books / small-press
Looking for a book from a small press
Indie publishers — Fitzcarraldo, Coffee House, Graywolf, Two Lines, Tin House. Different from chain-bookstore tables.
- The Vegetarian — Han Kang (Hogarth/Granta) novelKorean, three sections, dark and brilliant.
- Pond — Claire-Louise Bennett (Fitzcarraldo) fictionA woman alone in a cottage.
- The Last Samurai — Helen DeWitt (New Directions) novelSingle mother, child prodigy, Akira Kurosawa.
- Convenience Store Woman — Sayaka Murata (Granta) novelTokyo. Already mentioned. Still excellent.
- The Friend — Sigrid Nunez (Riverhead) novelA woman inherits a Great Dane.
- Fates and Furies — Lauren Groff (Riverhead) novelMarriage from two angles.
- Outline — Rachel Cusk (FSG) novelA writer in Athens listens.
- Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders (Random House) novelLincoln, ghosts, unusual.
- Asymmetry — Lisa Halliday (Simon & Schuster) novelThree parts. The middle is a swerve.
- Salt Slow — Julia Armfield (Picador) storiesStrange. Bodies. Sea.