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Fall Indie Books
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Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside
the Optimization Movement
Carl Cederström and André Spicer
(Nov., $22, trade paper)
Author appearances in New York City
In two parallel journals, the authors
of The Wellness Syndrome dive inside
the burgeoning self-optimization
movement, which seeks to transcend the limits placed on us by
being merely human. They devote each
month to a different way of improving—
January to productivity; June to sex; and
September to money.
Pegasus
Marita:
The Spy Who Loved Castro
Marita Lorenz (Sept., $27.95,
hardcover)
Soon to be a motion picture starring
Jennifer Lawrence, 25,000-copy
announced first printing
Born in Germany at the outbreak of
WWII and incarcerated at Bergen-Belsen, Lorenz met and fell in love
with Fidel Castro, whom she was
recruited by the CIA to assassinate. “Marita
herself calmly tells you she’s been shot at, poisoned, firebombed, drugged, pistol-whipped,
and dumped in the Amazon rainforest to die.
If not an entirely glamorous life, it has certainly been one with all peaks and no valleys,”
Vanity Fair writes.
Soho
Solar Bones
Mike McCormack (Sept., $25,
hardcover)
Advertising, longlisted for the Man
Booker Prize, winner of the
Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish
Book Awards Novel of the Year,
50,000-copy announced first printing
“Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones,
with its one calmly unspooling sen-
tence, hearkens back to the great
modernist novels, but also moves
forward from the present with all the urgency
and anxiety of our fraught new century,” writes
Stephen Sparks, co-owner of Point Reyes Books
in Point Reyes Station, Calif. “This is the kind of novel a reader
yearns for, one that illuminates what it means to be here now.
It’s nothing short of a masterpiece.”
Tachyon
The Emerald Circus
Jane Yolen (Nov., $15.95, trade
paper)
Author tour in New England, national
advertising, 10,000-copy announced
first printing
Yolen’s first full adult collection in a
dozen years brings together new and
previously uncollected stories. They
include the story of a Scottish academic who unearths ancient evil in a
fishing village and one of Emily Dickinson sailing
away in a starship made of light. With an introduction by Holly Black.
Tin House
The Glass Eye: A Memoir
Jeannie Vanasco (Oct., $15.95, trade
paper)
Author tour, Barnes & Noble Discover
Great New Writers selection, ABA
Indies Introduce pick, Indie Next pick,
20,000-copy announced first printing
“It would be easy to describe this book
as a memoir about grief and mental illness, but The Glass Eye is the sort of
book that requires more than your
standard pat descriptors,” says Emily Ballaine at
Green Apple Books in San Francisco. “Jeannie
Vanasco has crafted a book that will worm its way
under your skin, a book that will not give you easy
answers or heartwarming takeaways.”
Two Dollar Radio
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill
Us: Essays
Hanif Abdurraqib (Nov., $16.99,
trade paper)
BuzzFeed excerpt, 10,000-copy
announced first printing
A former columnist at MTV news uses
music and culture as a lens through
which to view our world so that we
might better understand ourselves and
our times. In a starred review, PW says
that these new and previously published essays “are
filled with honesty, providing the reader with the
sensation of seeing the world through fresh eyes.”
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