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Gertrude Stein – Listen to Me

Gertrude Stein Listen to Me review and information book with lectures by the American writer. Fitzcarraldo Editions will publish the book written by Gertrude Stein, in the Classics series, November 5, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “A treasure chest of pioneering, valuable, mind-expanding writing.” (Deborah Levy, author of My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein)
  • “Every writer who lingers over Stein’s sentences is apt to feel a little stab of shame over the heedless predictability of his own.” (Janet Malcolm, The New Yorker)

Gertrude Stein Listen to Me

Listen to Me

Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 15

  • Author: Gertrude Stein (United States)
  • Book type: lectures
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: November 5, 2026
  • Length: 328 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14,99 
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Blurb of the Book with lectures by Gertrude Stein

In 1933, Gertrude Stein published her groundbreaking work The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which gained her instant celebrity. The following year she was invited to return to the United States for the first time since she departed for France in 1903, to give a series of lectures on art and literature. Newly famous, Stein delivered her lectures to packed audiences at universities, galleries, members’ clubs and public spaces up and down the country.

The lectures are vital and provocative works which articulate the legendary writer’s thoughts on the effect of modernism on literary form, the relationship between narrative and history, and between a writer, their work and its audience. In her trademark style she meditates on the creative possibilities of repetition, the relationship of artistic creations to time, as well as her ambivalence toward her own literary fame and the destabilizing effect that notoriety had on her daily life.

Listen to Me brings Stein’s sparklingly witty, illuminating lectures together in one volume for the first time, selected by her acclaimed biographer, Francesca Wade.

Gertrude Stein was born February 3, 1874 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. She was one of the original American Modernists. Born in Pennsylvania, she lived most of her life in Paris with her partner, Alice B. Toklas. Formally groundbreaking works like Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1914) and The Making of Americans (1925) established her reputation as an avant-garde stylist, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas made her an international celebrity. As an experimental writer she has been an inspiration to countless novelists and poets, from Ernest Hemingway and Edith Sitwell to Jack Kerouac and Robert Duncan. She died at the age of 72 on July 27, 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France.

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Rose Smith – The Shared Life of Egan and Lucian

Rose Smith The Shared Life of Egan and Lucian review and information of the first novel by the American author. Hawthorne Books will publish the novel written by Rose Smith, the American author Jacqueline Rose, November 3, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “From the opening pages of The Shared Life of Egan and Lucian, there’s tension stirring in the ocean breezes. Rose Smith’s debut novel sets a nautical scene for domestic intrigue and a slow untangling of these inseparable brothers fated to share their existence … Life in these pages moves with aching detail at times, bodies and faces shifting subtly and precisely in closely observed detail … Smith’s previous work in film is as palpable in these opposing but equally striking storytelling modes as it is in her attention to the landscapes and objects of Egan and Lucian’s world. Shep’s Island teems with picturesque life.” (Caroline Drew, The Austin Chronicle)
  • “Smith’s debut has much to recommend, particularly the beautifully evoked settings, not just the island but also Buenos Aires and, briefly, New York, as well as the detailed descriptions of artistic process … Bad blood between brothers drives a dramatic plot grounded by a strong sense of place. A promising debut.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Rose Smith The Shared Life of Egan and Lucian

The Shared Life of Egan and Lucian

  • Author: Rose Smith (Uniteted States)
  • Book type: American novel, debut novel
  • Publisher: Hawthorne Books
  • To be released: November 3, 2026
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 28.00 / $ 14.99
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Blurb of the first novel by Rose Smith

An epic and engrossing debut novel about identical twin brothers, the woman they both love, and the secrets at the heart of the beautiful, rugged Maine island they call home.

The McCauleys have raised their twin sons on Shep’s Island, just off the coast of Maine: Egan wants to be a professional athlete, Lucian a painter, following in the footsteps of their complicated and distant mother. Growing up in the wake of a childhood accident that marked both boys—one physically, one emotionally—they are inseparable until Lucian quietly begins to wonder who he might be with no mirror image walking beside him.

On a trip abroad, Lucian meets Lea, who follows him home to idyllic Shep’s Island. When a shocking family secret comes to light, Lea flees back to the mainland—not with Lucian but with his twin, Egan, whose connection with Lea is immediate and undeniable.

The years will pass with Lea caught between the two brothers. Even when she decides to begin a life on Shep’s Island with one of them, fate will continue to bring these three into one another’s orbit. The island, with its shifting shoreline and harsh beauty, echoes the changing colors of their familial and romantic love. Rose Smith’s debut novel feels like an instant classic as it traces the McCauleys across the seasons and the decades, mapping the slow erosion and quiet resilience of people who have loved each other imperfectly and at great cost.

Rose Smith is an American autgor. Her writing can be found in The Missouri Review, Craft, Five Points, and The Swannanoa Review. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Austin, Texas. The Shared Life of Egan and Lucian is her debut novel.

