How We Assembled Indiespensable #28
Something has happened. You can always tell. You come to and find wreckage: a smashed lamp, a devastated human face that shivers on the verge of being recognizable. Occasionally someone in uniform: a...
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When we first heard about Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus from our head buyer, Gerry, we were skeptical. It sounded a bit fantastical for our sensibilities. But his defense was swift. "I don't...
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Jeffrey Eugenides hit the ground running with his first novel in 1993. Not only did The Virgin Suicides receive rave reviews and go on to be made into a critically acclaimed movie by Sofia Coppola, it...
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Happy 2012! We're looking forward to another year filled with literary wonder. So far, 2012 has found us rekindling our Indiespensable relationship with Algonquin Books. Algonquin, an independent (and...
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When we started Stephen Dau's debut novel, The Book of Jonas, we were impressed. (Kim, Michal, and Jill all raved about the beauty of the language within the first 10 pages.) And by the time we got to...
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Leni Zumas's debut novel, The Listeners, hit us like a bolt of lightning. Arch, witty, intelligent, impressionistic, hypnotic, and above all dazzlingly written, we couldn't put this deeply moving and...
View ArticleIndiespensable #35: A Million Heavens
by John Brandon (McSweeney's) Subscribers receive: - A signed first edition of A Million Heavens in a custom slipcase exclusive to Indiespensable - The Powells.com interview and Indiespensable Q&A...
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After J. Robert Lennon's last two books, Castle and Pieces for the Left Hand, the New York Times Book Review wrote, "Over the last decade, J. Robert Lennon's literary imagination has grown increasingly...
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We love the Scots. Kate Atkinson, Iain Banks, Alasdair Gray... The country regularly produces writers with a penchant for black humor and a delicious turn of phrase. So we weren't entirely surprised...
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From the opening pages of Domenica Ruta's memoir about her chaotic childhood with her flamboyant, contradictory mother, her own eventual descent into addiction, and her painful journey back to health,...
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