It’s that time again when the veil thins, and art like this feels almost alive. This Halloween, revisit 7:42 P.M. The Art of Chris Mars—a stunning collection of eerie, otherworldly paintings exploring the light within darkness. rarebirdlit.com/7-42-p-m-the...

Bleeders has arrived and the streets run red once more. Copies are beginning to make their way into the hands of those who pre-ordered. Unsigned editions are still available—claim yours via the link below before they vanish into the fog. @andybiersack.bsky.social rarebirdlit.com/bleeders-by-an…

Last night at #ChevaliersBooks, Tom Lutz had everyone hooked with his stories behind "1925" and "Chagos Archipelago." Great conversation with Albert Litewka! 🙌🏽 @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @rarebirdlit.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social #TomLutz #1925book #ChagosArchipelago #CoriolisClient

From backstage chaos to quiet hotel rooms, Malia James—bassist for Dum Dum Girls and Marnie Stern—turns the lens on her own story. Girl in a Girl Band is an intimate collage of photographs and handwritten reflections. rarebirdlit.com/girl-in-a-gi...

What if AI is everything we fear AND everything we’ve ever hoped for. My latest novel will be released in November by @rarebirdlit.bsky.social ! Pre-order now at: onceaman.com #newbook #ai #postapocalypse #dystopian

Happy birthday to Johnny Ramone.🖤 In Gabba Gabba Hey: A Conversation With the Ramones by Carl Cafarelli, the Ramones tell their own story. Alive again on the page. Get your copy: www.amazon.com/Gabba-Hey-Co...

📅 10/10, 7 PM – @vromansbookstore.bsky.social, Pasadena, CA | with John Powers 📅 10/14, 7 PM – Chevalier's Books, Los Angeles, CA 📅 10/19, 2 PM PT – @redhenpress.bsky.social, Pasadena, CA Don't miss your chance! @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social #ChagosArchipelago #1925book #CoriolisClient (4/4)

Upcoming Chances to Hear Tom: 📅 10/6, 7 PM – @skylightbooks.bsky.social, Los Angeles, CA | with Lisa Teasley 📅 10/7, 10 AM – The Town Club, Pasadena, CA 📅 10/9, 6:30 PM – @dieselbookstore.com, Santa Monica, CA #MeetTheAuthor #BookTour (3/4)

You'll engage with his extensive book about the Roaring Twenties, "1925: A Literary Encyclopedia," and his international thriller, "Chagos Archipelago" (which follows up on the awesome "Born Slippy"). @rarebirdlit.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social #TomLutz #LiteraryFiction (2/4)

Professor #TomLutz is bringing a double-feature masterclass in literature and history to the West Coast. Join him for conversations spanning two worlds: cultural revolutionaries of the Roaring Twenties and the deadly serious world of modern espionage. #BookTour (1/4)

Huge congratulations to Chip Jacobs. Later Days is officially a @usatoday.com bestseller! Want to celebrate with Chip in person? He’ll be at Arvida Book Co. this Saturday, October 4th at 2pm for a reading and conversation with @gustavoarellano.bsky.social rarebirdlit.com/later-days-b...

What happens when the search for identity collides with mystery, myth, and the uncanny? John C. Hampsey’s Soda Lake opens with a haunting image—a man vanishing into a lake of white salt—hits bookshelves October 21st! www.amazon.com/Soda-Lake-No...

Jennifer Sklias-Gahan’s The House in the Middle of the Street is a spellbinding debut of inheritance, haunting, and the creatures we dare let in. Think Brothers Grimm by way of a fever dream, steeped in shadow and bound by blood. rarebirdlit.com/the-house-in...

Thank you to Vroman’s for hosting, Sandra Tsing Loh for being an incredible conversation partner, and to everyone who joined us in Pasadena last night to celebrate the release of Chip Jacob’s’ new novel, Later Days. @vromansbookstore.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Later-Days-C...

