PUBLISHING PARTNER OF SEAGULL BOOKS | DISTRIBUTED BY THE CHICAGO DISTRIBUTION CENTER
In this interview, Acre’s summer graduate assistant editor, Sam Simas, speaks with Acre author Malia Márquez about her layered, multigenerational novel and the feminist perspective woven throughout her work. Check out This Fierce Blood and stay tuned for more conversations with Acre’s authors in future interviews.
The long-awaited second installment of Pivotal Pages has finally arrived! In this post, we share an early excerpt from Adrianne Harun’s novel ON THE WAY TO THE END OF THE WORLD.
Nicola Mason: Because the book involves time travel, there are two Aarons and two Violets (what one reviewer calls a ménage à quatre). As readers, we are privy to the thoughts of both Violets—the impassioned musician in 1988 and the frazzled mother of two in 2006....
Nicola Mason: In your essay “A Phenomenology of Fiction,” you describe how modern philosophy and quantum physics undergird not just your characters’ perceptions but your writing methodology as well. I was particularly struck by Christopher Tilley’s treatment of...
Nicola Mason: In Keeping Time, Aaron is an archaeologist—and American expat in Scotland—and his knowledge of Neolithic sites and rituals derives in large part from your script-writing research for Half Life, an environmental art event (taking place across a hundred...
Three of Acre’s titles made the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year finalist lists—Ethan Chatagnier’s Warnings from the Future (short stories), Michael Downs’s The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist (historical), Sara Kersting’s Duty to Warn...
We continue our review of Acre’s 2018 titles with The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist—a novel that the Los Angeles Review of Books aptly described as “not so much a character study or psychological novel as a meditation on the power of pain—the...
JMWW weighs in with glowing review for THE STRANGE AND TRUE TALE OF HORACE WELLS, SURGEON DENTIST.
Sara Kersting’s Duty to Warn—due out in October—has already racked up two amazing reviews: one in Kirkus, another (starred!) forthcoming in Foreword, which hails the book as “a finely tuned, suspenseful chase story . . . captivating.”Annnnddd, The Strange and True...
Michael Downs, author of the newly released Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist, answers a few questions about his ambitious, sweeping debut novel, centered on the modest, scientifically-minded man who changed the world by discovering that nitrous...