What a lovely collection of books!🔥📚

Hey Helen, you look great in blue. Congratulations to Makenna Goodman and her UK edition of HELEN OF NOWHERE, coming early next year from the lovely @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 👉For those readers across the pond, you're in for a treat. Also, a great gift for "Helen completists".💙

Some wonderful reviews of some great books, including AUDITION by @pipadam.bsky.social !!!

4to libro de #GuadalupeReinas2025 Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance de Victoria Blanco. Un libro bellísimo que traduce la cosmovisión y experencias vividas de los Rarámuri, de las cuales como desindigenizada yo era completamente ignorante. @coffeehousepress.bsky.social

Incredible seeing ANALOG DAYS by Damion Searls in the most recent NEW YORKER! www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

Congratulations to our Editorial Director, Kaija Straumanis, for her incredible translation of THE RIVER by Laura Vinogradova and published by Open Letter Books. She's among some amazing writers, translators, and publishers. 🎉🎉🎉

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www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/p... On Anne Waldman: "She has carved out a unique space for herself as a matriarch, a gnostic, an oracle, a Buddhist, a magician, a mystic and a humanist. She is also, as Publishers Weekly called her, “a countercultural giant.”

Mónica Ojeda galleys have arrived. Surreal, haunting, both beautiful and terrifying. ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN will be coming May 12th.

Just a reminder, if you haven't read TERRY DACTYL, you'll LOVE IT!

Merve Emre in Granta on her year in reading. "I mostly avoided contemporary fiction. The American exceptions were Makenna Goodman’s hallucinatory closet drama, Helen of Nowhere...." Thanks Merve! grantamag.substack.com/p/a-year-in-...

heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/12/09/t... "Both as a debut and as a work of literature, The Aquatics is a fantastic, striking work." New review of THE AQUATICS up now.

Co-hosting this charity reading on Thursday! Join us! There will be nine readers, hundreds of books from various presses, wine, tote bags, and much more. 100% of the proceeds benefit immigrant & refugee rights. Please amplify if you can ❤️

💶1/13/26💶 "On the flight from Baghdad to Dubai, she had spent most of the journey re-enacting the day when Karim told her that he intended to marry a second wife."

🫦4/21/26🫦 X Someone stopped me at a coffee shop Stopped me To say Your son looks so much like you And I think he's so beautiful So maybe I am too

🌋5/12/26🌋 "You love deeply the things that will die, everyone knows that. You dance so your love isn't weak in the face of death." - Mónica Ojeda

"The Aquatics shows how the insistence on obscured comments, the maelstrom of corruption and reducing humanity to cash, and forced propriety can allow for, foster, and encourage real violence." - Leah Rachel Von Essen, Chicago Review of Books

LitHub Daily with a wonderful excerpt from THE AQUATICS! Osvalde's English-language debut is out now, translated by Maren Baudet-Lackner. Thanks as always @literaryhub.bsky.social ! lithub.com/the-aquatics/

A lovely interview with Makenna Goodman about HELEN OF NOWHERE on @vermontpublic.org !!! www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont...

Tonight, tonight, tonight...🌟🌸🌟🌸🌟

Although it's not January yet, we wanted to highlight Agri Ismaïl and his color coordinated event last night in Ljubljana at the Modern Gallery. His incredible novel, HYPER, arrives January 13th and is available for pre-order.

Cameroonian author and filmmaker, Osvalde Lewat's debut novel, THE AQUATICS, is out today! Translated by Maren Baudet-Lackner. "Lewat enters literature with this first novel of remarkable vivacity." - Le Point

Join Jennifer Natalya Fink at @politicsprose.bsky.social in DC tonight at 7 p.m. for a conversation with @mbsycamore.bsky.social (TERRY DACTYL, @coffeehousepress.bsky.social). It's our Spotlight Event! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/mat... #booksky

Via Cameroon (tomorrow!) by way of @coffeehousepress.bsky.social comes this translated tale of brutal violence. It is, always has been, the world's norm for Others. THE AQUATICS by OSVALDE LEWAT and translated by Maren Baudet-Lackner. expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

TONIGHT @politicsprose.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Out tomorrow!🔥Cameroonian author & filmmaker, Osvalde Lewat's debut, THE AQUATICS. Translated from the French by Maren Baudet-Lackner. A stunner.

