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The Lit Pub is an independent publishing company specializing in literary hybridity. We're interested in the genre-blurring that occurs when authors experiment with traditional and established forms of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. We also serve our fellow publishers (as well as readers like you) by recommending at least one book a day on our blog.

(For Book Lovers)

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    Slaves to Do These Things
    Amy King
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    House Inspections
    Carsten René Nielsen
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    The Fall of Sleep
    Jean-Luc Nancy
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    Philosophy of Decomposition / Re-composition as Explanation
    Michael Leong
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    we in my Trans
    j/j hastain
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    After Claude
    Iris Owens
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    Ghost Lights
    Lydia Millet
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    Smiles of the Unstoppable
    Jason Bredle
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    The Buddha in the Attic
    Julie Otsuka
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    to the river
    Rose Hunter

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No matter what kind of reader you are, we've got a book for you! Check in regularly to discover great new authors. Read a few recommendations (NYT bestseller Anthony Doerr's, PEN/USA winner Lydia Millet's, NPR's Alan Cheuse's, and NYT Editors' Choice Sarah Manguso's), then check out the rest of our contributors! You can even submit your own recommendations for books you love!

(For Authors)

We Publish
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    Together We Can Bury It
    Kathy Fish
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    The Third Elevator
    Aimee Bender
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    TOCOTLOPL
    Ben Segal & Erinrose Mager
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    The Drought
    Miles Harvey
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    the Birds & the Beasts
    Andrea Kneeland
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    In Love with a Ghost
    J. A. Tyler
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    How the Broken Lead the Blind
    Matt Bell
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    American Gymnopédies
    Scott Garson
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    23 Months
    Caitlin Horrocks

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We've published neo-fabulists/surrealists Aimee Bender, Andrea Kneeland, and Matt Bell; hybrid-genre stylists J. A. Tyler and Scott Garson; historical crime journalist Miles Harvey; women's fiction realists Kathy Fish and Caitlin Horrocks; and even an anthology of blurbs for books that don't exist. This summer we'll open to submissions for book-length lyric essays. What's a lyric essay? Read this.

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    Flash Fiction Fridays
    Robert Vaughan
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    Spooky Girlfriend Press
    Nate Logan
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    Writing Off Script: Writers on the Influence of Cinema
    Cynthia Hawkins
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    The Sky Conducting
    Michael J. Seidlinger
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    So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art
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    Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art
    Various
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    No, Not Today
    Jordan Stempleman
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    I Take Back the Sponge Cake
    Loren Erdrich & Sierra Nelson
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    Legs Get Led Astray
    Chloe Caldwell
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    Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them
    Jenny Boully

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