A STRANGE OBJECT

A Strange Objectis an independent press based in Austin, Texas, dedicated to publishing surprising, heartbreaking fiction alongside thoughtful ephemera. We're talking about fiction that haunts and inspires us—big work that engulfs, that takes risks, that bucks form, that builds warm dwellings in dark places.

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Welcome to A Strange Object

Here's what we're up to:

Our first book arrived in October 2013 and has received glowing reviews from everyone from the Chicago Tribune to Publishers Weekly to the Japan Times. It won the Editor's Choice Prize from Foreword Reviews and the Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book from IBPA. Our second title came out February 18. Kirkus says it covers terrain "at once disturbing and deeply beautiful." The Austin Chronicle said it's better than Gertrude Stein. Our 2014 fall title, Our Secret Life in the Movies, lands November 4. Please check our events page for additional goings-on.

We are distributed by Small Press Distribution.

We believe in the subtle art of subtraction. We're pressing mute on the noise of publishing and increasing the signal and the strange.

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[Side note: Writers, we love you, but we are not accepting unsolicited manuscripts at this time.]