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“Seeing Like an Artist” in the Wall Street Journal
“Go, look, love! A painter’s memoir of traveling to see great paintings with his own eyes becomes a passionate argument for the value of personal encounters with art….Beguiling and informative…Mr. Perry advises each of his readers to ‘create your own Grand Tour’ of the kingdom of art….this guidebook is obligatory.”—Dominic Green, The Wall Street Journal
Long out-of-stock and available again
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez, with an introduction by Phillip Lopate
The Last of the Hill Farms: Echoes of Vermont’s Past by Richard W. Brown
La Bonne Table by Ludwig Bemelmans
With Love and Prayers: A Headmaster Speaks to the Next Generation by F. Washington Jarvis
Advance praise for One True Sentence
“A revelatory compendium….readers are likely to come away with a deepened understanding of—and even awe at—Hemingway’s vast talent.”
Read the Publishers Weekly review
“An enjoyable exploration of how Hemingway’s influence on American literature continues to be significant….A valuable take on a canonical writer, highlighting how good work stands the test of time.”
Read the Kirkus review
For more about One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art go here.
Life Sentences in the New York Times
“Billy O’Callaghan uses a trio of voices in his poignant novel Life Sentences as three generations of an Irish family probe a legacy of poverty and war. ….powerful.”
Read the New York Times review
For more about Life Sentences by Billy O’Callaghan go here.
Ferlinghetti in the San Francisco Chronicle
“Generosity and genius of beloved S.F. poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti shines in biography”
Read the review by Joan Frank of Ferlinghetti in the San Francisco Chronicle
See more about Ferlinghetti: A Life by Neeli Cherkovski here.
Godine in Publishers Weekly
Godine is delighted to be featured in a new Publishers Weekly article entitled “New England Indie Publishers Stuck with Their Niches in 2020.” The piece begins:
New England’s independent publishers are known for carving out strong niches and holding steadfast to them, come what may. The extraordinary forces of the last year—pandemic, protests, and climate change—put that model to the test, and for five publishers it appears that strategy paid off…
Read More “New England Indie Publishers Stuck with Their Niches in 2020“
Beneficence selected by Maine Public’s All Books Considered Book Club!
New York Times bestselling memoirist Meredith Hall’s debut novel Beneficence (Godine, 2020) has been named the inaugural selection of Maine Public’s All Books Considered Book Club for December/January.
The All Books Considered Book Club will meet via ZOOM on Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. and be joined by a very special guest: Meredith Hall.
For more details and to sign up for the club, click HERE.
Beneficence raves in WSJ and WaPo
While Meredith Hall’s hometown newspaper, the Maine Sunday Telegram, recently called her novel Beneficence “a glorious book,” both the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post are also gushing. Here’s what the critics are saying:
“As organically as it traveled to heartbreak, Beneficence progresses to the place of wisdom that lies beyond it, where we learn that a home is part of the ‘vast world of innocence and harm,’ not an island beyond it.”
—Wall Street Journal
“These voices from the past speak so clearly to our time, at a moment when many of us wonder whether we’ll lose the things that we consider blessings….Beneficence is a quiet but steady book, one that echoes ancient and important rhythms.”
—Washington Post
“Beneficence is a glorious book, its joy as quietly beautiful as the tragedy at its center echoes loudly through the lives of its characters. Hall acknowledges that each life is very small, on its own, but that the love we each bear for one another is immense, our capacity for it endless.”
—Maine Sunday Telegram
WSJ Reviews How Baseball Happened
In a recent review in The Wall Street Journal, Paul Dickson raves about Thomas W. Gilbert’s How Baseball Happened, writing that the book:
“Explores the conditions and factors that begat the game in the 19th century and turned it into the national pastime. The book explains how almost all conventional wisdom about baseball’s origins and formative years is wrong. A delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat.”
Coleman Wins Golden Poppy Award
The California Independent Booksellers Alliance has announced the winners of this year’s Golden Poppy Awards—which honor “the most distinguished books written by writers and artist who make California their home”—and Wanda Coleman’s Wicked Enchantment has been named poetry book of the year!
The winners are chosen by California’s independent booksellers, which makes the award especially meaningful given what a truly independent spirit and bookstore lover Coleman was.
More California Independent Booksellers Alliance
Gilbert appears on “Baseball by the Book” podcast
How Baseball Happened author Thomas W. Gilbert recently appeared on the Baseball by the Book podcast for a lively discussion with host Justin McGuire.
You can listen wherever you get your podcasts, or on the show’s site here.