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Danny Caine

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Author HOW TO RESIST AMAZON AND WHY • nonfiction books @microcosm_pub • poetry books @harpoonreviewbooks @beltpub @autofocusbooks @masonjarpress

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An early surprise: HOW TO DEFEND BOOKS AND WHY is here!

Of all my books, this one was the most challenging to write. For one thing, I wasn’t sure the book would be relevant anymore by the time it hit shelves — unfortunately, of course, it feels even more urgent now than it did when I started two years ago. On top of that, the book ban crisis was so widespread and so quick to evolve, it felt difficult to pin it down to anything representing a short and coherent book. But I think (I hope) the few stories I wrote about speak to both the nature of the crisis and how best to fight it.

It feels strange to talk about books when people are being abducted or killed by government forces in broad daylight, but it’s all connected. Fascists always start with books. To fight the book ban crisis is one way to fight the fascist takeover of our lives. I hope my book can plug into that fight in a useful way.

It’s now available wherever books are sold, but I hope you get it from a public library or an independent bookstore.

If you’re a librarian and you’d like a free copy, send me a DM. by @dannycaine

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8 months ago

Jewish American Dream is out this August from @sarabandebooks. Here’s the cover, featuring a beautiful pastrami in acrylic by @maggiemargaret_cowles.

The inside features everything (bagels), the company car for Planet of the Vapes, Jewish astronauts, creeping suburban doom, futuristic bacon, and notable Jews Lenny Kravitz, Annie Leibovitz, and Paul Rudd.

I’d love for you to preorder it at the link in my bio. by @dannycaine

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2 years ago

Had the best time in Boise, where the libraries have exclamation points. Thanks to all the great folks I met and places I went - @thecabinidaho @rdbooks @thisroomislit @oldspeakbar @boisepublib and everyone else doing really good work in a cool city by @dannycaine

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25 days ago

What a wonderful experience to read at @literarycleveland’s Plum City series last week. Thanks to all who came out, to @matt.weinkam for the disarmingly kind intro, to @loganberrybooks for being an incredible venue and bookstore, to @caira.a.lee for the great photos, and especially to @sonytonaime and @writsonia for being the best co-readers I could imagine. by @dannycaine

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3 months ago

The final episode of THE DATA CENTERS ARE COMING is out today, featuring a new conversation with Cory Doctorow and much, much more.

This podcast series feels like a big leap forward in how I think about storytelling. Spending the last year making these episodes has been challenging, inspiring, and wildly rewarding.

Thanks so much to @ilsr_org for supporting this big idea, producers @engagereggie and @ilananevins for making it happen, and @emmcphie for this amazing episode art.

I really hope you give it a listen wherever you find your podcasts - the data center story is big, probably bigger than any of us know yet, and I’m honored that I got to take a stab at telling it. by @dannycaine

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4 months ago

So excited to read this Thursday for @literarycleveland’s Plum City Reading Series at @loganberrybooks!

Any hometown reading is a big deal for me but this one is extra special - when I worked at Lit Cle, one of my proudest accomplishments was helping to create the Plum City series, which we hoped would fill a gap in the city’s literary life by establishing a big, community-oriented monthly reading featuring prominent local and national authors. To be invited to read at the series I helped build is humbling and quite meaningful.

I hope you’ll join us Thursday - in addition to all that, I get the pleasure of reading with @writsonia and @sonytonaime, two authors I look up to a great deal. Sonia’s hilarious and whip-smart new novel Girl’s Girl is causing a sensation for good reason (I loved it, tore through it in a day), and the work Sony does for literary community and poetry in general is admirable to say the least.

It’ll be a really special evening. See you Thursday at 7! by @dannycaine

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4 months ago

Another evening of poetry in the books ✨ Thanks to four incredible and a room full of wonderful readers 📚 taken in Tomorrow Bookstore by @dannycaine

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4 months ago

🎉 THU JUNE 25 • IT’S HAPPENING!! Join us for our June Plum City reading at Loganberry Books! We’ll celebrate and listen to work by:

📖 DANNY CAINE: Poet, activist, and former bookseller, author of Jewish American Dream (2024 Sarabande Books Chapbook Contest winner), Continental Breakfast, El Dorado Freddy’s, Flavortown, Picture Window, and How to Defend Books and Why. @dannycaine

📖 SONIA FELDMAN: Cleveland writer and PEN America PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers winner, author of Girl’s Girl. Her work appears in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, and Waxwing. @writsonia

📖 SONY TON-AIME: Haitian poet, translator, and arts administrator; Executive Director of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures; author of Konbit (2026) and LaWomann (2019), and co-founding editor of ID13. @sonytonaime

📍Thursday, June 25 at Loganberry Books (13015 Larchmere in Cleveland)

Doors open at 6:30pm and reading begins at 7pm to be immediately followed by an afterparty 🥂 at the Literary Cleveland Offices (13002 Larchmere).