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Frank Huyler – The Red Dress

Frank Huyler The Red Dress review and information of the novel by the American writer and emergency physician. Bellevue Literairy Press will publish the new novel by Frank Huyler, the author from the United States, on October 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “The Red Dress is one of the very best novels I’ve read in recent years. It’s all here–the complications of love, work, family, and age brought to bear in the struggle of a good man trying to make a decent life for himself and his young daughter. In the increasingly surreal island paradise where Nick and Natalie find themselves, they encounter not just the weirdness and whims of the ultrarich, but the threat this kind of mind-boggling wealth poses for the rest of us. Frank Huyler is a novelist of the first rank, and The Red Dress had me firmly in its grip from start to finish.” (Ben Fountain, author)
  • “Frank Huyler is the rare writer who combines a soaring imagination with gorgeous prose and a lapidary social vision. I loved The Red Dress, a beautifully narrated story of a man and his daughter colliding with our shared ‘future’–already too present. The winner-take-all society devours beauty and fragility wherever it finds it, even in the form of a seven-year-old’s cherished red dress.” (Alex Beam, author)
  • “Huyler efficiently portrays how the world all too often tames us as adults, squelching the innocence, bravery, and unlimited possibilities of childhood and creating confusion as to what matters the most.” (Booklist)

Frank Huyler The Red Dress

The Red Dress

  • Author: Frank Huyler (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
  • To be released: October 6, 2026
  • Length: 232 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 17,95
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Blurb of the Frank Huyler novel

Nick, in the wake of a failed marriage, settles for the relative ease of a well-paid job captaining a luxury yacht, but it leaves little time for his seven-year-old daughter Natalie. In a stroke of good fortune, he is offered a mysterious yet lucrative opportunity that allows Natalie to tag along, and they are soon flying across the globe in a private jet. The workload proves light and they are encouraged to enjoy the sun, surf, and island amenities—but they must wear customized digital glasses that shield the identities of his employers. When Natalie is invited to play with their children and her treasured red dress disappears, Nick discovers that everything is not as it seems, and what began as a grand adventure warps into an unsettling mirage.

An exploration of extreme privilege, global inequality, and the power of emerging technology, The Red Dress is also an eloquent story about our search for connection that raises essential questions about what we owe to ourselves and those we love.

Frank Huyler was born September 24, 1964 in Berkeley, California.  He is the author of three novels, including The Red Dress, and two books about his work as an emergency physician: The Blood of Strangers, considered a classic of medical writing, and White Hot Light, a finalist for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. His books have been widely translated, and his poems, essays, and opinion pieces have appeared in many publications, including the Atlantic, American Scholar, Guardian, New York Daily News, Vice, and Washington Post. Huyler practices medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Hernan Diaz -Ply

Hernan Diaz Ply review and information of the novel by the American author. Picador will publish the novel by Hernan Diaz, the writer from the United States, September 24, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “Ply is majestic… sentences so fine they break the skin; a plot that swerves through loss, love, trust, betrayal, art, science, society and control.” (David Mitchell, author)
  • “Glints with wonder and knowledge and mystery.” (Rachel Kushner, author)
  • “Fascinating… unpredictable, clever and massively enjoyable.” (Sunday Times)

Hernan Diaz Ply

Ply

  • Author: Hernan Diaz (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Picador
  • To be released: September 24, 2026
  • Length: 464 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: € 24,99
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Blurb of the novel by Hernan Diaz

These are the last moments of the world as it’s always been known. Reality now begins anew.

The internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust turns to America’s future with Ply.

Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher – someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market or, in her case, to power the underground music scene she adores. It is a high-risk life, and now she is being followed.

Soon, she is drawn into a paranoid maze where her closest friends and even her own identity are put into question – all while following a thread leading to a groundbreaking experiment that, if she can source the electricity to power it, could change the fabric of reality itself.

Set in a future filled with both uncertainty and promise, Ply is a powerfully humane novel that interrogates the role of technology in a deeply changed society. Both an electrifying thriller and a profound novel of ideas, it offers a hopeful glimpse of a new world that may be growing out of the cracks and fissures we see all around us.

Hernan Diaz is born in 1973. He is an American-Argentine writer who won the Pulitzer Prize and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. It was named one of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the Century. His previous novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kirkus Award, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages.

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Alexander Maksik – Passengers

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The novel is selected for the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction.

  • “I love this book. It is so crisp, so clear. It is philosophical. It is incredibly smart.” (Lauren Groff, author)
  • “This is the stuff we live for—a spinning dream of a book, pure heart-in-your-throat magic. I can’t say this enough: read it, today, now.” (Paul Yoon, author)

Alexander Maksik Passengers

Passengers

  • Author: Alexander Maksik (United States)
  • Book type: American Novel
  • Publisher: Europa Editions
  • Released: October 13, 2026
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 26.00 / $ 14.99
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A taut, emotionally gripping, and surprisingly funny novel about a father and daughter stranded in an airport at the end of the world.

