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06/01/2026

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride, y'all!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We are proud to stand with the LGBTQ+ community during Pride month and all year round. We're celebrating by reading q***r books, watching q***r movies, attending community Pride events, honoring q***r activists past and present, and calling our representatives to oppose anti-LGBTQ legislation.

05/29/2026

Mark your calendars! Louise Marburg is taking FANCY MEETING YOU on book tour, with stops in NY, TX, NC, and VA, and special guests you won't want to miss.

FANCY MEETING YOU hits shelves officially next week and kicks off these great events with P&T Knitwear up first on 6/2, launch day!

05/29/2026

Louise Marburg was featured on Write the Damn Book Already! with Elizabeth Lyons. Louise discusses her journey from writing short stories to writing her novel, FANCY MEETING YOU, characters we can't let go of, deciding to publish with an indie press, and the magic of writing. Check out the interview at the link below!

Louise Marburg has spent years devoted to the short story form. So ...

05/27/2026

🌲🏙 We can't wait to bring y'all THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH by Tara Weinstein this August! This thrilling debut novel won the Bakwin Award selected by Tiya Miles, who calls the book a "confessional account of one young woman’s journey of escape, self-discovery, and healing reveals a tangled web of family, history, celebrity, tragedy, and, ultimately, acceptance."

Téa Obreht calls the novel "A gripping, layered, and immensely satisfying debut from a powerful new voice."

🌲🏙The Only Way Out Is Through is the riveting story of one woman confronting her history on a journey of growth, exploration, and reclaiming identity. In the town of Vaughan, everyone knows the story of Bria Singer: abducted at age five, and miraculously back ten years later, returning to find a broken family transformed by her disappearance. Now twenty and living in New York City, Bria must figure out who she is and where she belongs after spending her childhood in the wilderness, cut off from the world. Using journal entries, newspaper clippings, and connections with other survivors, Bria pieces together her own story in this thrilling and suspenseful novel.

THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH hits shelves 8/4 and is available to preorder from you local indie bookstore, Blair's website, and everywhere y'all buy books!

05/22/2026

"Every Book to Buy Today to Read Over Memorial Day Weekend"

FANCY MEETING YOU by Louise Marburg is included on this fabulous list of books to help you kick off the summer vibes this holiday weekend!

"Laura doesn’t exactly have “direction.” She’s unmarried, unburdened with children, and though she’s not quite unemployed, she’s not exactly thriving on the career front, either. She’s also no spring chicken. In fact, she’s 50, and her “midlife crisis”—or is it “midlife catharsis?”—starts now."

Check out the full list at the link below!
https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/books/memorial-day-weekend-books-to-read-buy/

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05/20/2026

🌞Looking for your next summer read?🌞

Add FANCY MEETING YOU by Louise Marburg to your TBR! Hitting shelves on 6/2 and available to preorder now from your local indie bookstore, Blair's website, and everywhere y'all buy books.

And don't just take our word for it! Here's more advanced praise for FANCY MEETING YOU from Jill McCorkle and Elizabeth McKenzie.

🍸“With impeccable comic timing, Louise Marburg also has the daring to skate as close as possible to life’s dark edges, sometimes bringing us to that suspenseful place of wondering: do I laugh or do I cry?”—Jill McCorkle

🍸“Fancy meeting Laura Harrigan, a sharp-witted prevaricator partying like there’s no tomorrow...Marburg’s shrewd novel explores the intersection of society and loneliness and one woman’s search for meaning in a fractured world”—Elizabeth McKenzie

05/19/2026

🦉THE BOOK OF FLACO by David Gessner is now available in paperback!

This is a parable of freedom, wildness, and our urban ecosystems. Flaco has been dubbed “the world’s most famous bird.” From the night in February of 2023 when vandals cut a hole in his cage until his death a year later in a courtyard on the Upper West Side, his is a story full of adventure and unexpected turns. With 32 to pages of beautiful color photos of the Eurasian eagle owl, and a stunning wood cut of Flaco adorning each chapter, readers will experience Flaco's adventure in both words and images.

Mary Roach says, "Like Flaco himself, this book is an inspiration, an invitation to step outside ourselves, to leave the cage, as it were, and connect to something pure and precious. Nature writing can have no worthier purpose.”

Now available from your local indie bookstore, Blair's website, and everywhere y'all buy books!

05/15/2026

Drum roll, please! We are so thrilled to announce the writers and stories that will appear in NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH 2026!

Thank you to all the journals and publishers who submitted fantastic work by their contributors. We can't wait to bring these stories a second life in this anthology of great Southern writers.

Available to preorder from your local indie bookstore, Blair's website, and everywhere y'all buy books! NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH 2026 hits shelves in October.

Stories, authors, and journals in the 2026 volume:

“The Peanut-Butter Cup” by Tony Earley (SWING)

“Bobby Rush Brought Out His Biggest, Baddest, Best’est B***y Shaking Black Women and Blew All Them White Folks ‘Way from The Hot Air Balloon Fest” by Exodus Oktavia Brownlow (Doric Literary)

“Asymptotes” by Emily Nemens (Story)

“She No Longer Fears Him” by Deesha Philyaw (Ploughshares)

“Bullfrog” by Heather Swain (Appalachian Review)

“Firewoman” by Chelyen Davis (Appalachian Review)

“Legacy” by Joanna Pearson (Southern Humanities Review)

“Killjoy” by A.J. Bermudez (The Hopkins Review)

“O Say Can You See” by Jody Hobbs Hesler (Pinch Journal Online)

“The Cottage” by Ron Rash (Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature)

“Roanoke Rapids” by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips (Narrative)

“Tonopah” by Mesha Maren (The Southern Review)

“Sanctuary” by Dean Marshall Tuck (Beloit Fiction Journal)

“The Trouble with Brown People” by Pritha Bhattacharyya (The Kenyon Review)

“Ring” by Catherine Niolet (The Red Branch Review)

“The Fairy Swap” by Emily Harper Ellis (The Greensboro Review)

“Blood Sport” by Farheen Raparthi (The Georgia Review)

“Woman from Khao Lak” by Randy F. Nelson (One Story)

“Tequendama Falls, or The Encroachment of Old Catastrophes” by Lisa Wartenberg Vélez (Cutleaf Journal)

05/14/2026

Tonight at 6 pm! Join Tommy Hays- Author and Josephine Humphreys at Buxton Books in Charleston for a conversation about THE MARRIAGE BED.

05/14/2026

🎉Congratulations!🎉 BEHIND THE WATERLINE by Kionna Walker LeMalle has been named an Honor Book for Fiction by the BCALA - The Black Caucus of the American Library Association !