Liveright Publishing

08/09/2020

“[An] insightful novel . . . Hudson, an Alabama native, memorably evokes her home state, both its beauty and its warped rituals. . . . Hudson invokes the tropes of Alabama to powerful effect: the bizarre fundamentalism; the religion of football; the cultlike unification of church and state. The tropes run the risk of feeling hackneyed, but this is Southern gothic territory, after all. Hudson brings something new to that terrain: an overt depiction of queer desire, welcome because writers such as Capote’s and McCullers’ depictions of queerness were so occluded. A magical, deeply felt novel that breathes new life into an old genre.”
—@Kirkus_Reviews
(📷: @chloereadsstuff)
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08/05/2020

“Cho’s clinical prose is bolstered with figures and footnotes to illustrate how ordinary Jiyoung’s experience is.... When ‘Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982’, was published in Korea in 2016, it was received as a cultural call to arms.... Like Bong Joon Ho’s Academy Award-winning film ‘Parasite’, which unleashed a debate about class disparities in South Korea, Cho’s novel was treated as a social treatise as much as a work of art.... The new, often subversive novels by Korean women, which have intersected with the rise of the #MeToo movement, are driving discussions beyond the literary world.”
- Alexandra Alter, New York Times
(📷: @thebookelf_)
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08/05/2020

In what may go down as the most weather-apropos #PubDay in Liveright history, today marks the release of Eric Jay Dolin's "A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred Year History of America's Hurricanes". Author @EricJayD presents a vivid account of the nation’s deadliest storms, from Christopher Columbus’ voyages to Hurricane Maria and what climate change holds for our future. Today for @nytimesbooks, Elizabeth Kolbert calls A FURIOUS SKY "A lively chronicle... most compelling in its often harrowing details... filled with haunting personal stories." The book “deftly weaves together tales of tragedy, heroism, and scientific progress”, writes Library Journal, and Booklist calls it “a remarkably human story of people struggling with nature at its fiercest.” A FURIOUS SKY is available now at your favorite bookstore.

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08/04/2020

Eric Jay Dolin

Eric Jay Dolin

The New York Times book review of A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes (reviewed by Elizabeth Kolbert, a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of “The Sixth Extinction”).

"[It is a] lively chronicle of five tempestuous centuries . . . Where A Furious Sky is most compelling is in its often harrowing details. It’s filled with haunting personal stories."

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You can order a copy of A FURIOUS SKY at your independent bookstore (https://bit.ly/2J2SIsQ), Amazon (https://amzn.to/35OJVUX), Barnes and Noble (https://bit.ly/2I7vjFM), or Booksamillion (https://bit.ly/2MsRV6w).

08/03/2020

“Nicole Dennis-Benn’s sophomore novel, Patsy, methodically and unapologetically engages with choices women do and should be allowed to make, and as with her last novel, ‘Here Comes the Sun’, does so with nuance and grace.... Patsy is a deeply queer, sensitive and vividly written novel about a woman’s right to want and a child’s right to carve her own path.” - Ilana Masad (@ilanaslightlyignorant), Washington Post (Photo: @readwithneleh)

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07/16/2020

A Family Secret Inspired A New Book About Leprosy

A look at Pam Fessler's new history of the continental U.S.'s only leprosy colony "Carville's Cure", xenophobia, and what this astounding true story can teach us about COVID-19. (NPR)

NPR correspondent Pam Fessler, author of Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice, talks about her research into this once feared disease — and its connection to COVID-19.

07/14/2020

Carville's Cure

Happy #PubDay to Pam Fessler's "Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice"! At NPR Morning Edition, Fessler discusses the history of Louisiana's National Leprosarium, and National Leprosarium: "One of the things that made Carville possible was the fact that people didn't have a lot of information about the disease. So that allowed people to spread disinformation to implement policies... [from those] worried about immigrants coming in.... Sometimes it leads to very bad public policy."

Today's the day....book is officially out! Hope you enjoy. Go to www.pamfessler.com for link to order.

