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“Agnes Owens at 100: Dame of darkly comic working-class stories” recorded 4 November 2026 Exploring the life & collections of Agnes Owens, showing how her archive is being used to reappraise her legacy & secure her status as a major Scottish literary figure #Booksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=RflE...
Agnes Owens at 100
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Did we mention that our edition of Harrison's extraordinary novel CLIMBERS is due in July?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d agoM John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize
We all know Margaret Wise Brown as the author of picture book mainstays like GOODNIGHT MOON and RUNAWAY RABBIT, right? This week, @mcnallyeditions.com published one of her lost works, THE DARK WOOD OF THE GOLDEN BIRDS! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
THE DARK WOOD OF THE GOLDEN BIRDS | Kirkus Reviews
A lesser-known story by the Goodnight Moon author is freshly illustrated for a new audience.
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ÉLISABETH by Éric Rohmer, tr. Aaron Kerner (@mcnallyeditions.com). Reviewed by Grace Novarr. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/elis...
"The pith helmet has yet to be invented that can protect the human mind from a confrontation with the madness seething beneath its illusions of control."
The Hottest Colony in the Empire Is Literal Hell - Electric Literature
An excerpt from NOTES ON A COLONIAL SITUATION IN HELL by Robert G Penner, recommended by Jeremy M Davies
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Friendly reminder from McNally Editions: Don't worry! If there's a hell below, we're all going to go. Robert G. Penner's astonishing NOTES ON A COLONIAL SITUATION IN HELL is out today.
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Robert G. Penner “Tastefully insane and morbidly fun . . . delightfully realistic . . . Dante’s Inferno as envisioned by Monty Python. A sidesplitting pleasure.” —Molly McGhee, author of ...
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Victorianists out there: you MUST read this absolutely gonzo brilliant book. I felt like it had been written for me personally. It's about the Victorians colonizing hell. Penner KNOWS. HIS. SHIT. Fully understands the imperial/colonial mind, riffs on many Victorian genres but with a light touch...
Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell — McNALLY EDITIONS
Robert G. Penner “Tastefully insane and morbidly fun . . . delightfully realistic . . . Dante’s Inferno as envisioned by Monty Python. A sidesplitting pleasure.” —Molly McGhee, author of ...
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One place it's never too soon to go is Below. Early copies of our first hardcover original, Robert G. Penner's epic Victorian satire NOTES ON A COLONIAL SITUATION IN HELL, have landed (arisen?) at McNallyEditions.com.
We regret that we could not find a good Sophoclean analog to the "Euripides trousers, Eumenides trousers" gag. That failure aside, herewith a newsletter (featuring newly unearthed, archival images) on the life and work of the great Greek author-translator Kay Cicellis, of THE WAY TO COLONOS fame.
Rachel Cusk calls this author “a woman before her time.”
Who was Kay Cicellis?
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Wow! Lovely selection of @mcnallyeditions.com, courtesy of editor Jeremy Davies. Thanks so much. Such a great publisher.
More on the divine Kitty, from novelist Maggie Gee.
Those Phosphorescent Years: “Quake” by Kitty Mrosovsky
Read novelist Maggie Gee’s essay about Mrosovsky’s long-lost erotic novel.
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"Perhaps Kitty Mrosovsky’s second and final novel . . . was thought too provocative in the mid-1980s when it failed to find a publisher . . . It gives us a brilliantly frank and idiosyncratic portrait of female desire, loneliness, depression and obsession in the London of that era."
Paperback of the week: Quake by Kitty Mrosovsky
The author’s final novel is finally published 40 years after her death and provides a frank, idiosyncratic portrait of sexual desire
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Compliment your courage with a little strategy. (By buying, and, dare we suggest, even *reading* Éric Rohmer's ÉLISABETH.)
The 24 Best Things Strategist Staffers Bought in July
“It’s the perfect just-oversize-enough fit, and the brown color is very nice.”
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It's true, it's all true. Lara's brilliant novel (so to call it) will finally get its US debut this winter, with a new foreword by Teju Cole.
