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Celebrate Great Writing
March is Small Press Month
 

Small Press Month"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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