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Starcherone to become an imprint of Dzanc Books
Starcherone and Dzanc Books have agreed to partner beginning in 2011, with Dzanc providing production and distribution support to Starcherone, and Starcherone editors maintaining editorial control. The first titles under our new arrangement will be Stacey Levine's long-awaited new collection, The Girl with Brown Fur, and the anthology 30 Under 30, Blake Butler and Lily Hoang, eds.
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Joshua Cohen's A Heaven of Others has sold out of its first edition and is out in a corrected 2nd edition... Last year, Joshua Harmon's Quinnehtukqut sold out of its first edition and it is presently in its second... Starcherone Books congratulates Sara Greenslit on winning the Ron Sukenick/ABR Innovative Fiction Prize from FC2. Her debut novel, The Blue of Her Body, won Starcherone Books' 3rd annual prize, in 2006-7...
New for Spring 2010
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Raymond Federman
AVAILABLE NOW
The final novel by Federman — a tender, lyric, and tough retelling of a childhood recalled in scraps, of a family lost, mourned, but only half-remembered.
Floats
Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows
Leslie Scalapino
AVAILABLE NOW
"This is a jewel book that has come out of the spagyric hinterlands of purest
imagination, where it has lain for an immeasurable time alongside Burroughs's Cities of the Red Night, Hans Arp's poetry,
Monkey's Journey to the West, and Mark Twain's
Mysterious Stranger — and it blows with the
elegance of a horse — or a wolf...Virginia Woolf." Michael
McClure, author of Scratching the Beat Surface
Recent Titles
The Creepy Girl and other
stories
Janet Mitchell
Winner of the 5th Starcherone Fiction Prize, selected by Lance Olsen.
"A work of outrageous, much-needed literary ambition. Mitchell is hell-bent
on extracting every last drop of sadness and pain from her sentences." -
Ben Marcus.
You Are Here
The new novel by Donald Breckenridge constructs a world of ideas and art
in a New York City where people finish each others' sentences. There's no
better intellectual beach reading for summer.
Dear Ra (a story in flinches)
Johannes Goransson
An indeterminate text comprised of letters, resembling both fiction and
poetry but not wholly comfortable in either category, if the task is to
wake up the language, each sentence answers the challenge, stabbing at one
like a beautiful murderer.