Everything Falls into the Sea

Tue 19 Mar 2019 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea cover - click to view full sizeHey hey, it’s new book day! You have to wait 6 short months for her first novel but today it’s Happy Publication Day to Sarah Pinsker whose debut collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea we have been looking forward to seeing out in the world.

Sarah’s been busy in the run up to publication and you’ll find her all over ye internets today (i.e. interview by A. C. Wise · Octavia Butler, Woody Guthrie, and other classics that inspired my debut” · Five Books That Gave Me Unreasonable Expectations for Post-High School Life · 6 Books) and there’ll be more of that in the next few days.

What’s Sarah up to tonight? She is launching her book tonight at the Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore!

Ok, so I’m not in Baltimore and you may not be either so what can you do?

You can listen to Liberty Hardy and María Cristina talk about the “jawdropping” Sooner or Later on Bookriot’s All the Books (now with T-shirt…!) and catch up with Sarah’s chat with Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan on the Coode Street Podcast.

If you can get to Baltimore in the next few hours you can get to that launch (yay!). If not, how about you catch her on tour:

March 19, 7 p.m. The Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore, MD
March 29, 6 p.m. Malaprop’s Bookstore, Asheville, NC
— in conversation with Alexandra Duncan
March 30, 6 p.m. Scuppernong Books, Greensboro, NC
March 31, 5 p.m., The Cave c/o Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC
April 24, 7 p.m. Charm City Spec series, Bird in Hand, Baltimore, MD
May 19, 5 p.m. Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA
— with Rebecca Roanhorse
May 24-27, Balticon, Baltimore, MD
June 6, Barnes & Noble, NYC (Best of Asimov’s celebration)
July 12-14, Readercon, Quincy, MA
Sept. 18, 7 p.m. KGB Fantastic Fiction Reading, New York, NY

There will probably be some additional readings in there, too. Or if you’re not going to an event, you can read or share a couple of stories:

And We Were Left Darkling
In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind
No Lonely Seafarer
And Then There Were (N-One)

What did other people think? They like it!

— “Pinsker’s stories nestle in the cracks of our world.” — Sara Ramey, The Arkansas International
— “haunting and hopeful.” — Booklist (starred review)
— “delightful and surprising.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
— “in the speculative tradition of Ursula K. Le Guin or Kelly Link.” — Kirkus Reviews
— “none should try to resist.” — Foreword Reviews (starred review)

That’s maybe enough links for publication day. Check it out!