Today in Bookish and Literary History, January 12
1925 Processional by John Howard Lawson - US
1928 Cock Robin by Philip Barry and Elmer Rice - US
1932 The Animal Kingdom by Philip Barry - US
2021 The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala - Cuba
Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate
2021 A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders - US
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.
2021 Pedro's Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land by Marcos Gonsalez - US
In Pedro's Theory Marcos Gonsalez explores the lives of these many Pedros, real and imagined. Several are the author himself, while others are strangers, lovers, archetypes, and the men he might have been in other circumstances. All are journeying to some sort of Promised Land, or hoping to discover an America of their own.
2021 The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts - AUS
Interweaving a woman's self-destructive unraveling with the gradual worsening of the climate crisis, The Inland Sea is charged with unflinching insight into our age of anxiety. At a time when wildfires have swept an entire continent, this novel asks what refuge and comfort looks like in a constant state of emergency.
2021 The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin - Russia/US
Cinderella wants her Prince Charming dead in this sophisticated fairy-tale for the twenty-first century.
2021 Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller - US
A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history.
- Shortlisted for The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
- Shortlisted for The Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes
2021 Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu - US
“A magnificent, complex assessment of selfhood and why it matters” (Elle), Aftershocks depicts the way she hauled herself from the wreckage of her life’s perpetual quaking, the means by which she has finally come to understand that the only ground firm enough to count on is the one written into existence by her own hand.
2024 The Secret Pianist by Andie Newton - UK
When a British RAF Whitley plane comes under fire over the French coast and is forced to drop their cargo, a spy messenger pigeon finds its way into unlikely hands…
2024 Anne Morcelés by FRANK YOUNG - US
Anne Morcelés is an 80-something widow who lives in a bleak small town in the Pacific Northwest. Due to a series of bad decisions by the various physicians she sees, Anne becomes the unwilling resident of a world of illusion—a sensation so unpredictable and confusing she reveals it to no one. Her daughter Sylvia, who struggles with two businesses, is unaware of Anne’s rich inner life, which is not borne of dementia but of neglect.
2026 The Invite by Irina Shapiro - US
Seven college friends. One stunning lakehouse. A weekend reunion that ends in murder…
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