07/10/2020

Black Flags, Blue Waters by Eric Jay Dolin is only $2.99 - BookBub

"Dolin doesn’t just write a first-rate history of the Golden Age of Piracy, he puts us on deck." The eBook edition of Eric Jay Dolin's "Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates" is available now for just $2.99:

“Dolin doesn’t just write a first-rate history of the Golden Age of Piracy, he puts us on deck with the men themselves” (New York Times bestselling author Robert Kurson). This engaging history chronicles the relationships between American colonists and infamous pirates like Blackbeard and Capt...

07/09/2020

Carville's Cure

CARVILLE TIDBITS #8. Oscar Dempster was only 7 when he was diagnosed with leprosy and admitted to the federal hospital in Carville, LA. He stayed there until he was 91 years old! Find out why in my new book CARVILLE'S CURE: LEPROSY, STIGMA, AND THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE. Comes out next week! I'm pretty excited.
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631495038

07/08/2020

Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg's TRUST: AMERICA'S BEST CHANCE will be released on October 6th, and is available now for preorder. Learn more: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631498770

I'm working on a new book called Trust: America's Best Chance, set to come out on October 6th.

In order for our country to move forward, it will be more important than ever to build trust—in our institutions and leaders, in each other, and around the world in America itself.

You can preorder the book today, along with the audiobook that I'll be narrating: https://bit.ly/2ZK4TlI

And please consider supporting your local independent bookstores at time when their work to educate and inspire has never been more important.

06/25/2020

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(📷 • @blackgirltravelslay)

06/24/2020

28 Books to Transport You This Summer, Written By Women Around the World

"[A] grand epic... This illuminating work of historical fiction sheds light on a forgotten chapter of the American story through characters who burrow into your bones and whisper in your ear." O, The Oprah Magazine on Marisel Vera - Author's new novel "The Taste of Sugar":

Oprah invites us to a staycation in the company of spectacular writers and their enthralling new works.

06/18/2020

Available Now • Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with "The Taste of Sugar", a heart-wrenching novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the Spanish-American War.

“Subtle yet arresting, ‘The Taste of Sugar’, is a gorgeous feat of storytelling. Marisel Vera melds meticulous research with deep compassion and pure talent to fashion a novel that excavates the pain of the history while drawing hope from the buried stories of our nation. This is historical fiction as its best, using the moral dilemmas of the past to decipher our present conflicts in order to light our way toward a more just future.”
- Tayari Jones, author of “An American Marriage”

“A majestic work with the grand sweep of history and the intimacy of a compelling dream. Marisel Vera has written a compassionate, unforgettable, richly detailed novel about colonialism in all its guises, offering us little-known stories from the past that are essential to understanding the present.”
- Cristina Garcia, author of “Dreaming in Cuban”

“In ‘The Taste of Sugar’, Vera adds an important contribution to Puerto Rican literature by chronicling the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico, the San Ciriaco hurricane, and the mass migration to Hawaii. Throughout, Vera captures the 'trabajo y tristeza' of the Puerto Rican people. Brava to Marisel Vera for telling our stories!”
- Ivelisse Rodriguez, author of “Love War Stories”

06/17/2020

A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities

"Is it possible that the most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel to appear this year was originally published in 1881?" Parul Sehgal on Machado's masterpiece and our new "superior translation" from Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson (The New York Times Books):

Two new translations of “The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas,” by Machado de Assis, is a new opportunity to enshrine the singular talent and mischief of this writer.

06/03/2020

05/19/2020

Happy #PubDay to @gkhudson's stellar debut novel BOYS OF ALABAMA! Named one of the month's best books by both Amazon and Apple, "Boys of Alabama brilliantly reinvents the Southern Gothic" (Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks) as a "gripping, uncanny, and queer exploration of being a boy in America, told with detail that dazzles and disturbs” (Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir). Join us tonight, Tues 5/19 at 5pm PST/ 8pm EST over at @thankyou_bham for an #IGLive launch event with author Genevieve Hudson in conversation with @nick.white.1985 and a few special guests!

