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Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 15/10/2026
On Wednesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—please join us as we announce the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! The announcement will be on YouTube at 9 am Pacific time. www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...
Nine books in a stack:
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed
Slow Gods by Claire North
Audition by Pip Adam
Sunward by William Alexander
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Evenson brings real depth and pathos to the violence, as he finds the holiness lurking in gore. The author is on the top of his game." A ⭐ review from Publisher's Weekly for PHANTOM LIMB.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Happiest of pub days to Brian Evenson and PHANTOM LIMB! Another incredible work from a mad genius.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Final copies have arrived!🎉 “Nghiem Tran has penned a lyrical, moving poetry collection that I expect to dazzle readers as the sleeper hit of the year. I consumed it in a long guzzle, then went back to page one and started again," - Mary Karr OUR HOURS ARE MARRIED TO SHADOW by Nghiem Tran 12/08/26
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
PHANTOM LIMB is officially yours in one week!!!
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 30/09/2026
Literary fiction I’m working on publicity for now that will be published in upcoming months, in November and January by @schaffnerpress.bsky.social and @coffeehousepress.bsky.social respectively, that should absolutely be on your cultural radar.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Prose-etry Virtual Reading. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Enjoy readings from six Coffee House Press poetry and prose authors. Coffee House Readers: Bao Phi Mark Nowak Robin Myers Lauren Moseley M. Evelina Galang Radka Denemarková and translator Julia Sher...
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Join us next month for our Virtual "Prose-etry Event" with an amazing array of authors with new and forthcoming books. Free to all! Link below🔗
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Denemarková’s prose, poetically rendered by translators Julia and Peter Sherwood, depicts a society of citizens that are hopelessly alienated from their physical selves."
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood. 📚📚📚
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OUT TODAY!!! Radka Denemarková's brilliant and haunting novel, A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF JOY.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Final copies of Brian Evenson's PHANTOM LIMB have landed! Preorders coming your way soon. Publishes October 13th!!!
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"ADA is Haber’s themes distilled into a purified form and taken to cartoonish heights." clereviewofbooks.com/on-mark-habe...
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The Price of Obsession: On Mark Haber’s “Ada” - Cleveland Review of Books
Obsession is by one turn the way that these characters achieve their meager success, but it is also, by another, the fatal flaw in their efforts to reach the perfection they seek.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our vision is to continue discovering and publishing writers who are unafraid to push boundaries and who aren’t easily categorized. We strongly believe these voices are vital to expanding the world of literature and storytelling.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our books have won National Book Awards, been Pulitzer Prize Finalists, and, most recently, received nominations for The Booker Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin award. We’re honored to have introduced readers to authors like Ben Lerner, Valeria Luiselli, Karen Tei Yamashita, and Saeed Jones.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Coffee House Press is a nonprofit publishing organization based in Minneapolis, MN since 1972. Our mission has always been to discover, highlight, and celebrate important and dynamic voices that may have otherwise gone unheard.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For over 50 years, Coffee House Press has been a staple of independent publishing. Now more than ever, we need your help to continue and expand that legacy. givebutter.com/extraordinar...
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Extraordinary Voices, Fueled by You
Coffee House Press Fundraising Campaign
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wonderful seeing BLOOD DAZZLER in the mix! #Minnesota www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/ex...
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A Literary Guide to Minnesota
Explore the communities, landscapes, and stories that define the North Star State.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Cuts to organizations like the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have had dire consequences for small, nonprofit publishers like us. For these reasons, we’re looking to our community for support.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As you may know, literature is the least-supported artistic discipline in the United States, receiving only 1.9% of arts funding. Here at Coffee House, we’ve seen a significant reduction in grant funding over the last two years.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For over 50 years, Coffee House Press has been a staple of independent publishing. Now more than ever, we need your help to continue and expand that legacy.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sending love to you, Anne.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're saddened by the passing of poet and wonderful human being Rachel Blau Duplessis. We are equally honored and humbled to have published her decades-in-the-making masterwork, THE COMPLETE DRAFTS. www.inquirer.com/obituaries/r...
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis, experimental poet, literary scholar, and Temple professor emerita, has died at 84
She grew up in New York, lived in Swarthmore and Philadelphia for more than 50 years, and taught a variety of classes at Temple from 1974 to her retirement in 2011.
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 10/09/2026
Audition is by @pipadam.bsky.social, and is published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social:
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Audition
A genre-defying novel—part science fiction, part social realism—from one of the most powerful voices in New Zealand literature today.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"the prose is as unrelenting as the BPM of hard techno, pounding at readers to lose themselves in the possibility of transcendence." A fantastic review of SHAMANS in today's World Literature Today. @monaojedaf.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/septemb...
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Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Mónica Ojeda
Trans. Sarah Booker. Coffee House Press. 2026. 240 pages.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A lovely review of Jed Perl's debut novel, WE NEVER CALLED IT FRISCO. 💥OUT TODAY💥 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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Review: ‘We Never Called it Frisco’ is a smart, biting novel about art criticism
Jed Perl’s debut novel, “We Never Called it Frisco,” blends San Francisco history, art-world satire and sharp questions about criticism itself.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hey, where's the cat? 🤣
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Huge thanks to @robrubsam.bsky.social for the lovely piece!
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A glorious review of Mónica Ojeda's ELECTRIC SHAMANS... "As on the dance floor, you must give yourself over to the movement, the music, the beat. You surrender and then you see." @monaojedaf.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
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The Strange Power of the Dance-Floor Novel
A new run of books embrace the literary potential of underground electronic music.
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
From Ron Padgett's book, Dot: bookshop.org/a/862/9781566896559 Published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social #poem #booksky #writing
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Amid unrest in the Philippines, a tormented woman seeks solace in sleep. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/y... @coffeehousepress.bsky.social #yniga #philippines #booksky #bookreview #filipino
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Yñiga: A Novel | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Lisa @runtalien.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What’s Piper reading today? Oh look it’s Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman, a novel in six acts centered around a country house and its mysterious owner from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. She’s really reading it, she’s just taking a lil break 📚💙
An orange cat with white paws and belly dozes on a couch; her paws are resting on a copy of Helen of Nowhere
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Susan Marie Swanson @susanmarieswanson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Arts journalist @sheilaregan.bsky.social does great work for all of us to read, here writing over at @minnpost.com about @coffeehousepress.bsky.social and the Booker Prize 2026 longlist @thebookerprizes.com. I love reading a writer like this, who works and thinks across disciplines.
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Big Booker boost for small Minnesota publisher
‘Helen of Nowhere’ is longlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize, joining ‘The Disappearers’ by Marlon James.
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Just preordered this @juliasherwood.bsky.social & Peter Sherwood translation of Radka Denemarková, out next month from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social coffeehousepress.org/products/a-c...
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A Contribution to the History of Joy
A complex mix of crime fiction, historical narrative, and feminist social commentary that exposes a decades-long coverup archived in a Prague neighborhood.
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Orange County Review of Books @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“PATCHWORK is precisely what it sounds like: a densely woven quilt of a book composed entirely of other author’s sentences.” Eric Bies reviews the book by @tomcomitta.bsky.social (from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social). ocreviewofbooks.substack.com/p/copy-termi...
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Patchwork by Tom Comitta
Reviewed by Eric Bies
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
So excited about this! 🎉🎉🎉Whenever I do a reading, people ask for an audiobook, yes, this has been going on for years but the audiobook industry is so consolidated that it keeps out most indie authors... Get ready for trouble, thanks to @raincorbyn.bsky.social & @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, 💋💋💋
COMING SOON FROM HARUSPEX AUDIO:

