HOPE HOUSE by Joe Bond and LONG EYE by Kwoya Fagin Maples are on @wabe.org's 2026 Summer Reading List! www.wabe.org/summer-readi...

Congrats to Joe Bond for HOPE HOUSE, featured in @pw.org's July/August issue First Fiction 2026! See him online later this month!

Cannot recommend this book enough. Every sentence is beautiful. It’s fable and surrealism and nature and grief and just fantastic. @hubcitypress.bsky.social

It's the end of our fiscal year, which means we need your help to clear out our back room and warehouse! Take 30% off ALL titles on hubcity.org/books (minus preorders and Gravy) today through next Sunday, July 5! That means hardcovers are $18 or less and poetry and paperbacks are about $12!

the past is a jean jacket and Come By Here are on CLMP's Pride Month reading list!

NYC: Mark your calendars for 8/11 to celebrate the release of the paperback edition of Hothouse Bloom by Austyn Wohlers at Rizzoli Bookstore! www.rizzolibookstore.com/hothouse-blo...

Happy Juneteenth! Here's a stack to celebrate Black voices, stories, and local history!

A bumbling muscle-bound Texan pursues his dreams of competing in the World’s Strongest Man contest and losing his virginity in this hilarious debut from Drew Buxton. This is a treasure. @hubcitypress.bsky.social

"Cynicism would have been the easy route, but what Bond offers is more layered and resonant; he takes hope, 'whatever you are when you’re not alone anymore,' at its word." @seanseanclan.bsky.social reviews HOPE HOUSE by Joe Bond. @hubcitypress.bsky.social

🪿 Thrilled to announce Kaylie Saidin is the winner of our C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, selected by judge @catherinelacey.bsky.social, for GOOSE UPDATE, out in 2027! www.hubcity.org/news/kaylie-...

Congratulations to our 2025 #ForewordINDIES winners!! www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winne...

If you're looking to get your book into shape this summer, we're partnering with three editors to offer manuscript critiques! www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-202...

🎉 Hub City Press is pleased to announce the five finalists for the 2026 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize. Congratulations to all! The winner, selected by judge @catherinelacey.bsky.social, will be announced across all social media platforms in the next week. www.hubcity.org/news/-2026-c...

Read this piece by Robert Maynor, author of THE BIG GAME IS EVERY NIGHT, up on @oxfordamerican.bsky.social about fighting to protect the ACE Basin from data centers: oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/ace-b...

First round presses: @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social @kayapress.bsky.social Nightboat Books (Brooklyn, NY) @noemipress.bsky.social @sarabandebooks.bsky.social @transitbooks.bsky.social (cc @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social)

So proud @hubcitypress.bsky.social is in this incredible inaugural funding group with eight of our peer presses! literaryartsfund.org/announcing-t...

We are honored to be part of the inaugural @literaryartsfund.bsky.social grant recipient group! literaryartsfund.org/announcing-t...

Happy pub day to Joe Bond and HOPE HOUSE! Learn more about the novel in our interview, hot off the press. @hubcitypress.bsky.social

INTERVIEW: Joe Bond, author of HOPE HOUSE, chatted about his debut book with Luke Sullivan. Read the full conversation: debutiful.net/2026/05/26/j... @hubcitypress.bsky.social

It's pub day for HOPE HOUSE by Joe Bond! It has received starred reviews from Kirkus ("A haunting story of the search for a better life.”), @publisherswkly.bsky.social ("[a] gut-punch of a debut", and Foreword ("sinewy, loquacious eloquence"). Order a copy at hubcity.org/hopehouse

GREAT collections: COYOTE GIRL, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social, ALL DAUGHTERS ARE AWESOME EVERYWHERE, @demisty.bsky.social, @univnebpress.bsky.social , MAGDALENA IS BRIGHTER THAN YOU THINK, Grace Spulak, @autumnhouse.org, BODOCK, Robert Busby, @hubcitypress.bsky.social

Nancy Lemann’s THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU is on our reading list for #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth! This book originally published in 1987 “gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery.” @hubcitypress.bsky.social hubcity.org/ritz

Open call for novels and single-narrative nonfiction this Saturday only!

Spot HOPE HOUSE by Joe Bond on this list!

