Unnamed Press
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We publish literature from around the world. UNlikely voices and UNexpected stories. Smith & Taylor Classics. Based in Los Angeles since 2014. ↪️ linktr.ee/unnamed.press
This weekend's WSJ Fiction Chronicle leads with Maria Stepanova's 'The Disappearing Act,' an optical illusion of a novel about war guilt and the disavowal of novel-writing. Plus new fiction by Victoria Shorr and a welcome reissue of a lesser-known Sarah Orne Jewett! www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Fiction: ‘The Disappearing Act’ by Maria Stepanova
Plus Victoria Shorr’s “Fatherland” and Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A Marsh Island.”
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You don't have to take it from us--none other than @ssacks.bsky.social thinks you should read A MARSH ISLAND too!
Sam Sacks@ssacks.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis weekend's WSJ Fiction Chronicle leads with Maria Stepanova's 'The Disappearing Act,' an optical illusion of a novel about war guilt and the disavowal of novel-writing. Plus new fiction by Victoria Shorr and a welcome reissue of a lesser-known Sarah Orne Jewett! www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
"Discerning, tender and pellucid in its beauty, this is the kind of small, perfect novel it is hard to imagine anybody not loving." 🌻 Thank you for this GORGEOUS review, Sam! Read the whole thing below:
Sam Sacks@ssacks.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis weekend's WSJ Fiction Chronicle leads with Maria Stepanova's 'The Disappearing Act,' an optical illusion of a novel about war guilt and the disavowal of novel-writing. Plus new fiction by Victoria Shorr and a welcome reissue of a lesser-known Sarah Orne Jewett! www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
I’ve enjoyed Slow Stories by Bette Adriaanse very much. It’s just out from @unnamedpress.bsky.social.
First look at the cover of Five Strange Languages, book 1, out in October! This time it's an ugly mushroom, surrounded by stars — an appropriate emblem for the narrator, who is haunted by his mother's two obsessions: mushrooms, and the orbits of comets. On Amazon now for Preorder.
Excited to unveil the brand new author website at howardrodman.com. Come visit! Designed to showcase the reissues of #DestinyExpress and #TheGreatEastern from @rarebirdlit.bsky.social and @unnamedpress.bsky.social. With thanks to Will Amato and @laurencerand.com. #booksky
"A gripping, complex slow burn featuring plenty of old-school tradecraft that will appeal to fans of John le Carré, Graham Greene, and Dan Fesperman." www.publishersweekly.com/9781961884786
Nothing on Earth by Ian MacKenzie
MacKenzie (Feast Days) delivers an ambitious blend of espionage thriller and metaphysical fiction that spans a decade of geopoli...
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NBCC Vice President/Technology and Co-Vice President/Membership Rebecca Hussey, NBCC member Frances Evangelista, and Dorian Stuber, hosts of the One Bright Book podcast, contributed a conversational afterword to a new edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's "A Marsh Island":
A Marsh Island — Unnamed Press
by Sarah Orne Jewett Published: March 03, 2026 ISBN: 9781961884854 Paperback $18.95
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Happy pub day to us! (And, more to the point, @unnamedpress.bsky.social... we are so grateful you asked us to contribute.)
Unnamed Press@unnamedpress.bsky.social · 6mo agoA MARSH ISLAND, the newest S&T Classic is on shelves now! !🌻🌾 Thank you to the hosts of @onebrightbook.bsky.social for your conversational afterword to the book! A Marsh Island is available anywhere books are sold, including unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...
This is one you do not want to miss! And I’m not saying that just because we got to chat about it. Jewett called it her favorite among her works. Her subtle examinations of urban vs rural life, queerness, and the ecological landscape she knew well are stunning.
Unnamed Press@unnamedpress.bsky.social · 6mo agoA MARSH ISLAND, the newest S&T Classic is on shelves now! !🌻🌾 Thank you to the hosts of @onebrightbook.bsky.social for your conversational afterword to the book! A Marsh Island is available anywhere books are sold, including unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...
A MARSH ISLAND, the newest S&T Classic is on shelves now! !🌻🌾 Thank you to the hosts of @onebrightbook.bsky.social for your conversational afterword to the book! A Marsh Island is available anywhere books are sold, including unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...
