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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This Halloween season, treat your trick to truly unexpected (even under-the-radar) horrors with my 2023 story collection The Last Vanishing Man (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social) or 2024 novella Changes in the Land (@lethepress.bsky.social). Queer and loathing for all!

Cover of The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories, with an image by photographer Julie Hamel. Entirely black and white. A naked man hangs by one arm from a wooden ladder in a hayloft. The title of the book is interwoven in the hay and gently covering most of the man's butt because our distributor thought that would be best.

Cover of Changes in the Land, designed by Jeremy John Parker. Big ominous red eye above the title. A man stands with his back to us on a kind of pond of blood. Eerie branches and such circle the image. Dominant colors are red, yellow, dark brown, black.

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What a thrill to host Jack White at City Lights today, reading poems from JACK WHITE COLLECTED LYRICS and SELECTED WRITING, edited by Ben Blackwell and published by @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social 🤍

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WNXP Nashville @wnxpnashville.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Turn the page, drop the needle. This week’s Thematic Static is all about books + reading. Songs inspired by novels, writers, characters, libraries… you get it. What are we playing? Send us your pick and you might hear your name on air. Thurs + Sat, 9am CT.

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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

So happy that my new fiction collection, RING SHOUT ON SATURN from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social is in the world. And it recently received a review by novelist & engineer @wtalabi.com in the June 2026 @locusmag.bsky.social 💫🪐🌿. Get both from your fave booksellers 😍 More deets here: l1nq.com/okwechh

A reader holding up a purple copy of Ring Shout on Saturn by Sheree Renée Thomas

Novel Memphis bookstore display of Ring Shout on Saturn and Mojorhythm. Stacks of books

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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Loving the brilliant artwork & stunning visual choices Caitlin Mattisson made for MOJORHYTHM. Here is a closer look at the first book in the Root and Sky series, available now from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social

Green and pink cover of.Mojorhythm highly detail art similar to old funkadelic and George Clinton album cover covers. Characters and icons from the stories burst from a burlap Mojo bag like a bouquet.

Stack of three copies of the book a top a colorful, BAULE cloth on the table. Blue, yellow, white abstract & geometric pattern on the cloth

Full cover jacket of the book bat copy spine and cover. The dominant colors are apple, green and pink or magenta.

A copy of the book on a wooden table with a back jacket facing the viewer. Jacket copy with black text over an apple green background with colorful Milagros and icons, little mojos all around the border.

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Wonderful news: the book I edited, MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social) is a nominee for this year's Shirley Jackson Awards. Congratulations to all the nominees — a huge honor! www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2026/05/28/n...

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Nominees Announced for the 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards – The Shirley Jackson Awards

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 21/04/2026

Jack White @officialjackwhite.bsky.social talks to POETRY editor-in-chief Adrian Matejka. Read the interview: bit.ly/41LIF39 Special Thanks to @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social and @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social

A black and white promotional image featuring a conversation between Jack White and Adrian Matejka. The left side displays a book cover titled "JACK WHITE: THE WHITE STRIPES COMPLETE LYRICS." The main text reads: “I've tried every different kind of way to write. And one thing. It seems like the things people resonate with are things I do very quickly.” Beneath, it states "Jack White talks to Adrian Matejka.

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller", which I edited for @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social, is a finalist for the Locus Award in the Collection category — a particularly strong category this year. locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...

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2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists

Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Well done!! It’s a great collection benefiting from a very thoughtful editor- you!

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I'm grateful to the staff of Locus for putting MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social) on the Recommended Reading List of works published in 2025. locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

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2025 Recommended Reading List

Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Since I've been proseltyzing about small presses, I should note how important they were to Carol Emshwiller's career: Mercury, Small Beer, Tachyon, etc. Need a small press book to support? Try 2025's blockbuster from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social MOON SONGS! www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/moon...

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Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller — Third Man Books

Carol    Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowl...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Where does Ode play when he’s healthy? In other words, how can Trossard and Eze not be in the first 11 now? #arsecastextra

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Jack White @officialjackwhite.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"If our pets could talk, they would most likely just ask for more of what they already have because even for us humans you can't be in love with something you haven't already experienced." -III

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Jack White @officialjackwhite.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

"I believe that the mysterious Roman dodecahedrons that have been found were just fancy candle holders for candles of different thicknesses." -III

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Kirkus gives Moon Songs a star! "This compellingly assembled retrospective gives longtime Emshwiller fans a chance to savor her unique sensibility again, while lucky newcomers enjoy the thrill of discovery." @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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MOON SONGS | Kirkus Reviews

A greatest hits collection of unclassifiable speculative fiction.

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It's publication day for MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social with a beautiful foreword by @kellylink.bsky.social! Go forth! Be free! Read Emshwiller!

Cover of MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER. Black background, orange lettering, blurb from Ursula Le Guin at top declaring her love and devotion to Carol Emshwiller's work. In the center, a trippy image from Ed Emshwiller's movie "Carol" of a woman-like figure flying through space with shards of orange all around her. Cover design by the wonderful Amin Qutteineh!

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

If you know the songs of @lou-turner.bsky.social, you know she's a poet's songwriter. But she's also a songwriter's poet, a truth on beautiful display in her connective & inventive book of country music poems, Twin Lead Lines, coming in Sept. & up for pre-order now via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Here are a couple collections we got in the mail recently! #ThePathofMostResistance #MoonSongs #BeyondAllReasonableDoubtJesusIsAlive! visit linktr.ee/locusmagazine for everything we have to offer! Link in bio! @JessyRandall #CarolEmshwiller @thirdmanbooks @penguinrandomhouse @ellomelissa

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Coming Aug 19 from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social: MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER. Now available for pre-order from Third Man and from retailers everywhere (some of which are already shipping books out). www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/moon...

