By Alan Govenar and Kip Lornell Publication Date: October 24, 2023 Hardback: 9781646053124Ebook: 9781646053124 Description A new biography of beloved but mysterious Blind Lemon Jefferson, famous blues musician. Born in 1897, Jefferson was a blind street musician who played his guitar at the corner of Elm Street and Central Avenue in the Deep Ellum area…
By Lina Meruane Translated by Megan McDowell A visceral, moving, haunting English-language debut examines illness, the body, and human relationships by one of Chile s brightest young authors. “Lina Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges from the hammer blows of conscience, but also from the ungraspable and from pain.” —Roberto Bolaño Publication Date:…
By Lina Meruane Translated by Megan McDowell A visceral, moving, haunting English-language debut examines illness, the body, and human relationships by one of Chile s brightest young authors. “Lina Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges from the hammer blows of conscience, but also from the ungraspable and from pain.” —Roberto Bolaño Publication Date:…
By Jung Young Moon Translated by Yewon Jung A literary meandering into the mythology of place and what a novel can be, inspired by the author’s time spent at an artist residency in small-town Texas. Publication Date: November 5, 2019 Paperback: 9781941920855eBook: 9781941920862 Description In his inimitable, recursive, meditative style that reads like a comedic…
By Lily Meyer Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eye-opening literary detective story, and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South America. Publication Date: April 9, 2024 Paperback ISBN: 9781646053155eBook ISBN: 9781646053308 Description When sixteen-year-old Gabriel Lazris, an American…
By Lily Meyer Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eye-opening literary detective story, and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South America. Publication Date: April 9, 2024 Paperback ISBN: 9781646053155eBook ISBN: 9781646053308 Description When sixteen-year-old Gabriel Lazris, an American…
By Roberto Castillo UdiarteTranslated by Anthony Seidman In his biting first full‐length collection of poems in English, Tijuana poet Roberto Castillo Udiarte commiserates with Zona Norte streetwalkers, embodies the desert lizard, and maps a life lived in the dimness of the barroom—as well as its incisive light. Publication Date: December 13, 2016 Paperback: 9781944700089 Description In his biting…
By Mircea CărtărescuTranslated by Sean Cotter WINNER of the Dublin Literary Award 2024 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2022 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without Borders A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding, Solenoid is an existence (and eventually…
By Mircea CărtărescuTranslated by Sean Cotter WINNER of the Dublin Literary Award 2024 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2022 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without Borders A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding, Solenoid is an existence (and eventually…
Contemporary Yazidi PoetryEdited by Zêdan Xelef, Bryar Bajalan, Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse and Shook Publication Date: September 3rd, 2024 A bold, multilingual anthology of Yazidi poetic voices. Paperback ISBN: 9781646053476eBook ISBN: 9781646053599 Description Ten years have passed since 2014 and the seventy-fourth genocide of the Yazidis, a people who have faced ongoing persecution, displacement, and ethnic cleansing…
Contemporary Yazidi PoetryEdited by Zêdan Xelef, Bryar Bajalan, Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse and Shook Publication Date: September 3rd, 2024 A bold, multilingual anthology of Yazidi poetic voices. Paperback ISBN: 9781646053476eBook ISBN: 9781646053599 Description Ten years have passed since 2014 and the seventy-fourth genocide of the Yazidis, a people who have faced ongoing persecution, displacement, and ethnic cleansing…
By Kiriu MinashitaTranslated by Spencer Thurlow and Eric Hyett Sonic Peace is a work of extreme genius and unassailable critique, fused with beauty and lightheartedness: a love story set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic Tokyo. Publication Date: December 5, 2017 Paperback: 9781944700409 Description “Even while boasting of its rapid strength and speed,” Kiriu Minashita says in…
By Anne Garréta Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan Recipient of the French Embassy s Hemingway Grant for Translation A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story. Publication Date: April 21, 2015 Paperback: 9781941920091 eBook: 9781941920084 Description Sphinx is the remarkable debut…
By M. Ernest McMillan This memoir of one man s coming-of-age through the Civil Rights movement follows his childhood innocence of white supremacy during the 50’s to his awakening as a full-time organizer in the deep south, and the petrifying costs he was bound to pay. Publication Date: August 29, 2023 Hardback: 9781646052097eBook: 9781646052356 Description…
By Mohsen EmadiTranslated from the Persian by Lyn Coffin In his poems of memory and displacement, Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi charts his experience of exile with vivid, often haunting imagery and a child s love of language. Publication Date: November 8, 2016 Paperback: 9781944700003 Description In his poems of memory and displacement, Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi…
By M. Ernest McMillan This memoir of one man s coming-of-age through the Civil Rights movement follows his childhood innocence of white supremacy during the 50’s to his awakening as a full-time organizer in the deep south, and the petrifying costs he was bound to pay. Publication Date: August 29, 2023 Hardback: 9781646052097eBook: 9781646052356 Description…