Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books published in July 2024 from CLMP members.
Plumstead Pram Pushers by Katie Beswick
Red Ogre Review | July 1, 2024
This poetry chapbook, set in Southeast London, is “a love poem to desire, pain, and imperfection.”
Dark Property by Brian Evenson
Black Square Editions | July 1, 2024
According to Ben Ehrenreich, in this novel “McCarthy’s sprawling Western lyricism has been replaced by a tight almost Beckettian absurdism, like Blood Meridian boiled down to an oozy ichorous syrup.”
Coachella Elegy by Christian Gullette
Trio House Press | July 1, 2024
This debut poetry collection “explores the queer promised lands and poolside utopias of the American West even as they are threatened by environmental destruction.”
Dressing the Bear by Susan L. Leary
Trio House Press | July 1, 2024
Leary’s Dressing the Bear is a collection of poems “composed in the wake of her brother’s passing that explores the themes of love, loss, grief, longing, and addiction.”
The Bamboo Wife by Leona Sevick
Trio House Press | July 1, 2024
Sevick’s poetry collection “captures the experiences of an imperfect woman held up against the standard of ‘good’ wife and mother.”
Four Fields by Dorinda Wegener
Trio House Press | July 1, 2024
Wegener’s Four Fields “weaves family traditions and natural landscapes into a stunning tapestry of loss, trauma, growth, and maturity.”
RAPilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age by Chuck D and Kathy Lopez
Akashic Books | July 2, 2024
In this volume, Chuck D and his Pilates guru, Kathy Lopez, “present the ‘RAPilates’ program of more than thirty mat-based exercises for people of all ages and experiences.”
Giant Robot Poems: On Mecha-Human Science, Culture & War
Middle West Press | July 2, 2024
Edited by Randy Brown, this anthology “collects 92 poems involving concepts, narratives, and cautionary tales of ‘human-electro-mechanical-cyber interaction, connection, and competition.'”
1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock
Akashic Books | July 2, 2024
In this memoir exploring the year 1967, Hitchcock “adjusts to the hierarchical, homoerotic world of Winchester, threading a path through teachers with arrested development, some oafish peers, and a sullen old maid.”
Dalkey Archive Press | July 2, 2024
This novel “follows the strange, wonderful, fluxional world of the Crickholmes, where nonconformism is celebrated, siblings form autonomous republics, and eccentricity reigns supreme.”
False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel by K’wan
Akashic Books | July 2, 2024
In this sequel to The Reluctant King, “Maureen King and her son Shadow are forced to vacate their family estate and end up back where it all began for them: the slums of Brooklyn.”
The Caricaturist by Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press | July 2, 2024
The penultimate book in The American Novels series is “a tragicomic portrait of America struggling to honor its most-cherished ideals at the dawn of the twentieth century.”
Deep Vellum | July 2, 2024
This poetry collection “follows Poole’s decision to start keeping a poetry journal while commuting by foot around Austin.”
In This Ravishing World by Nina Schuyler
Regal House Publishing | July 2, 2024
The short stories in this collection feature “an unforgettable cast of dreamers, escapists, activists, and artists, creating a kaleidoscopic view of the climate crisis.”
Translated from the French by Sarah Robertson
Schaffner Press | July 2, 2024
This book is an account of the author’s reporting and involvement with those working “to exhume and identify the victims found in mass graves throughout the war-torn regions of the world, particularly in Bosnia-Herzegovina.”
A Blind Salmon by Julia Wong Kcomt
Translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Shyue
Deep Vellum | July 2, 2024
In her first full-length collection available in English, Wong Kcomt “traces fanged emotions with sticky precision, exploring mothering, multilinguality, and madness.”
Pelekinesis | July 8, 2024
Edited by Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, and Grant Faulkner, this anthology “provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.”
The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry by Stacey D’Erasmo
Graywolf Press | July 9, 2024
In this collection of conversations, D’Erasmo “asks eight legendary artists: What has sustained you in the long run?”
What the Angel Saw, What the Saint Refused by George Franklin
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | July 8, 2024
In this narrative poetry chapbook, “the angel doesn’t know the purpose of his presence among humans, but grief draws him to itself repeatedly.”
