Ingram
Все книги издательства IngramHere Until August
The sophomore book by Josephine Rowe (her first, the novel A Loving Faithful Animal , a New York Times Editors’ Choice, is still on Staff Picks shelves at indie bookstores from coast to coast), Catapult is thrilled to welcome this remarkably talented writer back to our list. We remain committed to building her profile in North America The first story, «Glisk,» winner of the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, will knock your socks off and steal your breath away. It is also emblematic of the entire collection, holding a brilliant, wrenching tension between the mundane and the profound, brimming with slyly observed details and heartbreaking revelations Rowe is a master of style and imagery and language; her playful, powerful sentences, beautifully controlled yet emotionally rendered, will linger with you long after you finish the final story We are experiencing a wonderful renaissance of short stories in the marketplace, with readers flocking to Friday Black , Sour Heart , and Florida ; we are confident of expanding Josephine's readership A Stegner Fellow, Rowe spends time in the United States and Canada each year, with robust and supportive communities in the Bay Area, New York City and upstate New York, Toronto, and Montreal As with A Loving, Faithful Animal , Here Until August will be published as a beautiful trade paperback original with French flaps
The Story Prize
The first-ever anthology honoring the prestigious Story Prize, published in time for the award's fifteenth anniversary and featuring a remarkable list of winners including Anthony Doerr, Edwidge Danticat, Elizabeth Strout, George Saunders, Claire Vaye Watkins, Jim Shepard, Steven Millhauser, Elizabeth McCracken, Adam Johnson, and Rick Bass Much more than just a collection of previously published stories, The Story Prize Anthology features interviews with winning writers, judges' citations, and an introduction from the prize's director and the anthology's editor about the history and culture surrounding the prize Independent booksellers are an important community within The Story Prize, as annual judges often include a bookseller (or librarian), and booksellers from Elliott Bay, Books & Books, Prairie Lights, and McNally Jackson sit on the current Story Prize board of directors There is a great deal of goodwill and camaraderie surrounding The Story Prize; many preeminent literary influencers, writers, critics, and journalists have taken their turn as judges over the years. Other high-profile board members of The Story Prize include members of the media, NBCC critics, librarian Nancy Pearl, and beloved writers including Hannah Tinti, Tiphanie Yanique, and Rob Spillman. A smartly designed trade paperback original with French flaps The launch event for this book will be the prize's fifteenth anniversary celebration in March 2019, in New York, NY Anthology editor Larry Dark was previously the series editor of six editions of Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards , from 1997–2002. He lives in Montclair, NJ, and will be a loud, active champion for the anthology An excellent, affordable reader for classes studying short fiction and the most important names in contemporary American letters
Humiliation
“ Humiliation is a brilliant book that captures the volatility of misunderstandings, the moment when failures matter less than the need to share them.” —Alejandro Zambra, author of Multiple Choice The nine mesmerizing stories in Humiliation , translated from the Spanish by Man Booker International Prize finalist Megan McDowell, present us with a Chile we seldom see in fiction: port cities marked by poverty and brimming with plans of rebellion; apartment buildings populated by dominant mothers and voyeuristic neighbors; library steps that lead students to literature, but also into encounters with other arts—those of seduction, self-delusion, sabotage. In these pages, a father walks through the scorching heat of Santiago’s streets with his two daughters in tow. Jobless and ashamed, he takes them into a stranger’s house, a place that will become the site of the greatest humiliation of his life. In an impoverished fishing town, four teenage boys try to allay their boredom during an endless summer by translating lyrics from the Smiths into Spanish using a stolen dictionary. Their dreams of fame and glory twist into a plan to steal musical instruments from a church, an obsession that prevents one of them from anticipating a devastating ending. Meanwhile a young woman goes home with a charismatic man after finding his daughter wandering lost in a public place. She soon discovers, like so many characters in this book, that fortuitous encounters can be deceptions in disguise. Themes of pride, shame, and disgrace—small and large, personal and public—tie the stories in this collection together. Humiliation becomes revelation as we watch Paulina Flores’s characters move from an age of innocence into a world of conflicting sensations.
