This past Friday, art historian, essayist, critic, and Firmament columnist A. V. Marraccini was awarded a 2021-2022 Emerging Critics fellowship by the National Book Critics Circle. Piggybacking on this exciting news, we are happy to share that Sublunary Editions will be publishing Marraccini’s book-length debut, We the Parasites, an essay on inhabiting other bodies through […]

This interview first appeared in the Spring 2021 edition of Firmament. The interview was conducted by Sublunary Editions associate editor, Vik Shirley. You have worked quite extensively with song lyrics, Sonnets for Malkmus (Sad Press), in which you combined the lyrics of Stephen Malkmus with the form and process of Rilke. In Excavate: Poems After […]

Someone had to love the harmony of the world, the hidden law of cadences; someone had to be alone and listen for all time… Magda Isanos The poetry of interwar Romania carries within the thunderous scream and the heavy silence of confession and creation, one the impulse of the other, and it is under this […]

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” Kurt Vonnegut It’s a long-held belief of mine that every press worth its salt should be, at least a little bit, in the business of preserving the absolute wealth of texts that have fallen out of print, […]

Open your favorite book and you are likely to find an extended “Praise for” section among the front-matter, reassuring you—for you had your doubts—that the book you hold in your hands is worthy of your attention. You feel relieved to be among such company, perhaps even an undue pride, as you may have even bought […]

Sublunary Editions is pleased to announce that we will be publishing Clémence , a brief novel by French writer Yves Ravey, translated by Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge. Clémence marks the first appearance of Ravey in English. Clémence, a novel of building suspicion and looming violence, artfully uses stark language to make us uneasy at […]

We are thrilled (to say the least) to announce that in early 2022, we will be publishing two volumes by Julio Cortázar. Letters from Mom (Cartas de Mamá ) is one of Cortázar’s best known longer stories, originally part of the collection Las armas secretas, most of which was translated as part of the seminal […]

We will be opening up for submissions early this year, reading for the Summer and Fall issues of Firmament in March, and welcoming manuscripts for consideration in May. You can find detailed guidelines on our Oleada page.

At long last, the prose of Osvaldo Lamborghini has made it to English, wrested and wrestled from the realm between the unquestionably literary and the in-poor-taste, between high and low, between… you get the idea. While one can find the roots of Lamborghini in Lautréamont, in Carrington, in Breton, he arrived at his own, sui […]

The following is taken from Christina Tudor-Sideri’s introduction to her translation of Mihail Sebastian’s Fragments from a Found Notebook, which is out December 8 from Sublunary Editions. As readers, we often dwell on the personal lives of authors, at times before we engage with their work, or even when we have no intention in doing […]