The Nap-Away Motel by Nadja Lubiw-Hazard

Celebrated artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya’s responses to them to startling life in Death Threat, a comic book that, by its existence, becomes a compelling act of resistance.Īlso out this month is Lindsey Drager’s new novel, The Archive of Alternate Endings (Dzanc Books), which “track the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earth’s visits by Halley’s Comet” “through a relay of speculative pieces that oscillate between eco-fiction and psychological horror.”Īward-winning author Ali Smith‘s new novel Spring (Pantheon) is a lyrical exploration of our currently fraught political moment and our riotous collective past. In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. May also brings Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee’s graphic novel Death Threat (Arsenal Pulp Press):

How to fail upward in Hollywood how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it more important, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk and yes, how to cheat death itself.Īnother memoir out this month–perfect for those warm almost-summer days–is John Glynn’s debut, Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer (Grand Central Publishing), a “gripping portrait of life in a Montauk summer house, of first love, identity and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family.” “No one,” the publisher notes, “knows more about everything-especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling-than John Waters,” whether it’s Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). This month, we’re looking forward to John Waters‘ memoir, Mr. May is here, and we’re back with more new LGBTQ books for your reading list!

New in May: Vivek Shraya, Ali Smith, John Waters, and John Glynn

The Nap-Away Motel by Nadja Lubiw-Hazard