A message from Starcherone Books publisher, Ted Pelton:
The Starcherone Books family of editors, authors, interns, and readers mourns the loss of Raymond Federman, who died October 7, 2009, at age 81. Read here a tribute to Federman.
News
Sixth Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction Winner Announcement
Alissa Nutting of Las Vegas, Nevada, is the winner of the 6th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction contest (2009-10) for her manuscript, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls. She will receive $1,000 and publication during Starcerone’s 2010-11 season. more...
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Honors
Joshua Harmon
Quinnehtukqut
Finalist for the Cabell First Novelist Award, 2008
Joshua Cohen
A Heaven of Others
#14 in The Believer reader survey of Best Books of 2008
Note: Following its nomination for the 2009 Young Lions Prize, Starcherone Books sold its rights to Zachary Mason's The Lost Books of the Odyssey. The book is no longer available through us, but will be coming out from FS&G in the near future.
New for Summer/Fall 2009
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.
AVAILABLE NOW
The Creepy Girl and other
stories
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.
AVAILABLE NOW
Coming in 2010:
New books by Raymond Federman, Leslie Scalapino, and Thaddeus Rutkowski.
Recent Titles
Dear Ra (a story in flinches)
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.
The Twilight of the Bums
by Raymond Federman and George Chambers, illustrated by T. Motley.
More than 80 riffs, rants, and microfictions by two old bums, er, that is,
MASTERS - perfectly complemented by the avant-comic artistry of T. Motley.
The Blue of Her Body
Winner of the 2005-6 Starcherone Fiction Prize
"Language is a bird in this novel - at times warm, close, pulsing in the
hand, at others flying, soaring in the space of the unsayable. Like Carole
Maso, Sara Greenslit is an artist who makes the muteness of the body, of
the world, sing." - Elizabeth Sheffield