News in May 2019

News in May 2019

PAUL TAKES THE FORM OF A MORTAL GIRL by Andrea Lawlor
6th May, 2019
Vulture featured Andrea Lawlor’s PAUL TAKES THE FORM OF A MORTAL GIRL in their “6 New Paperbacks You Should Read Right Now” roundup, writing: “Shape-shifting meets ’90s nostalgia in this delightful experimental novel featuring a hero who can change at will into different sexual personae… Set in a college town where academic theory and pop-culture digressions are as important as racy sex scenes, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a testament to the search for connection and the fluidity of identity.” Vintage reissued the book April 23, 2019; Rescue Press published the book originally on November 1, 2017.
HONEY & LEON TAKE THE HIGH ROAD by Alan Cumming, Illustrated by Grant Shaffer
6th May, 2019
Alan Cumming was interviewed on BUILD, a live interview series, about HONEY & LEON TAKE THE HIGH ROAD. In this second installment to The HONEY & LEON Series, the world-traveling dogs are back, and off to Scotland. Random House Books for Young Readers published the book on April 30, 2019.
BEARSKIN by James A. McLaughlin
6th May, 2019
BEARSKIN received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Best First Novel by An American Author. Ecco published the book on June 12, 2018.
THE OLD DRIFT by Namwali Serpell
6th May, 2019
For The Atlantic, Lily Meyer writes that Namwali Serpell’s debut novel THE OLD DRIFT is a “sprawling epic that unfolds with the wild detail of a Bosch painting,” and notes its sharing of a “provocative core idea: that colonialism was a massive invasion of privacy, and that technology is on track to rival it." Hogarth published the book on March 26, 2019.
EXHALATION by Ted Chiang
6th May, 2019
Ted Chiang’s forthcoming EXHALATION has already received 5 starred reviews ahead of publication. Now The Verge has picked his new collection as one of the “10 new science fiction and fantasy books to check out in May.” The Verge writes that “Ted Chiang is one of the best science fiction writers working right now.” Knopf will publish the book on May 7, 2019.