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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.

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It is the Year of the Snake! Two recorded doomsday oarfish appearances have occurred. There are 89 seconds left on the doomsday clock, and finally, there is little chance of the 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 …I promise.

So why not escape into MBLA books? Read about where & how to sit like the French next time you are in Paris, where to attend the annual frog jumping contest takes place in California, and what was the spiritual connection Audrey Hepburn had with the Dalai Lama?  Discover who were “the cowboys of the sky” , the immigrant men who built the Empire State Building made infamous by Lewis Hines’ stunning photographs, the 10,000  secrets of Central Park, how George Balanchine came to fall in love with New York City ballet, and how to plant a billion trees.

Upcoming novels, novels, novels everywhere by Bonnie Friedman, Amy Pence, Margaret Vandenburg and Patricia Vaccarino. Best-selling paperback reprints are due out from Kate Bornstein, Oliver Radclyffe, and Amy Godine. 

Markets reel and history repeats itself.  It can’t happen here… Check out:  A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue by Marguerite Feitlowitz.

Read books, be of sound mind, and protest.

2024 – the year of the dragon  MBLA publishing & promoting all sorts of books this year including two eye-opening Civil War histories: Jason Friedman’s LIBERTY STREET, University of South Carolina Press & Amy Godine’s THE BLACK WOODS, Cornell University Press.

Margaret Vandenburg’s CRAZE, a rollercoaster historical lesbian novel set in Paris, Jaded Ibis Press./Chicago Review Press celebrates the American songbook by Dan Callahan.

Roxane Gay-Atlantic/Grove Press publishes a searing FRIGHTEN THE HORSES, a transman/parenting memoir by Oliver Radclyffe.

CORE SAMPLES by Anna Farro Henderson shows how she worked as a climate scientist and geologist in the Minnesota  Governor’s office and the United States Senate.

David J. Skal’s death earlier this year is honored by Spanish editions of several of his evergreen horror titles, and UMinn Press reissues his DARK CARNIVAL.

 One can find out what furries are throughout the world in FURRY  published by Apollo.

And what does the future hold? Reissues of Kate Bornstein’s classic HELLO CRUEL WORLD, 7 Stories and NEARLY ROADKILL with Generous Press are due out in 2025.

Bonnie Friedman’s long-awaited first novel is due out from Europa in 2026.

A post-political 2025 respite: reflect and pass the time away with Tom Santopietro’s one-of-a-kind AUDREY HEPBURN, Applause.

William Mann’s BLACK DAHLIA, a Hollywood murder who-done-it dovetails nicely with his bestselling TINSELTOWN, Simon and Schuster.

Harvard animal rights lawyer Elizabeth Melampy examines a year’s worth of animal fairs in CARNIVAL, Apollo.

Julian Hattem follows global environmental migration for the New Press in SHELTER  FROM THE STORM.

Glenn Kurtz reveals the never-before-told stories of the cowboys of the sky, the men dramatically photographed by Lewis Hine and who built the Empire State Building in MEN AT WORK to be published by 7 Stories.

YELLOW is more than just a color in this entertaining first novel by Ann Pence to be published by Red Hen Press.

Ben Miller revises and updates his classic FAT OF THE LAND: The Last 100 Years of NYC Garbage.

New School cultural historian Elizabeth Kendall weaves a compelling ballet noir of George Balanchine’s early life in NYC, Oxford University Press.