Transit Receives $15,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

Transit Books has been approved for a $15,000 Art Works grant to support the publication and promotion of books of fiction and nonfiction, including works in translation,

Transit NewsTransit BooksJanuary 15, 2020National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, Translated Literature, Adam Z. Levy

Axiomatic a Finalist for NBCC Award

Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

Awards, Transit NewsTransit BooksJanuary 14, 2020National Book Critics Circle Award, NBCC Award, NBCC Finalist, Axiomatic, Maria Tumarkin

December Newsletter

Our December newsletter, featuring a look back on 2019 and a peek at what’s ahead in 2020. Plus Maria Tumarkin in The New Yorker.

Transit NewsTransit BooksDecember 19, 2019Axiomatic, Maria Tumarkin, Katy Waldman, The New Yorker

Axiomatic a New Yorker Best Book of 2019

The New Yorker released its annual 10 Best Books of the Year, which included Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin.

Reviews, Transit NewsTransit BooksDecember 7, 2019Maria Tumarkin, Axiomatic, The New Yorker, Best Books of 2019, Katy Waldman

October Newsletter

Our October newsletter, featuring Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Saudade, and interview with the author, Axiomatic in The Believer, and Karl Ove Knausgaard on Jon Fosse.

Transit NewsTransit BooksOctober 31, 2019Axiomatic, Maria Tumarkin, Saudade, Suneeta Peres da Costa, Septology, Jon Fosse, The Other Name, Karl Ove Knausgaard, John Freeman, Lit Hub

September Newsletter

Our September newsletter, featuring Maria Tumarkin on tour, an interview with Tumarkin in the Los Angeles Review of Books, an excerpt of the book in The Paris Review, and more.

Transit NewsTransit BooksSeptember 18, 2019Axiomatic, Maria Tumarkin, The New York Times, Indie Next, Booksellers, The Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books

August Newsletter

Our August newsletter, featuring an Indie Next selection for Maria Tumarkin’s Axiomatic, Maria Tumarkin on tour, The Dinner Guest in The New York Times, and more.

Transit NewsTransit BooksAugust 20, 2019The Dinner Guest, Gabriela Ybarra, Natasha Wimmer, Wioletta Greg, Axiomatic, Maria Tumarkin, The New York Times, Indie Next, Booksellers

The New York Times on The Dinner Guest

Mara Faye Lethem reviews Gabriela Ybarra’s The Dinner Guest (tr. Natasha Wimmer) in The New York Times.

ReviewsTransit BooksAugust 6, 2019Gabriela Ybarra, Natasha Wimmer, The Dinner Guest, Mara Faye Lethem, The New York Times, Spanish Literature, Man Booker International Prize