Have you ever tried to write a book that required some research, then discovered you were in over your head? Ten sources became a hundred, then a thousand? You scribbled endless lists? You cared about your topic, but you couldn't clarify your message and you never persuaded anyone to care?

FRIEND! Have I got a story for you. (Speculative nonfiction. Queer horror.)

In suburban New York in the 1930s, Ned is researching a particular area of gender diversity. (This really happened.)

An Aleph in the basement is making him scribble in his notebooks, interminably. (This is speculative.)

Poor Ned can't complete his book. He has no thesis statement and too many sources. The Aleph has got him.

In Attis & Aleph, I'll tell you something you need to know:

The story of how you are writing your book is a story that matters. It's the story of how you create a story. This is a major part of your intellectual investigation. It's the story of what you want to know. It's the story of you.

Attis & Aleph is a toolbox to open the locked door. A great insight. A true story. A ghost story.

After a hundred years, it's ready to move fast.

When the Book Bazaar launches on October 29, you can pledge to buy Attis & Aleph as an ebook or a paperback. It will have an ISBN. It'll look, feel, and smell like a book, which, as you know, is a toolbox of ideas. It'll provide a number of keys, one of which might be the one you need. Give it a try.

September 1! The cover has been designed by Rachel A. Rosen, and we can't wait to show it to you. Rachel also designed the purple image at the top of this page.

To be among the first to see the cover of Attis & Aleph, please sign up for the Night Beats newsletter! That's where the cover'll be revealed. Night Beats, by the way, is a fabulous, fun, free monthly newsletter for quirky book-lovers, so you should have already signed up for it anyway.

But remember: Seeing a book cover is one thing. Opening the toolbox is another.

Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Tucker Lieberman has lived in Bogotá, Colombia for nine years. That's a long time, but he's been working on Attis & Aleph for longer.

It's not his first poetry book. His first one was a bilingual poetry collection, Enkidu Is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu está muerto y no lo está. It was a finalist in the 2020 Grayson Books Poetry Contest and was nominated for the 2022 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.

He wrote four other books, none of which won any awards, but he's glad he wrote them.

If you recognize his name, it's probably because his essay on a horror film appeared in It Came From the Closet (Feminist Press, 2022) or because three other anthologies to which he contributed have been recognized by Lambda Literary. Non-famously, he reads nonfiction for Split/Lip Press and reviewed one hundred indie press books for Independent Book Review.