SLOW STORIES (collaboration between writer Bette A. and Brian Eno) out March 3rd as limited edition bundle

SLOW STORIES, a Short Story Collection by BETTE A. Launches with 2 SHORT STORIES, a Vinyl/Art Collaboration with BRIAN ENO

Limited to Only 444 Copies Exclusive Collaborative Bundle of Book/Album/Art Out March 3, 2026 Now Available for Preorder

Brian Eno and Bette A.

DECEMBER 3, 2025 [New York, NY] – Twenty years in the making, BETTE A’s collection of short stories SLOW STORIES is published in March 3, 2026 via Unnamed Press. As artist/writer BETTE A. explains: “As I developed these stories during two decades, rewriting them from memory, they grew shorter. Strange details persisted and gained significance, while what once seemed like a central plot line or meaning disappeared. I ended up with stories that feel deeper than my ideas - simpler, more layered, and more surprising.” The book inspired an expansion of the stories with a multimedia collaboration with BRIAN ENO, centered on the concept of slowness.

A special edition bundle (limited to only of 444 copies) contains a hardcover book of Bette’s Slow Stories, a vinyl record with the recording of two stories from the book read by the author and set to Brian’s music (only available as part of the bundle), and a 20×20 cm unique and numbered hand-painted panel, signed by both artists. This presentation renders each individual copy a one-of-a-kind collector’s edition and is available now for preorder. Both the bundle and the book separately will be released on March 3, 2026 exclusively available via Unnamed Press. Brian Eno’s ambient compositions cradle Bette A.’s voice as she tells two stories of the stories included in her upcoming story collection, “The Endless House” and “The Other Village.” The calm pace of the story is a deliberate choice: “When a story is told slowly, every sentence becomes more vital,” explains Bette. “Usually when we hear stories read, we expect the pace of the reading to be fairly even,” adds Brian, whose only instruction to Bette as she recorded her short stories was: “Slow, slower, even slower, yes, more slow’.” For both artists, slowness functions not only as a stylistic decision but as an act of resistance. Giving thirty minutes of your attention to something that is not urgent, not loud, and not passive, is rare. Putting on a record is a physical gesture to enter that mode, engage with art and, maybe, your inner world. “My stories take place in strange and imaginary towns and villages from pasts that never happened and futures that will never occur," explains Bette. "These worlds exist without an elaborate background description, like islands in a misty sea." “What we discovered when we were making these stories is that leaving longer spaces gives your mind a chance to imagine the detail that is hinted at in the story,” explains Brian. “The music creates a suggestive atmosphere which supports you in doing that. You don't want a lot of action in the music: what you want is to create an evocative space that leaves you, the listener, in a creative frame of mind.” Bette notes, "When everything is fast, fragmented and designed to grasp your attention, attuning to one very slow story can be a radical act. This record is a guided daydream, a space for rest and imagination." The hand-painted artworks accompanying Slow Stories art bundle extend this collaboration into a shared visual world. The paintings by Bette and Brian depict immersive, dreamlike terrains - birch forests with graffiti, lunar mountain ranges, floating eggs, geometric color fields. Like the stories, the paintings leave room for the viewer to enter and make the work their own. The artist’s proceeds of the sale of the bundle will go to their charities; The Heroines! Movement, a global storytelling movement around women role models, co-founded by Bette, and Earth Percent, a charity that channels funds from the music industry to organizations that do the most impactful work around the climate emergency, co-founded by Brian.