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Transit Books

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Transit Books

@transitbooks

Publishing award-winning literature from around the world. Coming in September: @transit__kids.

SF Bay Area

Joined July 2015

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Transit Books
@transitbooks
Mar 16, 2023
📣 We're launching a children's imprint! 📣 This fall, we're excited to introduce Transit Children's Editions (@transit__kids), a new list featuring bold, imaginative children's literature from around the world.⁠ Colophon design @annabookdesign 🙏 transitchildrenseditions.org
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Transit Books
@transitbooks
Oct 6, 2023
“There are always a few daunting aspects of publishing a 700-page, single-sentence series of books about doppelgangers on the western coast of Norway meditating on life and art. But this is exactly the kind of work we founded Transit Books to publish.”
How a tiny Bay Area publisher helped make Nobel laureate Jon Fosse a U.S. sensation
From latimes.com
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Transit Books
@transitbooks
Oct 5, 2023
A huge congratulations to Jon Fosse for receiving the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature! 😱😱😱😱
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
Oct 5, 2023
BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
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Transit Books
@transitbooks
Oct 11, 2023
We've sold out of everything! But new editions are on their way—with updated covers donning some new celebratory stickers 👀
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Transit Books
@transitbooks
Oct 13, 2023
“The press has never been just a job for us, it couldn’t be in order for it to survive. It’s the output of our marriage, really: the list reflects how our tastes work together.” Wild to see @Jacob_Brogan’s profile of us and the press in @washingtonpost
This couple just published a Nobel winner from their living room
From washingtonpost.com
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Transit Books
@transitbooks
May 1, 2023
📢 Our open reading period is here! 📢 This year we're considering translations from South Asian, Southeast Asian, and East Asian languages—fiction, narrative nonfiction, and illustrated books for @transitchildrenseditions.⁠ Submissions close June 15. transitbooks.org/submissions
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Transit Books
@transitbooks
Nov 7, 2023
We’re so excited to have amazing editor and translator @lizzie_davis_ acquiring for our list. Welcome, Lizzie! 🎉🎉🎉
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Transit Books
@transitbooks
Aug 1, 2023
🌟 Happy Women in Translation Month! 🌟⁠ ⁠ To celebrate, we're offering 30% off all titles by women in translation through the end of August with the discount code WITMONTH. ⁠ transitbooks.org/books?category…
GIF
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Transit Books
@transitbooks
Nov 30, 2021
Happy pub day to @PretiTaneja's ✨AFTERMATH✨ an essay that reckons with the language of terror, trauma and grief in the wake of the 2019 London Bridge killings. We couldn't be prouder of Preti and this bold, beautiful book. transitbooks.org/books/aftermath
Transit Books
@transitbooks
Jul 6, 2022
"It is rare to find a writer who can take such candid pleasure in beauty—the beauty of faces, figures, clothing, and cities—while also querying its injustices. ...[My Life as a Godard Movie] is a gorgeous complex gesture of criticism."— Merve Emre (@mervatim)
Transit Books
@transitbooks
Nov 14, 2019
We couldn’t be prouder of our very own publisher Ashley Nelson Levy, whose first book, IMMEDIATE FAMILY, will be coming out with @fsgbooks!
Transit Books
@transitbooks
Jan 10, 2023
We're excited to announce that we've been awarded a $15,000 grant from @NEAarts. Arts funding at this level is invaluable for small presses like ours and our mission. We're grateful for the NEA's continued support! 🙏 🎉
transitbooks.org
Transit Books — Transit Receives $15,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Transit Books has been approved for a $15,000 grant to support the publication and promotion of books of fiction and nonfiction, including works in translation.
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Transit Books
@transitbooks
May 4, 2022
**Cover reveal!** Introducing MY LIFE AS A GODARD MOVIE 💄 coming in September. A stylish book-length essay by Joanna Walsh on beauty and revolution as seen through the films of Jean-Luc Godard, next up in our Undelivered Lectures series. Cover design by @annabookdesign 🙏
Transit Books
@transitbooks
Feb 26, 2020
It's finally (almost!) here: Undelivered Lectures, our new narrative nonfiction series, featuring book-length essays in slim, handsome editions. Mary Cappello's LECTURE and @namwalien's STRANGER FACES arrive in September. Full announcement ⬇️⬇️⬇️ transitbooks.org/news/2020/2/26…