New in March: Jeanette Winterson, Abdellah Taïa, Martin Duberman,and Jonathan Galassi

Author: Edit Team

February 29, 2012

New Month! New Books! This March you can pick up new releases from Jeanette Winterson, Jonathan Galassi, Martin Duberman, Madeline Miller, and Abdellah Taïa.

This month, famed English author Jeanette Winterson will release her long-awaited new memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? The book chronicles Winterson’s turbulent relationship with her adoptive Pentecostal mother and growing up in a working-class town in northern England in the 1960s and 1970s.

Semiotext(e) is releasing the English translation of Abdellah Taïa’s autobiographical novel An Arab Melancholia. Taïa is the first openly gay autobiographical writer published in Morocco. The novel maps ” the emergence of Abdellah Taïa’s identity as an openly gay Arab man living between cultures. The book spans twenty years, moving from Salé, to Paris, to Cairo….”

Madeline Miller’s debut novel Song of Achilles is an inspired retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. An epic love story in the vein of Mary Renault’s classic novels, the book is a ” tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart…”

Also this month expect new releases from noted gay historian Martin Duberman, novelist Carol Anshaw, and publisher and poet Jonathan Galassi.

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

Fiction

An Arab Melancholia by Abdellah Taïa, Semiotext(e)
Carry the One by Carol Anshaw, Simon and Schuster
In This Small Spot by Caren Werlinger, Bywater Books
Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War by Jeff Mann, Lethe Press
My Movie by David Pratt, Chelsea Station Editions
Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright by Justine Saracen, Bold Strokes Books
Secret Rushes: Lesbian Feminist Short Story Collection by Various, Onlywomen Press Ltd
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, Ecco Press

Nonfiction

Communists and Perverts Under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965 by Stacy Braukman, University Press of Florida
Darger’s Resources by Michael Moon, Duke University Press Books
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas by Dale Carpenter, W. W. Norton & Company
Gay Life Stories by Robert Aldrich, Thames & Hudson
Here Come the Brides!: Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage edited by Audrey Bilger and Michele Kort, Seal Press
In Dark Again in Wonder: The Poetry of Rene Char and George Oppen by Robert Baker, University of Notre Dame Press
A Saving Remnant by Martin Duberman, New Press
Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue by Nicholas Teich, Columbia University Press

Mystery

Boystown 4: A Time For Secrets by Marshall Thorton, MLR Press
Demons Are Forever by Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou, Bold Strokes Books
Crimes on Latimer: From the Early Cases of Marco Fontana by Joseph R. G. DeMarco, Lethe Press
Runaway by Anne Laughlin, Bold Strokes Books
Words to Die by William Holden, Bold Strokes Books

LGBT Studies

Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire, 1898-2001 by Aaron Belkin, Columbia University Press
Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib by Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Ashgate Publishing
Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare by Professor James M. Bromley, Cambridge University Press
Contact Moments: The Politics of Intercultural Desire in Japanese Male-Queer Cultures by Katsuhiko Suganuma, Hong Kong University Press
LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media: Post Colonial – Post Queer by Christopher Pullen, Palgrave Macmillan
Sexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passion, Politics, and Memory by Carrie Hamilton, The University of North Carolina Press
Sex, Lies and Politics: Gay Politicians in the Press by Donna Smith, Sussex Academic Press

Romance

Bitter Harvest by Kim Knox, Carina Press
Brook Street: Thief by Ava March, Carina Press
A Brush with Darkness by Erastes, Carina Press
First Time, Forever by KC Burns, Carina Press
Fragmentary Blue by Erica Abbott, Bella Books
Hidden Hearts by Ann Roberts, Bella Books
How To Wrangle a Woman by Susan X. Meagher, Brisk Press
Legacy of Love by Marianne K. Martin, Bywater Books
Moving in Rhythm by Dev Bentham, Carina Press
The Rebuilding Year by Kaje Harper, Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Rughum & Najda by Samar Habib, Oracle Releasing
Scrap Metal by Harper Fox, Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
What Binds Us by Larry Benjamin, Carina Press

Erotica

Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits by Jerry Wheeler, Lethe Press

Speculative Fiction

Haevyn: Humanotica, Book 2 by Darcy Abriel, Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Irregulars: Stories by Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon, Ginn Hale and Astrid Amara by Josh Lanyon, Ginn Hale, Astrid Amara, Blind Eye Books
Strange Path: Book 1 of the Sanguire by D Jordan Redhawk, Bella Books
Time and Robbery by Rebecca Ore, Aqueduct
Women of the Dark Streets: Lesbian Paranormal by Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman, Bold Strokes Books

Bio/Memoir

William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker by Benjamin E. Wise, The University of North Carolina Press
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson, Grove Press
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders by Joy Ladin, University of Wisconsin Press

Poetry

He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices by Stephen S. Mills, Sibling Rivalry Press
Left-Handed: Poems by Jonathan Galassi, Random House
Looking for the Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco, University of Pittsburgh Press