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Monday, April 25, 2011
“Stephen Graham Jones is an amazing writer,” Dan Wickett said.
As part of Dzanc Books rEprint Series, Dzanc is pleased to announce the signing 
of Stephen Graham Jones to a three book deal. Dzanc will be publishing in eBook format three of Jones' most innovative novels. The first two works fit the name of the series perfectly: All the Beautiful Sinners, and The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti as both titles are available in print form and this will mark their debut as eBooks (All the Beautiful Sinnerswill be slightly different in its eBook form as Stephen has revised portions of the text.) The third title, Seven Spanish Angles, is a new venture for this series as it has never been published before and makes its debut under Dzanc's eBook publishing arm.
of Stephen Graham Jones to a three book deal. Dzanc will be publishing in eBook format three of Jones' most innovative novels. The first two works fit the name of the series perfectly: All the Beautiful Sinners, and The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti as both titles are available in print form and this will mark their debut as eBooks (All the Beautiful Sinnerswill be slightly different in its eBook form as Stephen has revised portions of the text.) The third title, Seven Spanish Angles, is a new venture for this series as it has never been published before and makes its debut under Dzanc's eBook publishing arm.
“Abby Frucht is a fantastic writer,” Dan Wickett said.
As part of Dzanc Books rEprint Series, Dzanc is pleased to announce the signing of 
from www.abbyfrucht.netAbby Frucht to a five book deal. Dzanc will publish eBook Frucht's seminal works, including her Iowa Short Fiction Award winning story collection, Fruit of the Month, as well as four great novels: Snap, Licorice, Are You Mine?, and Life Before Death.
from www.abbyfrucht.netAbby Frucht to a five book deal. Dzanc will publish eBook Frucht's seminal works, including her Iowa Short Fiction Award winning story collection, Fruit of the Month, as well as four great novels: Snap, Licorice, Are You Mine?, and Life Before Death.
Friday, April 22, 2011
An Instant Classic: Oprah's Private Library
Where does the woman who got America reading curl up with a good novel? Welcome to Oprah's personal library—1,500 volumes strong and still growing. Take a closer look at her bookshelves and you may find titles to add to your own reading list.
JENNIFER EGAN: WRITING ADVICE
An Everything Egan Round-up
The 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded to Jennifer Egan for A Visit from the Goon Squad.For those seeking inspiration and insight into her process (she writes out her work on yellow legal pads without re-reading a word until she starts feeding the words into the computer), we've assembled a round-up of interviews, podcasts and articles with the author.
Learn about her process, inspiration, views on outlining and revision, advice for young writers, and more.
Dzanc Books to Launch eBook rEprint Series
The first batch of Dzanc rEprint titles will appear in the next two months and include: Pinckney Benedict's short story collection, Town Smokes;Noy Holland's short story collection, The Spectacle of the Body; Brian Kiteley's novel, Still Life With Insects; Patricia Lear's short story collection, Stardust, 7-Eleven, Route 57, A&W, and So Forth; two of David Lynn's books; a trio of Michael Martone's short story collections; and Michael Hickins' short story collection, The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing. We are currently in discussions regarding hundreds of other fantastic titles that we will be announcing in the near future.
Continuing with our commitment to publish great works of new literary fiction in both traditional print and electronic form, Dzanc is proud to add this new rEprint series to our roster. The titles that are published under our rEprint arm will also be available through our eBook Club, which distributes a different eBook title on the first of every month at an incredibly low rate to members. When joining the Dzanc eBook Club, members also receive 5 new books free. Dzanc's eBooks are designed in house, and as noted, work on all formats, ensuring that they look exactly the way they are supposed to on all reading machines.
Dzanc's eBook titles are available both at our website, and distributed by Constellation, the digital management arm of Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, LLC, which makes them available through all standard retail outlets, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. |
Tom Williams
Tom Williams's fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in over thirty publications, including Boulevard, Barrelhouse, Indiana Review, The Main Street Rag, Night Train and Pleiades. A former James Michener Fellow, he has received individual artist fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Arkansas Arts Council. He currently is an associate editor of American Book Review and Chair of Humanities at the University of Houston-Victoria. He lives in Victoria, Texas with his wife, Carmen Edington, and their son, Finn.
