BUY BOOKS! by Flaming Hydra writers

Hello! And welcome to a page where you can explore books written by Flaming Hydra contributors. This is a work in progress, so please check back from time to time as we amend and add to our collection.

To celebrate inaugurating our new Books page, we’ve linked buying options from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis, which has been a center for community and solidarity during the ICE occupation.

Thanks for all you do, Moon Palace Books.

(p.s. the caption on this YouTube is inaccurate, it’s a civil conversation, and worth watching.)


Annalee Newitz

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz | Moon Palace Books
A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz.An instant USA Today and indie bestseller!Indie Next pick | Library Reads pick | Best of the Year at Elle, Gizmodo, Reactor, Library Journal, and more!You don’t have to eat food to know the way to a city’s heart is through its stomach.


Ben Ehrenreich

Desert Notebooks by Ben Ehrenreich | Moon Palace Books
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time.


Emily Flake

Joke in a Box by Emily Flake | Moon Palace Books
Have you ever been grappling with your creative work, but found yourself hitting a wall? Here’s the thing—sometimes you push through a wall. And sometimes, you need to reset your mind so that you can attack the problem with fresh eyes.

Coming in April: All Toddlers are Scorpios


Hamilton Nolan

The Hammer by Hamilton Nolan | Moon Palace Books
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics today, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan.

Jack Pendarvis

Movie Stars by Jack Pendarvis | Moon Palace Books
These stories are linked by humor, setting, themes and recurring characters — cat lovers, murderers, gamblers, ghosts and fools — but mostly by the movie stars, gods and goddesses who look down on us struggling mortals with a mixture of benevolence and wrath.

Josephine Riesman

Ringmaster by Abraham Josephine Riesman | Moon Palace Books
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganland This definitive biography of Vince McMahon, former WWE chairman and CEO, is “riveting, essential reading” (Rick Perlstein, New York Times bestselling author) as it charts his rise from rural poverty to the throne of one of the world’s most influential media empires.

Coming soon: HOLLYWOOD FREAKS


Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

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Laurie Woolever

Care and Feeding by Laurie Woolever | Moon Palace Books
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! A candid, funny, and occasionally devastating memoir of a woman making her way through the food world, navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning, and an unexpected tragedyIn this moving, hilarious, and insightful bestselling memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications, alternately bolstered and overshadowed by two of the most powerful men in the business.


Luke O'Neil

We Had It Coming by Luke O’Neil | Moon Palace Books
A haunting yet darkly humorous exploration of a world teetering on the edge of collapse. With stories that pulse with both the familiar and the uncanny, O’Neil’s characters struggle to survive in a reality rife with violence, climate catastrophe, and the crushing weight of modern life.


Mark Yarm

Everybody Loves Our Town by Mark Yarm | Moon Palace Books
A Time Magazine Best Book of 2011, Featuring Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Mudhoney and more!Twenty years after the release of Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, the definitive word on the grunge era, straight from the mouths of those at the center of it all.


Miles Klee

Double Black Diamond by Mads Gobbo | Moon Palace Books
Double Black Diamond is a collaborative story collection set in worlds populated by feral children, mutant shrimp, and doomsday cults. The stories are funny and fabulist, taking influence from Donald Barthelme, Kelly Link, Rachel Ingalls, & others.


Myriam Gurba

Poppy State by Myriam Gurba | Moon Palace Books
From the award-winning author of Creep comes a powerful book by a writer at the peak of her powers—at once a love letter to California and a literary tour de force that tells the story of resilience and reclamation through a relationship with plants, memory, myth, and indigenous knowledge.


Rax King

Sloppy by Rax King | Moon Palace Books
From the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky, a boldly funny, warts-and-all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is”Most writers are boring people.


Tom Scocca

Beijing Welcomes You by Tom Scocca | Moon Palace Books
For centuries, Beijing was closed off to the world, turned inward and literally built around the imperial Forbidden City, the emblem of all that was unknowable about China.

Tom Tomorrow

The World of Tomorrow Book
Tom Tomorrow’s newest collection is sure to please longtime fans and anyone who’s been paying attention at all to anything. Exclusive This Modern World Merch from Tom Tomorrow at TopatoCo!


Zito Madu

The Minotaur at Calle Lanza by Zito Madu | Moon Palace Books
The Minotaur at Calle Lanza is an unforgettable travel memoir about the mysterious transformations that may lurk inside us all.Venice, 2020. As a pandemic rages across the globe, Zito Madu finds himself in a nearly deserted city, its walls and basilicas humming with strange magic.


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