NEWS

Summer 2008

Ben Greenman

 

Hotel St. George’s limited edition, letterpress collaboration with The New Yorker editor and celebrated author Ben Greenman, Correspondences, is nearing completion. Beautiful, intimate and mysterious, this work cements Greenman's reputation as one of Brooklyn's most beloved and gifted authors. Visit Mr. Greenman in the Mail Room here.

 

Correspondences

 

Correspondences provides a bittersweet glimpse at the lost art of letter-writing, and the manner and means by which emotions are conveyed in that form. The innovative collection contains seven stories, all of which, in one way or another, speak to the disintegrating relationship between people—men and women, parents and daughters, authors and readers—as the nature of correspondence itself changes.

 

Each hand-crafted book is composed of an unfolding chip-board casing which contains three accordion books bearing two, double-sided stories each. A seventh, incomplete story is printed on the casing, and this story does something unprecedented—it invites the reader to contribute to...

 

The Postcard Project!

 

In a changing publishing world, small presses are surviving, and flourishing, by embracing alternative models of publication. Correspondences does what no other book has done before, which is to allow readers the opportunity to help complete the final story in the collection by submitting their words on a postcard included in the casing to Hotel St. George for possible publication in future online and paperback editions of the book.  Click here for more information. 

 

Advance Orders

 

There will only be two hundred and fifty copies of this book, due back from the printer in early September for a November, 2008 release. Purchase an advance order here, and receive a postcard while you wait!

 

David Willems

 

Hotel St. George cofounder David Willems’ contribution to Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web anthology has been singled out in reviews in Time Out Chicago and New Pages Book Review.

 

More Love For Paul Fattaruso's Bicycle

 

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."

 

To get your very own Bicycle, follow this link. You won't regret it:

 

Buy Bicycle here.

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.

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.

• For complete contact and submission information, click here.