I’d like to see a return to the traditional handsell of bookselling that was the mainstay of the likes of the afore-mentioned J. Laughlin. There is nothing more exciting and satisfyingly rewarding than publishing a good book and getting it into the hands of truly engaged, concerned and discerning readers, regardless of what format they choose.
For this week’s Sunday list we asked Entropy contributors: What book did you read in high school that had the most impact on you? Ben Roylance The Book of During by…
We’re interested in literature that is visionary—embracing or interrogating Mystery as it enacts a sense of ecstasy or otherworldly consciousness/experience. But I think that, in terms of aesthetics, there’s such a wide variety of ways to render that, and so many different topics or perspectives could lend themselves to that work. We are also interested in work that promotes interfaith and/or intercultural exchange.
Mega Man 3 by Salvatore Pane Boss Fight Books, 2016 168 pages – Boss Fight / Amazon Salvatore Pane’s Mega Man 3 warps its reader into a shared past, where the flickering…
Written Lives by Javier Marías Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Penguin Modern Classics, 2016 (First published in English by New Directions in 2006) 208 pages – Penguin /Amazon The great figures in…
Fake Missed Connections by Brett Fletcher Lauer Softskull Press, 2016 225 pages – Softskull / Amazon It’s not so much that I have thought of committing suicide in a really real…
Proxies: Essays Near Knowing by Brian Blanchfield Nightboat Books, 2016 200 pages – Nightboat / Amazon I have not read Brian Blanchfield’s new collection of essays, Proxies: Essays Near Knowing. The book,…
VHS and Why It’s Hard to Live by Tatiana Ryckman Zoo Cake Press, 2016 Zoo Cake Confession: I often judge books by their covers. Hey, aesthetics matter, right? Or, if…
Pretentiousness: Why It Matters by Dan Fox Coffee House Press, 2016 144 pages – Coffee House / Amazon Some might take a book about pretentiousness as a bit, well, pretentious—especially if…
Currently, the topics of race and racism dominate the US media, with Claudia Rankine and Ta-Nehisi Coates as central figures in the conversation. Rankine’s collection of non-traditional poems, Citizen: An…
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Times of Joseph Cornell Other Press, 2015 – reprint (originally published in 1997) 592 pages – Other Press / Amazon What do we make…
Now and At the Hour of our Death by Susan Moreira Marques Translated by Julia Sanches And Other Stories, 2015 128 pages – And Other Stories / Amazon Portuguese journalist Susana…
The Other Serious: Essays For The New American Generation by Christy Wampole HarperCollins, 2015 256 pages – Harper / Amazon Essayist Christy Wampole puts herself in the grand tradition of…
On Writing by Charles Bukowski (edited by Abel Debritto) Ecco, 2015 224 pages – Ecco / Amazon On Writing by Charles Bukowski, edited by Abel Debritto, is a book Bukowski…