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Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller — Third Man Books

Carol    Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowl...

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I'm grateful to Niall Harrison for his review of MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER (which I edited). The review is a lovely consideration of Emshwiller's accomplishments and also says nice things about our book, out from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social on Aug 19.

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Jeff Tobias @jefftobias.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The library book —> the bookmark someone left inside it @harrysword.bsky.social @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social

A book about drone called Monolithic Undertow

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Third Man Records @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

We’re still buzzing from Jack White’s surprise shows at The Blue Room! Pre-order JACK WHITE COLLECTED LYRICS AND SELECTED WRITING featuring his complete solo lyrics, and selected collabs, poems, and more. Order now at thirdmanbooks.com! @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Yay! "If you’re looking for an excellent overview of Emshwiller’s career, the decades-spanning anthology Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, edited by Matthew Cheney, has plenty to offer — and an introduction by Kelly Link, which is always good news." @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Hello #London book people, check it out! Benefit for Bookmark Reading Charity! We’ll be giving away (bookplate) signed books by #jackwhite, #alisonmosshart, #willsergeant, #bobbygillespie, and #richardparfitt! 📚 #booksky #blueskybooks @roughtradebooks.bsky.social @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social

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Jack White @officialjackwhite.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

"Basking in moonlight, I decide to take a basketful of it home and let it loose inside my world. Gathering it up was not a problem at all, it was free and so am i." -III

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Proof copy of MOON SONGS just arrived from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social and the first thing I did was introduce it to its older siblings.

A book called MOON SONGS: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller face out on a shelf of other books by Carol Emshwiller. Moon Songs has a cover with a black background and orange lettering and in the middle is an orange and black image from Ed Emshwiller's film "Carol" that looks like an orange body floating through orange hyperspace.

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

20% off summer sale all weekend on a whole lotta books and lps over at thirdmanrecords.com and Thirdmanbooks.com!

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Introducing a book about one of the greatest artists of modern times, #MarvinGaye, written by one of our most beloved and missed music journalists, Ben Edmonds. ‘Marvin Gaye: What’s Going on and the Last Days of the Motown Sound’ is available via Thirdmanbooks.com and bookstores everywhere!

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Barnes & Noble is having its 25% off pre-orders sale (membership required). Code: PREORDER25 MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER will be released by @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social in August... www.barnesandnoble.com/w/moon-songs...

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Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller|Paperback

"A major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist.” — Ursula K. LeGuinCarol  Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers inc...

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

All TMB #poetry is on sale 25%-50% for #NationalPoetryMonth! Frank Stanford, Ruth Awad, Alison Mosshart, Janaka Stucky, Caroline Randall Williams, Sampson Starkweather, Adrian Matejka and more. View the entire collection: thirdmanrecords.com/collections/... 💙📚 #booksky #thirdmanbooks

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

For #nationalpoetrymonth the LANGUAGE LESSONS box set is 50% off: 300pg anthology of poetry & prose, double Lp of music & poetry, plus 5 broadsides by CD WRIGHT, FRANK STANFORD, BRIAN BARKER, JAKE ADAM YORK, and CHET WEISE 💙📚 #booksky Browse our #poetry: thirdmanrecords.com/collections/...

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Love contemporary #poetry or want to try some out? Now’s a good time! Check out our poetry collection on sale: thirdmanrecords.com/collections/... 📚💙 #booksky #thirdmanbooks @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social

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liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The next Mood Machine event is in Nashville with Ann Powers this Saturday 1pm at The Blue Room! Can't wait @annkpowers.bsky.social @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social

Event flyer that says:
Saturday April 5 at 1pm
Liz Pelly & Ann Powers discuss Mood Machine
The Blue Room, 623 7th Ave S, Nashville, TN
Flyer also includes photos of Liz, Ann, and the book cover

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Very excited! We’re lucky to be this amazing collection’s publisher. Honored!

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

We need some good news in the world, so here's some. This fall, @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social will release MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER, which I edited. It will include a beautiful introduction by @kellylink.bsky.social.

Cover of MOON SONGS. Black background, orange lettering. Spacey orange & black image in center of a body maybe being launched into hyperspace or something. Pretty cool. You'll like this book!

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

‘Destruction of Man’ by poet Abraham Smith is an Editor’s Pick for the month and on sale for 20% off direct from thirdmanbooks.com! 📚💙 “Destruction of Man is a compass setting toward musics caught between the hungry teeth of vole and buried bone of river.” —Tyehimba Jess, author of OLIO

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Please join Third Man Books and @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social in support of Tennesee Representative Justin Jones Freedom to Read Act (HB0715). TMB will be participating in @brotherjones_ Literary Day on the Hill, March 4, to raise awareness regarding the Freedom to Read Act. 💙📚

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

‘Dynamite Nashville’ author Betsy Phillips will be speaking at Fort Negley in Nashville this Saturday, March 1, 9:30am CT. The event is hosted by the Afro-American Genealogy & History Society (@aahgsnashville ). 📚💙 #dynamitenashville #nonfiction #booksky #thirdmanbooks @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Don’t hold it against us but Last Vanishing Man is an excellent book!

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Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I’ve been book monogamous until recently. I also used to feel obligated to finish every book. Now I move on if needed. I can listen to music , but it can’t exceed a certain volume. Otherwise, I get tuned to it and can’t concentrate fully on the book or music. So I usually do one or the other.

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