Spring 2008
Stellar Praise for Bicycle
Bicycle enthusiasts, poets, and reviewers alike are smitten with Paul Fattaruso's Bycicle.
From Time Out Chicago:
"Bicycle is a whole new ballgame, a book that defies classification and yet, somehow, reads as smoothly and naturally as any book we've come across this year . . . We're not sure who we more want to read the book: our bike-enthusiast buddies, certainly--but also we'd like to press this into the hands of our friends prejudiced against poetry, who won't recognize it in Fattaruso's baffling, hilarious and lovely prose."
From Boston's Weekly Dig:
"The writing is disarmingly simple, stripped to its frame without bells or whistles—the minimalism echoes writers like Eula Biss or the bare bones of Sufi poets. Fattaruso's Bicycle is an altar to the average in an age of excessive expectations."
From Washington City Paper:
"Fattaruso's observations, fantasies, and adorations of the bicycle veer from the quirky (“Though it does not complain, my bicycle is clearly uncomfortable on the couch”) to the beautiful (“Already noon, and still the sunlight is thin as Bible paper; women ride through the streets in their nightgowns”). It's touching enough that you'll want to go polish your bike for good measure."
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On the Horizon
Brooklyn Indie-press all-star, Ben Greenman, joins the Hotel St. George Press roster with our first, limited edition release, Correspondences. Much more on this exciting collaboration soon.
More Love for The Musical Illusionist
Alex Rose's debut collection continues to gain momentum with online and print reviews. Here's an excerpt from the latest at Bookslut:
". . . if the idea of jumping on a train and traveling through a museum in book form, catching glimpses of the fantastic as it passes by your window, strikes your fancy, then Rose's debut collection might be the book you are searching for."
And Dan Wickett at the Emerging Writer's network, in giving The Musical Illusionist 4.5 out of 5 stars, says, "this has been my favorite book this year."
Rose will join again with Garth Risk Hallberg, author of A Field Guide to the North American Family, for a multi-media event at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Rose will perform from The Musical Illusionist with David Little's surround-sound score, recorded by the Formalist Quaertet, and Hallberg will articulate his talented literary reading tones before projections of the original artwork in his beautifully composed book. More writers TBA. Beer.
Best of the Web readings
Our very own David Willems will be appearing at Mcnalley Robinsons and at the Pacific Standard Reading series in July to read from him his story, "A Girl Made of Glass" (Spring 2007) a selection of Dzanc's Best of the Web 2008 anthology. Please stay tuned for details readings.
The Elyseum Theatre
Following in the footsteps of The Asylum, Hotel St. George brings you The Elyseum Theatre, and in-depth, online exploration of our second book, The Musical Illusionist. Read an extended excerpt and take a brief, soundscaped tour through the title story of the collection.
Two-for-one:
Buy one copy of The Musical Illusionist by Alex Rose and one copy of The Session by Aaron Petrovich for only $20.00. Please click here to order via paypal here.
A Note to Authors
Hotel St. George is still reading submission sent to us in November. We're very pleased to receive so many submissions, both for online and print consideration, and we remain committed to giving each submission our complete attention. Which can take a bit of time. If you sent us a query or story in December, you can expect to hear from us in March, January in April, and so on. Thank you to everyone who has submitted for your patience.
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