“Genevieve Hudson dismantles and spins a new category of fairy tale for us, one that’s equal parts dirt and splendor. A glinting, dark beauty. An incantation.” – T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girl
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05/18/2020

Join us tomorrow, Tuesday 5/19 at 8:00pm ET/5:00 PT as we celebrate the launch of Genevieve Hudson's stunning novel BOYS OF ALABAMA here on Instagram Live at @thankyou_bham! Joining Hudson in conversation will be @nick.white.1985 (author of "Sweet and Low: Stories"), along with a couple top secret special guests stopping by to chat. The author will read a passage of the book and taking audience questions. Follow @thankyou_bham and come check out what's sure to be a lively celebration of an exceptional new work of fiction ("messy, gothic, sexy, and scary", writes @bombmag in an interview with Hudson published online earlier today - link in bio)!
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05/15/2020

“In 1919, a woman was found dead in a park in a small town in Vermont... The investigation and trial that followed became rich fodder for the newspapers. But for the historian Jill Lepore, the body is also the first clue in a much bigger mystery: Who killed truth?” That’s @nytimes’ Jennifer Schuessler on ‘The Last Archive’. Liveright author Jill Lepore’s new podcast that began its 10-part first season this week. With the verve of a crime noir detective, Lepore reels in listeners with “a decade-by-decade tour of the rise and fall of the fact across the past century, looking at how we know what we know — and how it can seem lately, as she puts it, ‘as if we don’t know anything at all.” “There’s an unexpectedly timely episode on the polio epidemic the 1950s,” writes Schuessler, “and the eerily familiar political debates it spawned. And the final episode takes the story to our own troubled era of algorithms and Big Data, (the subject, it so happens, of her next book, “If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future,” out in September - link in bio).” As for the death of truth? “I do offer an answer,” says Lepore. “I eliminate a lot of prime suspects. I indict some co-conspirators.” (📷: Kayana Syzmczak for The New York Times)
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05/05/2020

“[Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982] laid bare my own Korean childhood ― and, let’s face it, my Western adulthood too ― forcing me to confront traumatic experiences that I’d tried to chalk up as nothing out of the ordinary. But then, my experiences are ordinary, as ordinary as the everyday horrors suffered by the book’s protagonist, Jiyoung. This novel is about the banality of the evil that is systemic misogyny. . . . Jiyoung, like Gregor Samsa, feels so overwhelmed by social expectations that there is no room for her in her own body; her only option is to become something ― or someone ― else.” – Euny Hong, New York Times Book Review (📷: @lifelivedbooked)
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05/01/2020

Congrats to @genhudson, whose "debut novel is a stunning queer coming-of-age story", "a poignant and breathtaking portrait of the road to self-acceptance", and one of @AppleBooks' #BestBooksofMay! Learn more about BOYS OF ALABAMA, on sale May 19th: apple.co/bestbooks
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04/29/2020

“Jiyoung became different people from time to time. Some of them were living, others were dead, all of them women she knew. No matter how you looked at it, it wasn’t a joke or a prank. Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person.” Read the novel that's inspired a Korean feminist revolution, and sold over one million copies worldwide. Cho Nam-Joo’s KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 is available now wherever you find great books. (📷: @monicakim524)
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04/27/2020

Available June 16th • Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart-wrenching novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the Spanish-American War.

It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of other puertorriquenos, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii―another US territory―where they are confronted by the hollowness of America’s promises of prosperity. Writing in the tradition of great Latin American storytelling, Marisel Vera’s "The Taste of Sugar" is an unforgettable novel of love and endurance, and a timeless portrait of the reasons we leave home.
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04/21/2020

Join us for a special edition of House Of SpeakEasy's "Seriously Entertaining" tonight Tuesday, April 21st at 7pm ET on Facebook Live and Crowdcast! Among the evening's terrific group of authors is Chavi Eve Karkowsky MD, author of Liveright's "High Risk: Stories of Birth, Pregnancy, and the Unexpected": https://crowdcast.io/e/seriously-en