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AN ANONYMOUS GIRL de Greer Hendricks et Sarah Pekkanen

From the New York Times bestselling authors of “The Wife Between Us”

AN ANONYMOUS GIRL
by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Saint Martin’s Press, January 2019

A young woman is struggling to make ends meet in New York City, so she takes a chance and lies her way into what she thinks will be an easy way to make a quick $500. It’s a psychology study on morality and ethics, and all it takes is two hours of her time and a willingness to answer questions honestly…and anonymously. Though he professor is fascinating, the questions seem odd, and oddly intimate. She leaves with the money in her pocket and a minor obsession with the study and the professor. But as she inserts herself deeper into the professor’s murky world, the requests for her participation become more and more personal, and the stakes grow higher. What started as a white lie now becomes a fun-house of twists and turns that will have her lying to know the truth.

Greer Hendricks spent over two decades as an editor at Simon & Schuster. Sarah Pekkanen is the internationally and USA Today bestselling author of seven previous novels. Together, they’ve wrote “The Wife Between Us”, a New York Times bestseller that hit the list 10 straight weeks and has sold over 300 000 units. Translation rights have been sold in more than 30 foreign countries.

CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX de Jordy Rosenberg

A love story set in the eighteenth-century London of notorious thieves and queer subcultures, this genre-bending debut tells a profound story of gender, desire, and liberation

CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX
by Jordy Rosenberg
One World, June 2018

Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found. Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript—a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess’s adventures. Dated 1724, the book depicts an London underworld where scamps and rogues clash with London’s newly established police force, queer subcultures thrive, and ominous threats of the Plague abound. Jack—a transgender carpenter’s apprentice—has fled his master’s house to become a legendary prison-break artist, and Bess has escaped the draining of the fenlands to become a revolutionary mastermind. CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX is, at once, a work of speculative historical fiction, a soaring love story, a puzzling mystery, an electrifying tale of adventure and suspense, and an unabashed celebration of sex and sexuality. Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent.

Jordy Rosenberg is a transgender writer, scholar, and activist. He is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches eighteenth-century literature and queer/trans theory. He has received fellowships and awards from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, the Ahmanson Foundation/J. Paul Getty Trust, the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, and the Clarion Foundation’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX is his first novel.

Colson Whitehead salue le premier roman de John Fried

Le Prix Pulitzer 2017 a déclaré :

« Wise and winning, THE MARTIN CHRONICLES is a sumptuous evocation of those adolescent afternoons when every moment was equally fraught and full of possibility. A charming, marvelous debut. »

THE MARTIN CHRONICLES sera publié par Grand Central Publishing en janvier 2019 :

A powerful and heartfelt novel that follows one boy as he grows up in 1980s Manhattan, bringing the magic of first experiences and the brutal truth of hard lessons to life on the page

THE MARTIN CHRONICLES
by John Fried
Grand Central Publishing, January 2019

In sixth grade, eleven-year-old Martin Kelso’s world starts to change. Girls get under his skin in ways he never noticed before. Even his cousin Evie, who taught him the right way to eat pizza and how to catch tadpoles, has grown wild, unpredictable, and mysterious. Mugger was once just a game played by Marty and his friends, but now real muggers are targeting them on their way to school. Marty used to feel secure in his own skin; but as he grows up and life changes too quickly around him, it becomes increasingly difficult for him to choose right over wrong-or to even tell the difference between the two.
This moving debut perfectly captures the intense emotion, humor, and earnestness of young adulthood as Marty ages from eleven to seventeen and navigates a series of life-changing firsts: first kiss, first enemy, first loss, and ultimately, his first awareness that the world is not as simple or safe a place as he had once imagined.

John Fried teaches creative writing at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He received his MFA from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers. His short fiction has appeared in numerous journals, including The Gettysburg Review, North American Review, and Columbia: A Journal of Arts and Literature. Prior to teaching, he was a magazine writer and editor in New York, and his work appeared in various publications, including The New Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, New York, Time, and Real Simple.

Octavia Butler’s KINDRED, A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings

“A glorious tribute to Octavia Butler’s masterpiece. Extraordinary”-Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Octavia Butler’s
KINDRED
A Graphic Novel Adaptation
by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
Abrams Comic Arts, January 2017

KindredKINDRED, Octavia Butler’s literary science-fiction masterpiece first published in 1979, tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and mysteriously transported from her home in 1970s California to the antebellum South. Dana moves between worlds: one in which she is a free woman and another where she is part of a complicated familial history on a southern plantation, forced to interact with and save the life of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of her ancestors. Frightening, compelling, and richly detailed, KINDRED takes an imagined yet unstinting look at our complicated social history.
Adapted as a graphic novel by celebrated academics Damian Duffy and John Jennings with the full co-operation of the Butler estate, Kindred explores the violence, sexuality, loss of humanity, and twisted relationships engendered by slavery, in a format that introduces the work to a new generation of readers.

Octavia Estelle Butler (1947–2006), often referred to as the « grand dame of science fiction, » was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She received an Associate of Arts degree in 1968 from Pasadena Community College, and also attended California State University in Los Angeles and the University of California, Los Angeles. Butler was the first science-fiction writer to win a MacArthur Fellowship (« genius » grant). She is widely considered the best science-fiction writer of her generation and is beloved in feminist literary circles, and her many works are widely included in women’s studies syllabi. She won the PEN Lifetime Achievement Award and the Nebula and Hugo Awards, among others.

John Jennings is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY-Buffalo and has written several works on African-American comics creators. His research is concerned with the topics of representation and authenticity, visual culture, visual literacy, social justice, and design pedagogy. He is an accomplished designer, curator, illustrator, cartoonist, and award-winning graphic novelist. His work overlaps into various disciplines including American Studies, African American Studies, Design History, Media Studies, Sociology, Women and Gender Studies, and Literature.

Damian Duffy, cartoonist, writer, and comics letterer, is a PhD student in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and a founder of the Eye Trauma Comix collective (eyetrauma.net). His first published graphic novel, The Hole: Consumer Culture, created with artist John Jennings, was released by Front 40 Press in 2008. Along with Jennings, Duffy has curated several comics art shows, including Other Heroes: African American Comics Creators, Characters, and Archetypes and Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics, and published the art book Black Comix: African American Independent Comics Art & Culture. Duffy has also published academic essays in comics form about curation, new media, diversity, and critical pedagogy.