Silver Press is a new feminist publisher based in London. Forthcoming titles include Leonora Carrington’s The Debutante and Other Stories, which you can read about here, as well as the first U.K. edition of Audre Lorde’s essays and poetry.
Silver Press Launches
But I wanna have it both ways.
Alexander Nazaryan joins legions of hand wringers in this short rumination on children's reading and e-reading. Me, I just want it both ways.
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Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award Winners Announced
For the past 17 years, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award has celebrated "six women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers." This year's winners are Melanie Diane (poetry), Apricot Irving (nonfiction), Fowzia Karimi (fiction), Namwali Serpell (fiction), Merritt Tierce (fiction), and JoAnn Wypijewski (nonfiction). They will accept their awards on September 22 in New York City.
Beautiful Again, and Interesting, and Modern
Have we entered into the age of New Modernism? Better yet, what does “New Modernism” even mean? Let regular Millions contributor Jonathan Russell Clark explain it to you in his essay for LitHub on George Saunders, Alexandra Kleeman, and experimental feeling. This Millions review of Gabriel Josipovici’s What Ever Happened to Modernism? is particularly relevant.
No Light Before
Recommended Reading: Peter Fulham on William Styron’s Darkness Visible.
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Lit Kids, Ctd.
Last Tuesday, I wrote about an article in the Literary Review that shed light on the daughters of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Now, in the LRB, Tim Parks reviews a new biography of the children of Charles Dickens. (Related: our own Mark O’Connell reviewed Mr. Parks’s new book.)
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Conquest of Panic
Irving Howe asks how Hemingway commanded the attention of a generation. Howe writes, "His great subject, I think, was panic." Our own Michael Bourne recently answered this question, recognizing Hemingway as a middlebrow revolutionary.
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Stephenie Meyer’s Body Snatchers
A mini-excerpt from Stephenie Meyer's bestseller for adults, The Host, just out in paperback.
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