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Elwin Cotman June 9, 2020 trade paper · 324 pages · $17 · 9781618731722 | ebook · 9781618731739 Planted deeply in the dark, musical fantastic heart of American storytelling, Cotman’s half dozen tales are ripe for the picking.
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And Go Like This
John Crowley“Haunting and gorgeously written.”
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Stray Bats
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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 40
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Locus Recommended Reading List Mon 3 Feb 2020
Congratulations to all the writers whose work has been selected for this year’s Locus Recommended Reading List! I am especially delighted that in a year where we published 10 titles (2 collections, 2 novels, 1 chapbook, 5 titles reprinted in paperback), three of the five new titles are on the list: Air Logic, Laurie J. […]
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Happy New PKD Award Finalist Fri 17 Jan 2020
We are delighted to note that Sarah Pinsker’s collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, is a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award — and the book also appeared on a couple of year-end lists (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Books of 2019; Booklist: Top 10 Debut SF&F). You can try a couple […]
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Holiday Deadlines 2019 Wed 4 Dec 2019
Shipping times have slowed down over the last few days due to big storms everywhere — shout out to all those shoveling snow! So here are the USPS Holiday Shipping Deadlines. The Small Beer office will be closed from December 23 – January 2, 2019. It is unlikely we will ship over that period. Weightless […]
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And Go Like This
trade cloth · 336 pages · $25 · 9781618731630 | ebook · 9781618731647
Chicago Tribune Notable Book
Thirteen stories from a master of all trades.
Reading John Crowley’s stories is to see almost-familiar lives running parallel to our own, secret histories that never quite happened, memories that might be real or might be invented. In the thirteen stories collected here, Crowley sets his imagination free to roam from a 20th century Shakespeare festival to spring break at a future Yale in his Edgar Award winning story “Spring Break”. And in the previously unpublished “Anosognosia” the world brought about by one John C.’s high-school accident may or may not exist.
Limited edition:
And Go Like This: Stories will be available on November 5th from your local bookstore and others in a Smyth sewn trade cloth edition (336 pages · $25 · 9781618731630) and in an epub edition, DRM-free from Weightless Books ($14.95 · 9781618731647) and from all other ebookstores.
There is a third edition: hand bound by Henry Wessells in patterned paper over boards, with printed paper labels, signed on the limitation leaf by the author John Crowley, and including a second tipped-in sheet of a handwritten passage from the book selected by Crowley ($500). This edition, limited to 26 lettered copies, is only available from our website. Orders will be fulfilled in the sequence they are placed.
This yellow button is for the limited edition. Use the Paypal button on the right for the regular edition. Paypal does not refund their fee so accidental orders of the limited edition will be refunded minus the $15 Paypal fee.
To the Prospective Reader
The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines
In the Tom Mix Museum
And Go Like This
Spring Break
The Million Monkeys of M. Borel
This Is Our Town
Mount Auburn Street:
1. Little Yeses, Little Nos
2. Glow Little Glow-Worm
3. Mount Auburn Street
Conversation Hearts
Flint and Mirror
Anosognosia
Reviews
“There’s also ‘Anosognosia,’ the only story not previously published. It’s a terrific fantasia on a familiar Crowley theme — ‘There is more than one history of the world,’ as he put it in the tetralogy ‘Ægypt.'”
— Michael Robbins, Chicago Tribune Notable Book
“Not quite like anything you have ever read, a sentiment that applies to so much of Crowley’s work. ‘And Go Like This’ is a distinguished, eclectic collection that deserves a large, appreciative audience. I hope it finds one.” — William Sheehan, Washington Post
“Accomplished, moving, and wise.” — Tor.com
“Haunting and gorgeously written.” — Locus
“The sort of book that’s perfect for the gathering darkness of November evenings by the fire.” — Amazing Stories
“A compassionate, ruminative eye frames the sepia-tinted worlds of the fifth collection from erudite fantasist Crowley (Ka). The stories are drawn from the last 20 years of Crowley’s long career and span the breadth of speculative and literary short fiction. . . . This collection’s recurring refrains—’pay attention,’ Shakespeare, injuries and aging, the agony of making choices—coalesce into a reading experience like a long afternoon spent with an intimate, excellent raconteur.”
— Publishers Weekly
Praise for John Crowley’s fiction:
“Ka, is a beautiful, often dreamlike late masterpiece. Elegiacal and exhilarating, Ka is both consoling and unflinching in its examination of what it means to be human, in life and death. If, as Robert Graves wrote, “There is one story and one story only,” we are very lucky that John Crowley is here to tell it to us.” — Los Angeles Times
“John Crowley is one of the finest writers of our time.” — Michael Dirda, Washington Post
“One of the finest fantasy novels of the year, gains the power of a true epic.” — Chicago Tribune
“. . . a read that is simultaneously dry and bizarre, but it’s anything but tiresome. Its original uncanniness is only heightened by Crowley’s new edition, and the specificity of its historical moment made more familiar.” — Emily Nordling, tor.com
“Crowley and his collaborators have successfully mixed together disparate elements to create a strange literary concoction that fizzes with creative energy.” — Michael Berry, Portland Press Herald
“The Chemical Wedding is full of outlandish set pieces—candles that walk on their own; a queen’s gown so beautiful it can’t be gazed upon—that might suggest an allegorical reading. But their imagery, as Crowley points out in his footnotes, is inconsistent: any allegory is defeated by the book’s sheer incongruity.” — Peter Bebergal, The New Yorker
“Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust.” —Peter Straub
“A master of language, plot and characterization, Crowley triumphs in this occult and Hermetic tale, at once naturalistically persuasive and uncannily visionary.” —Harold Bloom
“Like a magus, John Crowley shares his secrets generously, allowing us to believe that his book is revealing the true and glorious nature of the world and the reader’s own place within it.” —Village Voice
“[Crowley] transforms the lead of daily life into seriously dazzling artistic gold.” —Newsday
“So rich and so evocative and so authentic.” —Tom Brokaw
“[An] intricate and stylish romp … both a Gothic extravaganza and a picaresque adventure.” —New York Times Book Review
“An eerily authentic simulation of Romantic literature … beautiful.” — Boston Globe
“Though it’s an impertinent undertaking, it’s also a beautiful success.” —Seattle Time
“A complex, nested novel of literary and biographical reconstruction. . . . A stunning, rewarding work.” —Vancouver Sun
John Crowley (johncrowleyauthor.com) was born in Presque Isle, Maine, and grew up in Vermont, Kentucky, and Ohio. He went to Indiana University and moved to New York City after college to make movies, and did find work in documentary films, an occupation he still pursues. His novels include the Little, Big, the Ægypt series, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, and a new edition of The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosenkreutz. He recently retired after teaching creative writing at Yale for twenty-five years. He has received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, Mythopoeic, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. He lives in Conway, MA.
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