Welcome to the twentieth installment of Entropy’s small press new releases feature. As always, we are continually seeking new presses to represent, so if you are small press and would like to see your upcoming titles on the website, please send an email to jenny@entropymag.org. In the meantime, enjoy this month of solid releases to quench your thirst for bright and bold authors.
Black Lawrence Press
The Czar by Mary Biddinger and Jay Robinson
100 pages – Black Lawrence Press/SPD
What Weaponry by Elizabeth Colen
90 pages – Black Lawrence Press/SPD
“Handsomely forged like the best scenes of the best art films, Elizabeth Colen’s What Weaponry moves between expansive seashores and claustrophobic interiors to illuminate or exorcise the emotional interstices we all inhabit. Such violence and tenderness rubbing up against each other! It’s impossible to look away. And if, as Colen insists, ‘There is no mystery here,’ it’s because she has exposed the beautiful ugly subcutaneous.” –Debra Di Blasi
Brooklyn Arts Press
Infinite Record: Archive, Memory, Performance, edited by Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann
& Karmenlara Ely
202 pages – Brooklyn Arts Press/SPD
City Lights Publishers
Save Twilight by Julio Cortázar, translated by Stephen Kessler
288 pages – City Lights Publishers/Amazon
Civil Coping Mechanisms
There Should Be Flowers by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
100 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon
Able To/Always Will by Ctch Bsnss
72 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon
Blind Spot by Harold Abramowitz
166 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon
Transitory by Tobias Carroll
196 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon
“Ingenious and mysterious, the stories of Tobias Carroll are spun with quiet loneliness and wild surprise. Transitory is that rare kind of collection where each story stands shining alone and, in the end, forms a beautifully melancholic whole. Tobias Carroll is an original and deeply exciting talent.” –Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me
Coffee House Press
The Tortoise of History by Anselm Hollo
112 pages – Coffee House Press/Amazon
Dalkey Archive
The Family Interrupted by Eloy Urroz, translated by Ezra Fitz
208 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Girl on Heaven’s Pier by Eeva-Liisa Manner, translated by Terhi Kuusisto
104 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Dzanc Books
Clothed, Female Figure by Kirsten Allio
280 pages – Dzanc Books/Amazon
Origins of the Universe and What It All Means by Carole Firstman
276 pages – Dzanc Books/Amazon
In her debut memoir, Carole Firstman traces her strained relationship with her eccentric and distant father, a gifted biology professor whose research on scorpions may have contributed to the evolutionary theories of Stephen Jay Gould. Through unexpected forms—from footnotes and diagrams to startling love letters and Saturday morning cartoons—Firstman struggles to reconnect with her estranged father and redefine herself as both a grown woman and a daughter. Part travel narrative, part cultural commentary, this genre-bending memoir contemplates the nature of parent-child relationships, the evolution of life on Earth, and origins both physical and metaphysical. Excerpts from this work have appeared as Notable Essays in several Best American Essays collections. –from the Dzanc Books website
Featherproof Books
The Inborn Absolute: The Artwork of Robert Ryan by Robert Ryan
153 pages – Featherproof Books/Amazon
The Tennessee Highway Death Chant by Keegan Jennings Goodman
231 pages – Featherproof Books/Amazon
In a purgatory at the banks of the Hiwassee River in southeastern Tennessee, two teenagers, the garrulous John Stone and the young Jenny Evenene, barrel through an endless night in a Firebird Trans Am. As Jenny wakes each morning, the same morning, and chronicles the events of her final day, her mind reaches back into the recesses of time, collecting a mythical past that bleeds into the details of her violent end. John drinks beer and philosophizes about the nature of reality and consciousness. The two heroes drive through the night, drinking cold American beer and listening to the country music station, hurling themselves into the darkness beyond the headlights. –from the Featherproof Books website
Gauss PDF
Opus 16 on Tehching Hsieh by A.J. Carruthers
GPDF
The servers are the seven chaos, chaos is power enriched by the heart, The controllers exist to unify the chaos. by Alexander Salnikov & Perry Trollope
GPDF
Greying Ghost Press
Drummer by Chad Reynolds
Chapbook – Greying Ghost
No Rainbow by Judson Hamilton
Chapbook – Greying Ghost
Graywolf Press
Compartment No. 6 by Rosa Liksom, translated by Lola Rogers
