 "The life’s blood of contemporary and modern literature is in the custodianship of so-called small publishers. Without them, there is no future for literature."
~Walter Mosley, author and long-time supporter of independent publishing
Recommended Small Press Titles*
Fiction:
Song for Night, Chris Abani
FIC ABANI
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie
FIC ALEXIE
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text, William S. Burroughs
FIC BURROUGHS
Four Blondes, Candace Bushnell
FIC BUSHNELL
The Secret Scroll, Ronald Cutler
(title is on order 2/14/08)
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
FIC DESAI
Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
FIC ENGER
The Gathering, Anne Enright
FIC ENRIGHT
A Cry of the Dove, Fadia Faqir
FIC FAQIR
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
FIC FRAZIER
Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison
FIC HARRISON
Moonlight Downs, Adrian Hyland
FIC HYLAND
Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
(publication scheduled for 3/4/08)
Broken for You, Stephanie Kallos
FIC KALLOS
Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations, Alexander McCall Smith
FIC MCCALL SMITH
The Delivery Man, Joe McGinniss, Jr.
FIC MCGINNISS
Good Fairies of New York, Martin Millar
FIC MILLAR
Diablerie, Walter Mosley
FIC MOSLEY
Prayer of the Dragon, Eliot Pattison
FIC PATTISON
Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
FIC PETTERSON
The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte, Laura Joh Rowland
(publication scheduled for 3/15/08)
The Pure Land, Alan Spence
FIC SPENCE
An Irish Country Village, Patrick Taylor
FIC TAYLOR
Man Gone Down, Michael Thomas
FIC THOMAS
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
(on order)
Turpentine, Spring Warren
FIC WARREN
Flight, Sherman Alexie
YA FIC ALEXIE
Nonfiction:
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everday Life,
Richard Florida 303.4 FLO
City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance,
Haifa Zangana 305.4209567 ZAN
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Muhammad Yunus 332.1 YUN
Flower Confidential,
Amy Stewart 338.175966 STE
Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir,
Laura Flynn 616.8980092 FLY
You'll Be Okay: My Life with Jack Kerouac,
Edie Kerouac Parker 813.54 KER
The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W. B. Sebald,
Winfried Georg Sebald 833.914 SEB
Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue,
Robert Drury 940.545 DRU
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History,
George Crile 958.1045 CRI
* Titles recommended for Small Press Month by The New York Center for Independent Book Publishing and PMA: The Independent Book Publishers Association. Small presses represented on this list include: Algonquin, Atlantic, Beaufort, Black Cat, Canongate, City Lights, Counterpoint, Graywolf, Grove, The New Press, Perseus, PublicAffairs, Seven Stories, Soft Skull, and Soho.
Small Press Month, now in its 12th year, is a nationwide promotion highlighting the valuable work produced by independent publishers.
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