Editions & Tote: July – December 2024

E. B. White

Foreword by Martha White

“Jewels of observation . . . A world described in such loving detail overflows with wonders: The rigorous attention in Sketches is a kind of re-enchantment.” —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post

E. B. White’s greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly.

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Dorothy Parker

Foreword by Sloane Crosley

“Does anyone know how hard it is to be that funny? . . . Read her book reviews. Read them now and see how good they are.”  —Fran Lebowitz

“In Parker’s hands, the humble book review becomes an instrument as expressive as a lyric poem.” —Nicholas Frankel, The Wall Street Journal

Dorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.

Wilfrid Sheed

Foreword by Gerald Howard

“A masterpiece . . . One of the few genuinely comic novels since Lucky Jim.” —Elaine Dundy

“If Joseph Heller, Henry James, Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis collaborated on a scathing novel of cubicle mutiny, it might resemble Wilfrid Sheed’s delightful Office Politics.” —Robert Allen Papinchak, The Times Literary Supplement

John Bowen

“Genteel, if peculiar, mayhem is in store . . . [For] people who like Myra Breckinridge as well as Miss Marple; fans of Beryl Bainbridge, Russell Greenan and Patricia Highsmith; those who feel Barbara Pym-ish on some days and Stephen King-ish on others.” —Michele Slung, The Washington Post

A wry, macabre tale of simple country living, brutal murder, and a reasonably happy couple, from our “most startlingly offbeat suspense novelist” (Gore Vidal). 

Djuna Barnes

Edited and with a foreword by Merve Emre

“Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves.” —Eileen Myles

“This supple collection from Barnes shaves the themes of lost innocence, unrequited love, and death of her modernist masterwork, Nightwood, into febrile confessions . . . These memorable sketches unfurl a barbed wisdom of the grave.” —Publishers Weekly

The best of Djuna Barnes’s dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-brief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre.

Caroline Blackwood

Foreword by Heidi Julavits

“The Stepdaughter is the perfect book for people who find Joan Didion too even-keeled, Renata Adler too fair-minded . . . In its own way, it’s a perfect novel . . . Blackwood’s best book . . . It deserves to be a cheeky summer hit.” —Gideon Leek, Los Angeles Review of Books

A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Caroline Blackwood’s “quite brilliant” debut (The Times).