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05/11/2026

An interior spread from i once thought: a diary collaboration, assembled by Alana Dao and meg willing. 7.5 x 9.5, 274 pages of artwork and prose, from 11 collaborators working in the medium of a diary. Learn more at https://na2.hubs.ly/H05nkRF0

05/10/2026

Itasca author at today, 10 to 5!

05/08/2026

I adore this book, it is so pretty! A cardinal red cover stock with white ink. Saif Azzuz: Keet Hegehlpa’ (the water is rising), published by the always-designing-great-looking-titles Sming Sming Books.

Keet Hegehlpa’ (the water is rising) brings together Azzuz’s artwork and installation images made over the course of 2019–2026. The book spans the artist’s work in painting, sculpture, drawing, mixed-media installation, and collaborative artmaking practices and features original writing by Sháńdíín Brown (Diné), Erika Mei Chua Holum, Kristin Delzell, Julian Markussen (Yurok/Diné), and Laura Phipps.

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ISBN 978-1-953189-24-0May 2026, English, 9 x 12 in., 160 pages, full color, softcoverEdition of 400Design: Sming Sming Books Saif Azzuz (b. 1987; lives and works in Pacifica, California) is a Libyan-Yurok artist who looks to the land in a moment marked by fleeting ecologies and environmental catastr...

05/07/2026

I can always count on The Thalweg to have great cover art, Issue 4 does not disappoint--cover art by Kelsey Wickwire, "Horizons". 8 x 5 paperback, 144 pages, color interior. Buy direct from the publisher at https://bit.ly/4ndsfdI

05/06/2026

It's what I call school literary journal season here at Bookmobile, and the 2026 issue of The Southwestern Review is a stunner! A black cover with soft touch matte lamination, plus a spot gloss treatment on each piece of cover art. Published annually by Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.

05/05/2026

April's top ten from CLMP member publishers at Itasca Books. All available from Itasca Books at https://bit.ly/4tjqMEo CLMP is the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, a nonprofit helping independent literary presses thrive, more info at https://bit.ly/49phLCj

05/04/2026

Reports are in and here's the Itasca Books top-selling titles of April 2026! All available from Itasca Books at https://bit.ly/48v12gI A division of Bookmobile, Itasca provides dropship services and print distribution to the trade.

Wise Ink Unbound Edition Press Rose Metal Press

05/01/2026

Paperback with French flaps plus Saffron fly sheets for Wry Press, XXV Poems by Sylvan Lionni.

"Created entirely from readymade brand name & media logotypes set in various rhyme-scheme permutations, these poems hilariously (& somewhat sickeningly) peer into the detritus of late-stage capitalism."

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04/30/2026

Die cut cover, keep an eye on the eye. The Order of the Black Triangle, by Frank Walls.

Frank Walls is a contemporary American artist best known for his dark surrealism, fantasy illustration, and heavy metal musicianship. Buy direct from the artist at https://na2.hubs.ly/H054-6G0

04/29/2026

Handsome black foil stamp on an Allure Canvas hardcover case: Less Like a Fixed Point, from the artist Kirby Stenger. The photography inside is fantastic! More on the artist and to buy direct: https://na2.hubs.ly/H054-6w0