New in November: Ellen Forney, Colm Tóibín, Sarah Schulman, and Roz Kaveney

Author: Edit Team

October 31, 2012

New Month! New Books!

Penguin is publishing a new memoir by renowned cartoonist Ellen Forney. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me is a personal exploration of the concept of the “crazed artist.”

From the publisher,

Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity.

Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the crazy artist, she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. She also researches the clinical aspects of bipolar disorder, including the strengths and limitations of various treatments and medications, and what studies tell us about the conundrum of attempting to “cure” an otherwise brilliant mind.

Midsummer Night’s Press is releasing Dialectic of the Flesh, a new poetry collection from Roz Kaveney. Midsummer Night’s Press states that the Dialectic of the Flesh “brings together Roz Kaveney’s poems on queer and trans experience, poems which run the gamut of emotions, from exuberant and witty celebrations of the joy of sex to elegies of murdered friends […]”

Sarah Schulman’s new book, Israel/Palestine and the Queer International, is being released this November by Duke University Press: “In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle.”

This month, OR Books, will be releasing I Told So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics—writer and radio host Jon Wiener’s fascinating compilation of four interviews with novelist and essayist Gore Vidal.

Also this month expect new releases from novelist Colm Tóibín, author Jameson Currier, and a new graphic memoir from Cristy C. Road.

As always, if we missed an author or book, or if you have a book coming out next month, please email us.

Fiction

• Broken Like This: A Novel  by Monica Trasandes, Thomas Dunne Books
• Desire: Tales of New Orleans by William Sterling Walker, Chelsea Station Editions
• Love Ruins Everything by Karen X. Tulchinsky, Insomniac Press
• The Man on the Third Floor by Anne Bernays, The Permanent Press
• The Paris Syndrome byJohn Roman Baker, Wilkinson House
• The Passionate Attention of an Interesting Man by Ethan Mordden, Magnus books
• A Shiny Tin Star by Jon Wilson, Cheyenne Publishing
• The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín, Scribners
• These Things Happen by Richard Kramer, Unbridled Books 
• Things Said in Dreams by Matthew Temple, Sibling Rivalry press
• What Comes Around by Jameson Currier, Chelsea Station Editions

Nonfiction

• I Told You So: Gore Vital Talks Politics by Jon Weiner, OR Books
• Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, by Andrew Solomon, Simon & Schuster
• Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman, Duke University Press
• Real Man Adventures by T Cooper,  McSweeny’s

Mystery/Thiller

• The Jesus Injection by Eric Andrews-Katzby, Minotaur Books

LGBT Studies

• Dyke/Girl: Language and Identities in a Lesbian Group by Lucy Jones, Palgrave Macmillan
• The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography by Drewey Wayne Gunn, Scarecrow Press
• Queer Singapore: Illiberal Citizenship and Mediated Cultures edited by Yue, Hong Kong Press
• LGBT-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice edited by Abbie E. Goldberg and Katherine R. Allen, Springer
• Queer African Reader edited by Sokari Ekine and Hakima Abbas, Fahamu Books
• Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities edited David M. Ortmann & Richard, Sprott, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era  by Francesca T. Royster, University of Michigan Press
• Voices of LGBTQ Students and Teachers: Problematizing the Culture of Schooling edited by Anna V. Wilson and Veronica Bloomfield, Paradigm Publishers

Romance

• Beyond Innocence by Carsen Taite, Bold Strokes Books
• Crossroads byRadclyffe,  Bold Strokes Books
• Heart Block by Melissa Brayden, Bold Strokes Books
• Love by the Numbers by Karin Kallmaker, Bella Books
• Mina Borsalina Flips Out by Sara Marx, Bella Books
• Playing With Fuego by KG MacGregor, Bella Books
• Pride and Joy by M.L. Rice, Bold Strokes Books
• Something Like Winter by Jay Bell, Jay Bell Books

Erotica

• Melt in Your Mouth: Chocolate, Boys, and Beds edited by C.B Potts, Lethe Press
• Sexy Sailors: Gay Erotic Stories edited by Neil Plakcy, Cleis Press

Speculative Fiction

• Combustion by Daniel W. Kelly, Bold Strokes Books
• Convergence (Mother Earth, Book 3) by Ally Blue, Samhain Publishing
• Frozen by Carla Tomaso, Carma Press
• Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant by Melissa Scott, Lethe Press
• The Shattered Gates: The Rifter Book One by Ginn Hale, Blind Eye Books

Bio/Memoir

• Depression: A Public Feeling by Ann Cvetkovich, Duke University Press Books 
• Liberation: Diaries:1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood, HarperCollins
• Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity by Candace Walsh, Seal Press
• Oddly Normal: One Family’s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality by John Schwartz, Gotham
• Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney, Gotham
• Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road, The Feminist Press at CUNY 
• Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On by Christine Benvenuto, St. Martin’s Press
• Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate by Justin Lee, Jericho Books

Poetry

• Dialectic of the Flesh by Roz Kaveney, A Midsummer Night’s Press
• Less Fortunate Pirates by Bryan Borland, Sibling Rivalry Press
• Poems of a Penisist by Mutsuo Takahashi, University of Minnesota Press