Comments on: Forthcoming Books

By: Lenore

Lenore — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:50:01 +0000

A new David Mitchell?! I’ve adored his stuff so far, so this is excellent news to me.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:01:47 +0000

It’s not that far in the future– next month– but Jonathan Howard’s JOHANNES CABAL, THE NECROMANCER is top-notch.

Humor and the fantastic are difficult things to balance & Howard’s tone is perfect; the book manages to be continually amusing, yet with moments of creepiness, suspense and thoughtfulness…

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:10:34 +0000

Laird Hunt’s RAY OF THE STAR

Robert Lopez’s KAMBY BOLONGO MEAN RIVER

Lydia Davis’ COLLECTED STORIES

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:45:44 +0000

The one I’m writing.

By: Levi Stahl

Levi Stahl — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:23:08 +0000

Colleen, I’m so glad you mentioned the book on Victorian grave-robbing. I’m definitely going to look for that one this fall.

By: Bat of Moon

Bat of Moon — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:39:04 +0000

Ooooo. Imperial. Me want.

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:20:36 +0000

Colleen, the new Eddie Campbell book is called The Years Have Pants. Essentially it’s a collection of his Alec books from The King Canute Crowd to After The Snooter although it contains some unpublished material and an all-new book to round it all off. It’s published by Top Shelf Comix this September.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:51:31 +0000

Scarlett Thomas in 2010?? Yea!

What is the new Eddie Campbell, Woody? I hadn’t heard that.

I’m looking forward to Paul Collins’ book on Shakespeare, Elizabeth Hand has a YA novel of all things coming out (Wonderwall – from an earlier short story) and Sierra Club books has a NF title on mountaintop removal mining I want to see, “Coal Country”.

I’m also looking forward to Cranioplekty – a book on Victorian era grave robbing from Unbridled Books and Fossil Hunter by Shelly Emling – the story Mary Hanning.

By: judith

judith — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:07:16 +0000

oops. Just saw that you’d mentioned the Powers book already. I am blinded by booklust, clearly.

By: judith

judith — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:06:05 +0000

Richard Powers' Generosity: An Enhancement. September is so far away!

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:08:52 +0000

It’s not just novels either. When it comes to comics, this year brings us new books by Crumb, Mazucelli, Mazzucchelli, Eddie Campbell, Ben Katchor, perhaps even something by Al Columbia, amongst others. Not to mention the recently released Yoshihiro Tatsumi tome.

How do I fit all of these around the reading alluded to above? I am but one man! We need some kind of time machine, Ed, and we need it now…

By: Levi Stahl

Levi Stahl — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:32:24 +0000

Strangely, pretty much all the books I’m really looking forward to this fall I already have, because they were published in the UK last month: Hilary Mantel’s brilliant Wolf Hall, Kazuo Ishiguro’s frustrating but occasionally great Nocturnes, and A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book, which I haven’t yet read.

I know the number of people who, like me, will order such books from overseas rather than wait is still relatively small, but given how much publicity the UK papers can be counted on to give British authors–and how that publicity travels across the ocean seamlessly–I’m surprised that U.S. trade houses haven’t figured out a way to avoid such a time-lag when they buy U.S. rights.