🔥 COVER REVEAL🔥 What happens when gods outlive their worshippers? In Andrew Rubin’s Hell or High Winter, Hermes, Messenger of the Gods, walks the streets of the 21st century—witty, restless, and desperate for relevance in an age where no one is listening. @andrewrubin7.bsky.social

📚✨ Five new worlds open today. History. Exile. Music. Memory. Desire. Available now via the link in our bio or wherever good books are sold! www.rarebirdlit.com

Later Days hits bookshelves this Tuesday! A gripping tale of brotherhood, recklessness, and footloose souls in late-seventies Southern California, Chip Jacobs’ evocative follow-up to Arroyo captures the ties that bind & break us. @vromansbookstore.bsky.social vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

💥 Featured today in @peoplemag.bsky.social — Alisyn Camerota’s memoir Combat Love opens doors most stories won’t touch.💥 The paperback edition is now available via the link in our bio or wherever good books are sold. people.com/news-anchor-...

✨ Tomorrow night in Santa Rosa ✨ @copperfieldsbooks.bsky.social welcomes master drummer, attorney, and novelist Greg Anton alongside renowned trial lawyer Chris Andrian for an evening of conversation around Anton’s new novel, It’s About Time. Come for the music, stay for the story.

✨NEW REVIEW✨ Today I am sharing my #review of #TheFirstVampire by Andrew Dennis Biersack with you all! 📚💙 @rarebirdlit.bsky.social 🖤 Head over to my blog to see what I thought ⬇️ forbookssake.home.blog/2025/09/11/r...

⚡ Only 16 copies left⚡ Alan McGee didn’t just discover Oasis—he rewrote the rulebook on what it means to run an indie label. Get it before it’s gone at the link below. rarebirdlit.com/how-to-run-a...

Steven C. Markoff’s The First 100 Years of the ACLU is a definitive three-volume compendium of the ACLU’s century before the Supreme Court—a testament to freedom, justice, and persistence. First Edition sets limited to 500. On sale September 16th. rarebirdlit.com/the-first-10...

For those who ordered signed multi-book bundles, Bleeders is the second installment, and is scheduled to ship next month. A limited quantity of Bleeders only signed books will be available now through the end of the month, exclusively at www.rarebirdlit.com.

From punk’s raw rebellion to the soul of the Delta blues, Cree McCree didn’t just cover music—she lived it. Her forthcoming memoir (on sale this September) is a wild ride through four decades. rarebirdlit.com/my-life-unde...

Thrilled to be able to tell you that my novels THE GREAT EASTERN and DESTINY EXPRESS — the latter of which has been out of print for decades — will be reissued in 2026 by an alliance of two great Los Angeles independent presses, @rarebirdlit.bsky.social and @unnamedpress.bsky.social. Cannot wait!

That's today?! I read "Shine Until Tomorrow" with my teenaged niece who just graduated magna cum laude so yes, time travel is REAL!

This Thursday at @dieselbookstore.com: Crime, Hollywood, and one unmissable conversation! You can grab of copy of their books via the link in our bio, wherever good books are sold, or at Diesel this Thursday. See you there!

Originally written in 1966 but long kept from the public, Frank Capra’s Cry Wilderness is one of our backlist gems that showcases the iconic filmmaker’s deeply humane storytelling in literary form. rarebirdlit.com/cry-wilderne...

📅 Thurs. 7/31 @ 7PM: We welcome actor and educator Cal Hoffman in store for a discussion of his new novel "Easy to Slip". He will be joined in conversation by acclaimed author Audrey Schulman. Learn more here: buff.ly/WsgJZnO

Two Rare Bird authors, two coasts, one night. Tomorrow evening, join us for a rare literary double feature that spans San Francisco and Cambridge @harvardbookstore.bsky.social. West Coast or East—wherever you are, Rare Bird is in the air.

Out in paperback today! In Combat Love, CNN Anchor Alisyn Camerota traces the jagged edges of adolescence on the Jersey Shore—where punk rock offered more safety than home ever did. Get your copy wherever good books are sold. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1644...

