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Soft Skull Press

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Soft Skull Press is an independent publisher of books that engage art, culture, and current events in new and radical ways.

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Happy publication day to Lynne Tillman's (Lynne Tillman) THRILLED TO DEATH! 📚 ✨ "This shimmering, career-spanning collection captures Tillman at her most beguiling, playful, and inventive . . . This is Tillman’s best book yet." — @publisherswkly

Happy publication day to Lynne Tillman's (<a href="/glossitis/">Lynne Tillman</a>) THRILLED TO DEATH! 📚 

✨ "This shimmering, career-spanning collection captures Tillman at her most beguiling, playful, and inventive . . . This is Tillman’s best book yet." — @publisherswkly
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Young, depressed, and desperate for the Stones to show up. Read "My Time, My Side" (excerpted from THRILLED TO DEATH, Soft Skull Press) by Lynne Tillman (Lynne Tillman) in Joyland Magazine. joylandpublishing.com/fiction/my-tim…

Young, depressed, and desperate for the Stones to show up. Read "My Time, My Side" (excerpted from THRILLED TO DEATH, <a href="/softskull/">Soft Skull Press</a>) by Lynne Tillman (<a href="/glossitis/">Lynne Tillman</a>) in Joyland Magazine. 

joylandpublishing.com/fiction/my-tim…
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“I remember that night. The party was in a ballroom, a magnificent rented room—Le Fin de Siècle—and I was supposed to wear a costume.” Read from Lynne Tillman’s story collection, Thrilled to Death. lithub.com/the-undiagnose…

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Happy publication day to EKHŌ! Roslyn Orlando’s debut poetry collection combines Ancient Greek mythology with big tech to produce a philosophical, political, and psychological exploration of love, capitalism, resonance, and rage. ⭐ "[An] imaginative debut." — Publishers Weekly

Happy publication day to EKHŌ!

Roslyn Orlando’s debut poetry collection combines Ancient Greek mythology with big tech to produce a philosophical, political, and psychological exploration of love, capitalism, resonance, and rage.

⭐  "[An] imaginative debut." — <a href="/PublishersWkly/">Publishers Weekly</a>
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🌴 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌴 We're excited to share the cover of Yuliana Ortiz Ruano's CARNAVAL FEVER, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by @nlcaputo! CARNAVAL FEVER goes on sale officially on 11/11 ✨ Preorder now: softskull.com/books/carnaval…

🌴 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌴 We're excited to share the cover of <a href="/animaldeisla/">Yuliana Ortiz Ruano</a>'s CARNAVAL FEVER, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by @nlcaputo!

CARNAVAL FEVER goes on sale officially on 11/11 ✨ 

Preorder now: softskull.com/books/carnaval…
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Huge thanks to Monday’s phenomenal Franklin Park Reading Series stars, Torrey Peters, Lynne Tillman, Robert Jones, Jr., Bridgett M. Davis, Anton, and Caoilinn Hughes, and lot of ❤️to our amazing audience! 🗓️Next event 5/12!

Huge thanks to Monday’s phenomenal <a href="/FranklinParkBK/">Franklin Park</a> Reading Series stars, Torrey Peters, <a href="/glossitis/">Lynne Tillman</a>, Robert Jones, Jr., <a href="/bridgettmdavis/">Bridgett M. Davis</a>, <a href="/xerxesverdammt/">Anton</a>, and <a href="/CaoilinnHughes/">Caoilinn Hughes</a>, and lot of ❤️to our amazing audience! 🗓️Next event 5/12!
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"Tillman has a fondness for this kind of paradox—the way opposites tend to collapse in on themselves. In her stories, fiction and reality have a tendency to give way to one another." —The Brooklyn Rail on Lynne's latest collection, THRILLED TO DEATH. brooklynrail.org/2025/04/books/…

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THRILLED TO DEATH by Lynne Tillman is a Ryan Ornelas editors' choice! 📚 "In an era of truncated attention spans, her short stories, some verging on micro, seem newly with-it." buff.ly/enLGGo3

THRILLED TO DEATH by <a href="/glossitis/">Lynne Tillman</a> is a <a href="/nytbooks/">Ryan Ornelas</a> editors' choice! 📚 

"In an era of truncated attention spans, her short stories, some verging on micro, seem newly with-it." 

buff.ly/enLGGo3
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“I’d like people to read my work now,” says Lynne Tillman, “while I’m alive.” The author reflects on the publication of THRILLED TO DEATH, collecting 41 stories from 35 years of her oeuvre. ow.ly/KBKt50VAu0w Lynne Tillman Soft Skull Press #Fiction #ShortFiction

