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Talbot & The Fall: A Comedy (With Support) || Michael Nath || Novel

Can art help overcome our fear of death? Can we make art without knowing death? These questions animate Talbot & The Fall: A Comedy (With Support).

Charlie Talbot is a Creative-Writing student. Her father, John (a driver on the London Underground), has been introducing her to the words and music of the legendary, cult rock group, The Fall. While John awaits the results of an ominous biopsy, Charlie spends the week at a writing retreat in Norfolk, working on everything but her final-year project.

Indirect Books’ first full-length project, Talbot & The Fall will be Michael Nath‘s fourth novel, a raucous and insightful meditation on life, death, art, and legacy.

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Forthcoming June 16, 2026 || Preorder here

Directory || Christopher Linforth || Collected Short Fiction

Our second project will be a reissue of Christopher Linforth‘s Directory, a genre-breaking experiment in the world of flash. In this collection of semi-connected stories, the choral narrators crisscross a fractious and unwelcoming United States. First published by Otis Books/Seismicity Editions in 2020, Directory received strong praise from several outlets, including Necessary Fiction, Smokelong Quarterly, BuzzFeed, and3:AM.

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Forthcoming October 20, 2026

The Revolution Comes From Within || D. W. White || Literary Criticism

Informed by archival research and the author’s work teaching graduate courses on Cusk, The Revolution Comes From Within is a critical examination of the English writer Rachel Cusk’s oeuvre, with a focus on narration and the connection between Cusk’s writing style and her societal claims.

Written with the blend of rigorous criticism and lively prose offered by the author’s background as a creative writer, the book undertakes an in-depth and sophisticated analysis of Cusk’s work on its way to making a wider argument for the centrality of narrative mode in contemporary fiction. Rachel Cusk and the Art of Narration engages in contemporary conversations around narratology, autofiction, and feminist literary studies to help fill a lacunae in literary criticism that is at once accessible, informed, and text-focused.

In dialogue with an emerging Cuskian scholarship, the book serves as an important contribution towards understanding the work of a major contemporary writer, allowing the general reader and literary student alike to enter into the texts of her novels and memoirs, uncovering the philosophical potential of Cusk’s art from within. Indirect Book’s own D. W. White makes his critical debut in the first full-length study of Rachel Cusk.

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Forthcoming November 13, 2026

Until The Victim Becomes Our Own|| Dimitris Lyacos || Novel

For the first time in English, Dimitris Lyacos’ Until The Victim Becomes Our Own outlines a portrait of Western civilization, examined and reassessed from its Judeo-Christian foundations, through industrialization and the development of advanced forms of coercion, to a harmony imposed by cybernetic control. Employing alternating narrators, the book’s standalone chapters complement each other in a sequence akin to various techniques of cinematic montage.

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Forthcoming 2027

Celine in Silence || Hannah Harlee || Novel

Editor-in-Chief of ARTWIFE Magazine, Hannah Harlee, will make her full-length debut with Indirect Books in 2027. Set in an oddly spiritual and quietly menacing San Francisco, this groundbreaking novel explores the disquiet that comes from stillness, the tensions found in stability, and the depths of solitude.

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Forthcoming 2027

Earthquake Weather || Ella Hormel || Flash Collection

Prose Editor at Iron Oak Editions, Ella Hormel, will make her debut with Indirect Books in 2027 in this sharp, incisive collection of flash fiction that meditates on relationship norms, motherhood, femininity, and the deep roots of place. Set in a vivid and at times surreal San Francisco, this propellent collection drives voice and character into a precise consideration of the domestic and the individual, along with all the spaces between.

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Forthcoming 2027

Virginia Woolf Anthology || Submit to the Anthology


Indirect Books seeks submissions for an anthologized collection responding to the work of Virginia Woolf. Focused on works of literary criticism and autotheory, we are interested both in writing that engages playfully and seriously with Woolf’s fiction and nonfiction. Traditional scholarship offering fresh interpretations and innovative essays detailing personal readings will equally be considered. We hope to curate a selection of critical and autotheoretical work that puts forth an expansive, insightful, and erudite understanding of Woolf’s oeuvre in pieces that are willing to take risks artistically, formally, or substantively.

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