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Author Updates
1) Stephen O’Connor’s new collection of stories, Here Comes Another Lesson, has just been published by Free Press. He will be giving readings and participating in other events throughout September and October. For details and reviews, click here. 2) Rosecrans Baldwin’s first novel, You Lost Me There, has received raves from NPR, the Daily [...]
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
1. The Huffington Post recently named Andrew Ervin’s debut Extraordinary Renditions one of the 15 “Most Anticipated Books for the Rest of 2010.” The book will be published on Sept. 1. (Pre order from our shop.) 2. Benjamin Percy received a starred review for his debut novel, The Wilding (also in our shop) — “As close [...]
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
1. William Gibson’s Zero History, his tenth novel, will be released September 3 in the UK, September 7 in the US. He will be touring the US, UK and Canada during September and October. 2. Jason Grote’s play 1001 will run at Chicago’s Chopin Theater from Sept. 9-Oct. 9 in a production from Collaboraction. Look [...]
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Monday, August 23, 2010
1) Dean Haspiel won an Emmy for Outstanding Title Design (for Bored to Death). Also, Haspiel’s app/comic STREET CODE #1 launched earlier this month; and from October 2 – December 12, there will be an exhibition on the making of the graphic novel Cuba: My Revolution (by Haspiel and Inverna Lockpez) at Kentler International Drawing [...]
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
1) Kate Bernheimer has two new books out: Horse, Flower, Bird (Coffee House Press, illustrated by Rikki Ducornet), a collection of her “forceful and spirited stories that will definitely prove disturbing” (according to Library Journal Review); and she’s edited My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin Non-Classics), [...]
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Monday, August 16, 2010
1) Matthew Sharpe has a novel, You Were Wrong, coming out in a few weeks from Bloomsbury. Check out Sharpe’s website, on which you’ll find, among other things, videos exploring key themes and locations in the novel. Its first two chapters are being serialized this week at Fivechapters.com. 2) Susanna Daniel recently published a piece on [...]
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
1) On August 24, Scott Jacobson and some friends — including Significant Objects contributor Todd Levin — are publishing a humor book, SEX: Our Bodies, Our Junk (Random House). Art is by Robert Sikoryak, and the graphics minds from The Onion. 2) Laura Lippman’s fifteenth novel, I’d Know You Anywhere (William Morrow), will be published August [...]
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Friday, August 13, 2010
Speaking of Rosecrans Baldwin’s new novel You Lost Me There, it turns out our friends over at Coudal did the trailer, above. Coudal explains the team-up: [Mr. Baldwin] wanted to use the prologue to the book and tracked down a studio where he recorded himself reading it. Sending those files over, along with a [...]
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Monday, August 9, 2010
1) Rosecrans Baldwin’s first novel, You Lost Me There, is coming out from Riverhead on August 12. 2) Susanna Daniel’s first novel, Stiltsville (HarperCollins), is coming out in August, too. She’ll be reading in the Midwest and in Florida, where the book is set, throughout August and September. 3) Kirsten Miller has a teen romance/thriller coming [...]
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
1) Andrew Ervin published a story in Monkeybicycle last month, and — looking ahead — his first book, Extraordinary Renditions (Coffee House Press), will be out in September. 2) On August 4, Rebecca Coffey’s flash piece, “From the Notebook of John T. Cacciopo”, is appearing in Metazen. Excerpt: “Even cockroaches develop psychological problems if they are [...]
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Monday, August 2, 2010
We’re thrilled to report that a novel by one of our authors — Tom McCarthy — was included on the Man Booker Prize 2010 longlist. That novel is titled C. According to the Booker website, C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who – as his name suggests – surges into the electric [...]
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Saturday, July 31, 2010
1) Stephen O’Connor’s collection of stories, Here Comes Another Lesson, will be published on August 3rd by Free Press. Most of the publication-related events will occur in September. Click here to read advance reviews. 2) Stewart O’Nan is editing his next novel, Emily, Alone, which will be out next March from Viking. *** * For more [...]
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