Meander, Spiral, Explode
[b]A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 [b]One of Poets & Writers ' Best Books for Writers “[A] boundlessly inventive look at narrative form . . . filled with clarity and wit, underlain with formidable erudition.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) "How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read. . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom to explore but with enough guidance to thrive." —Maris Kreizman, Vulture [/b] As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: “For centuries there’s been one path through fiction we’re most likely to travel— one we’re actually told to follow—and that’s the dramatic arc: a situation arises, grows tense, reaches a peak, subsides . . . But something that swells and tautens until climax, then collapses? Bit masculosexual, no? So many other patterns run through nature, tracing other deep motions in life. Why not draw on them, too?” W. G. Sebald’s Emigrants was the first novel to show Alison how forward momentum can be created by way of pattern, rather than the traditional arc— or, in nature, wave. Other writers of nonlinear prose considered in her “museum of specimens” include Nicholson Baker, Anne Carson, Marguerite Duras, Gabriel García Márquez, Jamaica Kincaid, Clarice Lispector, Susan Minot, David Mitchell, Caryl Phillips, and Mary Robison. Meander, Spiral, Explode is a singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions. It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let’s leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation. It will appeal to serious readers and writers alike.
Insomnia
“An insomniac’s ideal sleep aid—and that’s a compliment. With her collage of ruminations about sleeplessness, [Benjamin] promises no real cure . . . Her slim book is what the doctor ordered.” — The Atlantic Insomnia is on the rise. Villainous and unforgiving, it’s the enemy o f energy and focus, the thief of our repose. But can insomnia be an ally, too, a validator of the present moment, of edginess and creativity? Marina Benjamin takes on her personal experience of the condition—her struggles with it, her insomniac highs, and her dawning awareness that states of sleeplessness grant us valuable insights into the workings of our unconscious minds. Although insomnia is rarely entirely welcome, Benjamin treats it less as an affliction than as an encounter that she engages with and plumbs. She adds new dimensions to both our understanding of sleep (and going without it) and of night, and how we perceive darkness. Along the way, Insomnia trips through illuminating material from literature, art, philosophy, psychology, pop culture, and more. Benjamin pays particular attention to the relationship between women and sleep—Penelope up all night, unraveling her day’s weaving for Odysseus; the Pre-Raphaelite artists’ depictions of deeply sleeping women; and the worries that keep contemporary females awake. Insomnia is an intense, lyrical, witty, and humane exploration of a state we too often consider only superficially. “This is the song of insomnia, and I shall sing it,” Marina Benjamin declares.
Northwood
"Artfully explores themes of pain, desire, and the meeting place of the two, for a surreal, fairytale-esque accounting of what happens when we go to the darkest places within ourselves, and within others.” — NYLON Part fairy tale, part horror story, Northwood is a genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages. The narrator, a young woman, has fled to the forest to pursue her artwork in isolation. While there, she falls in love with a married man she meets at a country dance. The man is violent, their affair even more so. As she struggles to free herself, she questions the difference between desire and obsession—and the brutal nature of intimacy. Packaged with a cover and end papers by famed English artist Rufus Newell and inventive, white-on-black text treatments by award-winning designer Jonathan Yamakami, Northwood is a work of art as well as a literary marvel.
