News and Events

The Tavern at the End of History comes out on February 10, 2026. Morris will be appearing at the following bookstores/events. Check back as new listings are added:

February 11, 2026 at 7 PM: Book Launch: Morris Collins in conversation with Jessica Shearer at Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA. RSVP now!

February 12, 2026 at 630 PM: Morris Collins in conversation with Sara Lippmann at P&T Knitwear, NYC.

February 15, 2026 at 600 PM: Morris Collins and Rodrigo Fuentes read at Riffraff Bookstore, Providence, RI.

March 29, 2026: Morris Collins reads at Webster’s Books in State College, PA (more details TBD)

April 8, 2026: Morris Collins in conversation with Ben Purkert at WORD Bookstore in Jersey City (more details TBD)

Jewish Book Council Recommended Reading– The Tavern at the End of History named one of JBCs ten books to read this winter

Hey Alma Recommendation– Hey Alma included The Tavern at the End of History in their list of 27 Jewish books to read in 2026

FOREWORD REVIEWS –“Generations whose stories are informed by the Holocaust converge at a sanitarium by the sea in Morris Collins’s surrealistic, affecting novel…A philosophical novel written with otherworldly flair, The Tavern at the End of History is about intergenerational wounds and self-forgiveness.”

Excerpts- Excerpts of The Tavern at the End of History appeared in The Fortnightly Review and Literary Hub

O. Henry Award-Morris Collins awarded a 2024 O. Henry Prize by Amor Towles for his story, “The Home Visit”

MCC Award-Morris Collins awarded a 2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Fiction for his novel, The Tavern at the End of History

NPR –“A hybrid narrative that’s part thriller, part surreal noir, and part tropical gothic, it reads like a collaboration between William Faulkner, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Hunter S. Thompson, as directed by David Lynch.”

FOREWORD REVIEWS – “Horse Latitudes is a historically attuned novel for a world that has lost its way.”

OTHERPPL WITH BRAD LISTI – Podcast episode 558

ENTROPY MAG – December and January: Small Press Releases

KEEP THE WISDOM – “… not since Gore Vidal’s Dark Green, Bright Red have I read such a horrifying and politically astute novel. I could not put it down.”