Unnameable Books Turners Falls

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Join us Saturday August 22 at 6pm for a reading & conversation in celebration of Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s new essay coll...
07/30/2026

Join us Saturday August 22 at 6pm for a reading & conversation in celebration of Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s new essay collection I HAVE THIS THING FOR FLOWERS. Alysia will be in conversation with Allegra Hyde.

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Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Bucknell University. Formerly the editor in chief of The Rumpus, she has received fellowships from The Kenyon Review and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Their first essay collection, A Fish Growing Lungs, was a finalist for The Believer Book Awards. [📸 credit: Jack Ludkey]

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Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collection The Last Catastrophe, an Editors’ Choice selection at The New York Times and a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award. Her debut novel Eleutheria was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize. Her first story collection, Of This New World, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Hyde has received four Pushcart Prizes and the O. Henry Prize. Her fiction and nonfiction has been selected for anthologies including The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Travel Writing, and Best of the Net. She currently teaches at Smith College.

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Unnameable Books
66 Avenue A
Turners Falls MA

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🌺signed Philip Whalen from our special books! “Severance Pay,” Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. -excerpt from “The Evasive...
06/18/2026

🌺signed Philip Whalen from our special books! “Severance Pay,” Four Seasons Foundation, 1970.
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excerpt from
“The Evasive Answer”

I told him he was supposed to I told
him that he should.
Wasn’t I supposed to.
What do you think.

F I G L E A V E S

Where does that put me.

CALL

C A L L A G A I N

SATURDAY

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hello?

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(We were cut off.)

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hello?

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hello?

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Are you still there?

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💎 from our special & rare books section! 1978 pamphlet of Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” by Out...
06/18/2026

💎 from our special & rare books section!
1978 pamphlet of Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” by Out & Out Books.

JULY 11TH at UNNAMEABLE BOOKS UNNAMEABLE FALLS SOPHIE MAE WELLINGTON (Boston)AVA BRENNAN (Chicago)NORMA DREAM (Wmass/NYC...
06/14/2026

JULY 11TH at UNNAMEABLE BOOKS UNNAMEABLE FALLS

SOPHIE MAE WELLINGTON (Boston)
AVA BRENNAN (Chicago)
NORMA DREAM (Wmass/NYC)
CAMIE CAMPER (NYC)

Join us for an incredible cosmology of new songwriting and folk tradition under the great trees of Unnameable Books ꙮ Sophie, Ava and Camie are three of my favorite voices in folk music, I'm so excited to bring all three together on one night. Music starts early, swimming starts late ꙮ slide thru for some magic music and hope to see you there!

66 Avenue A, Turners Falls Ma
July 11th
Doors 6:30/Music 7
$10-15 suggested for the artists

Join us saturday june 27 at 6pm for a reading with Richard Meier, Lisa Fishman, and Jordan Dunn!Jordan Dunn’s Notation i...
06/11/2026

Join us saturday june 27 at 6pm for a reading with Richard Meier, Lisa Fishman, and Jordan Dunn!

Jordan Dunn’s Notation is a book of devotion whose author has taken a vow to include everything.

Lisa Fishman’s Write Back Now! keeps almost-beginning again and is a text for our time.

Richard Meier’s A Companion asks what it means to be in company.

Unnameable Books
66 avenue A
Turners Falls MA

poets Joe Hall + Marty Cain read to usSaturday May 30, 6pmJoe Hall’s newest is Buffalo Free Rapid Transit (, 2026). Bran...
05/21/2026

poets Joe Hall + Marty Cain read to us
Saturday May 30, 6pm

Joe Hall’s newest is Buffalo Free Rapid Transit (, 2026). Brandon Shimoda writes: “Joe Hall’s poetry—which I’ve been reading so long, I’ve grown up with it—is a transit map and, more bracingly, a kind of vengeance. It hews so close to the bone of existence, it chews through it; it drinks the marrow for us, transforming despair into ecstasy for us. It is, in this way, sacrificial. As Hall says, deep in the blazing guts of this book: ‘that’s the job: / touch the ashes / touch and touch / the ashes.’”

Marty Cain’s most recent book is Prelude (, 2023), which Aase Berg describes this way: “A furious and sorrowful deep-dive together with Wordsworth through nature, into the pixels of the body, dreams, space, and matter. I feel blown away and grateful that such brutally excessive transformations are still possible.”

Saturday May 30, 6pm
Unnameable Books
Great Falls, MA


🫧Memory Silo🫧/half covers half originals/withCorbett BresnerJackson WatsonBec Bell-GurwitzTeo Rivera-DundasSaturday May ...
05/07/2026

🫧Memory Silo🫧
/half covers half originals/

with

Corbett Bresner
Jackson Watson
Bec Bell-Gurwitz
Teo Rivera-Dundas

Saturday May 23
6pm doors / 6:30pm reading

Unnameable Books
Unnameable Falls, MA

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join us Saturday, 16 May at 6pm for a reading with Christian McEwenEdite CunhãMaria Lauensteinand Trish CrapoUNNAMEABLE ...
05/06/2026

join us Saturday, 16 May at 6pm for a reading with
Christian McEwen
Edite Cunhã
Maria Lauenstein
and
Trish Crapo

UNNAMEABLE BOOKS
66 Avenue A
Great Falls, MA 01376

Ruby of Thanks + Beetsblog Friday May 226pm 🎶Unnameable Books 66 avenue AGreat Falls MA
05/06/2026

Ruby of Thanks + Beetsblog
Friday May 22
6pm 🎶

Unnameable Books
66 avenue A
Great Falls MA

Unthinkable thoughts with Brahim El Guabli, Luke Fischbeck, and Mary Walling BlackburnSunday 5/17 2pmUnnameable BooksGre...
05/06/2026

Unthinkable thoughts with Brahim El Guabli, Luke Fischbeck, and Mary Walling Blackburn

Sunday 5/17 2pm
Unnameable Books
Great Falls, MA

Let’s gather together on the occasion of the publication of El Guablis’ Desert Imaginations (University of California Press) and Walling Blackburn’s Cream Psychosis (e-flux/Sternberg Press).

We will read short excerpts from our disparate publications and then open up the floor to discuss together how each of us and any of us might construct plots that twist the counterfeit logics that order public life today. Light refreshments will be available.

Together, we will conjure the unthinkable—to refuse to distract ourselves from genocides, conspiracies, and inhumanity by stressing the need to think beyond the systemic and structural training and information we take for granted. We invite everyone to think unthinkable thoughts: to demand, with dog-like insistence, decent shelter and our equal portion of pleasure from the resource-hoarders and fact manipulators. Moreover, we will locate our connection to the unthinkable within ordinary life and outside the language of charisma and leadership. The unthinkable also requires paying attention to other ways of speaking about the world; in a language that communicates without speaking. One that evokes other dimensions of being, not unlike the jinn or the ghost.

Some (unnamed) snacks and beverages will be provided.



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