Congratulations to Joan Silber, whose novel, IMPROVEMENT, has won the 2017 NBCC Award for Fiction! The NBCC committee called the book, “a dazzlingly inventive and deeply compassionate novel whose multiple storylines reveal shared human moments of love, loss, fate, guilt, and redemption.” We are deeply grateful to have a book included among the remarkable nominees, and are thrilled to publish Joan Silber.
A KIND OF FREEDOM by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
- New Orleans, LA: Octavia Books—reading/signing—8/30
HEART BERRIES by Terese Marie Mailhot
- Los Angeles, CA: Vroman’s Bookstore—Otherwise Reading Series/in conversation w/Elissa Washuta/reading/signing—8/31
IMPROVEMENT by Joan Silber
- Jamaica, NY: Queens Library, Forest Hills—reading/signing—8/11
- Brooklyn, NY: Greenlight Bookstore (Fort Greene)—in conversation w/Kate Walbert/reception—8/23
MAGDALENA MOUNTAIN by Robert Michael Pyle
- Seattle, WA: Elliot Bay Book Company—reading/signing—8/21
- Beaverton, OR: Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing—reading/signing—8/29
ONE DAY YOU’LL THANK ME by David McGlynn
- West Hollywood, CA: Book Soup—reading/signing—8/21
RESISTANCE by Jeff Biggers
- Chicago, IL: Unabridged Bookstore—#ReadingisResistance Series/reading/signing—8/1
- Iowa City, IA: Prairie Lights—reading/signing—8/9
SURVIVOR CAFÉ by Elizabeth Rosner
- Mendocino, CA: Mendocino Coast Writers Conference—conference—8/2
- Occidental, CA: Sonoma Coast Writer’s Camp—presentation/reading—8/9
- Oakland, CA: East Bay Booksellers—paperback launch/reading/signing—9/5
TERRARIUM by Valerie Trueblood
- Seattle, WA: Elliot Bay Book Company—reading/signing—8/7
THE WIDOW NASH by Jamie Harrison
- Seattle, WA: Horizon Books—reading/signing—8/11
- Hamilton, MT: Chapter One Book Store—Book club/skype with author—8/25
THE WILDLANDS by Abby Geni
- Chicago, IL: Women and Children First—book launch party/in conversation w/Frances de Pontes Peebles/signing—9/4
And many more listings coming soon….
In an interview with Colorado’s KGNU Radio Bookclub, author Laura Pritchett discusses her novel, The Blue Hour. Read the full interview here.
Thomas Dilworth’s biography, David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet, receives a glowing review from The Spectator. Read the full review here.
San Francisco Chronicle‘s weekly “First Sentences from New Books” column features the first sentence from Anna Journey’s new essay collection, An Arrangement of Skin. Read the selection here.
The New York Public Library named Karen Bender’s Refund: Stories, Hiromi Kawakami’s Manazuru and Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria to their list of 365 notable books by women authors. See the full list here.
Bernadette Murphy, author of Harley and Me, wrote an autobiographical essay for Role Reboot that draws surprising comparisons between her childhood and the presidency. Read the full essay here.
In an interview with USC Dornsife magazine, author Anna Journey discusses the grotesque origins of her essay collection An Arrangement of Skin. Read the full interview here.
Anna Journey’s new essay collection, An Arrangement of Skin, is reviewed by the Rumpus. Read the full review here.
In an interview with High County News, author Lauret Savoy discusses memory, rewriting history and writing her book, Trace: History, Race and the American Landscape. Read the full interview here.
Electric Literature interviews Laurie Sheck about writing her book, Island of the Mad. Read the full interview here.
The Rumpus interviews Laurie Sheck about her new book, Island of the Mad. Read the full interview here.
