DEATH BY LANDSCAPE: Essays
Author of OVAL Elvia Wilk’s first nonfiction collection, DEATH BY LANDSCAPE: Essays (Soft Skull Press, 2022) offers a singular snapshot of our complicated age. Each brilliant and formally inquisitive piece gives us the generous gift of Elvia's perspective on narrative and storytelling and weird fiction.
SHY: THE ALARMINGLY OUTSPOKEN MEMOIRS OF MARY RODGERS
Daughter of Richard Rodgers, Mary Rodgers Guettel was a noted composer, author, and arts doyenne in her own right and the sharpest tongue in show biz. SHY (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), written with the NYT’s chief theater critic Jesse Green, is broader than a memoir, more personal than a biography, more true than a novel, yet contains elements of each.
PRAIRIE, DRESSES, ART, OTHER
The 15 fiction and nonfiction pieces in PRAIRIE, DRESSES, ART, OTHER (Coffee House Press, 2024) cement Danielle Dutton’s place as one of the most original voices writing today. Simultaneously unnerving and beautiful, the collection’s four distinct parts both contrast and echo one another.
FAT TIME AND OTHER STORIES
Encompassing twelve short stories, Jeffery Renard Allen's forthcoming collection FAT TIME AND OTHER STORIES (Graywolf Press, 2023) is loosely linked around African notions of time and place, along with African views of space, cosmology, and metaphysics. Taken together, these stories represent a contemporary master at the top of his craft.
LADIES' LUNCH & OTHER STORIES
Lore Segal has been sharing the gift of her intellect and humor as a published author for over six decades. Now she astounds us all again in LADIES’ LUNCH & OTHER STORIES, a sparkling collection of 17 previously published and unpublished stories, coming from Sort of Books in 2023.
IN ADORNMENT
In Mary South’s forthcoming novel IN ADORNMENT (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), women are turning into common household objects, such as vacuums, microwave ovens, and flatscreen televisions. The novel’s protagonist observes this process as a nurse at a hospice for women of the 1%, where only the rich and the famous can receive adequate care while enduring such a painful and unusual change.
THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING NO-RECIPE RECIPES
With THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING NO-RECIPE RECIPES (Ten Speed Press, 2021), Sam Sifton joins with the editors of the New York Times food section and the popular NYT Cooking website to bring readers 100 no-stress, no-recipe recipes for inspired weeknight cooking that’s household-pleasing and fun.
CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: I’m Speaking Now: Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope
In CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: I’m Speaking Now, coedited by Breena Clarke (2021), Black women share their dreams, triumphs, and challenges in 101 stories that offer an intimate view of Black life in America, Canada, and the diaspora.
THE ALCHEMY OF INNER WORK
THE ALCHEMY OF INNER WORK (Red Wheel/Weiser, 2021) by Lorie Eve Dechar with Benjamin Fox is a hands-on guide for practitioners and patients as well as a journey of discovery, a meditation on what it means to heal and live a truly health-filled life.
INDIGO: ARM WRESTLING, SNAKE SAVING, AND SOME THINGS IN BETWEEN
Padgett Powell is the author of nine works of fiction, making INDIGO: Arm Wrestling, Snake Saving, and Some Things in Between (Catapult, 2021), his very first, very welcome collection of nonfiction. Every piece deftly delivers the same idiosyncratic brilliance that has earned Powell praise from the likes of Donald Barthelme, Gary Shteyngart, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and many more.
