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🎉Now announcing our official Spring 2026 Season! Protest and fever dreams and obsessions abound!
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Tonight, tonight, tonight...🌟🌸🌟🌸🌟
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Although it's not January yet, we wanted to highlight Agri Ismaïl and his color coordinated event last night in Ljubljana at the Modern Gallery. His incredible novel, HYPER, arrives January 13th and is available for pre-order.
December 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Cameroonian author and filmmaker, Osvalde Lewat's debut novel, THE AQUATICS, is out today! Translated by Maren Baudet-Lackner. "Lewat enters literature with this first novel of remarkable vivacity." - Le Point
December 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Join Jennifer Natalya Fink at @politicsprose.bsky.social in DC tonight at 7 p.m. for a conversation with @mbsycamore.bsky.social (TERRY DACTYL, @coffeehousepress.bsky.social). It's our Spotlight Event! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/mat... #booksky
December 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Via Cameroon (tomorrow!) by way of @coffeehousepress.bsky.social comes this translated tale of brutal violence. It is, always has been, the world's norm for Others. THE AQUATICS by OSVALDE LEWAT and translated by Maren Baudet-Lackner.
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THE AQUATICS, brutal violence is, always has been, the world's norm for Others
THE AQUATICS OSVALDE LEWAT (tr. Maren Baudet-Lackner) Coffee House Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $18.00 all editions, pre...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
TONIGHT @politicsprose.bsky.social 👇👇👇
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Out tomorrow!🔥Cameroonian author & filmmaker, Osvalde Lewat's debut, THE AQUATICS. Translated from the French by Maren Baudet-Lackner. A stunner.
December 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Real fans of poetry deserve such monuments – in this case, the work of a lengthy lifetime: decades of wondering and pondering, deadpan ironizing and making meaning in America, just the kind of work that must never have felt like work at all."
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Very Collected Poems
Very Collected Poems By Ron Padgett Coffee House Press. 2025. Reviewed by Eric Bies Ron Padgett’s been busy. In the dozen years since the publication of his Collected Poems, America’s silliest livi…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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"Padgett is, incredibly, 83, and he shows no signs of slowing down. ... Sometime in the back half of the 2030s we’ll have a 'Very, Very Collected Poems' to praise."

Eric Bies reviews Ron Padgett's VERY COLLECTED POEMS from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social.

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Very Collected Poems
Very Collected Poems By Ron Padgett Coffee House Press. 2025. Reviewed by Eric Bies Ron Padgett’s been busy. In the dozen years since the publication of his Collected Poems, America’s silliest livi…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
What a great list. Especially happy to see THE SEERS by Sulaiman Addonia. apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
December 11th!👇!!!
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Surprise! One more event before I leave New York, get ready...👠🔥🌠
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"Terry Dactyl is an epic of radiant queerness amidst the AIDS crisis and COVID-19 pandemic..." A lovely interview between Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Alex Rueben over @electricliterature.com @mbsycamore.bsky.social
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The Queer Club Culture Novel We Didn’t Know We Needed - Electric Literature
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s “Terry Dactyl” is an epic of radiant queerness amidst the AIDS crisis and COVID-19 pandemic
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November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Bao Phi (he/him) is a spoken word artist, poet, writer, and children's book author. His work can be found in two books of poetry both published by Coffee House Press, four children's books, all published by Capstone, and in anthologies such as Octavia's Brood, A Good Time for the Truth,…

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November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Happy pub day to Ron Padgett. ☺️

2013👇 2025👇
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Friends, the window to submit your books for the 2026 Lambda Literary Awards is closing... There's one week! Submissions close on November 21! Submit here: lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammy... 📚✨ #LammyAwards #Lammys2026
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"Suddenly it felt like so much was going on, even though nothing was going on. But actually, something was going on."
Read an excerpt from @mbsycamore.bsky.social 's new novel, TERRY DACTYL. Thanks as always to @literaryhub.bsky.social !!!
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Terry Dactyl
Suddenly it felt like so much was going on, even though nothing was going on. But actually, something was going on. 1. Sabine said I’m closing the gallery. 2. Is that really what she said first? Ma…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this excerpt from TERRY DACTYL, which takes the form of a frantic list... "Suddenly it felt like so much was going on, even though nothing was going on. But actually, something was going on."💥💫⚡
Terry Dactyl
Suddenly it felt like so much was going on, even though nothing was going on. But actually, something was going on. 1. Sabine said I’m closing the gallery. 2. Is that really what she said first? Ma…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Looking for signed copies of TERRY DACTYL in NYC? You are in luck, because they can now be found at Hive Mind, Three Lives, Greenlight, Books Are Magic, Center for Fiction, & P&T Knitwear... And, of course, at my book launch at the Strand on November 19th, where I can sign everything, can't wait!!💕
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Continuing our celebration of all things TERRY DACTYL, here's an incredible interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Veronica Esposito about the novel (psss...it's OUT NOW)!
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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the link between the COVID-19 and AIDS crises | Xtra Magazine
Sycamore’s new novel “Terry Dactyl” shirks nostalgia, instead showing how queer history often repeats
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November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The tradition continues...join us December 4th in the Coffee House offices for cookies, hot chocolate, and books! (Lots of books and lots of cookies).
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This review...💗💗💗
Honey, I'm sobbing, yes, literally SOBBING after reading this review of TERRY DACTYL by Trish Bendix in the New York Times Book Review, which engages with the book on so many deep levels, yes, I'm reading it over and over, what a gift, this means everything to me!!!💞💞💞💞💞
This Club Kid Knows How to Survive. The Better Question Is: How to Live?
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November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
An incredibly stunning review for TERRY DACTYL this morning in the NYT! Congratulations Mattilda, you and Terry deserve it. ❤️ @mbsycamore.bsky.social
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This Club Kid Knows How to Survive. The Better Question Is: How to Live?
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November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM