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Soft Skull Press

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26 Books Published

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Publications List

Carnaval Fever
Carnaval Fever
Yuliana Ortiz Ruano
Nov 2025
Resting Bitch Face: Poems
Resting Bitch Face: Poems
Taylor Byas
Aug 2025
I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both
The Survivalists
The Survivalists
Kashana Cauley
Jan 2024
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems
Grocery Shopping with My Mother
Grocery Shopping with My Mother
Kevin Powell
Dec 2022
Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology
Tijuana Book of the Dead
Tijuana Book of the Dead
Luís Alberto Urrea
Mar 2015
Letter to Jimmy
Letter to Jimmy
Alain Mabanckou
Dec 2014
Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
Memoirs of a Porcupine (NONE)
Memoirs of a Porcupine (NONE)
Alain Mabanckou
Apr 2012
Black Cool: One Thousand Streams Of Blackness
White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son
Broken Glass
Broken Glass
Alain Mabanckou
May 2010
Open Letters To America: Essays By Kevin Powell
Who’s Your Mama?: The Unsung Voices Of Women And Mothers
Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From An Angry White Male
Be A Father To Your Child: Real Talk From Black Men On Family, Love, And Fatherhood
No Sleep Till Brooklyn: New And Selected Poems
African Psycho
African Psycho
Alain Mabanckou
Feb 2007
Someday We’ll All Be Free
Someday We’ll All Be Free
Kevin Powell
Sep 2006
Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond
Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters and Other Selected Essays
Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip Hop Culture