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Here is the cover of Douglas Luman's new book, WORLDPICTURE, a book reflecting on the antifascist resistance of the Crystal Chain Letters of Bruno Taut, et al. Out asap!

MELANIE INDEX by Eric Blix | *out now* erratumpress.com/melanie-index

Lungfish, by @LouisArmxnd, published earlier this year, is a multi-layered work of docufiction, weaving myth, memory & true crime into a sprawling narrative of Australia & its shadows. A late-80s phantasmagoria set in a rural Australian town, trailing a pack of whacked-out kids & a battered VH Valiant Ranger as it tears through heat, dust, riverbeds, & bad history. Lungfish holds Australia open, exposing storytelling itself as a contested terrain shaped by erasure & violence, all the while refusing to forget. “Dense, playful writing that boldly & unapologetically experiments with form & tone. Louis Armand’s Lungfish is a stream of conscience machine gun fever dream that feels strangely familiar, but also like no place I’ve ever been.”—Glendyn Ivin “Necromodernist travel writing from another dimension. Armand returns to his Antipodean roots in an unsettling and raucous effort which takes pot shots at settler-colonial sacred cows.”—Wayne Bradshaw For more information & ordering details please visit equuspress.wordpress.com/lungfish/ DM us for review copies.

Happy 10th birthday to @LouisArmxnd's THE COMBINATIONS! Join us for a small celebration tonight, 7 pm, at L'Objet Trouvé (Šternberkova 11, Holešovice)! Staged readings, accordeon, double-bass, & clarinet improv, chess puzzles, and much more!

Ansgar ALLEN, JONATHAN MARTIN (Equus, 2025) Ansgar Allen resurrects the incendiary life of the 19th-century outsider who, in 1829, set fire to York Minster. Martin’s life — at once prophetic, deranged, and tragically emblematic of his age — becomes the ground for Allen’s boldest experiment in historical fiction to date. Blending archival fragments, self-published pamphlets, trial records, and fictionalised reconstructions, Ansgar Allen asks: was Martin a prophet or a lunatic, an arsonist or a visionary? “A powerful meditation on authorial voice, writing as prophecy, and the boundaries between sanity and inspiration, Jonathan Martin continues Allen’s exploration of institutional education and deviance from social order. It is a work of fiction that refuses to perpetuate the illusion of coherence, confronting the reader instead with the broken totality of a life lived on the edge of destruction.” —David Vichnar, Erratum Press Review For more info and ordering details visit equuspress.wordpress.com/jonathan-marti…

It's 16 years since we put out this nearly 1000-page monster! Get THE RETURN OF KRAL MAJALES pdf via @Litteraria or below...

Come in, we are OPEN! Here (Kampus Hybernska) till 7 pm all day, at this year’s BookFest! Be a friend, come for a warm chat and friendly coffee… Get a book, make (y)our day!

404_ERROR, by R.G. Vasicek & Zak Ferguson (Equus, 2022), merges comedic disjunction, horror, and meta-commentary with the architecture of error. The novel treats the 404 error not just as a digital glitch but as a metaphoric self, a presence that haunts every access point, every reflection, every system breakdown. According to a reviewer, it “shifts between comedy and horror, commentary and meta-commentary, wetware and meatspace,” pushing the sense of the instability underlying our presumed “realities.” The book is also advertised as machine-made, a “pocket machine that requires no batteries,” signalling its ambition to become both content and medium. equuspress.wordpress.com/404_error-memo…

...or welcome to Prague by the incomparable Nathan Anderson is the latest full length book from C22! Another masterpiece from a master of their form, you'll want to check it out right away! wp.me/pe92fG-iG

‘Imagine somewhere a great and splendid hall where everything is done to produce joy and merriment – but the entrance to this hall is a nasty, muddy, horrible stairway, and it is impossible to pass without getting disgustingly soiled and admission is paid by prostituting oneself, and when day dawns the merriment is over and all ends with one’s being kicked out again. But the whole night through everything is done to keep up and inflame the merriment and pleasure.’ The editorial work is nearing completion on PAINTING EYES ON CHAOS, Phil O'Neil's final text he completed just before his untimely demise last autumn. Off to the typesetter presently, available for pre-order review copy already. Envisaged publication: late April. Here's a back cover sneak preview, more info to follow.

Check out ...or welcome to Prague by Nathan Anderson right away! A thrilling new full length book from a master of weird and wonderful writing—you won't be disappointed! wp.me/pe92fG-iG

"How do you replicate a feeling in a way that doesn’t seek to make it relatable? How do you enact it instead?" spoke to Mathilde Montpetit from The Auflauf about GLANTZ ( @EquusPress ), and some big news regarding @MinorLits 's 2026 plans ... linked below

a peek inside JONATHAN MARTIN @EquusPress a novel about a man of the same name who set fire to York Minster in 1829 and was committed to Bedlam that same year

Another recent title just made available via Barnes & Noble is Michael Rowland's THE UNNAMEABLE OBJECT (2025), "an epic experiment in collective memory and literary excess which assembles fragments of memoir, fiction, satire, and hallucination into a polyphonic chronicle of Prague’s literary underground." DM us for free e-book review copies. barnesandnoble.com/w/the-unnameab…

"A work of fiction that refuses to perpetuate the illusion of coherence, confronting the reader instead with the broken totality of a life lived on the edge of destruction.” @AnsgarAllen's JONATHAN MARTIN, as well as all the other recent Equus titles (GLANTZ, THE UNNAMEABLE OBJECT, LUNGFISH), now available also via Barnes & Noble. DM us for free review e-copies. barnesandnoble.com/w/jonathan-mar…

Does anyone have a theory, reference, or educated hunch as to the origin of the title of @LouisArmxnd's A TOMB IN H-SECTION (2025)? Medical ward? Prison block? Holocaust archive shorthand? Geological stratum? Or is it simply the most aggressively bureaucratic way of naming a grave? Genuinely curious whether this is a traceable reference, a private code, or one of those titles that looks like it comes from somewhere very specific and probably doesn’t — except atmospherically, psychologically, metaphysically. Speculation, citations, wild guesses welcome. Bonus points (free PDF of a 2025 Equus title) for wrong answers delivered with confidence. equuspress.wordpress.com/a-tomb-in-h-se…

The first copies of the still warm-off-the-press Lungfish have already arrived in Prague bookstores, spotted here at the Franz Kafka Bookstore and the Shakespeare & Sons, nestled in-between some Carl Jung, Einstein in Prague, and Patti Smith...

On Invasion Day, 2026, the first 10 specimens of the rarest species of Lungfish, coming all the way from the Land Down Under, have washed up on the coast of Bohemia…