Grove Press

Bream Gives Me Hiccups Jesse Eisenberg 9780802124043, 0802124046 Pub Date: 9/8/15 $26.00 256 pages Hardcover

Markup Note: I love every piece in this collection which is surprisingly deeper and more compassionate than it appears at first. "Brilliantly witty, deeply intelligent, and just plain hilarious..... A moving portrait of human beings at their weaker moments, and a wonderful send­up of the insanities of modern America." ­Sherman Alexie Late Night with Stephen Colbert end of September

A remarkable debut by the Academy Award­nominated actor, famous for his roles in The Social Network and other films, a collection of hilarious, moving, and highly inventive stories that explore the ridiculousness of modern­day life, in the tradition of Woody Allen, Simon Rich, and David Sedaris Summary: “Eisenberg is truly a talented writer. . . Hilarious and poignant.”—Entertainment Weekly Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories is the whip­smart fiction debut of Academy Award­nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg. Known for his iconic film roles but also for his regular pieces in the New Yorker and his two critically acclaimed plays, Eisenberg is an emerging literary voice.

Grove Press

The Mountain Shadow Gregory David Roberts 9780802124456, 0802124453 Pub Date: 10/13/15 $32.50 912 pages Hardcover

Markup Note: 150,000 first print ­ affidavit laydown on Oct 15th The highly anticipated sequel to the contemporary classic Shantaram (which is now being made into an opera). Lin (loosely based on Roberts) continues to search for love and faith in a changing Bombay

In this highly anticipated sequel to the contemporary classic Shantaram, Lin continues to search for love and faith in a changing Bombay Summary: Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In The Mountain Shadow, the long awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set of rules. It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media ty...

Atlantic Monthly Press

The Double Life of Liliane Lily Tuck 9780802124029, 080212402X Pub Date: 9/15/15 $26.00 256 pages Hardcover

Markup Note: This is a fascination and hard to categorize book. National Book Award Winner Lily Tuck looks back on her childhood and her trajectory to becoming a writer through fictionalized impressions. Born during WWll, moving from Europe to South America back to Europe and then to America, her life intersected with the famous and the not so famous. The fragmented nature of the narrative mirrors the fragmented nature of our age.

From National Book Award winner Lily Tuck comes a bold, funny, and inventive story of a young girl's life caught between two vividly different, cosmopolitan parents Summary: “Tuck is a genius.”—Los Angeles Book Review Lily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most distinguished contributors to American literature. With The Double Life of Liliane, Tuck writes what may well be her crowning achievement to date, and, significantly too, her most autobiographical work. ?? As the child of a German movie producer father who lives in

Three Rooms Press

Weird Girl and What's His Name Meagan Brothers 9781941110270, 1941110274 Pub Date: 10/13/15 $16.95 336 pages Trade Paperback

Markup Note: One of my favorite books on the list with characters you really grow to like ­ a teriffic YA which can also sell into an adult GLBT section. It's a look at sexual identity through the lives of two friends who bond over the X Files ­ no one dies and things turn our OK in the end ­ kind of refreshing. "both voices are crisply and intimately drawn. Minor characters are equally vibrant, . Carefully and subtly imagined." ­Kirkus Reviews,

Summary: In the tiny podunk town of Hawthorne, North Carolina, seventeen­year­old geeks Lula and Rory share everything—sci­fi and fantasy fandom, Friday night binge­watching of old X­Files episodes, and that feeling that they don’t quite fit in. Lula knows she and Rory have no secrets from each other; after all, he came out to her years ago, and she’s shared with him her “sacred texts”—the acting books her mother left behind after she walked out of Lula’s life. But then Lula discovers that Rory—her Rory, who maybe she’s secretly had feelings fo...

