Today we are spotlighting collections, from essays to stories, from horror to fantasy to modern life!
ALL THINGS ARE TOO SMALL: Essays in Praise of Excess BY BECCA ROTHFELD
“Rothfeld has a knack for aphorism (‘There is nothing more foreign to justice than love’), and it’s an absolute pleasure to watch her idiosyncratic arguments unfold. This is a triumph.”―Publishers Weekly, starred review
HIGHWAY THIRTEEN BY FIONA MCFARLANE
Available for download on Edelweiss. LibraryReads votes due by July 1st.
In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged for a series of brutal murders. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims’ families, but its impact travels even further: into the past, as the murders rewrite personal histories, and into the future, as true crime podcasts and biopics tell the story of the crimes.
HIGHWAY THIRTEEN, Fiona McFarlane’s newest collection, takes murder as its starting point, but it unfolds to encompass much more: through the investigation of the aftermath of this violence across time and place, from the killer’s childhood town to Texas, Rome, and tropical northern Australia, McFarlane presents an oblique, entrancing exploration of the way stories are told and spread, and at what cost.
What damages, big and small, do these crimes incur? How do communities make sense of such atrocities? How does the mourning of families sit alongside the public fascination with terrible crimes? And can we tell true crime stories without centering the killers? From the acclaimed author of THE SUN WALKS DOWN and THE HIGH PLACES comes a captivating account of loss and its extended echoes in individual lives.
CRAFT: Stories I Wrote for the Devil BY ANANDA LIMA
Available for download on Edelweiss. LibraryReads votes due by May 1st.
“A terrific fiction debut . . . The stories, and the stories within those stories, connect to some of the cruelest portions of the human experience with uncommon warmth and wit.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
THE HOUSE WHERE DEATH LIVES EDITED BY ALEX BROWN
New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors weave interconnected haunted house stories to build a unique collection of chilling tales.
A dance to the death. A girl who’s just as monstrous as H.H. Holmes. A hallway that’s constantly changing—and hungry. All of these stories exist in the same place—within the frame of a particular house that isn’t bound by the laws of time and space.
Each story in the anthology will focus on a different room in the house and feature unique takes on monsters from a wide array of cultural traditions. Whether it’s a demonic Trickster, a water-loving Rusalka, or a horrifying, baby-imitating Tiyanak, there’s bound to be something sinister lurking in the shadows.
THE WHITE GUY DIES FIRST: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power EDITED BY TERRY J. BENTON-WALKER
Available for download on Edelweiss.
Thirteen scary stories by thirteen authors of color in which the white guy dies first. A powerful and entertaining collection for YA readers.
Killer clowns, a hungry hedge maze, and rich kids who got bored. Friendly cannibals, impossible slashers, and the dead who don’t stay dead. A museum curator who despises “diasporic inaccuracies.” A sweet girl and her diary of happy thoughts. An old house that just wants friends . . . forever.
These stories may be filled with ancient terrors and modern villains, but go ahead, go into the basement, set foot on the old plantation, and open the magician’s mystery box because this time, the white guy dies first.
THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE EDITED BY DESIREE S. EVANS & SARACIEA J. FENNELL
“Defying the genre’s preference for centering white heroines, this collection features Black girls who are fighters and survivors, breakers of generational curses and slayers of evil . . . This collection provides much-needed representation of Black girls who refuse to be martyrs, sassy sidekicks, or casualties on the path to a white character’s inevitable triumph. An engaging volume that breathes necessary life into the horror genre, showcasing the best of what goes bump in the night.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
JANUARIES BY OLIVIE BLAKE
Available for download on Edelweiss. LibraryReads votes due by September 1st.
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, the tutelary spirit to a magical bridge rapidly approaches burnout. Meanwhile, congress enacts a complex auditing system designed to un-waste your youth, a banished fairy answers a Craigslist ad, a Victorian orphan gains literacy for her occult situationship, and a multiverse assassin contemplates the one who got away. Escape the slow trudge of mortality with these magical ruminations on life, death, and the love (or revenge) that outlasts both, featuring modified fairytales, contemporary heists, absurdist poetry, and at least one set of actual wedding vows.
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING FOR COLORED CHILDREN BY JAMAICA KINCAID & KARA WALKER
Available for download on Edelweiss.
In this hard-hitting, witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history of colonialism behind them. Kara Walker, one of America’s greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, multilayered watercolors. There has never been a book like AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING FOR COLORED CHILDREN—inventive, surprising, and telling—about what our gardens reveal about the truth of history.
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AT ONCE: A Black Man’s Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future BY JOÉL LEON
Available for download on Edelweiss. LibraryReads votes due by May 1st.
“Leon’s lucid prose elevates his perceptive insights into the need for more expansive visions of Black masculinity. This auspicious outing announces Leon as a writer to watch.”—Publishers Weekly
ALL THINGS ARE TOO SMALL by Becca Rothfeld; 9781250849915; available now
HIGHWAY THIRTEEN by Fiona McFarlane; 9780374606268; 8/13/24
CRAFT: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima; 9781250292971; 6/18/24
THE HOUSE WHERE DEATH LIVES by Alex Brown; 9798890030122; 8/6/24
THE WHITE GUY DIES FIRST: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power by Terry J. Benton Walker; 9781250861269; 7/16/24
THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE by Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell; 9781250871657; available now
JANUARIES by Olivie Blake; 9781250330680; 10/15/24
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING FOR COLORED CHILDREN by Jamaica Kincaid; 5/7/24
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AT ONCE: A Black Man’s Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future by Joél Leon; 9781250887108; 6/4/24
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