Books
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Le Seuil will publish Georges Perec’s unfinished Places
Forty years after the death of the writer, Editions du Seuil will publish on May 6 an unfinished project by George Perec entitled Lieux. The book will be available in bookstores, but also online, in its entirety.
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria
Now that Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film Memoria has been announced in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Fireflies Press reveals a gorgeous art book that chronicles the film’s genesis and creation.
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Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
Gina Frangello spent her early adulthood trying to outrun a youth marked by poverty and violence. Now a long-married wife and devoted mother, the better life she carefully built is emotionally upended by the death of her closest friend. Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage, Frangello is caught up in a recklessly…
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Godshot: A Novel by Chelsea Bieker
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise.
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A new publishing house: Fireflies Press
Some good news from beloved Fireflies magazine, after six years of making it, they’ve founded the independent publishing house Fireflies Press.
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Let each man remain his own master
the original preface by Elisée Reclus to the 1885 edition of Kropotkin’s “Words of a Rebel,” re-print out this May from PM Press.
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What Occurs at Night time by Peter Cameron
Humorous and haunting, gothic and dazzling—What Occurs at Night time is a novel in contrast to something you’ve ever learn. Referred to as “astonishing” (Michael Cunningham) and “thrillingly mysterious and gorgeously written” (Sigrid Nunez), it’s a spellbinding Franz Kafka-Wes Anderson story a couple of couple touring to a mysterious lodge and the characters they meet there. An…
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The Humorless Ladies of Border Control
A one-of-a-kind travelogue exploring the intersection of literature, politics, and punk rock idealism in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, Ukraine, and Mongolia “Changing the Country, We Apologize for the Inconvenience” —street sign in Kyiv In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, aka “the world’s greatest bar band.” Over the next…