Steve Himmer@shimmer.bsky.social · 4mo agoJust spotted that SPENT LIGHT by Lara Pawson has a US edition forthcoming from @mcnallyeditions.com. Excellent news — it remains one of the best books I've read in recent years, as I said a bit about here:
In celebration of the new English-language release of Élisabeth, the one and only novel by celebrated French filmmaker Éric Rohmer, we’re pleased to team up with our friends from Janus Films and McNally Editions to present his thought-provoking, warm—and very summery—series of Six Moral Tales.
Tremendous write-up of ÉLISABETH that captures its allures and peculiarities, as well as its unnervingly prescient/anachronistic style: "It is almost as if, with strange insight into his future vocation, Rohmer put the limitations of cinema onto the novel form."
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The fraught holidays of Éric Rohmer – Audrey Wollen
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If only we could still struggle into our ennui. These days all that fits is our baggy Weltschmerz, and it's a poly blend to boot.
Forget Euro Summer—Why Fashion Is Having a Hot Rohmer Summer
The director’s breezy aesthetic is all over summer mood boards.
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Sorry, this is just going to be an Éric Rohmer fan account for a while. That cool? Amazing Richard Brody review of ÉLISABETH in the NEW YORKER.
Éric Rohmer’s Novel “Élisabeth” Is a Precocious Literary Triumph
Before he had any interest in movies, Rohmer was a writer, and his 1946 début is a fine-grained vision of small-town lives in prewar France.
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Characteristically excellent piece from Nick Pinkerton at the Metrograph journal on Rohmer and his ÉLISABETH. (ÉLISABETH and her Rohmer?)
Futures and Pasts: Éric Rohmer’s Élisabeth - Journal - Metrograph
On the French New Wave legend’s life before cinema, and his newly translated first and only novel.
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Qui êtes-vous, Élisabeth? Herewith details of the touring MORAL TALES (Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco!) followed by an excellent interview with translator Aaron Kerner, in which he provides a whirlwind introduction to the world of ÉLISABETH and its author, “Le Grand Momo."
Éric Rohmer's novel "Élisabeth" is finally here.
And we're celebrating with film screenings in five cities.
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Hints of early-harvest Robbe-Grillet and toasted Faulkner make for a surprisingly sweet finish in the very first English translation of Éric Rohmer’s sun-soaked novel ÉLISABETH. Now available wherever fine books are sold.
Élisabeth — McNALLY EDITIONS
Éric Rohmer Foreword by André Aciman Translated from the French by Aaron Kerner “The father of the French New Wave . . . Rohmer’s surfaces aren’t placid but taut; they’re smoot...
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Rohmer summer is in full swing. (Though every summer is a Rohmer summer, n'est-ce pas? At least till the sun scours us off the planet at last.) To mark our publication of Rohmer's novel ÉLISABETH, Metrograph will be screening the SIX MORAL TALES in July!
Rohmer's Élisabeth & His Six Moral Tales - Metrograph
In the phrasing of the great critic Serge Daney, the films and filmmakers championed by Cahiers du Cinéma were “haunted by writing”… and of none of the Cahiers critics-turned-auteurs was this more tru...
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Belatedly, an interview with Nick Antosca on the subject of Todd Grimson's extraordinary novel-with-vampires, STAINLESS.
"I got a strange email, out of the blue, with the subject line 'i exist.'"
"Brand New Cherry Flavor" showrunner Nick Antosca on his relationship with horror author Todd Grimson, how the TV show came to be, and what makes Grimson’s writing unique.
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Not dead, but dreaming. Of? Books, mainly. For example, the first and only novel published by legendary nouvelle vague director Éric Rohmer, in its first English translation by @memoiressecrets.bsky.social, and here deemed "a poignant tale of summer languor at its last gasp."
Élisabeth by Eric Rohmer
Originally published in 1946, the lone novel from celebrated French New Wave filmmaker Rohmer (1920–2010) is an alluring if ramb...
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From Dinah Brooke, the “brilliant forgotten novelist” behind the “ferocious” Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady, a searing tale of a young woman’s unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan sun.
