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I’ve been rereading Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, one of my favorites. The rhythm of the first paragraph caught me, so I drew it.

(I wasn’t sure which Richard Plantagenet Merricat is referring to—there are a lot. Wikipedia somewhat arbitrarily says it’s Richard of Eastwell, who does seem he might be interesting to her, but Richard II might also appeal to her sense of drama. I chose Eastwell, though.)

update: you can get this as a print.

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It’s Día de los Muertos!!!

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It is definitely the Halloween season here. Early this morning on campus, we were witness to a conference of cats and then the biggest bats you’ve ever seen. 

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This Hispanic Heritage Month we’re celebrating the resilience and power of the Latinx diaspora today at First Saturday and every day with our latest Spotify playlist brought to you by Brooklyn’s own DJ and leading producer of digital cumbia Geko Jones, who joins forces with performing artist La Chiquita Brujita tomorrow night to celebrate an international community of artists, DJs, and collectives producing the best tropical music from Brooklyn to Barranquilla. With sets by DJ Big Nito and Nitty Scott. 

Cover art: Miguel Luciano (American, born Puerto Rico 1972). Platano Pride, 2006. Chromogenic photograph, 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 2008.15. © artist or artist’s estate 

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Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel prize in literature 2017

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under communism we all have to share one toothbrush with this man

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Run over to Newfound Journal and check out the new interview with UNO Press author Margo Littell talking about her debut novel Each Vagabond By Name.

We think it’s a stellar interview (but then again we’re biased because Margo is a stellar writer).

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It’s Banned Books Week. Tell us some of your favorite challenged books.

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It’s Banned Books Week! How are you celebrating?

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30 years of Beloved. Mark the anniversary of Toni Morrison’s incredible novel with 75 different covers. 

http://lithub.com/75-covers-of-toni-morrisons-beloved-from-around-the-world/

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In New Orleans next weekend? Come check out the Music Box Market. We’ll be there with our awesome books for sale. Food, art, fashion: admission free!

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Interested in genealogy? Love a good personal mystery? Love the drama of Tennessee Williams? His Other Life: Searching for My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams is the book for you. On sale this October. 

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As we start to feel the intensifying of natural disasters and climate change, fiction about our relationship to the environment is going to become more and more important.

Moria Crone’s The Not Yet is a biting piece of futuristic dystopian literature about the underwater Gulf Coast in the 22nd century, where the ultra rich live in walled cities, able to extend their lives for hundreds of years, and the poor can barely survive. Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, get your copy today - UNO Press Online Store: The Not Yet

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Lena Waithe is the first black woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

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Get this stellar poetry collection from the “Christ of New Orleans.” 

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The Blue Fairy Book Edited by Andrew Lang with numerous illustrations by HJ Ford & GP Jacomb Hood London Longmans Green and Co 1893 Sixth Edition [First Published 1889]

The first of Lang’s coloured fairy books. Lang had grown up with a love of myths and fables, and towards the end of the 1880s he decided, with his wife’s help, to collect and publish some of his favourite tales. The Blue Fairy Book was the result, published in 1889 it met with great critical acclaim. The tales include Cinderella, Aladdin. Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Goldilocks and many other classics

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An amazing collection of Imagist poetry with ee cummings, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, and Wallace Stevens, among others. Get a copy at http://unopress.org/store/fictionandpoetry/ImagistPoem.aspx

“Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”

By Wallace Stevens

The house are haunted

By white night-gowns.

None are green,

Or purple with green rings,

Or green with yellow rings,

Or yellow with blue rings.

None of them are strange,

With socks of lace

And beaded ceintures.

People are not going

To dream of baboons and periwinkles.

Only, here and there, an old sailor,

Drunk and asleep in his boots,

Catches tigers

In red weather.