"Real fans of poetry deserve such monuments – in this case, the work of a lengthy lifetime: decades of wondering and pondering, deadpan ironizing and making meaning in America, just the kind of work that must never have felt like work at all." ocreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/25/r...

"Padgett is, incredibly, 83, and he shows no signs of slowing down. ... Sometime in the back half of the 2030s we’ll have a 'Very, Very Collected Poems' to praise." Eric Bies reviews Ron Padgett's VERY COLLECTED POEMS from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. ocreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/25/r...

What a great list. Especially happy to see THE SEERS by Sulaiman Addonia. apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

December 11th!👇!!!

Surprise! One more event before I leave New York, get ready...👠🔥🌠

Please consider donating if you can. www.givemn.org/organization...

"Terry Dactyl is an epic of radiant queerness amidst the AIDS crisis and COVID-19 pandemic..." A lovely interview between Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Alex Rueben over @electricliterature.com @mbsycamore.bsky.social electricliterature.com/the-queer-cl...

Bao Phi (he/him) is a spoken word artist, poet, writer, and children's book author. His work can be found in two books of poetry both published by Coffee House Press, four children's books, all published by Capstone, and in anthologies such as Octavia's Brood, A Good Time for the Truth,… 1/6

Happy pub day to Ron Padgett. ☺️ 2013👇 2025👇

Friends, the window to submit your books for the 2026 Lambda Literary Awards is closing... There's one week! Submissions close on November 21! Submit here: lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammy... 📚✨ #LammyAwards #Lammys2026

"Suddenly it felt like so much was going on, even though nothing was going on. But actually, something was going on." Read an excerpt from @mbsycamore.bsky.social 's new novel, TERRY DACTYL. Thanks as always to @literaryhub.bsky.social !!! lithub.com/terry-dactyl/

Thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this excerpt from TERRY DACTYL, which takes the form of a frantic list... "Suddenly it felt like so much was going on, even though nothing was going on. But actually, something was going on."💥💫⚡

Looking for signed copies of TERRY DACTYL in NYC? You are in luck, because they can now be found at Hive Mind, Three Lives, Greenlight, Books Are Magic, Center for Fiction, & P&T Knitwear... And, of course, at my book launch at the Strand on November 19th, where I can sign everything, can't wait!!💕

Continuing our celebration of all things TERRY DACTYL, here's an incredible interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Veronica Esposito about the novel (psss...it's OUT NOW)! @mbsycamore.bsky.social xtramagazine.com/culture/matt...

Brian Evenson, Mónica Ojeda, and Valeria Luiselli are some of the indispensable authors @coffeehousepress.bsky.social publishes. Please support their annual fund! #booksky givebutter.com/fjx4oz?mc_ci...

The tradition continues...join us December 4th in the Coffee House offices for cookies, hot chocolate, and books! (Lots of books and lots of cookies).

This review...💗💗💗

An incredibly stunning review for TERRY DACTYL this morning in the NYT! Congratulations Mattilda, you and Terry deserve it. ❤️ @mbsycamore.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...

happy pub day to TERRY DACTYL by @mbsycamore.bsky.social! 🎉(and s/o to @coffeehousepress.bsky.social 🎉) Mattilda was interviewed by @todd-milo.bsky.social for the Foglifter blog: 🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/terry-dactyl...

Happiest and most fabulous of pub days to @mbsycamore.bsky.social and the explosion of a novel that is TERRY DACTYL. From #Aids to #Covid from the clubs to the streets. A book celebrating music, action, life, and the Queer community.

"What a gift this novel is, to shine so brightly in its refusal to not look away. An excerpt from TERRY DACTYL...out tomorrow!!! Thanks to @electricliterature.com @iamlisako.bsky.social & @mbsycamore.bsky.social electricliterature.com/terry-dactyl...

🪁🔥"it's a provocative, even radical end to a story we've seen played out many times before." 🪁🔥

The twin Cities Book Festival is starting and we're thrilled to be here with our incredible books! (see any favorites?)