A Nocturne for Edmund White
We remember the transformative gay writer and celebrate Pride month with a trio of queer stories of love and lust.
Stephanie Danler and Griffin Dunne on John Gregory Dunne’s ‘Vegas’ at 92NY
Stephanie Danler, author of the international bestseller Sweetbitter and Stray, joins acclaimed actor Griffin Dunne for a reading and conversation about Dunne’s uncle, John Gregory Dunne, and his classic memoir recently reissued by McNally Jackson Editions, Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season.
‘Vegas’ Brooklyn Launch Party with Stephanie Danler
Raise a glass with us as we celebrate the reissue of John Gregory Dunne's Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season
Announcing Marginalian Editions
We’re delighted to announce the launch of Marginalian Editions — a collaboration between McNally Jackson Books and Maria Popova, the visionary writer and creator of The Marginalian (born under the name Brain Pickings).
Ariane Bankes & Kate Bolick Discuss ‘The Dazzling Paget Sisters: The English Twins Who Captivated Literary Europe’
Small-Town Sex: Colm Tóibín on John Broderick’s ‘The Pilgrimage’
Cafe Gitane’s 30th Anniversary Book Launch Party
Join us on Friday, December 13 to toast the release of McNally Jackson’s limited-edition, slipcased coffee table book celebrating 30 years of Cafe Gitane
“Small But Unforgettable Moments.” What E.B. White Loved About New York City
Martha White Remembers Her Grandfather’s Lifelong Relationship With the Big Apple
Dorothy Parker and the Art of the Literary Takedown
Her reviews are not contemptuous, a common pitfall for her imitators. They are simply unbridled in their dislike.
Gary Indiana’s Exuberant Venom
See Spreads from the Limited-Edition ‘Cafe Gitane: 30 Years’ Coffee Table Book
Dangerous Women: Sloane Crosley, Merve Emre & Heidi Julavits on Dorothy Parker, Caroline Blackwood & Djuna Barnes
Something in the Dark: Merve Emre on the Short Stories of Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes’s short stories return again and again to characters suffering from love, fear, and alienation.
Watch the Trailer for the EX-WIFE Audiobook
Fans of Ursula Parrott’s 1929 gem, Ex-Wife, can now listen to this racy and affecting story of a divorce and its aftermath, narrated by introducer Alissa Bennett. Here’s a fun video preview for you, and you can download the audiobook from Tantor Media, Audible, and wherever fine audiobooks are sold.
Join Us at the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 29!
The Book That Prepared This Veteran Editor for a Literary Life
A 1966 novel captures a publishing world full of chronic malcontents, strategic lunches and ideas that mattered.
Read Lauren Groff's Foreword to Ann Schlee's 'Rhine Journey'
Rhine Journey is graceful, economical, and emotionally acute, but, to me, the most astonishing aspect of this novel is the precision with which Schlee replicates the customs, language, and atmosphere of 1851, hewing so closely to the feeling that a book written in the early Victorian era stirs in the reader that, upon learning that Rhine Journey was only first published in 1980, I did a double take.
Edmund White and Garth Greenwell on ‘Nocturnes for the King of Naples'
Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White with a foreword by Garth Greenwell reflects on love, life and time in this stunning epistolary novel. Both authors joined the Poured Over Podcast to talk to us about bringing back this novel from 1978, the evolution of style and themes, musicality in creative writing and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.
Garth Greenwell on Edmund White’s Brilliant Neglected Novel About the Search for a Lost Older Lover
“Nocturnes for the King of Naples,” by Edmund White, stands outside current fashions, with its refined pleasures and its nuanced accounts of gay lives.
When Preachers Were Rock Stars: Louis Menand on 'Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal'
A classic New Yorker account of the Henry Ward Beecher adultery trial recalls a time in America that seems both incomprehensible and familiar.