192 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
Standoff by David Rivard
96 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
Riverine: A Memoir From Anywhere But Here by Angela Palm
272 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
Angela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, in a house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland. Every year, the Kankakee River in rural Indiana flooded and returned to its old course while the residents sandbagged their homes against the rising water. From her bedroom window, Palm watched the neighbor boy and loved him in secret, imagining a life with him even as she longed for a future that held more than a job at the neighborhood bar. For Palm, caught in this landscape of flood and drought, escape was a continually receding hope. Though she did escape, as an adult Palm finds herself drawn back, like the river, to her origins. But this means more than just recalling vibrant, complicated memories of the place that shaped her, or trying to understand the family that raised her. It means visiting the prison where the boy she loved is serving a life sentence for a brutal murder. It means trying to chart, through the mesmerizing, interconnected essays of Riverine, what happens when a single event forces the path of her life off course. –from the Graywolf Press website
H_NGM_N
Overhead Projector by CL Young
Chapbook – H_NGM_N
Lettered Streets Press
Louise and Louise and Louise by Olivia Cronk
110 pages – Lettered Streets Press
Melville House
The Subsidiary by Matías Celedón, translated by Samuel Rutter
208 pages – Melville House/Amazon
The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnson
288 pages – Melville House/Amazon
Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure by Ingrid Burrington
112 pages – Melville House/Amazon
The Anatomy of Inequality: Its Social and Economic Origins – and Solutions by Per Molander
256 pages – Melville House/Amazon
Milkweed Editions
What a Woman Must Do by Faith Sullivan
224 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon
When Celia Canby — Kate’s niece, Bess’s mother, and Harriet’s cousin — is killed in a car accident, it’s up to Kate and Harriet to raise Bess. Ten years later, on the day of the accident, the local newspaper in Harvester, MN, dredges up the story of the accident for a careless “Way Back When” piece, subjecting the women to another round of grief. Kate, arthritic and stuck far away from the farm she loves, is concerned about Bess. Headstrong and closed off, Bess yearns to escape Harvester before she “goes bad.” But when she begins to trace the same path of mistakes her mother made — a risky relationship with a local married man — everything seems on the verge of falling apart. In a novel that celebrates the power of what a woman can do, What A Woman Must Do asks timeless questions about love and loss: How does our history define us? How can we let go of it? Should we? –from the Milkweed Editions website
Monster House Press
Portrait of the Alcoholic With Shattered Pelvis by Kaveh Akbar
10 pages – Monster House Press
OR Books
Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney
325 pages – OR Books
Trump Unveiled: Exposing the Bigoted Billionaire by John K. Wilson
250 pages – OR Books
Other Press
Blitz by David Trueba
176 pages – Other Press/Amazon
Plays inverse
The Mystery of the Seventeen Pilot Fish by Mike Kleine
Plays Inverse
It’s the end of the end of the world and the house that holds together our universe is quietly falling apart. The Mystery of the Seventeen Pilot Fish is as much about a detective solving his final case as it is the definitive who, what, why, when, where, how & how much of just about everything you have ever imagined. –from the Plays Inverse website
Queen’s Ferry Press
The Summer She Was Under Water by Jen Michalski
204 pages – Queen’s Ferry Press/Amazon
Sarabande Books
Malafemmena by Louisa Ermelino
192 pages – Sarabande Books/Amazon
Tyrant Books
White Nights in Split Town City by Annie DeWitt
300 pages – Tyrant Books/Amazon
Unnamed Press
Falter Kingdom by Michael J. Seidlinger
240 pages – Unnamed Press/Amazon
When you run the gauntlet at Falter Kingdom, a tunnel next to a park on the outskirts of suburbia where local high school kids go to drink and smoke, one of two things can happen — nothing or you catch a demon. The cold spots, locked doors, scratches on the wall, and disappearing laptop immediately alert Hunter to the fact that a demon is haunting him. He knows the signs, he’s seen the videos of people that are possessed, and everyone knows someone that has had to get an exorcism. Hunter knows that he should get rid of it, but he can’t help but enjoy the company of “H,” despite this demon’s sinister intentions. –from the Unnamed Press website
