Cool! I’ll follow up as we get closer to pub date
Yes! Actually talked to a friend who is at UWP about it recently, and I want to read that bio.
I grew up in Wisconsin and this book was on a shelf in a prominent spot in my house that I passed by every day; i often mumbled the title to myself
i don’t normally fetishize authors but by god these photos
But if we spur a Wescott mania we can proceed apace!
Yay!!! This Is great to hear. Maybe we can do something around the release in WI? I considered Grandmothers but it’s much longer, and I’ve been focused on choosing shorter books. Also GW has such a marketable title
Here he is with his polycule that lasted for *many years*!
once you read his bio and the brilliant intro by Patrick Nathan, you’ll be very amped for a Glenway Westcott revival
Gonna cheer myself up by showing you all a NEW COVER and title coming next fall.
oh for sure. Also she’ll get so much online abuse when it runs—bonus!
I don’t know but “rueful version of lmao” is a fabulous phrase
now they should hire a woman to give her husband 20k and write about her experience. I promise it will be less bland and obvious
Mckay Coppins
that the author is a Patriots-loving Mormon father of 4 is a kind of synedoche for “paradigmatic American male”
That Atlantic gambling piece is really a piece about ”average American men”, full stop. its not about gambling. You could replace it with “golf” or “beer” and it would be the same story. The single most important (and vile) part is the description of the “wives“ rolling their eyes.
it was the UK edition ppl were reading iirc
why use precious book review space on him?
Aaaarrrggghhhh
“Please spend $100,000 reprinting this book and pulp the fist print run because there is a “p” that you missed” “oh whoops guess I also missed it” “anyway correct please”
*any
Lots of posts about a typo in the new Barnes. Barnes had his chance! Surely he was sent proofs
Ok that is a SUPER clever cover!!!
Ha!
A few blurbs from our favorite recent reviews of The Trouble with Loving poets!
Author Elizabeth Zaleski (@greatfartsoflit.bsky.social) will be part of a reading at Loganberry Books in Cleveland next week, March 18th! Check the flyer for more details!
Before Holbein: Henry VIII in the 1530s, already cultivating squareness as a personal aesthetic. Square is a fine shape! By Joos van Cleve, whose day is today.
Must be cached versions tho
Anyone figured out a way to check Grammarly experts without getting an account?
sports books must follow the template those are the rules
Mocking/honoring this sports book cover cliche over at @beltpublishing.bsky.social
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At the height of the US postcard craze, “tall-tale” cards imagined a land of giant-sized plenty. In this 1909 series, Californian rail cars haul colossal fruit and veg — turning agricultural pride into something surreal and strangely beautiful: publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...