🟣 RSVP here (link in bio) https://www.litcleveland.org/events-programs/plum-city-reading---june-2026 taken in Cleveland, Ohio by @dannycaine

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4 months ago

It’s tour time! So excited to hit the road this summer and visit all of these wonderful places:

June 3, 2026
@dragonflybooks (at Pulpit Rock Brewing Co)
Decorah, IA, 7 PM
in conversation with librarian Shannon Horton

June 4, 2026
@moonpalacebooks
Minneapolis, MN, 7 PM

June 5, 2026
@honestdogbooks
Bayfield, WI, 6 PM
Stand with the Banned Weekend Keynote Lecture

June 18, 2026
@tomorrowbookstore
Indianapolis, IN, 7 PM
Poetry Night with Chantel Massey, Bryce Berkowitz, and Lisa Low

June 19, 2026
@tomorrowbookstore
Indianapolis, IN, 11 AM - 1 PM
Book Signing and Meet & Greet

June 25, 2026
@loganberrybooks
Cleveland, OH, 7 PM
@literarycleveland Plum City Reading Series
with @writsonia and Sony Ton-Aime

July 7, 2026
@birdie.books
Westerville, OH, 6:30 PM
The Read Up Expert Social Hour

July 16, 2026
VIRTUAL FUNDRAISER FOR @authorsagainstbookbans
hosted by @porter_square_books, 7:00 PM
with @mariskreizman @pronounced_ing and @joshthelibromancer

August 21, 2026
Hamlin Beach State Park, Hamlin, NY, 6 PM
@fearnolit presents Beach Read
with @tkiramadden and @angelique23456 by @dannycaine

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4 months ago

I’m going on tour! I’m excited to talk banned books (and sometimes poetry) across the Midwest this summer. See you out there!

May 18 / book launch at @prologuebookshop with @ashleyhopeperez

June 3 / @dragonflybooks at @prbrewing with librarian Shannon Horton

June 4 / the legendary @moonpalacebooks

June 5 / Bayfield, WI’s annual Stand with the Banned weekend with @honestdogbooks

June TBD / @literarycleveland’s Plum City Reading Series at @loganberrybooks

June 18 / poetry night at @tomorrowbookstore

June 19 / meet and greet at @tomorrowbookstore

August 21 / the first installment of the very cool Beach Read series from @fearnolit with @tkiramadden and Angelique Stevens

September 29 / hometown daytime lecture at @mcconnellarts by @dannycaine

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5 months ago

Another story about the impact of #datacenters on communities, but this time it’s about how people are fighting back. “The Data Centers Are Coming” is a new narrative podcast hosted by @dannycaine and @ilsr_org that comes out tomorrow, April 30.

Swipe for a sneak peek ahead of the first two episodes 👉

📷: provided by danny caine by @dannycaine

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5 months ago

Congratulations to the seven finalists of the inaugural Clintonville Books Poetry Award:

@travisclau
@darrencdemaree
@zoebrigley
@emilypattersonpoet
@quotidianwriter & David Dixon
@dannycaine
Adrianna Kimbrough

These books were selected for the distinctiveness of their voices, the originality of their perspectives, and their ability to express the immensity of human experience. Together, they reflect both the diversity and the shared threads that define this moment.

Thank you for your patience as we read through more than 100 submissions. Columbus is full of extraordinary poets. It was a privilege to spend time with your work.

To those not selected as finalists: this was a difficult decision. Your work remains valuable and compelling. Keep writing—we know you will.

There were many poems we admired and look forward to sharing some of them with our community in the coming months.

The winner will be announced Monday, April 27.

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#poetryprize #poetryaward #columbuspoetry #clintonvillebooks #bookawards taken in Clintonville Books by @dannycaine

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