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Sublunary Editions is a newish press based in Seattle, Washington, focused on small works of fiction.

From their website:

Sublunary Editions started as a small-scale, DIY project by Joshua Rothes in early 2019. For the first several months, the press's sole output as a regular envelope of new writing mailed (the old fashioned way) to subscribers. Since then, the press has expanded to publish 10-12 brief books every year, along with a quarterly magazine, Firmament, and our archival series, Empyrean.

Why brief forms of literature? Well, why not? Because they are perhaps most often overlooked, or most likely to be seen as insubstantial, mere curiosities. We, then, like to pay special attention to them, and repeat, with a wink, what César Aira has often said, that "The longer a book is, the less literature it has."

We also pride ourselves on being a writer's press. Our team is made up of writers and translators, and we publish what excites us in those capacities. We believe strongly in the concept of "generative literature", that is, we favor books that lead to more books.

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Their books are high quality and quite attractive. Here is a link to their books:

They also offer subscription options, mostly for US and Canadian customers, but there is an international option as well:

They will be publishing the English language translation of Can Xue's Mystery Train, which is a bit of a departure since Yale and Open Letter have published most of her work in the US to date.

Thanks David, they sound great.

Sublunary Editions will be republishing Hallucinated City by Mário de Andrade next week. This will be a reprint of the Tomlins translation.

I mention this in part because Mário de Andrade's famous prose work, ²Ñ²¹³¦³Ü²Ô²¹Ã­³¾²¹, will be published early next year by New Directions and Fitzcarraldo in a new translation by Katrina Dodson. That release has been mentioned in the Fitzcarraldo thread in connection with the upcoming Fitzcarraldo classics project.

Hallucinated City is a precursor to Andrade's later prose work. When Hallucinated City was published in 1922, it was a controversial break from metered poetry. For context, The Waste Land, which played a similar role in English poetry, was also published in 1922.

In any event, it's great to have a small press like Sublunary Editions around, which publishes reprints as well as newer works.

I have received an ARC of The Whore by Marcia Barbieri and wondering how to add an edition of the book so I can rate and share it to let others know of the great literature Sublunary are putting out. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I'm waiting later this month on a pre-ordered copy of We the Parasites (one of a handful of authors/books I've discovered via Twitter, which, interestingly enough, usually results from my finding an author's posts intelligent, funny, or both, and then looking into their work). Somewhat hit or miss so far with this approach. In this case, the author/book introduced me to the press.

Adam wrote: "I have received an ARC of The Whore by Marcia Barbieri and wondering how to add an edition of the book so I can rate and share it to let others know of the great literature Sublunary are putting ou..."

You can put in a request, Adam (or, there might be a librarian in this group who notices your post). For the formal process: