📆 Then, next Saturday, May 31, we'll be teaming up with the Los Angeles Review of Books for a little bash and a conversation between R.O. Kwon and @laurenmarkham.bsky.social at our offices in Berkeley. We'd love to see you there.

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📆 This Saturday, join us for a fundraiser, pop-up, and party, hosted by KQED's ‪@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social‬ and ‪@laurenmarkham.bsky.social‬ at Womb House Books. Bring your friends, your kids, yourselves for an evening of books, wine, and more in the alley.

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Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.

Coming in September! Kate Zambreno’s ANIMAL STORIES, an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance, and how we regard ourselves among the animals, part of our Undelivered Lecture series, is now available for preorder ✨

www.transitbooks.org/books/animalstories

Publishers Weekly official! New Fosse coming in October, with cover design for our hardcover edition by Jared Bartman 🙏

Iman Mersal's MOTHERHOOD AND ITS GHOSTS (tr. Robin Moger) is "a searching, intimate, and captivating volume that deserves a place among the best writing and thinking about motherhood" (Book Riot). Next in our Undelivered Lectures series, out in May.

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Three narrators, three deaths, and a boat named Eline. New Fosse coming this October—the first in a trilogy by the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Literature—translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls. 👀

🎉 Happy pub day! 🎉 Lauren Markham's IMMEMORIAL, an "urgent, heartfelt, lyrical" (Kirkus 🌟 ) essay on language in the face of climate catastrophe—how we memorialize what has been lost and what soon will be—is out today.

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Congratulations, Iman Mersal and Robin Moger! TRACES OF ENAYAT is a finalist for the NBCC Barrios Book in Translation Prize (@bookcritics.bsky.social ) 🎉🎉🎉

🎉 Welcome, Juan! 🎉 Juan Cárdenas's PEREGRINO TRANSPARENTE, an upended Western about the uneasy alliance between art and empire, following an 1850 expedition tasked with mapping the Republic of New Granada, now Colombia, is coming Spring 2026.

Delighted to see Suzumi Suzuki's GIFTED (tr. Allison Markin Powell) on the @usrofc.bsky.social longlist, alongside books from so many great independent presses. This prize is doing the good work 🙏

Come party (virtually) with the longlistees on 2/19! 🥳

www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news

Mark your calendars! Two great Bay Area events coming up next month for Lauren Markham's IMMEMORIAL: 2/4 with Jenny Odell at Gilman Brewing and 2/8 with Rebecca Solnit (@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) at Point Reyes Books (@pointreyesbooks.bsky.social)

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Congratulations, Iman Mersal and Robin Moger! TRACES OF ENAYAT is longlisted for the @bookcritics.bsky.social Barrios Book in Translation Prize 💐💐💐

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Mousse is a NYT Best Children's Book of the Year! 😱😱😱 Congratulations, Claire Lebourg and Sophie Lewis!

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Josephine Rowe's LITTLE WORLD—a strange and dazzling novel about the mysterious body of a child saint and the lives it touches across time—comes out August 2025 in our first hardcover original. Cover design by Jared Bartman 🙏

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The melancholy princess of Turkish letters herself with her guy Cesare Pavese.

Coming in April! A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights—Cesare Pavese, Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka—in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award–winner Tezer Özlü (tr. Maureen Freely).
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