Jill Soloway’s new, Amazon-backed imprint, Topple—which will publish books by women of color and writers who identify as gay, queer, bi, trans, and gender nonconforming—has acquired its first two books: LGBTQ advocate Precious Brady-Davis’s I Have Always Been Me and Lucille Scott’s An American Coven(ant). Brady-Davis’s memoir chronicles her “traumatic childhood of abandonment and neglect and her resilience as a biracial, Pentecostal, queer young person growing up in Omaha, Nebraska.” Scott’s book is, according to Amazon, a “queer-feminist pop history of how mystical traditions intersected with modern feminism in America.”
In a new Publishers’ Weekly survey, one in five women who work in the publishing industry reported that they have been sexually harassed on the job.
The Murmurr reading series has announced that Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts, will be the interviewer at the September 26 event featuring Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Simon & Schuster editor Ira Silverberg says that Sam Lipsyte’s new novel, Hark, will be released in January.
In the final week of July, the popularity of adult nonfiction titles helped result in a 2 percent increase in overall print sales.
At the Paris Review, novelist and critic Lynne Tillman talks with artist Nell Painter about “truth with a capital T,” the “question of who determines value” in art, and coherence and ambiguity in fiction.
