We are ready for the twenty-sixth installment of Entropy’s small press new releases feature! If you are a small press and would like to see your upcoming titles listed here in the future, please email jenny@entropymag.org with the information you see included for the titles below.
Action Books
Night Badly Written by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, translated by Katherine Hedeen
180 pages – Action Books/SPD
Ahsahta Press
On a Clear Day by Jasmine Dreame Wagner
192 pages – Ahsahta Press
Bellevue Literary Press
Jerzy by Jerome Charyn
240 pages – Bellevue Literary Press/Amazon
Big Lucks Books
Chateau Wichman by Ben Pease
170 pages – Big Luck Books
Space. Drugs. Talk shows. Diagnosed as a “blockbuster in verse,” Chateau Wichman is the epic Saga of The Wichman, a reclusive-apartment-hermit-turned-internet-sensation who struggles to harness the god-like power of Celebrity. Inspired by Weinberger, Apollo & Daphne, Chayefsky’s Altered States, the Apollo space missions, and that one Davis Foster Wallace essay about cruise ships, Chateau Wichman is a epic saga of rebellion and romance for today’s trying and exhausting digital times. –from the Big Lucks Books website
Black Ocean
Meadow Slasher by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
72 pages – Black Ocean/SPD
Hackers by Aase Berg
216 pages – Black Ocean/SPD
Bottlecap Press
a boy named jane by M. Wright
Chapbook – Bottlecap Press
City Lights Publishers
Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry edited by Earle A. Birney
118 pages – City Lights Publishers/Amazon
Coffee House Press
How We Speak to One Another Daily edited by Ander Monson and Craig Reinbold
275 pages – Coffee House Press/Amazon
Camanchaca by Diego Zúñiga, translated by Megan McDowell
128 pages – Coffee House Press/Amazon
Curbside Splendor
Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes by Anne Elizabeth Moore
300 pages – Curbside Splendor/Amazon
Every day, heinous acts are perpetrated on women’s bodies in this political economy—whether for entertainment, in the guise of medicine, or due to the conditions of labor that propel consumerism. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist and Fulbright scholar Anne Elizabeth Moore explores the global toll of capitalism on women with thorough research and surprising humor. The essays range from probing journalistic investigations, such as Moore’s reporting on the labor conditions of the Cambodian garment industry, to the uncomfortably personal, as when Moore, who suffers from several autoimmune disorders, examines her experiences seeking care and community in the increasingly complicated (and problematic) American healthcare system. Featuring illustrations by Xander Marro, Body Horror is a fascinating and revealing portrait of the gore of contemporary American culture and politics. –from the Curbside Splendor website
Deep Vellum Publishing
The Outlaw by Jón Gnarr, translated by Lytton Smith
312 pages – Deep Vellum Publishing/Amazon
The Magician of Vienna by Sergio Pitol, translated by George Henson
304 pages – Deep Vellum Publishing/Amazon
Dzanc Books
Inside My Pencil: Teaching Poetry in Detroit Public Schools by Peter Markus
184 pages – Dzanc Books
The Lost Daughter Collective by Lindsay Drager
184 pages – Dzanc Books
A group of bereaved fathers explores the risks involved in girlhood in this novel that collapses the distinction between gender and self, history and allegory. Using bedtime stories as cautionary tales, a Wrist Scholar relays the story of a fabled group of fathers coping with dead and missing daughters. When the girl sacrifices everything to send a final message to her father through her art and one lost girl is revealed to be not dead or missing but a daughter who has transitioned into a son, fathers are faced with the reality that their children’s “play” is anything but. Caught in a strange loop that—like Escher’s “Drawing Hands”—confuses the line between reality and artifice, folklore and scholarship, far past and near future, The Lost Daughter Collective illustrates how the stories we receive are shaped by those who do the telling. –from the Dzanc Books website
eohippus
You Don’t Have to Publish to Be a Publisher: An Autobiography of Mondo Bummer by Amy Berkowitz
Chapbook – eohippus
FC2
The Ace of Lightning by Stephen-Paul Martin
304 pages – FC2/Amazon
Refrigerated Music For a Gleaming Woman by Aimee Parkinson
96 pages – FC2/Amazon
The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman by Courtney E. Morgan
216 pages – FC2/Amazon
Featherproof Books
Make X: A Decade of Literary Art edited by Daniel Borzutzky, Joel Craig, Sarah Dodson, Kamilah Foreman, Sarah Kramer, Brenda Lozano, and Kathryn Scanlan
354 pages – Featherproof Books/Amazon
In this collection of work from over a decade of Chicago-based MAKE magazine, the editors offer the collective voice of MAKE through selected fiction, poetry, nonfiction and conversation, alongside art and stories. These extraordinary literary works and visual arts were not chosen as a “best of,” but rather as a representation of the many parts that together form this celebrated magazine. Featuring a foreward by Eula Biss. Contributors include: Tauba Auerbach, Eula Biss, Lily Hoang, Lindsay Hunter, Dorothea Lasky, Ted Mathys, Joe Meno, Maggie Nelson, Jac Jemc, Tim Kinsella, Kathleen Rooney, Mahmoud Saeed, Tomaž Šalamun, Marvin Tate, Valeria Luiselli, Chris Wiewiora, Mabel Yu, Kate Zambreno, and many more. –from the Featherproof Books website
Fitzcarraldo
