Today, we celebrate the release Iceland Is Melting and So Are You by Talya Rubin! Positioned at the brink of the climate crisis, this urgent collection of poetry offers recognition of, and salve for, the vast mysteries of the natural world, our human interior, and the relationship between the two. Read on to learn all about […]
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We’re excited to join the American Literary Translators Association for the debut of #ReadTheWorld, an online bookfair celebrating translators and their publishers ahead of and during the virtual portion of the ALTA44 conference (October 15-17). Use the discount code readtheworld at checkout and save 20% off of all titles in our Literature In Translation Series […]
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Please join us in celebrating the release of Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day that I Was Born by Mona Høvring, translated by Kari Dickson and Rachel Rankin! Read on to learn all about this award-winning title, the latest in our much-loved Literature in Translation Series. Happy Book Birthday to Because Venus […]
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Today, our Fall 2021 preview series wraps up with a sneak peek at The Absence of Zero, R. Kolewe’s elegy to the 20th century and the disparate fragments of its ideas that continue to disrupt our present. A triumphant celebration of the long poem tradition, The Absence of Zero consists of 256 16-line quartets, and […]
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Continuing our In Conversation series, Nic Brewer joins us to discuss her remarkable debut novel, Suture! Suture fiercely and tenderly interweaves the stories of three artists who literally tear themselves open to make art. Each artist baffles their family, or harms their loved ones, with their necessary sacrifices. Using body horror as a means of […]
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The next installment of our In Conversation series features Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir! Namir’s new collection of poetry, Umbilical Cord, documents the journey that he and his husband took to have a child. Between love letters to their young son, Namir shares insight into his love story with his husband, the […]
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Our Active Listening series continues with Letters to Amelia, Lindsay Zier-Vogel’s critically-acclaimed debut novel which combines the contemporary story of a newly single woman who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant with a passionate epistolary love affair between iconic American aviator and feminist icon Amelia Earhart and Gene Vidal. “Letters to Amelia is a gorgeous, big-hearted debut that will make you […]
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Today, we’re celebrating the release of Suture, a bold and original debut novel by the talented Nic Brewer! Blurring distinctions between reality and metaphor, Suture renders a new vocabulary for thinking through art, bodies, and desire. Read on to learn all about this highly anticipated debut, and for information on tonight’s virtual launch of Suture! […]
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The fall book season is upon us! Over the coming weeks, a brilliant cohort of Book*hug’s Fall 2021 authors will be sharing their thoughts on the writing process, the books they read while penning their own, and their favourite themes and takeaways. Lindsay Zier-Vogel starts us off with a discussion of her debut novel, […]
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Hello everyone! My name is Rachel and I’m delighted to announce that I am Book*hug’s newest intern. When I set out to find my place in publishing, I was hoping to begin my adventure at an independent press. Known for taking chances on books and authors that the “Big Five” publishing houses do not, […]
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