Belated subscription, just in time for the holidays...
So I guess a 2007 subscription that is announced in late November 2007 is more a gift package than a subscription, but if we have a good showing, then I can make a strong case for why we should really do a solid subscription program in 2008. Plus there is nothing more useless than a book in my office. Or a warehouse... Soooooo, herewith, the Soft Skull It's-Been-A-Loooooooooooooong-Year 2007 Fiction Subscription, consisting of multiple goodies, but noteworthy for its national diversity: a Canadian woman, a Congolese man, a Turkish woman, an American man, a German woman, an American man, an American woman, another American woman, and a Japanese woman...
A Woman Alone At Night by Tamara Faith Berger " [H]ot...sharp, powerful."—SEE Magazine
African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou “Taxi Driver for Africa’s blank generation.” Time Out New York
The City In Crimson Cloak by Asli Erdogan "An exceptionally sensitive and perceptive writer who gives us perfect literary texts....”—Orhan Pamuk
Gone and Back Again by Jonathan Scott Fuqua " [D]arkly humorous…intimate…conveys pathos and heartbreak while maintaining Caley's rich voice."—Publishers Weekly
Guantanamo by Dorothea Dieckmann, translated by Tim Mohr. " Reading it can cause a sort of bone-chill to set in, and an even more discomforting sense of awe. ”—Village Voice “Excellent”—Playboy
Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe. Quill Award Finalist. LitBlog Co-op Read This! Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2007. Nuff said.
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez. The book that generated an Alice Sebold reader review on Amazon.
My Happy Life by Lydia Millet. Re-whet your Millet appetite before we publish How the Dead Dream in January…
Vibrator by Mari Akasaka, translated by Michael Emmerich. “Disturbing and original”—Esquire
And the 2006 bonus (cause there’s always a bonus with Soft Skull): H20 by Mark Swartz. "A short, sharp shock, a jab to the eyeball and brain, H2O by Mark Swartz is a more telling commentary on our society now as Don DeLillo's White Noise was in its time. Savagely precise, clever but not shallow, Swartz's writing lacerates even as it's deeply, disturbingly funny."-Jeff VanderMeer
And may be purchased here.