By theme
Reading
lists by theme.
The GrassMan catalog, grouped by the six themes the press reads across — consciousness, AI, agriculture, spirituality, health, and fiction. A reader who would rather enter the slate through a question than through an A–Z index can start here.
Theme 1 of 6
Consciousness.
The press reads consciousness broadly: not as a self-help subgenre, but as the kind of careful attention a writer brings to the experience of being a person inside a system. The shortest working definition is the one Daniel J Henry uses in the society-and-ecology lane — strategies as ecologies, identities as colonies, the dominant narrative as the nutrient base. We expect more volumes to land here as the slate grows.
Theme 2 of 6
AI.
Two volumes on the climate generative AI is quietly introducing into the institutions the next generation will inherit. One reads the courtroom as an ecosystem and asks what survives when the attorneys are partially replaced by a different kind of mind; the other is a parent-led handbook for the platforms children are already threading through. Both refuse the panic on one side and the dismissal on the other.
Theme 3 of 6
Agriculture.
A single volume today: an accessible, scientifically grounded tour of the underground fungal networks that hold American soil together — and of the land-use and finance history that has been quietly dismantling them. The theme is held open. Reports from working regenerative farmers and from the soil biology bench are exactly the voice the press wants to keep inviting in.
Theme 4 of 6
Spirituality.
The press reads spirituality as the older theological discipline that asks what is owed, what is sacred, and what is worth holding against the cheaper allegiances of the moment. These three volumes take up jubilee against the modern extraction economy, scarcity against the long human future, and kenosis — the theology of reluctant leadership — against the question of who should seek executive power. Together they form one of the quieter conversations on the slate.
Theme 5 of 6
Health.
Health writing the press can stand behind: research-grounded, shame-free, written for ordinary readers who have begun to suspect the popular conversation is selling them something. Two volumes — a careful argument that sugar behaves less like a food and more like a substance the body has been trained to crave, and a manual for recovering from the long-term defaults the nervous system quietly recruits under sustained stress.
Theme 6 of 6
Fiction.
Not yet. The press publishes fiction when the stories are doing the same cross-genre work the nonfiction does — refusing the popular panic, refusing the literary shorthand, refusing the easy answer in both directions. None of the proposals on the desk have cleared that bar, so the section is held open with a quiet caption and a longer patience.
No titles in this theme yet.
The section is held open. When a manuscript clears the bar this list updates in place.
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