1913: The Year Before the Storm

An acclaimed bestseller throughout Europe, this wry study of the titular year’s biggest names – Ford, Chaplin, Chanel, Prada, Proust, Stavinsky – depicts a cultural revolution undercut by the destruction of World War I that soon followed.

Wonderbook

Jeff VanderMeer offers the world’s first “illustrated guide to creating imaginative fiction”, with advice from contributors George R.R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. LeGuin, and many more.

No Thanks, Nobel

November 18: “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”  

The Marcel Wave

November 16: “The vogue has risen into a cult; and the cult, embracing the cultured masses, has deepened into a wave…”  

We All Sleep in the Same Room

In Paul Rome’s rousing debut novel, a New York labor lawyer grows intensely attached to his cases (an abused receptionist, a teacher who fears deportation) and his young new assistant.  A taut and stylistically vanguard legal drama.