The Reservoir Tapes
Following the success of his novel Reservoir 13 (an ABA Indie Next List Pick, Amazon Best Book of the Year, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and the recipient of rave reviews by critics like James Wood in The New Yorker ), The Reservoir Tapes returns to the novel's setting in an English village where a teenage girl disappears, and to the characters whose lives are forever altered by the tragedy These stories will satisfy McGregor fans' appetites to dive deeper into the mystery and characters surrounding Becky's disappearance, while also standing alone for readers new to McGregor's work Originally written, adapted and recorded for BBC Radio, the linked collection reads like a fast-paced episode of a true crime podcast or a season of the television drama Broadchurch ; the stories in The Reservoir Tapes are quickly digestible, elegantly tension-filled, and a smart, subtle commentary on humanity's best and worst tendencies in the face of grief and loss The characters McGregor gives voice to will surprise you; the different narrators are not necessarily central to Becky's disappearance, but their voices fascinate us and offer a portrait of a whole community Like a season of the television drama Broadchurch , the structure and order of the stories in the collection touch upon questions of the limits of knowledge and memory, and how what we remember defines us and shapes the traumas we seek to forget "Immersive, nuanced, and exquisitely strange, the interconnected stories within The Reservoir Tapes are a feat of genius. Jon McGregor offers us snippets of an array of lives within a small English town, which come to assemble the blast radius of the recent disappearance of a young teenager. The sheer range of voices within is stunning, as is the tone, which manages to be at once thoughtful, ominous, and humdrum. No event passes without being challenged, complicated, and reconsidered from angle upon angle, perspective upon perspective. I both gloried in the small details and tactile prose⎯a llama that wasn’t even a llama, the bike grease that refuses to be scrubbed from one’s hands⎯and furiously flipped pages. This brilliant book is haunted by the specter of normality, which creeps back into the lives of townspeople altered by tragedy."—Elizabeth Willis, Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA) "Exquisite and brilliantly styled, Jon McGregor's The Reservoir Tapes is a dark and fascinating story told in such a way that I found myself reading with a furrowed brow page after page. Such an intense character and story development in so few disturbing words. Could not put this book down." —Mary O'Malley, Anderson's Bookshop (La Grange, IL) "In a brilliant counterpoint to Reservoir 13 , McGregor’s earlier work that detailed the evolution of the town and countryside following the disappearance of a young girl, the mystery is explored in a totally different way. Through interviews of a dozen or so villagers, all of whom had some connection to the missing girl, or a secret to hide or to share, McGregor creates a verbal mosaic representing the circumstances of the missing girl’s disappearance. Wonderful monologues lead the reader to the cusp of understanding the village, the villagers, and this inconvenience of a missing girl imposed on them by outsiders. What a clever writer!" —Darwin Ellis, Books on the Common (Ridgefield, CT) "Jon McGregor returns to the world of his Man Booker–nominated Reservoir 13 with his companion piece The Reservoir Tapes . This new book takes the approach of a short story collection and ultimately succeeds on its own merits apart from its sister volume. Each story centers on a different villager sharing their story of village life and their relationship to Becky Shaw and her disappearance, however tangential. McGregor’s gifts for the written word and intimate character work shine throughout this collection, and his use of the short story form gives The Reservoir Tapes a strong sense of structure and aim throughout." —The Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS) " The Reservoir Tapes is a wonderful follow-up to McGregor’s Reservoir 13 . McGregor focuses in on snapshots of the townspeople’s lives, with Becky Shaw—the girl who disappeared—flitting in and out of their stories but always remaining on the periphery. It’s a fascinating exploration of unstable narratives, rumors, and small towns that I devoured in one sitting." —Sarah Cassavant, Subtext Books (St. Paul, MN) " The Reservoir Tapes chronicles the disappearance of a young girl in a small English village, and each chapter is written from the perspective of a different resident. It’s not an easy writing feat, but Jon McGregor is able to instill a unique narrative clarity for every single character, interweaving the young girl’s disappearance alongside the distinctive stories of each villager. More than a missing persons story, The Reservoir Tapes is a story about the very universal and human struggle to find meaning—and the sacrifices we have to make to feel safe, loved, and truly at home. Once I started The Reservoir Tapes I