Ivan is a solitary man in his seventies, set in his ways and haunted by the failures of his past. His smart and cynical daughter, Nina, is in the twilight of her twenties and has long kept a distance from her sentimental father. But when Ivan proposes a trip to Europe in hopes that it will bring them closer together, Nina reluctantly agrees. They meet at LAX, where their departure is delayed. And delayed again. And again. As the hours drag on, their sharp, caustic and wide-ranging conversation reveals a lifetime of misunderstandings, unhealed wounds, and stubborn love.

Soon more flights are canceled, security tightens, airport staff grow evasive, and it becomes clear to Ivan and Nina that something is wrong. They begin to suspect that they’re being held prisoner—sequestered from the world without explanation. At last, the surreal starts to overtake the mundane, and their need to escape—and to protect each other—turns increasingly urgent.

What begins as a piercing portrait of a father and daughter becomes a novel of eerie suspense, as  Nina and Ivan navigate not only their fractured bond but also a world teetering on the brink of collapse. A story of loving across gaps—between parent and child, between things said and unsaid—and about what happens when the outside world finally mirrors the chaos within, Passengers is Maksik’s most timely and accomplished novel yet.

Alexander Maksik was born 1973 in Los Anegels. Heis the author of You Deserve Nothing, a New York Times and IndieBound bestseller; A Marker to Measure Drift, which was a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a finalist for the William Saroyan Prize and Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and the basis of the 2023 motion picture Drift; Shelter in Place, named one of the best books of the year by the Guardian and the San Francisco Chronicle; and The Long Corner, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named one of the best books of the year by The Australian. Maksik is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and The Sewanee Review’s Andrew Lytle Prize. His books have been translated into a dozen languages.

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George Hutchinson – Jean Toomer Biography

George Hutchinson Jean Toomer Biography review and information book in the Black Lives series. Yale University Press  will publish in the Black Lives Series the biography of the, written by George Hutchinson on August 18, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author, the actor and the publication.

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  • “In Toomer, Hutchinson meets a life he is exceptionally well equipped to decipher. There is no better biography of Cane’s searching author, and no better account of that classic’s liminal genesis.” (William J. Maxwell, Washington University in St. Louis)
  • “A rich and compelling account of Jean Toomer’s unorthodox American life. It will be the authoritative biography of this major figure of the Harlem Renaissance/US modernism for years to come.” (Mark Whalan, University of Oregon)
  • “Toomer’s refusal of racial and artistic categories confounded even ardent supporters. Illuminating Toomer’s struggles against all restraints, Hutchinson’s deeply researched, insightful biography revitalizes a brilliant but misread writer: a spectacular achievement.” (Carla Kaplan, author)
  • “No one appreciates the intricacies of the color line with more poetic imagining and surgical, academic precision like Hutchinson. Whether he is approaching the issue through the lens of ideas or institutions, or through the vehicle of an individual life, like that of Jean Toomer, Hutchinson has been a witness for the bounty of stories that are contained in the interstices of identity for the entirety of his brilliant career.” (Emily Bernard)

George Hutchinson Jean Toomer Biography

Jean Toomer

Writer for a New America

Author: George Hutchinson (United States)

  • Book type: Biography
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Series: Black Lives
  • To be released: August 18, 2026
  • Length: 344 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 28.00
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Blurb of the Jean Toomer biography

A critical biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer and his lifelong struggle to transcend race, by an award-winning author.

The poet and novelist Jean Toomer (1894–1967) was among the most influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance, inspiring generations of Black writers with his 1923 modernist masterwork Cane. Yet his mission was to awaken Americans to the formation of a new “American” race that would supersede the “old” racial categories. Award-winning biographer George Hutchinson reveals how Toomer’s racial theory shaped both his literary genius and his personal struggles.

Born into the Black elite in Washington, D.C., Toomer was highly sensitive to the color line and able to move across it. Toomer engaged in a lifelong struggle to be released from this system, reinventing himself racially, spiritually, and artistically not as a Black man but as a “superman.” From his early attraction to physical culture through his search for Cosmic Consciousness, Toomer aspired to shape a new modern sensibility alongside his bohemian contemporaries Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen. Yet his refusal to identify as Black, in tandem with his messianic calling, came at the cost of his literary career and the women who loved him.

Hutchinson shows how the tortures of American racism shaped Toomer’s life—and how the struggle to birth a new “American” identity marks his art.

George Hutchinson is the Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture and the George Reed Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Cornell University. He is the award-winning author of several books, including In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line and the Pulitzer Prize–nominated The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. He is editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Jean Toomer’s Cane. Hutchinson lives in Trumansburg, New York.

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