" /> Soft Skull News: August 2009 Archives

« July 2009 | Main | October 2009 »

August 21, 2009

Even more inappropriate.

Turn your volume way up.

Extremely Inappropriate.

Available this fall.

"Meet, Pay, Love"

As promised, a link to the front page NYTBR review of Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys. Also this, a chance to see some of the contributors tell their stories in person at Modern Times. Looks like an excellent program.

August 14, 2009

Front page NYTBR review for Hos, Hookers!

So excited! For a small press like us, it's always a lovely thing to have a book favorably reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. But an absolutely glowing front page review is something that really doesn't happen all that often! In the forthcoming edition (8/23) of the NYTBR, Toni Bentley calls Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys "an eye-opening, occasionally astonishing, brutally honest and frequently funny collection from those who really have lived on the edge in a parallel universe." Congratulations to co-editors David Henry Sterry and RJ Martin for pulling together a truly wonderful anthology. Unfortunately, I don't have a link to the review yet, but here is another bit of it: "The collection is a wonderful reminder that good writing is not about knowing words, grammar or Faulkner, but having that rare ability to tell the truth, an ability that education and sophistication often serve to conceal."