Dearest Readers,
Please enjoy this brief, annotated guide to the books I bought* at AWP, starting with the bowler hat cover:
1) Lord by João Gilberto Noll
For a former student who is a voracious reader and fluent in Portuguese. I asked the person working the booth which of the Noll books is their favorite, and of course she pointed to the one that looks like Kundera's cover.
2) The Reconception of Marie by Teresa Carmody*
I didn't really buy this one; Teresa and I swapped books at an event on Saturday. She made the cover! I've been wanting a copy since I heard her on a The Lives of Writers episode a year (two years??? what is time?) ago.
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3) Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge
Me: DRAWN AND QUARTERLY HAS A TABLE!!!!
Alyson: They have a table every year.
4) Draw it With Your Eyes Closed; The Art of the Art Assignment
I've been an inconsistent subscriber to N+1 for at least five years now. I particularly enjoy their books, and I'm going to use this one in my creative writing classes next year.
5) Eleutheria by Allegra Hyde
I mean, c'mon. Look at that sky blue and orange contrast. It's unspeakably gorgeous. (Preview: We have an essay from Allegra coming out sometime this summer.)
6-8) Three selections from The Cupboard press
This is my comfort press.When the book fair seems too big and noisy, I look for The Cupboard. I love that they make tiny books; I love that they sell a tote bag that says, "Fuck Genre,"—I have been asking them to make a t-shirt for years—and I always snag at least two little guys from their table each year.
9) Self Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye
Speaking of "fuck genre": Evidently this book is what happens when you ask a Frenchwoman to write a memoir.
Were there any small presses or journals you learned about this weekend (at AWP or elsewhere—like the SMOL Fair) that you're particularly excited about?
Till next week,
AS
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| April is National Poetry Month |
Shower thought: Did they decide that April should be National Poetry Month because it is "the cruelest"?
The Rumpus returns with our poem-a-day adventure. Keep an eye on our website for the daily gems, and keep a special eye (that's the left one) on our IG for exclusive content—the authors reading their poems aloud!
We'll also be hosting a virtual event with the fabulous Books Are Magic on Friday, April 15. We hope you'll join us. |
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Here are the exclusive author letters subscribers can look forward to receiving in their snail mailboxes soon!
Upcoming LETTERS IN THE MAIL from:SOON WILEY, author of When We Fell Apart, a forthcoming novel set in Korea that opens with an apparent suicide ROBIN MCLEAN, a lawyer/potter/ice skater-turned author of Pity the Beast
ANNIE HARTNETT, author of the celebrated Rabbit Cake, whose newest novel, Unlikely Animals, comes out next month
Upcoming LETTERS FOR KIDS from:NAVDEEP DHILLON, writer of the recently-released Sunny G’s Series of Rash Decisions, a"coming of age adventure about a cosplaying Punjabi Sikh" NATASHA WING, author of the bestselling The Night Before . . . seriesKARINA EVANS, whose forthcoming novel features a girl going on Hollywood adventures with her starlet grandmother |
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| | BOOK CLUB:
I Only Cry With Emoticons by Yuvi Zalkow
coming from Red Hen Press in June—a quirky comedy featuring a protagonist who writes novels in the bathroom at work and is failing at interpersonal relationships.
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| | POETRY BOOK CLUB:
Oh You Thought This Was a Date? by C. Russell Price out in June from Triquarterly—a ” somatic grimoire exploring desire, gender, and sexuality in multiverse littered with flowers and product placement.”
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Wednesday, 3/30
A Novel Obsession @ 7pm EST Virtual via Greenlight BooksKimberly King Parsons talks with Raven Leilani
Thursday, 3/31
Out There @ 7pm ESTVirtual via Solid State BooksKate Folk discusses her debut collection w/ Anna Wiener
The Very Last Interview @ 7:30pm ESTVirtual via Community BookstoreDavid Shields (yes, that David Shields) talks about this compilation of interviews with Laura Kipnis Tuesday, 4/5Heartbroke @ 7pm PST IRL POWELLS IN PORTLAND!Chelsea Bieker (author of Godshot) in conversation about her newest book with Kimberly King Parsons
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