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Take 15% off last minute holiday orders of...

Take 15% off last minute holiday orders of Shipbreaking.Includes autographed copy of the book, nautical tattoo glossary, and selection of temporary tattoos. Will ship out immediately. Use discount code: AHOY.

This year’s 35 Over 35 list of debut authors includes Naomi...

This year’s 35 Over 35 list of debut authors includes Naomi Jackson,Sophie McManus, Vu Tran, Matt Sumell, and Robin Beth Schaer.

“In Schaer’svoluminous, shipwrecked world, everything is...

“In Schaer’s voluminous, shipwrecked world, everything is beautiful and no one is safe—it is from this suffering that song is created. This is a gorgeous debut from a smart, incisive young poet.” —Starred Review for Shipbreaking in Publishers Weekly

Strange Wreckage with Naomi J. Williams & Robin Beth...

Strange Wreckage with Naomi J. Williams & Robin Beth Schaer
Tuesday, December 15th at 8pm
Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, Brooklyn NY

A night of poetry and fiction on shipwrecks, bizarre experiments, cannibalism, electrocution, and startling escapes. **More Information & Tickets**

“Robin Beth Schaer emerges as a lyrical force to be reckoned...

“Robin Beth Schaer emerges as a lyrical force to be reckoned with in Shipbreaking” –San Francisco Chronicle

Publishers Weekly Top Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2015Publisher’s Weekly asked the authors...

Publishers Weekly Top Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2015

Publisher’s Weeklyasked the authors of its Top 10 Books of 2015 to each share a favorite title published this year.James Hannaham choseShipbreaking by Robin Beth Schaer, describing it as“…eerily great at linking concerns of the past—even those of prehistory—with living urgencies, combining a fantastic lyricism with near-scientific precision, her subjects caught like orchids under bell jars …”

Strange Wreckage with Naomi J. Williams & Robin Beth...

Strange Wreckage with Naomi J. Williams & Robin Beth Schaer
Tuesday, December 15th at8pm
Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, Brooklyn NY

Novelist Naomi J. Williams and poet Robin Beth Schaer will share their recent writing and discuss the shipwrecks and mysterious encounters that haunt their work. Williams will read from her new novel, Landfalls, which reimagines an ill-fated 18th-century expedition to circumnavigate the globe, and Schaer will read poems from her debut Shipbreaking, which e...

Yelling “Ship Ahoy!” during the Moby-Dick Marathon reading at...

Yelling “Ship Ahoy!” duringthe Moby-Dick Marathon reading at the Whitney Museum as Frank Stella’s whale-inspired art looms off the bow. Thanks to @mobydickmarathonnyc and @whitneymuseum.

Eerie photos of WWII wrecks off the Canadian coast encrusted...

Eerie photos of WWII wrecks off the Canadian coast encrusted with anemones and sea urchins. (Via Atlas Obscura)

The sound of creaking timbers I recorded below deck on Tall Ship...

The sound of creaking timbers I recorded below deck on Tall Ship Bounty in August 2009, while we sailed through rough seas off the coast of Ireland.