TERRY DACTYL
by 
MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE

"The historical novel on acid."-Sarah Schulman

COFFEE HOUSE PRESS

Performed by the author!
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 12/08/2026
Thirteen opening paragraphs, but which one intrigues you most? 🧐 ⏸️ Pause to read, or find the full extracts over on our website: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 11/08/2026
Pip Adam's novel Audition is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Here, Pip (@pipadam.bsky.social) introduces the book, then reads from the novel's opening pages. More about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26
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Pip Adam reads from "Audition"
YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#WhatIAmReading 'The Murmuring Grief of the Americas' by Daniel Borzutzky @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. BRUTAL 📚
And we gave them water to drink
And the water was good
And the water was pure
(And the water was owned by Coca-cola and Nestle and an unnamed
conglomerate of stakeholders in China Qatar and Germany)You can give a kid a good school or you can teach her to successfully adapt to the reality that she'll never get to go to a good schoolwe look to the north toward the occupied territories
Wisconsin           and see the cops standing on every
corner of the universe

blessed are the constellations of growling children

blessed are the daisies that form in their eye sockets

blessed is the water that's missing

blessed is the water to comeThat manage who we love       where we live     what we eat and whether or not

Our bodies will be blown into shards rubble ruins remains debris splinters

There is nothing to see here    say the authoritative bodies to the
international observers

And it's true           our mouths are empty

Our eyes are empty
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Helen of Nowhere
An electrifying novel about the delights and dangers of starting over.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Helen of Nowhere
An electrifying novel about the delights and dangers of starting over.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Makenna Goodman’s HELEN OF NOWHERE “has the power to transform.” 👈 A small portion of the quote from this year’s Booker Prize judges Get 30% off your copy now as part of our back to school sale. 📚🎒✏️
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