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Featured: Black Interest

Black Sheep Digit

In conjunction with the publication of Pills and Starships by Lydia Millet—the latest release from our Black Sheep imprint for Young Adults and Young Readers—we’ve created the Black Sheep Digit, comprising excerpts from Pills and Starships and our first two Black Sheep releases, Changers Book One: Drew by T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper and Game World by C. J. Farley.

She’s Gone

The debut novel from the award-winning Ghanaian-born Jamaican poet.

Black History Digit

In celebration of the release of Black History Month, our Black History Digit includes excerpts from our two February Releases—Nowhere Is a Place by Bernice L. McFadden and The Gospel According to Cane by Courttia Newland—along with Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail and Kola Boof’s The Sexy Part of the Bible.

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Upcoming Events

Marianne Leone — JP Literary Salon (Jamaica Plain, MA)

1/14/25, 7:00pm

Marianne Leone presents Five-Dog Epiphany; also reading: Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone The JP Literary Salon presented by Papercuts & the Loring-Greenough House Free RSVP: papercutsjp.com/events

Billy Childish & Ted Kessler — City Lights (VIRTUAL)

1/18/25, 11:00am

Billy Childish & Ted Kessler present To Ease My Troubled Mind, in conversation with Guy Picciotto of Fugazi (VIRTUAL event, 11:00am PT/2:00pm ET/7:00pm UK)

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