Opening the Cabinet: Introducing The Unsolicited Press Curiosities

The archive is open.

One of the realities of running an independent press is that the catalog never stops growing. Books arrive with urgency and attention, and then, over time, they settle into the larger body of work that defines the press. But a book does not lose its relevance just because its launch moment has passed. If anything, many of them deepen with time.

That idea is what led us to create The Unsolicited Press Curiosities, a weekly series of three-book selections drawn from our catalog. Each Curiosity gathers books around a shared literary mood: rage, tenderness, grief, strangeness, resistance, desire. Some weeks are sharper than others. Some are quieter. All of them are intentional.

These are not random bundles. They are small shelves with a pulse. Every Monday, we release a new Curiosity. Each one includes three books for under $40 and is available for a limited time before the cabinet shifts again.

The series began with Curiosity No. 1 — Women Who Would Not Behave, a collection of books about betrayal, reinvention, and the refusal to remain polite in the face of damage.

Since then, the cabinet has continued to open. What you’ll find inside this series is not just a way to explore the catalog, but a way to see how books speak to each other across time. A poem beside a novel. A memoir beside something strange and difficult to categorize. A throughline you might not have noticed until now.

The Curiosities are one way we return to the archive with intention, building new shelves out of old fire.

If you haven’t stepped into the cabinet yet, now is the time.

Three books. One unexpected shelf.