Third Man Books
@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, TMB publishes fiction, poetry, music history, history, speculative fiction, and more. Visit thirdmanbooks.com to view our full catalog and also for submission guidelines.
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"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
August 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"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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"I believe that the mysterious Roman dodecahedrons that have been found were just fancy candle holders for candles of different thicknesses." -III
August 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
"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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It's a thrill to see this review by B.D. McClay in The Washington Post of MOON SONGS, which I edited for @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social, with a foreword by @kellylink.bsky.social:
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Review | ‘Moon Songs’ showcases the singular inventiveness of Carol Emshwiller
These fantasy and science fiction stories, spanning from 1958 to 2012, feature brilliant experiments that play with meanings and categories.
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September 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's a thrill to see this review by B.D. McClay in The Washington Post of MOON SONGS, which I edited for @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social, with a foreword by @kellylink.bsky.social:
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
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Twin Lead Lines, my first full length poetry collection, is out today via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social !! 🐣
Link in bio to order and RSVP to book events, etc.
If you make time for art (especially other people’s) in your life, this one’s for you. 🪢❤️
Link in bio to order and RSVP to book events, etc.
If you make time for art (especially other people’s) in your life, this one’s for you. 🪢❤️
September 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Twin Lead Lines, my first full length poetry collection, is out today via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social !! 🐣
Link in bio to order and RSVP to book events, etc.
If you make time for art (especially other people’s) in your life, this one’s for you. 🪢❤️
Link in bio to order and RSVP to book events, etc.
If you make time for art (especially other people’s) in your life, this one’s for you. 🪢❤️
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Birds and War: @pflugu.bsky.social reviews MOONS SONGS: THE COLLECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER, edited by Matthew Cheney (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social)
Birds and War: Review of Carol Emswhiller’s Moon Songs
Ursula Pflug Under Review:Moon Songs: The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller. Edited by Matthew Cheney. Third Man Books, August 2025. Moon Songs, a new collection of nineteen stories by Carol Em…
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September 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Birds and War: @pflugu.bsky.social reviews MOONS SONGS: THE COLLECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER, edited by Matthew Cheney (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social)
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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."
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"This compellingly assembled retrospective gives longtime Emshwiller fans a chance to savor her unique sensibility again, while lucky newcomers enjoy the thrill of discovery."
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MOON SONGS | Kirkus Reviews
A greatest hits collection of unclassifiable speculative fiction.
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August 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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...
"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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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!
Go forth! Be free! Read Emshwiller!
August 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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!
Go forth! Be free! Read Emshwiller!
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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
August 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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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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
visit linktr.ee/locusmagazine for everything we have to offer! Link in bio!
@JessyRandall
#CarolEmshwiller
@thirdmanbooks
@penguinrandomhouse
@ellomelissa
August 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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
visit linktr.ee/locusmagazine for everything we have to offer! Link in bio!
@JessyRandall
#CarolEmshwiller
@thirdmanbooks
@penguinrandomhouse
@ellomelissa
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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...
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...
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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August 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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...
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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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.
August @locusmag.bsky.social is out! My reviews this month are of books by Emma Sloley, Carol Emshwiller and Yiming Ma locusmag.com/2025/08/issu...
Issue 775 Table of Contents, August 2025
The August 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Alexander Boldizar, and a spotlight on artist Michael Blank. News covers the World Fantasy Awards Ballot, the Sh…
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August 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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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The library book —> the bookmark someone left inside it @harrysword.bsky.social @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The library book —> the bookmark someone left inside it @harrysword.bsky.social @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
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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!
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August 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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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My book has a cover and is comin atcha this fall via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social! Twin Lead Lines is out 9/16 🧡✨♾️
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Twin Lead Lines — Third Man Books
Twin Lead Lines , the remarkably original debut from poet and musician Lou Turner , is born of overlaps: those of ancestry and chosen family, of show business and DIY paths of artmaking, and of liste...
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July 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My book has a cover and is comin atcha this fall via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social! Twin Lead Lines is out 9/16 🧡✨♾️
www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/twin...
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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."
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Previewed some indie press books due out this month and next for @reactorsff.bsky.social. reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...
Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2025 - Reactor
New titles for your summer reading, covering everything from eldritch horrors to career highlights...
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July 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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."
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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! 📚
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June 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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
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Now available for pre order at Thirdmanbooks.com! 📚
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June 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Now available for pre order at Thirdmanbooks.com! 📚
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"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
June 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"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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Proof copy of MOON SONGS just arrived from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social and the first thing I did was introduce it to its older siblings.
June 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Proof copy of MOON SONGS just arrived from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social and the first thing I did was introduce it to its older siblings.
20% off summer sale all weekend on a whole lotta books and lps over at thirdmanrecords.com and Thirdmanbooks.com!
May 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
20% off summer sale all weekend on a whole lotta books and lps over at thirdmanrecords.com and Thirdmanbooks.com!
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!
‘Marvin Gaye: What’s Going on and the Last Days of the Motown Sound’ is available via Thirdmanbooks.com and bookstores everywhere!
May 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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!
‘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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Barnes & Noble is having its 25% off pre-orders sale (membership required).
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MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER will be released by @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social in August...
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MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER will be released by @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social in August...
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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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April 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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...
Code: PREORDER25
MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER will be released by @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social in August...
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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/...
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April 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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/...
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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:
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Browse our #poetry:
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April 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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/...
Browse our #poetry:
thirdmanrecords.com/collections/...
Love contemporary #poetry or want to try some out? Now’s a good time! Check out our poetry collection on sale: thirdmanrecords.com/collections/...
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April 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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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