Love to see Thomas Morris' OPEN UP rep'd here! Thank you @thestoryprize.bsky.social
thestoryprize.bsky.social@thestoryprize.bsky.social · 6mo agoAnnouncing the 2026 Story Prize Longlist:
Thrilled today to be able to join with the wondrous folk at @rarebirdlit.bsky.social and @unnamedpress.bsky.social to announce the reissue of my novels DESTINY EXPRESS and THE GREAT EASTERN, coming this May 19. DX: #fritzlang #theavonharbou TGE: #captainnemo #captainahab #isambardkingdombrunel
![AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FOR THE FIRST TIME
[images of the covers of Destiny Express, with an image of the False Maria from Lang/von Harbou's Metropolis; The Great Eastern, with an image of Isambard Kingdom Brunel et. al. at the launch of Brunel's ship The Great Eastern]
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#NowReading (well, rereading for the first time since I was 15, I have fresh eyes now) Wuthering Heights! In celebration of not going to see that movie next month 😂
"Am I a ghost? I asked. I'm sorry to inform you that you are, replied the pigeon."- "Curtain Call, Extra Inning, Last Pang" in WITH THE HEART OF A GHOST Korean #SFinTranslation from @unnamedpress.bsky.social www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...
Starting WITH THE HEART OF A GHOST by Lim Sunwoo, tr from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim, from @unnamedpress.bsky.social #SFinTranslation www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...
With the Heart of a Ghost — Unnamed Press
by Lim Sunwoo Translated by: Chi-Young Kim Published: February 10, 2026 ISBN: 9781961884601 Hardcover $25.00
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Speaking of war fiction, I recommend (guardedly, since it's so bleak) Michael Jerome Plunkett's 'Zone Rouge,' about the de-miners who are still removing the unexploded ordnance from Verdun a century after the battle. A Dantean allegory that crosses uncannily with the real www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Fiction: ‘The Book of I’ by David Greig
Plus Michael Jerome Plunkett’s “Zone Rouge” and Yasmina Reza’s “Serge.”
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Out running errands? Hiding away from it all? Our Most Anticipated Reads of 2026 episode makes for good company no matter what you're up to this season. We're joined by @ssacks.bsky.social to chat about the books we most look forward to next year. onebrightbook.com/2025/12/11/e...
Episode 41: In Conversation With Sam Sacks About Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss their most anticipated books of 2026 with Sam Sacks, prominent book critic for The Wall Street Journal, …
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If you want any of my books, including the upcoming new edition of John Cleland's Fanny Hill with an intro by me and a conversation between Stoya and me, now's an excellent time to shop because @unnamedpress.bsky.social is offering a sweet holiday deal.
Chelsea G. Summers — Unnamed Press
Chelsea G. Summers is the author of the best-selling novel A Certain Hunger. Summers’ work has appeared in New York Magazine, Vogue, The New Republic, Racked, The Guardian, and other fine publications...
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Henry Henry's US publisher @unnamedpress.bsky.social is currently running their big holiday sale -- if you want a discounted copy of HH, hardback or paperback, without ordering from Am*z*n, now's your chance. unnamedpress.com
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To celebrate Smith & Taylor Classics' first year we made (fountain pen friendly) notebooks! Thank you for everything. -> unnamedpress.com
Time for ep. 374D! Laura Venita Green stops by to chat about SISTER CREATURES, a gorgeously atmospheric novel about three women in Louisiana whose lives intersect in ways sometimes subtle, sometimes explosive, always transformative. @unnamedpress.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/10/30/t...
"We’re following our hearts and minds...finding a balance so we don’t inadvertently publish titles that are too similar.” Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/31/i...
Interview with an Editor: Allison Miriam Woodnutt at Smith & Taylor Classics - Chicago Review of Books
Our interview with Allison Miriam Woodnutt at Smith & Taylor Classics.
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A few years ago, seemingly on a whim, @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social and I started a podcast. And it’s been a tremendous amount of fun. Today’s zippy conversation was a celebration. Of our friendship and shared loves of literature. ❤️
One Bright Book@onebrightbook.bsky.social · 10mo agoExciting day for the pod! Recorded the conversation that will feature as the afterword to the forthcoming @unnamedpress.bsky.social edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's MARSH ISLAND!
As part of @everylibrary.bsky.social's roster of events for Banned Book Week (buy a banned book @bookshop.org), Jessica Stoya and I talked about Fanny Hill, criminal and civil book bans, and the US Supreme Court:
Why Fanny Hill Still Turns Heads with Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya
YouTube video by EveryLibrary
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