John Sayles
Early praise for A Moment in the Sun
"In his most spectacular work of fiction to date, filmmaker Sayles combines wonder and outrage in a vigorous dramatization of overlooked and downright shameful aspects of turn-of-the-nineteenth-century America.… Crackling with rare historical details, spiked with caustic humor, and fueled by incandescent wrath over racism, sexism, and serial injustice against working people, Sayles’ hard-driving yet penetrating and compassionate saga explicates the 'fever dream' of commerce, the crimes of war, and the dream of redemption."
—Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)
"Though known best as a filmmaker (Eight Men Out), Sayles is also an accomplished novelist (Union Dues), whose latest will stand among the finest work on his impressive résumé. Weighing in at nearly 1,000 pages, the behemoth recalls E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, Pynchon's Against the Day, and Dos Passos's USAtrilogy, tracking mostly unconnected characters whose collective stories create a vast, kaleidoscopic panorama of the turn of the last century."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Sayles’s cat-squasher of a book... pulls all his characters onto a huge global stage, setting them into motion as America goes to war against Spain and takes its first giant step toward becoming a world power. The narrative is full of historical lessons of the Howard Zinn/Studs Terkel radical-revisionist school, but Sayles is too good a writer to be a propagandist; his stories tell their own lessons and many will be surprises... [A Moment in the Sun is] a long time in coming, with an ending that's one of the most memorable in recent literature. A superb novel.”—Kirkus(starred review)
Dzanc Books eBook Club
Get eleven books for $50, including five titles immediately upon signing up, plus a six-month subscription! This is a 43% savings compared to the cost of ordering the eleven titles individually in eBook form.
Upon signing up for the Dzanc eBook Club, you will instantly be able to download these five books:
Then, on the first of each month, all members will receive a single title published by ourselves or one of our imprints. The eBook will be delivered by an email announcement containing a unique link on the first of the month, allowing members to immediately download and enjoy the month's book.
After the sixth month, members will be billed $5 per month to continue their subscription, receiving a fantastic new eBook the first of every month. This is also a savings of nearly 40% from the Dzanc eBooks cover price.
Upcoming selections in the eBook Club include novels and short story collections by Stacey Levine, Pamela Ryder, Sean McGrady, and David Galef, as well as anthologies such as Best of the Web 2011 and No Near Exit: a Post Road Anthology.
Every title purchased as part of the eBook club includes DRM-free MOBI, EPUB, and PDF versions of the chosen title, which will allow you to enjoy it on your Kindle, iPad, Nook, Sony Reader, and other eBook reading devices, as well as your computer. This saves you money, and also ensures that whatever device you might choose to own in the future, your Dzanc books should remain compatible.
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Jeff Kass
From Dzanc Books comes the debut collection from Jeff Kass, Knuckleheads.
The book is on its way to stores now, but is available immediately as an eBook from Dzanc's website and other normal retailers.
"With the vivid, lyrical qualities of Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor, Knuckleheads is a high-octane protein shake, equal part heartbreak and hilarity, a thing of both sweat-reeking adrenalin and nostalgic, time-stopping beauty. For those who know Jeff Kass' gorilla-hearted poetry, this story collection is both a surprise and no surprise at all. Here we see his swing-for-the-fences skill with the line, but now it's prose and jeez, what can't this man do? Kass achieves what all fiction writers want--he makes us believe and makes us care. Even those of us who stayed as far away from the jocks as possible will want to cheer."--Steve Amick, The Lake, the River & the Other Lake, Nothing But a Smile
- Taken from Dzanc Books and EWN Newsletter
Stacey Levine
From Starcherone Books, Stacey Levine's The Girl With Brown Fur tales & stories has been shipping to stores across the country and is available as an eBook immediately as well, both from Dzanc's website and from the normal retailers.
In her new collection, the first since her PEN-West Award-winning My Horse and Other Stories, Stacey Levine gives us twenty-eight new, feral, untamable stories, in myriad modes, from laugh-out-loud funny, to Kafka-nightmarish, lyrical, elegiac, and philosophical. Rooted in the quotidian and often mundane details of everyday life, these stories turn our expectations upside down. Levine, the author of, most recently, the novelFrances Johnson, again shows why many consider her a genius of contemporary fiction.
