Dadoorunrun…. 2025 Spring/Summer Evergreen Review publishes Jaime Manrique’s excerpt from his memoir in progress about the legendary Iris Owens as well as Rick Whitaker’s stunning Edmund White memorial tribute. Take some time to read Mary Cappello’s elegant keynote speech, Oliver Radclyffe chats with Gil Roth on The Virtual Memories Show.
A recommendation: John Irving’s QUEEN ESTHER/S&S this November! Ready for MBLA fall books? A reissue of the madcap Caitlin Sullivan/Kate Bornstein versatile romance NEARLY ROADKILL/Generous Press is out on August 25.
Do you have an interest in people/places/and things? Love Paris? NOBODY SITS LIKE THE FRENCH by Charles Pappas got a bonafide stellar WSJ review. Love NYC? You will never think of NewYork City’s Central Park the same way after reading 10 Thousand CENTRAL PARKS: A Climate Change Parable by David Morris/Fordham University Press, 10/25. Elizabeth Kendall treats us to the early Balanchine years of the NY City Ballet. A unique love story in black and white: BALANCHINE FINDS HIS AMERICA, out September 25. MEN AT WORK by Glenn Kurtz profiles many of the immigrant men, “cowboys of the sky” photographed by Lewis Hines. 7 Stories 10/25. 2026 offers tons of first novels by Bonnie Friedman, Amy Pence and Patricia Vacarino. 2026 nonfiction includes more books on environmental climate change: Bloomsbury publishes HOW TO PLANT A BILLION TREES by Nicole Walker and the New Press brings out SHELTER FROM THE STORM by Julian Hattem. Returning with a vengeance, S&S publishes William Mann’s BLACK DAHLIA: MURDER, MONSTERS & MADNESS in Mid Century Hollywood.
Drum roll, please! Walk proud! MBLA embraces the DUMMIES brand with STUDYING FOR DUMMIES by Miles Painter, who just happens to be a nephew-in-law…..There could not be a better book for these times: students in high school & grad school, college, trade, law, medical & all professional schools will benefit.