Read Arwen Donahue’s LANDINGS for #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth! In this book of 130 drawings, “each visual is paired with a written reflection on the day’s doings, interwoven with the longer-arc history of her family, the farm, and their community.” @hubcitypress.bsky.social hubcity.org/landings

"You really should be having fun when you’re creating art. Even if it’s painful art, there’s still fun to be had." Annelies Zijderveld interviews Ashley M. Jones about Lullaby for the Grieving (@hubcitypress.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/7NPYsPP

We're over here now too and we're opening for submissions this Saturday! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Check out author of GOOD WOMEN Halle Hill's interview with @wileycash.bsky.social on Our State Book Club's podcast! www.ourstate.com/our-state-bo...

Anjali Enjeti’s THE PARTED EARTH “is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent on the lives of three generations.” Read this debut novel from @hubcitypress.bsky.social for #APAHeritageMMonth: www.hubcity.org/books/fictio...

Edited by Cinelle Barnes, the essays in this anthology—by Jennifer Hope Choi, M. Evelina Galang, Aruni Kashyap, and more—“confront the complexities of the South’s relationship with race.” Read A MEASURE OF BELONGING this #APAHeritageMonth! @hubcitypress.bsky.social www.hubcity.org/books/nonfic...

Cover reveal up on @debutiful.bsky.social for THE YOUNGER by Daniel J. O'Malley, a haunting debut collection of short stories out in spring '27! debutiful.net/2026/05/11/s...

The Nancy Lemann Renaissance rolls on! THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU has been out for a month and people are still talking about what a special book it is. If you loved LIVES OF THE SAINTS and THE OYSTER DIARIES from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, be sure to check out Lemann's only work of nonfiction.

Read a bit of the backstory of HOPE HOUSE in this essay Joe Bond wrote about growing up around the group homes his father ran. Preorder his debut novel at hubcity.org/hopehouse (out 5/26)! www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/04...

Thrilled to announce Thomas Pierce's collection, Do You Miss Earth?, coming out spring '28! Full press release: www.hubcity.org/news/hub-cit...

Some early blurbs for Work Lunch by Lee Bains! This debut poetry collection comes out in October, but you can preorder it now at hubcity.org/worklunch

We're closing out Poetry Month with a 30% off sale at hubcity.org/poetry! That means, you can get most of these books for less than $12, now through May 3!

New on Book Post: Abby Rosebrock on Nancy Lemann’s long-overdue return. Read about her narrators’ “humane” and “razor-sharp” chronicling of chaos → books.substack.com/p/review-abb... @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social

Speaking of New Orleans, don't miss Joe Bond's book launch at Octavia Books next month!

Some more Nancy Lemann coverage this past week! www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Announcing DIRT PUSHER by Daisy Cashin, out spring '27! Full press release at www.hubcity.org/news/hub-cit...

Today's Feature: "Conflict/War" by Ashley M. Jones from Lullaby for the Grieving published by @hubcitypress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/conflic...

“A city is on profile here, yet also a region and whole way of life, of which Governor Edwards, the figure on trial, isn’t so much a symbol as he is a symptom.” On Nancy Lemann's NOLA classic THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU, reissued @hubcitypress.bsky.social 📿⚜️ southwestreview.com/the-roving-m...

Matt Hanson on a trio of handsome new editions of books by #nancylemann. Lemann is a born and raised New Orleanian, and her mind is never far from the eccentricities of the crescent city. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social artsfuse.org/327551/book-...

Plum by Andy Anderegg is out in paperback today! Check out that LA Times Book Prizes finalist seal! Free shipping on hubcity.org/plum now through next Tues

The Ritz of the Bayou by Nancy Lemann has been out for about a week. Here's what the critics are saying!

Having the books you publish read this deeply and smartly is such a goddamn joy. @brandyjensen.bsky.social really, really gets Nancy’s work in this long review of all three books for the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

Our last pre-pub press hit (maybe? still a few more hours to go). This review of OYSTER DIARIES in @thecut.com that uses RITZ as its frame! www.thecut.com/article/revi...

Stunning review of all three books in the @oxfordamerican.bsky.social by @snowdenwright.bsky.social!!

Get in losers, we're officially in Nancy Lemann renaissance this week. First off, a profile in NYT Styles that attempts to theorize how Nancy's popularity skyrocketed in the past few years (whether correctly or incorrectly, I'll leave to others). www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/s...

We didn't coin it but "The Lemannaissance" is here.