couldn’t put it down, and if you haven’t read anything by Jon McGregor before, make sure not to miss his latest novel!" —Morgan McComb, The Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS) "In Reservoir 13 , Jon McGregor created a universe filled with humanity and pathos from the sparest accumulation of detail. In The Reservoir Tapes , he takes a different approach to that same universe, shedding light on many of its mysteries, but that again leaves the reader stunned at the end, wishing for yet more of McGregor's elegiac prose."" —Community Bookstore staff (Brooklyn, NY) "Reading The Reservoir Tapes is like listening to a remix to an album I was obsessed with six months ago. Rather than retreading old themes or styles, it explores new facets and tones, revealing complexities that only an artist fully immersed in their craft can hear. Jon McGregor invites us into this immersion and breaks every expectation we had if we thought his newest work was a sequel. Rather than linear, it jumps around in time, and rather than softly idyllic, it is quietly disturbing. It is rare for an artist to to be self-aware enough of their craft to follow it up with such a strong and original offering, but Jon McGregor is and does." —Adelaide Costas, East Bay Booksellers, (Oakland, CA) «Atmospheric and scary. I read it in one sitting and now I'm trying to stop thinking about it . . . but I can't!» —Ann Holman, King's English Bookshop (Salt Lake City, UT) " Reservoir Tapes is a slim and gripping novel about a young teenager’s disappearance, told from perspectives of the inhabitants of the town she vanishes from. Written with crisp prose, and in an inventive form that brings to mind a viewer’s first exposure to the first episodes of Twin Peaks , Reservoir Tapes is hard to put down." —Elijah Watson, A Room of One's Own (Madison, WI)
Tiny Crimes
[b]Forty very short stories that reimagine the genre of crime writing from some of today’s most imaginative and thrilling writers “An intriguing take on crime/noir writing, this collection of 40 very short stories by leading and emerging literary voices—Amelia Gray, Brian Evenson, Elizabeth Hand, Carmen Maria Machado, Benjamin Percy, Laura van den Berg and more—investigates crimes both real and imagined. Despite their diminutive size, these tales promise to pack a punch.” — Chicago Tribune , 1 of 25 Hot Books for Summer [/b] Tiny Crimes gathers leading and emerging literary voices to tell tales of villainy and intrigue in only a few hundred words. From the most hard-boiled of noirs to the coziest of mysteries, with diminutive double crosses, miniature murders, and crimes both real and imagined, Tiny Crimes rounds up all the usual suspects, and some unusual suspects, too. With illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook and flash fiction by Carmen Maria Machado, Benjamin Percy, Amelia Gray, Adam Sternbergh, Yuri Herrera, Julia Elliott, Elizabeth Hand, Brian Evenson, Charles Yu, Laura van den Berg, and more, Tiny Crimes scours the underbelly of modern life to expose the criminal, the illegal, and the depraved.
Welcome to Lagos
An Official Belletrist Book Pick An American Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick Selected to Best of Summer Reading Lists by Parade , Elle , NYLON , PopSugar , The Millions , PureWow , Women.com, Hearst Media, Bitch Media, Read it Forward “Storylines and twists abound. But action is secondary to atmosphere: Onuzo excels at evoking a stratified city, where society weddings feature ‘ice sculptures as cold as the unmarried belles’ and thugs write tidy receipts for kickbacks extorted from homeless travelers.” — The New Yorker When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows it is time to desert his post. As he travels toward Lagos with Yemi, his junior officer, and into the heart of a political scandal involving Nigeria’s education minister, Chike becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a different kind of life. Among them is Fineboy, a fighter with a rebel group, desperate to pursue his dream of becoming a radio DJ; Isoken, a 16-year-old girl whose father is thought to have been killed by rebels; and the beautiful Oma, escaping a wealthy, abusive husband. Full of humor and heart, Welcome to Lagos is a high-spirited novel about aspirations and escape, innocence and corruption. It offers a provocative portrait of contemporary Nigeria that marks the arrival in the United States of an extraordinary young writer.
Cove
[b]“To read Cove is to take a masterclass in taking out everything but the essentials. This is writing stripped back to the bone, and storytelling that gets under the skin. Powerful, terrifying, brilliantly done.” —Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13 [/b] Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak, his memory of who he is and how he came to be here is all but shattered. He will need to rely on his instincts, resilience, and imagination to get safely back to the woman he dimly senses is waiting for his return. This is an extraordinary, visceral portrait of a man locked in a struggle with the forces of nature.