Below is a fabulously incomplete list of books that we'd like to cover in Exacting Clam with a review, interview, or other feature, but don't yet have a writer lined up for.
Please note:
☞ If you’re a publicist, author, or publisher and want to tell us about your book, please feel free to pitch it to us, in the baseball or cricket sense—manually, thoughtfully, selectively, gracefully arcing the publicity-tainted projectile toward us, rather than subjecting us to an indifferent bombardment which would cause us to retreat sullenly into our calcified shell. Please contact us via our pitch form, which will put the book into our system, and also feel free to drop us a line at reviews@exactingclam.com.
☞ Do you see a book on this list you want to review? Contact us at once! We'll get you a copy of the book, if we can. Your name will appear in bright lights—all Clam book reviews are published online as well as in print, and in heaven as well as on earth. (A partnership with hell is in the works for Q4.)
☞ If you have an already completed review to submit (whether or not you've been in touch with us about it before, as per above) submit it to us straightaway through our Olasubs reviews channel.
☞ Do you, as a disinterested but concerned literary citizen, feel we ought to add a certain neglected book to this list? Let's have an entertaining though perhaps profoundly unproductive conversation.
☞ Books listed here will mostly be frontlist or near-frontlist titles of fiction, poetry and literary nonfiction, many of them from small presses. However, we are glad to cover any books that deserve attention: backlist, out-of-print, and books that have not been translated into English, but should be. (We'll even review books that, as far as we can tell, you can't possibly buy.) And we welcome coverage of other categories of books, especially those with relevance to the arts.
Hob Brown: Inner Tube. Calamari Archive, 2025
Hob Brown: Odditorium. Calamari Archive, 2025
Vincent Czyz: Old Man Evil. Running Wild Press, 2025
James Damis, Jeffrey Hantover, Erin Jamieson, Ronald Van Rees: Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 8: Book 1. Running Wild Press, 2025
Scott Daughtridge DeMer: Then Then Then. Kernpunkt, 2025
Opham Denyer: Bulgasari Nightmare. Anxiety Press, 2025
Darrin Doyle: The Dark Will End the Dark. Tortoise Books, 2025
K. Hank Jost: Deselections. Whisk(e)y Tit, 2022
Thomas Kendall: Autodidacts. Whisk(e)y Tit, 2022
Michael Lentz: Schattenfroh. Deep Vellum, 2025
S.A.B. Marcie: Femoid. Calamari Archive, 2025
Stefan Mohamed: The House on Utopia Way. 2025
Olga Ravn: The Wax Child. New Directions, 2025
Pamela Ryder: Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him: The Lives of Billy the Kid. FC2, 2026
Wendy Walker: Sexual Stealing. Temporary Culture, 2021
Henry Wessells: The Elfland Prepositions. Temporary Culture, 2025
10-tentacled antenna: Tenet: nest of tens. Calamari Archive, 2025
Iván Argüelles: The Unfinished Breath (in 2 vols). Luna Bisonte Prods, 2023
Stephen Bett: SongBu®st. BlazeVOX, 2024
M.J. Gilbert: The Rival Poet. Independently published, 2025
Kirstin Mosher: Zero (minutes to) Home. selektion, 2024
Julian Stannard: New & Selected Poems. Salt, 2025
Alina Stefanescu: My Heresies. Sarabande, 2025
Elizabeth K. Switaj: The Articulations / Amelia K.: Amouroboros. Kernpunkt, 2025
Eric Weiskott: Cycle of Dreams. punctum, 2025
Dan O'Brien: True Story: A Trilogy. Dalkey Archive, 2023
Jacek Blaszkiewicz: Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris. University of California Press, 2023
RJ Dent: Screaming at the Window. Kernpunkt, 2025
Garielle Lutz: Backwardness. Calamari Archive, 2025
Michael Silverblatt: Bookworm: Conversations with Michael Silverblatt. Song Cave, 2023