“I’d like people to read my work now,” says Lynne Tillman, “while I’m alive.” The author reflects on the publication of THRILLED TO DEATH, collecting 41 stories from 35 years of her oeuvre. ow.ly/KBKt50VAu0w <a href="/glossitis/">Lynne Tillman</a> <a href="/softskull/">Soft Skull Press</a> #Fiction #ShortFiction
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Happy paperback pub day to José Vadi's CHIPPED! 🛹 ⭐ Finalist for the CALIBA Golden Poppy Book Awards ⭐ "Vivid and propulsive." — L.A. Times Books ⭐ "Pensive . . . The rhapsodic prose shines." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Happy paperback pub day to <a href="/vadiparty/">José Vadi</a>'s CHIPPED! 🛹 

⭐ Finalist for the CALIBA Golden Poppy Book Awards 
⭐ "Vivid and propulsive." — <a href="/latimesbooks/">L.A. Times Books</a>
⭐ "Pensive . . . The rhapsodic prose shines." — <a href="/PublishersWkly/">Publishers Weekly</a> (starred review)
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"Selected stories should feel like a cabinet of wonders and curiosities . . . quirky one-offs and virtuosic pieces that capture a whole world in a few pages. THRILLED TO DEATH has all those qualities." —The Washington Post buff.ly/5hHDKnI

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Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin is the Winner of The 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction (Knopf Canada/Soft Skull Press). The $150,000USD award is the largest English-language literary prize in the world for women and non-binary authors. Learn more: carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/2025-winner

Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin is the Winner of The 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction (Knopf Canada/Soft Skull Press). The $150,000USD award is the largest English-language literary prize in the world for women and non-binary authors. Learn more: carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/2025-winner
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💥 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 💥 Today we share the cover of Matthew Rice's PLASTIC, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by @nlcaputo! PLASTIC hits bookstores on 1/13/26, but you can preorder your copy now. Learn more: buff.ly/cybsISY

💥 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 💥 Today we share the cover of Matthew Rice's PLASTIC, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by @nlcaputo!

PLASTIC hits bookstores on 1/13/26, but you can preorder your copy now. 

Learn more: buff.ly/cybsISY
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Happy publication day to WE, THE CASERTAS! ✨ From prize–winning author Aurora Venturini, a Gothic masterpiece following a gifted Argentine girl who left for Europe in search of meaning, and the relentless punishments of womanhood in the 1940s. buff.ly/U106asZ

Happy publication day to WE, THE CASERTAS! ✨ 

From prize–winning author Aurora Venturini, a Gothic masterpiece following a gifted Argentine girl who left for Europe in search of meaning, and the relentless punishments of womanhood in the 1940s.

buff.ly/U106asZ
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✨ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ We're thrilled to share the cover of Sidarta Ribeiro's THE FLOWERS OF GOOD, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by @nlcaputo! THE FLOWERS OF GOOD hits shelves on 1/27/26 and is available to preorder now. buff.ly/eQqHiBQ

✨ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ We're thrilled to share the cover of Sidarta Ribeiro's THE FLOWERS OF GOOD, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by @nlcaputo!

THE FLOWERS OF GOOD hits shelves on 1/27/26 and is available to preorder now.
buff.ly/eQqHiBQ
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"Venturini’s exquisite prose and her boldness in diving deep into the consciousness of a troubled, outcast young girl, one who defiantly chooses her own uncompromising way in the world, makes this a novel well worth reading." — Los Angeles Review of Books buff.ly/86EbCJE

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Our Literary Thursdays series continues with Tree Abraham, who will discuss her groundbreaking memoir "elseship: an unrequited affair." Join us on June 12 at 6PM! queenslibrary.org/calendar/pride… #PrideMonth #WeSpeakPride

Our Literary Thursdays series continues with Tree Abraham, who will discuss her groundbreaking memoir "elseship: an unrequited affair." 
Join us on June 12 at 6PM! 
queenslibrary.org/calendar/pride… 
#PrideMonth #WeSpeakPride
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We are thrilled to announce our Summer 2025 Book Club selection: “Fresh, Green Life” by sebastian castillo. Join the LARB Book Club on July 30 for a compulsively readable journey through philosophy, literature, and the antihero’s pursuit of self-improvement. lareviewofbooks.org/event/larb-boo…

We are thrilled to announce our Summer 2025 Book Club selection: “Fresh, Green Life” by <a href="/bartlebytaco/">sebastian castillo</a>. Join the LARB Book Club on July 30 for a compulsively readable journey through philosophy, literature, and the antihero’s pursuit of self-improvement. lareviewofbooks.org/event/larb-boo…
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it was a true delight to write up the goldenest boy sebastian castillo’s new book, Fresh, Green Life for the goldenest mag BOMB Magazine—I say in the piece that Sebastian’s work keeps growing in playfulness, generosity, and gravity; you’ve gotta check it out bombmagazine.org/articles/2025/…

it was a true delight to write up the goldenest boy <a href="/bartlebytaco/">sebastian castillo</a>’s new book, Fresh, Green Life for the goldenest mag <a href="/BOMBmagazine/">BOMB Magazine</a>—I say in the piece that Sebastian’s work keeps growing in playfulness, generosity, and gravity; you’ve gotta check it out
bombmagazine.org/articles/2025/…