The Palimpsest Guide Series
Along with the newest book in the catalog, Protons and Fleurons, we’re introducing a new kind of offering from Thornbush Press: the Palimpsest Guide series. A palimpsest is a piece of vellum or parchment that’s been used for writing, then erased, effaced, or scratched out and used again for new writing. It reflects a time […]
Introducing Protons and Fleurons
This story collection, Protons and Fleurons: Twenty-Two Elements of Fiction, gestated over a long period of time. “Iron” and “Gold” were the first two stories I drafted, well over a decade ago. At the time I didn’t have any sense that they would be linked by a common theme of an element of the periodic […]
How to Launch Your Own Independent Press
A peek behind the scenes—and a starting point to join the publishing revolution.
To Baptize or Not to Baptize
Or, how a Lutheran comes to commit casuistry.
Transgenre Theology
Genre is testimony to the fact that truth is a real thing, external to our minds, but our minds need multiple avenues to access it.
Curated Catechesis
Catechesis is dead. Long live catechesis.
Mystagogical Realism
Mystagogical realism is a potent genre for our late-modern world, disenchanted of mystery and yet more susceptible than ever to secrets.
The New Samizdat
What does censored Soviet-era literature have to do with starting a new independent publishing house? Quite a lot, actually.
What Is Grace? Two Memoirs from Thornbush Press
Two new memoirs from Thornbush Press address the perennial question: What is grace?