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| Listed here are all of our upcoming summer titles. Please note that these books will not be available for purchase until the month of publication indicated. To view all the recently published titles on our Spring list, click here. | ||||||||||||
JUNE
BOOKS
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Many of the twenty-eight essays in Oranges & Peanuts for Sale have appeared in translation in seventeen countries; some have never been published in English before. They include introductions for books of avant-garde poets; collaborations with visual artists, and articles for publications such as The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, and October. “In this brave new literature, a chaos of images, characters and stories swirls like electrons around a nucleus. They bond with other images and fall apart again, down through the ages.” —Los Angeles Times | ||||||||||||
“West, a parodist with rancid genius, achieved his masterwork in Miss Lonelyhearts.” —Harold Bloom “The Day of the Locust has scenes of extraordinary power.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Day of the Locust is brilliant, savage and arresting—a truly great novel.” —Dorothy Parker | ||||||||||||
JULY
BOOKS
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“[Christensen] manages to make wit, passion and questioning and astonishing design serve each other’s ends as one, and she does it in a way that is utterly her own.” —W. S. Merwin “Inger Christensen inspires awe in supple figures of bodily experience, and of social and sexual interaction.” —The Believer | ||||||||||||
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Nina BerberovaBillancourt Tales Stories Translated by Mirian Schwartz 978-0-8112-1833-7, $13.95 “The thirteen stories of Billancourt Tales are closely observed, potently phrased and dapperly shaped . . . . Marian Schwartz’s English translation defly captures the fanciful twists and turns of Berberova’s imagination . . . . Indispensable.” —New York Times Book Review “We have these stories, and for the lives they commemorate and the particular time and place they so keenly preserve, we cherish them.” —Los Angeles Times “Berberova is, quite simply, an imaginative writer of the highest distinction.” —(The London) Independent | ||||||||||||
Yoel HoffmanCurriculum Vitae Novel/Memoir Translated by Peter Cole 978-0-8112-1832-0, $14.95 Yoel Hoffmann’s Curriculum Vitae is the remarkable summation of the writer’s life: his escape from the Holocaust; his arrival in Palestine; time in an orphanage; youth; two marriages; fatherhood; his studies of Japanese Buddhism; his travels; his ever-busy inner life. Curriculum Vitae begins quietly but becomes more and more hypnotic and amazing. “The most interesting and experimental novelist in Israel.” —Review Of Contemporary Fiction “Hoffmann writes in a language of miracles.” —American Book Review “A reason to celebrate . . . Hoffmann shows himself to be an artist of the profoundly fantastic.” —Hadassah Magazine “A writer of international importance . . . Hoffmann refracts Jewish popular lore and folk wisdom through a postmodernist prism, brightening his prose with snatches of verse, songs, diary excerpts, letters, ominous dreams, lush erotic passages and Yiddish sayings.” —Publishers Weekly | ||||||||||||
AUGUST
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Roberto
BolañoThe Skating Rink Novel Translated by Chris Andrews 978-0-8112-1713-2, $21.95 “He is by far the most exciting writer to come from South of the Rio Grande in a long time.” —Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times “When I read Bolaño, I think: everything is possible again . . . . How he makes one laugh! The laughter of someone who just escaped being buried live, and suddenly remembers how badly she wants to live.” —Nicole Krauss “Lucid fury . . . is a pretty good description of Bolaño’s aesthetic. He is a novelist of voraciousness without sentiment, hardness to a fever pitch.” —Todd Shy, San Francisco Chronicle | ||||||||||||
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“Scabrous
scenes of family feuding in the Bronx and crowded Coney Island Beaches
come at you with the leering verve of Reginald Marsh’s drawings and
Paul Cadmus’ quasi-pornographic paintings.” —John Ashbery, From The
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Jimmy Santiago
BacaSelected Poems/Poemas Selectos Translated from the English to the Spanish by Tomás H. Lucero and Liz Werner Introduction by Ilan Stavans Bilingual Edition 978-0-8112-1816-0, $ 16.95 “Baca writes with unconcealed passion . . . and manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and archetypal significance of life events.” —Denise Levertov “Martin & Meditations on the South Valley is a first-rate literary tour de force.” —Andrei Codrescu “In Spring Poems Baca writes with a green honesty—expanding and integrating the physical world with concerns of the soul. I love this book.” —Li-Young Lee | ||||||||||||
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