BlogFlock
by Elise McHugh
Every acquisition editor can tell you stories of the ones that got away—those projects that excited us and that we had a great conversation with the author (or the author and their agent) about, but that ultimately ended up with a different publisher.…
Edited by Annette Gilbert and Andreas Bülhoff
Spector Books ($60)
As a publishing technology new to the 21st Century, Print on Demand (POD) enables a smaller book publisher (or a self-publishing author/artist) to print one bound copy at a…
March 5 - 7, 2026
Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, Maryland
As usual, Rain Taxi will be taking part in the annual AWP Conference & Bookfair, which this year takes place in Baltimore. Stop by our table to say hi, and see…
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, Magers & Quinn Booksellers; co-sponsored by Rain Taxi
Amidst continued winter chills and challenges in…
Domenico Starnone
Translated by Oonagh Stransky
Europa Editions ($17)
by Rick Henry
The writing life of Domenico Starnone, grand master of the Italian literary scene, is filled with novels, screenplays, awards, film adaptations, and translations of his works into a growing number of languages. In the autumn of 2025, The…
Harold Schechter and Eric Powell
Dark Horse Books ($29.99)
by Hank Kennedy
“He ruined comics”—or at least that’s the story countless books, articles, and documentaries have told about the damage Dr. Fredric Wertham did to the art form. Parent-Teacher Associations, members of the clergy, and even J. Edgar Hoover had…
Denise Duhamel
University of Pittsburgh Press ($20)
Sentimental without being saccharine, Denise Duhamel’s Pink Lady takes us through her mother’s decline and death at a nursing home in Rhode Island. While the book is a poetic memoir of sorts, Duhamel uses her mastery of craft to draw…
Debbie Urbanski
Simon & Schuster ($18.99)
In her essay collection Men in Dark Times, Hannah Arendt writes that “storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” While political theory or cultural criticism might seek to define, answer, or name, storytelling invites us to experience…
Join us for an evening focused on great literary translation, co-presented with Magers &…
Isaac Stanley-Becker
Princeton University Press ($35)
by Poul Houe
First impressions of this book may prove telling. The cover features a color photo of Schengen by the Moselle River—a village not only situated “near the tri-point border” between France, Germany, and Luxembourg, but the site where the 1985…