Out in paperback today! In Combat Love, CNN Anchor Alisyn Camerota traces the jagged edges of adolescence on the Jersey Shore—where punk rock offered more safety than home ever did. Get your copy wherever good books are sold. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1644...

Grief bends reality. Memory warps the edges. Blending grief and wonder, menace and magic, Alex Branson’s Water, Wasted is a haunting debut about the stories we tell to survive. A strange & tender Rare Bird backlist gem—worth discovering, or rediscovering. rarebirdlit.com/water-wasted...

✨ “Once upon a time there was a summer…” ✨From Carla Malden, author of Shine Until Tomorrow, comes Playback—a witty, touching, and time-bending novel about revisiting the past to reclaim the future. Playback hits shelves August 12. Both books available via the link in our bio.

Love to see Julian Tepper’s Cooler Heads in this stack!

Thank you to everyone who packed the house last night Book Soup to celebrate Gerald Petievich and Thom Mount’s new releases. Available via the link in our bio, on the shelves at Book Soup or wherever good books are sold.

Out today, these new releases speak across genre & form, each one asking: What remains after the storm? What does love cost? What does it save? Novels, memoirs, and stories that don’t flinch—and won’t be forgotten. Available on rarebirdlit.com & anywhere books are sold.

Flip City is a trippy, terrifying coming-of-age story for anyone who’s ever danced on the edge of madness. Available wherever good books are sold & rarebirdlit.com/flip-city-pape…

Join us for an unforgettable night at The Village Well with actor & author Candi Milo as she launches her raw, hilarious, and deeply human memoir, Surviving the Odd . In conversation w/ Emmy-winning voice actor Eric Bauza. shop.villagewell.com/events/30675...

Signal Lost: Michael Madsen (1958–2025) Somewhere between the flickering reels of Reservoir Dogs and the ashes of a half-burned poem, Michael Madsen slipped through the cracks of the American mythos—outlaw, poet, trickster, father, ghost-in-the-making.

A bold, blistering novel of crime, love, and the Catholic Church, The Good Family Fitzgerald by Joseph Di Prisco is as propulsive as it is profound. Get your copy: rarebirdlit.com/the-good-fam...

Joan Didion once wrote that “a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest.” In Slouching Towards Los Angeles, edited by Steffie Nelson, a chorus of writers do just that. Get your copy now: www.amazon.com/Slouching-To...

Buddhism gave more meaning to Jack’s work as a writer: he was working not for personal accomplishment and glory but for human betterment. The Buddhist Years is available wherever good books are sold. www.amazon.com/Buddhist-Yea...

New from Rare Bird and out today! 🖤🔥

This looks good: New from @rarebirdlit.bsky.social — "A brand new volume of previously unpublished writings from the archives reflecting Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist thinking." Must read! More here: rarebirdlit.com/the-buddhist...

“If Hemingway had been a porn star, this is how he would have written.” —The Nervous Breakdown Oriana Small’s memoir Girlvert is a brutal, beautiful descent into ecstasy, addiction, and the surreal edges of the adult film world. rarebirdlit.com/girlvert-sig...

Someone recommended Girlvert: A P0rno Memoir on IG and a couple of spicy-looking reads. Haven't tried taking down notes here so might as well give it a try. Here's the book. It's a memoir about a p0rn actress's experiences in the industry.

She found herself on the Jersey Shore, in punk clubs, and far from home. Alisyn Camerota’s unforgettable memoir Combat Love is out in paperback this summer! rarebirdlit.com/combat-love-by…

Catch Cal Hoffman at bookstores across the east and west coast this summer as he celebrates the release of Easy to Slip. We hope we’ll see you along the way! Easy to Slip is out now and available wherever good books are sold. rarebirdlit.com/easy-to-slip/

Bert McCracken’s In Love and Death: The Lost Notebook is coming this fall. Signed limited edition only on our site. Standard edition in stores worldwide this fall. “This notebook is a time capsule.” – Bert McCracken rarebirdlit.com/in-love-and-de…