Translated from the Spanish by Erín Moure
Black Sun Lit | July 9, 2024
In this bilingual poetry collection, Ajens “combines indigenous writing and languages, the history of Western literature, post-structuralist philosophy and linguistics, manipulating geographical and scriptural boundaries.”
Vine Leaves Press | July 9, 2024
In this YA novel, eighteen-year-old Lena “must repair a fractured friendship, embrace the support of unexpected allies, and relearn how to trust herself.”
Haymarket Books | July 9, 2024
This book is “an eye-opening account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, showing how the strike—and the violent backlash that ensued–reveal the genesis of modern policing.”
Be Broken to Be Whole: New & Selected Poems by Tom Crawford
Empty Bowl | July 9, 2024
According to Edward Field, “Crawford’s translucent poetry shimmers with gratitude for life that only someone who has come through deep sorrow can feel, and approaches the uncanny wisdom of the twice-born.”
blue and blue and blue by Darren C. Demaree
Fernwood Press | July 9, 2024
blue and blue and blue “conveys the overwhelming importance of having (every so often) a complete washing off of your desire for success.”
Let Gravity Seize the Dead by Darrin Doyle
Regal House Publishing | July 9, 2024
This novella “is an intergenerational literary horror story featuring a blend of suspense, beauty, and terror.”
Red Hen Press | July 9, 2024
This book “provides a much-needed resource for teams to explore often-overlooked opportunities, common mistakes, the most effective tools, proven solutions, and innovative new techniques for guaranteeing success and advancing their organizations’ missions.”
A Map of My Want by Faylita Hicks
Haymarket Books | July 9, 2024
Hicks’s second poetry collection “follows a nonbinary femme as they explore the sensual intersection of the personal and the political, a crossroads to which their sexual liberation brought them after their escape from a religious cult.”
I Can Give You Anything But Love by Gary Indiana
Seven Stories Press | July 9, 2024
In this memoir, Indiana “has composed a literary, unabashedly wicked, and revealing montage of excursions into his life and work.”
The Potato Eaters by Farhad Pirbal
Translated from the Kurdish by Jiyar Homer and Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse
Deep Vellum | July 9, 2024
Each of the stories in this collection “underlines ‘otherness,’ or isolation and displacement in contemporary society.”
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Graywolf Press | July 9, 2024
First published in 2004, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is “a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousness—a book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence.”
Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida
Translated from the Japanese by Haydn Trowell
Europa Editions | July 9, 2024
This novel is “a symphony of interconnected lives that offers a compelling reflection on life in modern-day metropolises at the intersection of isolation and intimacy.”
Fine in a Minute by King Daddy
Bamboo Dart Press | July 12, 2024
This poetry collection “highlights King Daddy’s twisted, erotically-charged yet erudite wit and wisdom, which evokes fever dream poignancy and working-class empathy.”
JackLeg Press | July 15, 2024
These are poems “of wit, inquiry, and sonic vigor that examine issues of being, textuality, and the imaginative act.”
Loveland: A Memoir of Romance and Fiction by Susan Ostrov
Blackwater Press | July 15, 2024
Ostrov’s memoir “is about the unfolding of unmet expectations, of shattered childhood dreams, of tenderness found unexpectedly.”
Instructions for Banno by Kiran Bath
Kelsey Street Press | July 16, 2024
In her debut poetry collection, Bath “travels through the timelines and geographies of the women in her family to understand the inherited consequences of becoming a South Asian bride (banno).”
Talking Back to the Exterminator by Daniel Bourne
Regal House Publishing | July 16, 2024
This poetry collection explores “Bourne’s upbringing in southern Illinois to his later homes in Ohio, Poland, or the American Southwest.”
Out of the Rain by J. Malcolm Garcia
Seven Stories Press | July 16, 2024
This debut novel “takes us into the growing world of the homeless in the United States, particularly in San Francisco.”
Vine Leaves Press | July 16, 2024
Gillen’s novel “is alive to the weight of familial expectations, the pursuit of our deepest hopes and dreams, and the struggle to make meaningful connections in the anxiety of the digital age.”
