfully, the only collection development I do is for myself. I was spoiled in…
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Headed to Dallas for #txla25 and look who's come along! It's @transitbooks.bsky.social MOUSSE, going along to celebrate his newest #kidsbook, in which Mousse spends a day out!
Mel Schuitt discusses ASTRO from @transitbooks.bsky.social w/ Manuel Marsol its author and illustrator on #LetsTalkPictureBooks www.letstalkpicturebooks.com/2025/03/lets...
Let's Talk Illustrators #316: Manuel Marsol
Children's picture book and comic reviews, illustrator interviews, book exchanges, and more from a design and illustration perspective.
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Immemorial x Lauren Markham / @transitbooks.bsky.social Memory, that famously slippery thing, doesn’t ever seem to work the way we think it does. Now we know that the brain files and refiles memories, rewriting them and updating them as it revisits them. hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/i...
Immemorial x Lauren Markham
136 pp. Published February 4, 2025 by Transit Books. Non-fiction. Memory, that famously slippery thing, doesn’t ever seem to work the way we think it does. Now we know that the brain files and refi…
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Publishers Weekly official! New Fosse coming in October, with cover design for our hardcover edition by Jared Bartman 🙏
