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Sarah McNally of McNally Jackson Books in New York
City; giveaways on New Press social media and
Goodreads.
This examination of sexual assault is told from the per-
spective of a writer, counselor, and activist who was
gang-raped as a 17-year-old in Mumbai. Sarah McNally
of McNally Jackson Books in New York City calls this
book “a safe space for survivors, and a broad minded
attempt to open the conversation to everyone.”
Publisher: NYRB Classics: Reprint Edition
Photo: Nesta
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
Martin Rees
First printing: 40,000
Publicity & marketing plans: Author tour,
including 92nd Street Y in New York City.
Photo: Michael Bengel
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of
Gesine Cresspahl
Uwe Johnson, translated from the German
by Damion Searls (Oct., boxed set with two
Publicity & marketing plans: 200 galleys,
Humanity has reached a critical moment, writes British
astrophysicist Rees, who regards our approach to the
future as characterized by short-term thinking, polariz-
ing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. Former
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt calls Rees’s
“techno-optimist” book “excellent,” adding, “Here, one of
the world’s most eminent scientists takes you through
what will happen and why.”
Publisher: Secret Acres
more than any other NYRB book.
Originally published in Germany in four volumes be-
tween 1970 and 1983, this massive work, totaling near-
ly 2,000 pages, is being published in its entirety in the
U.S. for the first time. It follows one year (August 1967–
August 1968) in the life of an East German immigrant
who lives in New York City with her young daughter,
and chronicles a year marked by the murders of Martin
Luther King Jr., Bobby Kennedy, and Che Guevara;
riots in American cities; and the escalation of the Vi-
etnam War.
Princeton University Press
Flocks
L. Nichols
Publicity & marketing plans: Author tour, in-
cluding appearances MIT’s Media Lab, Comic Arts
Brooklyn, and next year’s Chicago Alternative Comics
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