A Thousand Thoughts in Flight: Diaries, 1974–1996 by Maria Gabriela Llansol
Translated from the Portuguese by Audrey Young
Deep Vellum | July 16, 2024
This book features “a remarkable collection of diary entries from cross-genre Portuguese author Maria Gabriela Llansol, which span dozens of diaries and 33 years.”
The River of Goodness by David Marquis
Deep Vellum | July 16, 2024
A follow-up to The River Always Wins, this essay collection is “a lyrical, global exploration of the ways we can create a more just and sustainable world for all.”
Burrow Press | July 16, 2024
A literary-architectural hybrid project, 36 Dwellings “sketches fault lines within a Filipinx family, linking intimate harm to the forces of colonialism and labor migration.”
Slant Books | July 16, 2024
According to Bret Lott, this novel is “by turns fable, romance, theology, and plainspoken testimony to life and death and love and heartbreak.”
Black Lawrence Press | July 19, 2024
According to Sabrina Orah Mark, “The Fault sings to a universe in verse that mournfully and beautifully accounts for its fault lines, its rift, its broken notes.”
After Dinner Conversation: Government Ethics
After Dinner Conversation | July 21, 2024
Edited by Kolby Granville, this anthology features short stories “about the philosophy and ethics of government law and regulation.”
After Dinner Conversation: Research Ethics
After Dinner Conversation | July 21, 2024
Edited by Heather Zeiger, this anthology features short stories “about the philosophy and ethics of research.”
great weather for MEDIA | July 22, 2024
Beacon Radiant is an anthology “of poetry and short fiction by established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond.”
W(h)ine and Cheese by S. Atzeni
Read Furiously | July 23, 2024
A “campus novel mostly off-campus,” W(h)ine and Cheese is “a story of friendship, privilege, and bad ideas.”
Survive by Frederika Amalia Finkelstein
Translated from the French by Isabel Cout and Christopher Elson
Deep Vellum | July 23, 2024
Finkelstein’s novel ”is concerned with the work of grieving for strangers—a grief which does not begin or end, but is rather a structural part of one’s being in the world.”
The Awakening of Latin America by Ernesto Che Guevara
Seven Stories Press | July 23, 2024
This classic anthology on Latin America “shows the Argentine-born revolutionary’s cultural depth, rigorous intellect, and intense emotional engagement with a continent and its people.”
Kings of Coweetsee by Dale Neal
Regal House Publishing | July 23, 2024
This novel is “filled with false charges, child brides, and murder ballads about the heartache of wronged women and the revenge they seek.”
Wrinkled Rebels by Laura Katz Olson
Vine Leaves Press | July 23, 2024
Wrinkled Rebels is “a story of how six people achieve meaningful lives through the struggle for social justice.”
On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ
Feminist Press | July 23, 2024
This novel is “a lost feminist masterwork by feminist and speculative fiction icon Joanna Russ about a lesbian’s coming-to-consciousness during the social upheaval of the 1970s.”
Black Lawrence Press | July 26, 2024
Guess’s poetry collection “digs through the dark absurdities of our shared trauma–the stunted intimacies of life through masks and Twitter and Zoom–alongside ‘the small messes of the heart.'”
Bitter Become the Fields: A Horror Anthology
Horns and Rattles Press | July 27, 2024
This anthology of flash, micro, and short fiction with common themes of flora and fungi asks, “What lies dormant below the grass? In the unplowed fields? Deep in the woods?”
Ash Keys: New Selected Poems by Michael Longley
Wake Forest University Press | July 27, 2024
The poems in this collection explore “love, violence, the natural world, art, psychodrama, family, the Great War, the Homeric past, and Northern Ireland’s troubled present.”
Book of Provocations by mónica teresa ortiz
Host Publications | July 27, 2024
These poems “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression, and its undying cry for liberation.”
Leaving Biddle City by Marianne Chan
Sarabande Books | July 30, 2024
This coming-of-age poetry collection “details one Filipina American speaker’s experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia mythologized as ‘Biddle City.'”
In Their Ruin by Joyce Goldenstern
Black Heron Press | July 30, 2024
This novel “opens in the colorful, parochial Chicago suburb of Cicero, beginning in the late 1940’s when the remnants of the gang once led by Al Capone still existed.”
