The Brooklyn Rail, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a fiction anthology, a non-fiction anthology and live special events.
Just out is The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology edited by Donald Breckinbridge and Jen Zoble. The collection includes some familiar names like Jonathan Baumbach, Sharon Mesmer, Aaron Zimmerman (who runs the NY Writers Coalition) and Albert Moblilio and many more.
Here’s who’s included in the fiction anthology: Diane Williams, Brian Evenson, Caila Rossi, Lynda Schor, John Yau, Barbara Henning, Michael Martone, Jacques Roubaud (translated by Guy Bennet), Susan Daitch, Jim Feast, Martha King, Lynn Crawford, Lewis Warsh, Pat MacEnulty, Will Fleming, Carmen Firan (translated by Dorin Motz), Bart Cameron, Constanza Jaramillo Cathcart, Aaron Zimmerman, Sharon Mesmer, Jeremy Sigler, Jill Magi, Blake Radcliffe, Meredith Brosnan, Evan Harris, Douglas Glover, Johannah Rogers, Jonathan Baumbach, Marie Carter, Doug Nufer, Leslie Scalapino, Robert Pinget (translated by Barbara Wright), Elizabeth Reddin, Kenneth Bernard, Jean Frémon (translated by Brian Evanson), R. M. Berry, Thomas D’Adamo, Albert Mobilio, John Reed, and Kurt Strahm.
Also out is Pieces of a Decade: Brooklyn Rail Non-fiction edited by Theodor Hamm and Williams Cole
“Now I’m not going to tell you everything that’s in the collection, but I will say that it offers: Howard Zinn’s prophetic critique of the war in Iraq before it happened; Reverend Billy’s gospel alongside that of hardened, unrepentant Marxists; and a wide variety of Whitmanesque odes to Brooklyn’s past and present, as well as to the borough’s future that never shall be. Besides that, it’s the only time that Jane Jacobs and Jason Flores-Williams have been bound between the same two covers. And rest assured that Anders Goldfarb’s photos capture our world. So if you have balls, you’ll buy this book. And if you don’t have balls, you’re still welcome to purchase it.”