We’ll be celebrating this one all summer, with a launch in Portland (May 12), a party here in Austin (June 9), and a reading in LA (at Book Soup on June 19). Get a jump on it all by preordering the book here.

And stay tuned for fall book festival dates.

Down here in Austin we’re still recovering from the unwieldy beast of SXSW and reliving some of the best shows we saw a week or two ago. (Torres! Natalie Prass! Ray Wylie Hubbard!) We’re pulling hard for Kentucky to take it all. We’re also prepping for AWP in early April and getting to work on some new projects.

Speaking of projects: have you checked in on Covered with Fur lately? Since we launched the magazine in February, we’ve been plugging away and publishing bighearted fiction and strange, smart nonfiction—not to mention photo essays, cartoons, and our new Material series, which offers a peek into the backstory and research behind the CWF fiction.

We’re still thinking about Laura K. Wallace’s “The House in the Reader’s Mind,” a meditation on mirror neurons, metafiction, and the “ritual of making and unmaking” that is reading. Lynne Maphies’ “I Can’t See the Arctic Circle from Here” had us looking seriously at summer flights to Iceland. And today we’re dwelling on Alia Volz’s tender portrait of her artist mother and the stink and lure of turpentine.

On the fiction side, we’ve fallen deep into the sea world of “Ocean Songs,” an elegant and inky blue excerpt from Ethan Rutherford’s work-in-progress. New last week, Ethan’s Material installment heads back into his research and features whale-flensing diagrams, lost books on sea monsters, and an original score for the story by composer Peter C. Murray. YES. We also recommend rereading (and rereading) Kelly Ramsey’s brilliant, lyrical “Ulysses S. Grant, His Horses,” last month’s featured fiction. We’re open for submissions for a bit longer, so send along your best work.

AWP is closing in, too. We’ll be in Minneapolis hawking books and bolting from panel to party to afterparty. We’re cohosting Come and Take It, a celebration of Texas indie lit, on Wednesday, April 8, at 7:30 at Liquor Lyle’s. Come get the whole thing rolling and have your first drink on us. Stop by table 1522 and say hello (or howdy, if you want us to smile real big).

That’s all for now. Hope to catch you somewhere soon!

Happy 2015, y’all. We’re celebrating the best way we know how—by launching our digital magazine, Covered with Fur. We couldn’t be more thrilled to release the magazine into the world.

We’re taking a minimalist approach to online publishing. We believe in lingering, in making space. This means: just two pieces at a time. And it means: extraordinary writing about ordinary things and candid impressions of the extraordinary. Every week we’ll publish a new piece of nonfiction—an essay, a photo essay, a cartoon—and every month we’ll publish a new piece of groundbreaking fiction.

Check out our first installment. It features “Dear Albert, Dear Alison,” a microessay by Ander Monson that meditates on reading other people’s books and marginalia. It’s about Alison Deming’s copy of Albert Goldbarth’s Different Fleshes, digital vs. analog, and what havoc shared books can wreak on us. And we’re so excited to give you Bess Winter’s “Are You Running Away?” It’s a bighearted story about difficult girlhood, friendship, and regret, and some gas pipes with terrifying potential. Bess is one of our favorite story writers, and we’re sure she’ll become one of yours too—and fast.

A couple other things: submissions are OPEN. We’re looking for risky work of all varieties. Check out our submissions page for more info. We’ll be posting new work on Tuesdays; come back to the site weekly for fresh material.

Off we go!

Our Secret Life in the Movies has only been out for two weeks and already it’s taking the world by storm. We were overjoyed when we saw this rave in the Washington Post; reviewer Michael Lindgren calls the book “beautiful” and “devastating.”

Kirkus Reviews published an in-depth feature on the project behind OSLITM and said, “Reading the book feels much like recalling mostly lost memories, or, perhaps, remembering something that never happened at all.” Excerpts went up at some of our favorite online venues: Flavorwire and Midnight Breakfast. We had a super great time with Brazos Bookstore celebrating the book’s release with drinks and clips from Donnie Darko in Houston.

Get your hands on a copy if you haven’t yet.

Oh, and darling Mississippians! Don’t miss Kelly Luce reading from Hana Sasaki this afternoon at Square Books in Oxford, MS.

Until very soon…

We’ve been bad at updating this space, but that means there’s only good news: it’s all uphill from here! We’re making a new commitment to updating you on all the good news and events and happenings around A Strange Object in one spot. Let’s start off with a doozy.

Today is publication day for our newest title, Our Secret Life in the Movies. We’re so excited to send this baby out into the world. Kirkus called Our Secret Life “an intriguing, frequently affecting experiment that challenges its readers to think anew about sharpening and refracting their memories of both life and art.” David Gordon Green says it’s “a beautiful aftershock of the movies.” We say it’s one of the best books you’ll pick up all year.

J.M. Tyree and Mike McGriff were on NPR’s Weekend Edition this Sunday talking about collaboration and The Blob. They’ve got a fascinating interview with each other up today on the Paris Review. How else are we celebrating? By making lists at BBC, Vogue, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. By listening to the authors’ stellar playlist over at Largehearted Boy. By toasting to everyone who helped put the book together.

Our Secret Life is available now. We’ll get it out the door and into your hands fast.

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The book trailer for HANA SASAKI is out! Full of stunning sand animation, Kelly Luce’s own dulcet tones, and peeks into three different scenes from three strange stories. Animation by Corrie Francis Parks, music by In Obscura.

We touched back down in Austin to 85-degree weather and a monstrous SXSW. We adore our city, and we thought it weathered the storm of people and innovation and films and bands quite well this year. We got to see some amazing bands, and we, well, made you a playlist so you can enjoy the beginning of spring right along with us. Check it out on Spotify.

We’re moving right along on both titles launching in the fall and spring, the beautiful magazine, and oh, um, how about our fancy new website? Come back soon.