-Taken from Dzanc Books and EWN Newsletter
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Date & Time: Wed, May 18, 2011, 7:00pm
Whether you are a mother or father, daughter or son, everyone has a parent story to tell. On May 18 at NYC’s amazing 92YTribeca, we hope you’ll join us for a night of six-word sagas about parenting, your relationship with a parent or that miraculous, messy thing we all go through called growing up.
Event Book Launch: False Friends by Uljana Wolf
at Cathy Park Hong & Mores McWreath, 380 Broadway, 2M, NYC
The Well-Spoken Vocabulary
How Our Words Can Change the Way We Think
By Tom Heehler
By Tom Heehler
Have you ever learned a new word, and then after having done so, a few days later, happened upon that very word again, and then again a couple of weeks later? You realize that in all your past readings, never once did you really notice that word until you had taken the time to learn its meaning.
The truth is, you had probably encountered the word a hundred times, but because you never understood it, for all intents and purposes, it wasn’t there. That’s because your mind has a way of papering over what it does not understand with what little it does. In each occurrence, your brain fills in the empty spaces as best it knows how, based on the incomplete aspects of your incomplete vocabulary. Here’s why that’s a very bad thing. (Continue reading here.)
Elana Bell
New York, April 21—The Academy of American Poets announced today that Elana Bell has been selected by the poet Fanny Howe as the recipient of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award. The Walt Whitman Award is a prestigious first-book prize, given to a first collection of poetry by an American poet. The winner's book is published and distributed to thousands of members of the Academy. The Whitman Award also includes a $5,000 cash prize and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center.
Will Self
“If this were a movie—and a central conceit of the book is that the movies and One of the most remarkably inventive voices of his generation, author Will Self delivers a new and stunning work of fiction. In Walking to
18 Books to Watch for in April 2011
From hard-boiled detective fiction like Edward Conlon's Red on Red to the social science breakthroughs in Tina Rosenberg's Join the Club, April's got something for everyone.
Throughout each day during National Poetry Month, one featured poet will post his or her daily insights.
In honor of the month-long celebration, the Academy of American Poets will be hosting 30 poets on our Twitter account during April.
Follow us on Twitter to keep up-to-date on the latest poetry posts: www.twitter.com/POETSorg
Guest tweeters include:| 4/1 D.A. Powell 4/2 Dawn Lundy Martin 4/3 Noelle Kocot 4/4 Richard Siken 4/5 Jennifer Chang 4/6 Joshua Clover 4/7 J. Michael Martinez 4/8 Mark Bibbins 4/9 Jennifer L. Knox 4/10 Randall Mann | 4/11 CAConrad 4/12 Ada Limón 4/13 Graham Foust 4/14 Evie Shockley 4/15 Jen Bervin 4/16 Ken Chen 4/17 Sherwin Bitsui 4/18 Noah Eli Gordon 4/19 Ronaldo Wilson 4/20 Nate Pritts | 4/21 Danielle Pafunda 4/22 Amy King 4/23 Ching-in Chen 4/24 John Gallaher 4/25 Srikanth Reddy 4/26 Jericho Brown 4/27 Gabrielle Calvocoressi 4/28 Kazim Ali 4/29 Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon 4/30 Dorothea Lasky |
Lilith Salons
In 2005, Lilith ran an article on "The Power of Jewish Women's Conversations," which brought to light the tremendous influence and pleasure of Jewish women's salons in Europe, an idea that quickly captured us all. Now Lilith salons are meeting everywhere. With participants ranging in age from teens to women in their 80s, the conversations are more free-flowing than a book group, less "spiritual" than a rosh hodesh group, not as democratic as the PTA, and more intimate than a lecture. Here's information on how to find and join a local salon. Or start your own!
Want to start a Lilith salon in your area? Please click here to download simple guidelines and suggestions for how to get started. (All participants should be Lilith subscribers. To subscribe to Lilith, click here.)
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