Soft Skull Press

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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"Brutal, horrific, disturbing, yet amazingly heartfelt and touching, THE FLAYED MAN deserves a spot on your summer reading list." — @gruesomemag

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Congratulations to Taylor Byas for being named a finalist in the @Ohioana
Library Book Awards for her poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE!

Check out the full list of finalists: https://t.co/PaPeFagiBK

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"It is the world Lubrin creates that is most riveting: scientific, philosophical, existential, intimate." — @worldlittoday

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👯‍♂️ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 👯‍♂️ We're pleased to share the cover of Aurora Venturini's masterful and acerbic forthcoming novel FRIENDS (translated by Kit Maude), designed by @nlcaputo!

FRIENDS goes on sale on 12/8 and is available to preorder now.
https://t.co/ZDODf7hajA

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We're so excited that WHEN THE MUSEUM IS CLOSED is a Ballerina Book Club Pick! Thank you @allartstv @isabellaabt 🩰 🏛️ https://t.co/pklxEIVozs

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Come see these incredible authors and more at the L.A. Times Festival of Books this weekend! Or catch our editors at Booth #925 📚️ @latimesfob

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✨ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ Today we're delighted to share the cover of @meenakandasamy's forthcoming novel FIELDWORK AS A SEX OBJECT, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by @nlcaputo!

On sale 11/24 — preorder now! 📚
https://t.co/3jXZM7HTEj

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✨ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ Yukiko Motoya is back with a new novel! We're thrilled to share the cover today, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by Nicole Caputo!

LOVE AT LEAST hit bookstores on 9/8 and is available to preorder now 📚
https://t.co/HCMPs3o0RF

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Happy paperback pub day to Lynne Tillman's THRILLED TO DEATH! 📚

✨ "In an era of truncated attention spans, her short stories, some verging on micro, seem newly with-it. Her one-liners can do more than certain entire volumes." — @nytimesbooks

https://t.co/vDfY5yUQR1

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Oscar style recap ft. our books 📚 #oscars2026

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"When someone falls in love with a statue, is that relationship doomed from the outset?"

WHEN THE MUSEUM IS CLOSED is one of @vol1brooklyn's favorite books of February!

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Congratulations to CODE NOIR author Canisia Lubrin!

[The Story Prize @TheStoryPrize]

🚨Announcing The Story Prize Longlist🚨

[OPEN COUNTRY MAG @OpenCountryMag]

In her 2025 Ondaatje Prize-longlisted second novel, Nigerian British author Irenosen Okojie utilizes magical realism to trace rebirth and redemption between seventeenth-century Cape Verde and contemporary London. @softskull

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Insightful reflections on the author’s writing process and the ways in which it parallels the writing life of other author’s life like Rilke, Kafka, Barthes, & Lispector. @softskull

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Recap from an amazing event at @skylightbooks with Canisia Lubrin celebrating the release of her new book THE WORLD AFTER RAIN. Thank you to all who came out and said hello! 📚

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"Yagi and her translator Yuki Tejima have a gift for finding beauty in the quotidian—a kind of ekphrasis of the everyday." — @ArtForum

https://t.co/ZETIWVU0Y1

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Happy publication day to Canisia Lubrin's THE WORLD AFTER RAIN! 🌧️

🌧️ "Lubrin’s fifth book, her fourth work of poetry, is a wonder." — @ALA_Booklist

https://t.co/YM30aORmT2

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WHEN THE MUSEUM IS CLOSED has been named a best book of January by @people!

“[A] unique, witty novel about love and loneliness.”
https://t.co/yrngSaOYIz

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THE FLOWERS OF GOOD by Sidarta Ribeiro is available now! 🍃

🍃 "A Brazilian neurobiologist recounts the joys of weed. . . . You don’t have to be stoned to read this, but it couldn’t hurt." — @KirkusReviews

Read now: https://t.co/aZDFAF4PWq

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Happy publication day to WHEN THE MUSEUM IS CLOSED by Emi Yagi (translated by Yuki Tejima)! 🖼️ ✨

🌟 "A fun and (metaphysical) sexy queer love story, Yagi’s latest tackles love, loneliness, and the role of women’s beauty in society." — @lithub