#other press

[theblackestofsuns]

The Catastrophist (2006)

Lawrence Douglas

Other Press

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Happy Birthday James Augustine Aloysius Joyce. Today also marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses.

We have the Vintage edition with the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling that removed the federal ban. (United States v. One Book Entitled Ulysses). We also have the new illustrated edition from Other Press with art from Eduardo Arroyo.

Ulysses wasn’t published in book form until Sylvia Beach, a friend and proprietor of Shakespeare and Company in Paris offered to publish it on his birthday. If you want to read more about this fascinating part of Ulysses history you should pick up Kerri Maher’s new book The Paris Bookseller.

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New from Other Press, The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris, by Marc Petitjean, translated by Adriana Hunter. “Using Kahlo’s whirlwind romance with the author’s father, Michel Petijean, as a jumping-off point, the book provides a striking portrait of the artist and an inside look at the history of one of her most powerful, enigmatic paintings.”

[whoismims]

The 19th-Century French Novelists Who Wove Painting into Their Fiction

The familiar image of the struggling artist — locked away in his studio, desperately seeking inspiration, and, perhaps more importantly, validation — was the invention of 19th-century French novelists, asserts historian Anka Muhlstein. The young bohemians of Giacomo Puccini’s famous opera La Bohème, which was based on a novel by Henri Murger, included the likes of a painter, a poet, a musician, and a philosopher. But it is the special relationship between writers and painters that preoccupies Muhlstein’s close readings and biographical accounts in her book The Pen and the Brush, published earlier this year by the Other Press.

My book review of The Pen and the Brush by Anka Muhlstein (@otherpress) is up @hyperallergic. Read here.

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A remarkably personal story of systemic racism in America. New from Other Press, My Brother Moochie: Regaining dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South, by Issac J. Bailey. (Read the article that inspired the book here.)

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New from Other Press, What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Man’s Blues, by Clifford Thompson. (Read more by and about this remarkable young writer here.)

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Delicious. New from Other Press and former Met employee Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories: A Novel. (Read the full Kirkus review here.)

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New from Other Press and prize-winning French author Yannick Haenel, Hold Fast Your Crown. (Read the glowing review at Pop Matters here.)