Fall Indie Books
Graywolf
Her Body and Other Parties:
Stories
Carmen Maria Machado (Oct.,
$16, trade paper)
Author tour, advertising, 40,000-
copy announced first printing
In a starred review, PW calls this an “engrossing”
debut short story collection: “Machado creates
eerie, inventive worlds shimmering with supernatural swerves. Her stories make strikingly
feminist moves by combining elements of horror
and speculative fiction with women’s everyday
crises.”
Milkweed
A Year in the Wilderness:
Bearing Witness in the
Boundary Waters
Amy and Dave Freeman (Sept.,
$35, hardcover)
Author tour with 24 stops, advertising, book trailer by documen-tarian Nate Ptacek, 7,500-copy
announced first printing
The Forest Service describes the Boundary
Waters Canoe Area Wilderness as “a unique area
located in the northern third of the Superior
National Forest in Northeastern Minnesota.”
Amy and Dave Freeman spent a year there to
show the value of wilderness. “In this extraordinary book,” notes former vice president Walter Mondale,
“they have done us all an invaluable service, offering a wonderfully compelling testimony for the value of wild places
and the creatures who inhabit them.”
New Directions
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa, edited by
Jerónimo Pizarro, trans. from the
Portuguese by Margaret Jull
Costa (Aug., $24.95, hardcover)
Tributes in Chicago, New York, and
San Francisco; printed in embossed
cloth with iconic design by Peter Mendelsund;
6,000-copy print run
In a starred and signed PW review, Marcela
Valdes describes this book as “the Portuguese
cousin of ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’ and Waiting
for Godot.” Although it was composed on the eve
of World War I and in the war’s aftermath, it was
first published in 1982, 47 years after Pessoa’s
death.
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