Compass by Mathias Enard, translated by Charlotte Mandell
480 pages – Fitzcarraldo/Amazon
Flood Editions
The Absolute Letter by Andrew Jordan
80 pages – SPD
Gauss PDF
Pure Compersion by Qiuzi Chen
GPDF
Goodmorning Menagerie
Craters: A Field Guide by Kenji C. Liu
32 pages – Goodmorning Menagerie
Graywolf Press
WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
120 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo, translated by Janet Hong
224 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
Wait Till You See Dance by Deb Olin Unferth
200 page – Graywolf Press/Amazon
Magic Helicopter Press
Holodeck One by Jessica Baer
32 pages – Magic Helicopter Press
Melville House
More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem
288 pages – Melville House/Amazon
Becoming Leonardo: An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo DeVinci by Mike Lankford
320 pages – Melville House/Amazon
Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
256 pages – Melville House/Amazon
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
192 pages – Melville House/Amazon
Milkweed Editions
Sycamore by Kathy Fagan
88 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon
Cold Pastoral by Rebecca Dunham
80 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon
OR Books
Hilary Clinton: The Goldman Sachs Speeches
160 pages – OR Books
Other Press
Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles
432 pages – Other Press/Amazon
Stranger in a Strange Land by George Prochnik
464 pages – Other Press/Amazon
Who You Think I Am by Camille Laurens
208 pages – Other Press/Amazon
Rescue Press
What Was It For by Adrienne Raphel
108 pages – Rescue Press/SPD
In her debut collection What Was It For, Adrienne Raphel revitalizes the topsy-turvy lyric and its evergreen sagacity. Through playground doggerel, charm, and riddle, these poems cry fair and foul to a world where pâté geese dabble in fields of lavender, crises get wallpapered over, hot air balloons stalk pleasurably, cash changes for gold, and the moon sinks into the sea to the thrum of the metronome. That world is this, our own and only, so reader, climb aboard: like a carousel, each poem loops round and round, granting dizzying vistas. All the while, these poems spill over with wonder—as in query, as in jubilee—just as a child chants why, but why, but why. By way of answer, What Was It For offers an immortal, resounding question. –from the Rescue Press website
Restless Books
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
224 pages – Restless Books/Amazon
Solar Luxuriance
Outplace by Lital Khaikin
70 pages – Solar Luxuriance
The Song Cave
HAIRDO by Rachel B. Glaser
80 pages – The Song Cave/SPD
With a voice as familiar as family, Rachel B. Glaser’s second book of poems, HAIRDO, hilariously navigates the daily anxieties and fantasies of the writer’s path through her own modern life. Writing through action movies, pornography, chat rooms, photo shoots on train tracks, crushes on teachers and orchids in grocery stores, the poems in this book present us with emotional souvenirs of a curious and honest life lived. Bursting with Glaser’s truly unique heart, her mega-watt wit and insightful eye, HAIRDO is a book you will find yourself reading at 3AM, unable to put down. –from The Song Cave website
Tin House Books
Turkish Delight by Jan Wolkers, translated by Sam Garrett
240 pages – Tin House Books/Amazon
Two Dollar Radio
The Drop Edge of Yonder by Rudolph Wurlitzer
252 pages – Two Dollar Radio/Amazon
Beginning in the savage wilds of Colorado in the waning days of the fur trade, the story follows Zebulon Shook, a mountain man who has a curse placed on him by a mysterious Native American woman whose lover he murdered, to “drift like a blind man between the worlds, not knowing if you’re dead or alive, of if the unseen world exists, or if you’re dreaming.” Zebulon sets out on the trail from Colorado, venturing to the remote reaches of the Northwest, a journey that traverses the Gulf of Mexico to Panama, and up the coast of California to San Francisco and the gold fields, bringing him face-to-face with mystics and outlaws, politically-minded prison wardens and Russian Counts, each hungry to stake their claim on the American dream. A novel of breathtaking scope and beauty, The Drop Edge of Yonder reveals one of America’s most transcendant writers at the top of his form. –from the Two Dollar Radio website
Unnamed Press
For the Love of the Dollar: A Portrait of the Artist As An Undocumented Immigrant by J.M. Servín
246 pages – Unnamed Press/Amazon
Wakefield Press
Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah: From the Notes of Dr. Renard de Montpensier by Louis Levy, translated by W.C. Bamburger
152 pages – Wakefield Press/Amazon
YesYes Books
Makeshift Cathedral by Peter LaBerge
39 pages – YesYes Books
Gilt by Raena Shirali
104 pages – YesYes Books
I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On by Khadijah Queen
96 pages – YesYes Books
Part 1980s and 1990s nostalgia, part exuberant storytelling, I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On turns a sharply humorous magnifying glass onto gendered interactions in daily life, framed primarily by random celebrity encounters in Los Angeles. Far from a narrative of fame-chasing or conceit, however, I’m So Fine breathlessly addresses what it means for a woman to fight for dignity and survival in an often hostile environment, to come into her own power as she decides what she wants for herself “& mostly gets its every fineness. –from the YesYes Books website
