Earlier this year at the Rhode Island School of Design, "filth elder" John Waters gave a brilliant commencement address in which he encouraged boldness in artistic expression and challenged students to "Horrify us with new ideas." Having been shared widely across the internet, the speech is now set to be published by Algonquin Books — in true Waters fashion, there will be artwork along with the text.
Lauren Groff's FATES AND FURIES hits the list at #7
More good news for FATES AND FURIES this week as it debuts on the New York Times' Best Sellers list at #7 in Hardcover Fiction.
Lauren Groff's FATES AND FURIES is long-listed for the 2015 National Book Award
We're beyond thrilled to share that Lauren Groff has made the 2015 National Book Award longlist for her novel FATES AND FURIES.
Finalists will be announced on October 14, 2015.
Michael Christie's IF I FALL, IF I DIE is long-listed for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Huge congratulations to Michael Christie for making the longlist of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, one of the biggest prizes for fiction in Canada. Past winners include Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje, and this year, twenty two books were selected from a record number of submitted titles. The shortlist will be announced on October 5, 2015.
Of the longlist, the jury (including John Boyne, Cecil Foster, Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick, and Helen Oyeyemi) wrote: “It’s been a joy to immerse ourselves in a world of fiction that speaks of the past and present, of women and men, of rural and urban identities, of humans and animals, of lives lived well and lives lived badly. While the writing we’ve encountered has been marked by audacity and wit, eccentricity and elegance, it has also reminded us of the extraordinary treasures to be found in contemporary Canadian literature."
A rave of Lauren Groff's FATES AND FURIES gets the cover of this week's Book Review
"There’s always the danger, with novels structured around a marriage, that they’ll be perceived as centrally concerned not only with that particular relationship but with the nature of marriage itself. A domestic union set prominently in a work of fiction has the sometimes unfortunate capacity to obscure whatever else is going on. Yet “Fates and Furies,” Lauren Groff’s remarkable new novel, explodes and rages past any such preconceptions, insisting that the examination of a long-term relationship can be a perfect vehicle for exploring no less than the nature of existence — the domestic a doorway to the philosophical."
Read the full review here.
Justin Tussing and Sarah Bynum's stories are featured in a NewYorker.com piece about back-to-school fiction.
We’re happy to see Justin Tussing’s “The Laser Age” and Sarah Bynum's "Yurt" featured in Deborah Treisman's roundup of school-themed stories. They're both incredible stories about the complications of classroom-love—check them out!
Ottessa Moshfegh's EILEEN is on the cover of the NYTBR, and it's a RAVE!
Lily King reviews Ottessa Moshfegh's EILEEN on the cover of the Book Review:
“Eileen is anything but generic. Eileen is as vivid and human as they come.”
“Seductive novel”
“Moshfegh…writes beautiful sentences. One after the other they unwind – playful, shocking, wise, morbid, witty, searingly sharp."
"The beginning of this novel is so impressive, so controlled yet whimsical, fresh and thrilling, you feel she can do anything.”
“There is that wonderful tension between wanting to slow down and bathe in the language and imagery, and the impulse to race to see what happens, how it happens."
Sophie McManus's THE UNFORTUNATES is short-listed for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize!
We couldn't be happier to see that Sophie McManus's THE UNFORTUNATES has been short-listed for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, given to the best debut novel of the year. Congrats, Sophie! Up top.
We've moved!
As of the end of last week, we've moved into our beautiful new offices at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 20th Street. We're up to our ears in cardboard and bubblewrap, but as soon as we have everything set up, we'll share photos!
Lauren Groff turns her wise eye on marriage in this week's New Yorker
Check out Lauren Groff's new story, "Ghosts and Empties," in this week's New Yorker. And while you're at it, go pre-order her new novel, Fates and Furies, due out from Riverhead in September!
"I have somehow become a woman who yells, and, because I do not want to be a woman who yells, whose little children walk around with frozen, watchful faces, I have taken to lacing on my running shoes after dinner and going out into the twilit streets for a walk, leaving the undressing and sluicing and reading and singing and tucking in of the boys to my husband, a man who does not yell."