Catapult

Cries for Help, Various : Stories Padgett Powell 9781936787319, 1936787318 Pub Date: 9/8/15 $16.95 200 pages Trade Paperback

Markup Note: A new collection of Padgett Powell short stories sure to attract major review attention ( eveyone from Saul Bellow to Scott Spencer loves Powell) "By turns moving, funny, and maddening..These stories are very much in the key of Donald Barthelme…with touches of Nicholson Baker...They regularly embed a fragment of wisdom, a brilliantly turned phrase, or a laugh­inducing one­liner." Teddy Wayne NYTBR Oct 4th

Summary: From the highly acclaimed author of Edisto and The Interrogative Mood, Padgett Powell’s new collection of stories, Cries for Help, Various, follows his mentor Donald Barthelme’s advice that “wacky mode” must “break their hearts.” The surrealistic and comical terrain of most of the forty­four stories here is grounded by a real preoccupation with longing, fear, work, loneliness, and cultural nostalgia. These universal concerns are given exhilarating life by way of Powell’s “wit, his . . . dazzling turns of phrase” (Scott Spencer). In “Jo...

Catapult

Mrs. Engels : A Novel Gavin McCrea 9781936787296, 1936787296 Pub Date: 10/13/15 $16.95 368 pages Trade Paperback

Markup Note: The intimately told, vividly imagined life of Lizzie Burns, an illiterate mill­worker and longtime lover of Frederick Engels, co­author of The Communist Manifesto Fascinating historical fiction based on an extended reading of Marx and Engels' correspondence Mrs. Engels is a magnificent creation, worthy of comparison to Joyce's Molly Bloom or Beckett's Winnie­­" ­ Rebecca Stott,

Summary: Longlisted for The Guardian 2015 First Book Award “Richly imagined.”—starred review, Publishers Weekly “This is the best kind of historical fiction."—Lucy Scholes, The Independent "Who knew reading about communists could be so much fun?"—starred review, Kirkus Reviews A Boston Globe Fall Fiction Suggested Book Very little is known about Lizzie Burns, the illiterate Irishwoman and longtime lover of Frederick Engels, coauthor of The Communist Manifesto. In Gavin McCrea’s first novel, the unsung Lizzie is finally given a voice that won’t be fo...

Counterpoint

Refund : Stories Karen E. Bender 9781619026230, 1619026236 Pub Date: 11/10/15 $15.95 256 pages Trade Paperback

Markup Note: National Book Award longlist for fiction First Trade Paper Money is ostensibly the fuel that powers Karen E. Bender's new collection, "Refund."..... The theme works as an organizing tenet, but Bender's subtler preoccupation is the eroding effect of emotional want......Bender understands worlds about marriage and emotional need." NY Times Book Review Editor's Choice pick

Summary: We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who has it. Who doesn’t. How you get it. How you don’t. Bender uses this very powerful force to pull together a unified collection of stories that deeply explore the ways in which money and the subsequent estimation of value affect the lives of her characters. The stories in Refund reflect our contemporary world—swindlers, reality show creators, desperate artists, siblings, parents — who struggle to figure out how to obtain money, how to give it, earn it, lose it, all the while t...

The Unnamed Press

The Revelator : A Novel Robert Kloss, Matt Kish 9781939419507, 1939419506 Pub Date: 9/15/15 $16.00 256 pages Trade Paperback

Markup Note: A literary, visceral re­telling of the story of Mormonism's founding father, Joseph Smith; a charismatic and troubled con man in the dark superstitious days of the early 19th century. Illustrated by Matt Kish, who has illustrated Heart of Darkness and Moby­Dick for Tin House Books

Summary: Manifest Destiny drives American expansion westward, building an early 19th­century society with genocidal brutality. This is the context that frames The Revelator's protagonist: a young orphan named Joseph. Reared on nights spent carousing with drunks and con men, the young protagonist dreams of something more. He begins to preach. Soon he takes a young wife, to the horror of her father, a butcher. They depart for the wilderness where Joseph's visions, haunted by a dark Beast, take hold of his life. Husband and wife nearly die of expos...