“Beautiful . . . SUCH STUFF stayed with me long after the curtain had fallen.”
—Zoe Dubno
We are proud to reveal the gorgeous cover for this hypnotic work of fiction from award-winning stage actress Hannah Morrish. SUCH STUFF explores an actor’s unraveling psyche in the moments before she takes the stage.
In a theater in London, an hour before the curtain rises, an actor must perform the delicate act of slipping out of her own identity and into another. As she prepares to transform into Miranda, the daughter of Prospero in The Tempest, she struggles to escape her real-life role as a grieving daughter.
Mesmerizing and impossible to put down, SUCH STUFF is a literary feat that manages, in its brevity, to carry an emotional force that lingers long after the final line. It is an utterly original debut by a stunning new voice.
Out 3.9.27
The days are long, and the August heat is blazing: we’re officially in the dog days of summer. Here’s what we’re reading to get us through.
CULPABILITY: Dive into this twisty tale that examines the morality of AI.
FREYJA: Escape to the black sand beaches of Iceland in this thriller that reopens the cold case of a missing child.
THE CALAMITY CLUB: An unlikely sisterhood forms in the Great Depression under the sweltering Mississippi sun.
THE BOYS: A family summer vacation to Italy reveals a shocking secret (that you won’t see coming).
We sat down with Barry Michels, the author of AHEAD OF ALL PARTING: On Learning to Live with an Open Heart, to discuss living life to the fullest and finding creativity while facing one’s mortality.
“Urgent and necessary . . . Berenfeld brings a historian’s eye to this thrilling, sobering tale, and a citizen’s voice to its lessons for our own moment.”
—Ayad Akhtar
Americans are obsessed with Rome. Billionaires and manosphere pundits wax on about its military might, its gladiators, its emperors, its greatness. But we’re telling ourselves the wrong story.
In this sharp, eye-opening account, classics professor Michelle Berenfeld redirects our gaze. The Roman Empire isn’t the lesson—the Roman Republic is. Nearly five centuries of representative government, undone by forces that should sound familiar: wealth and power concentrated in the hands of elites, rampant political violence, endless expansionist wars, and a Senate that normalized emergency measures until it had nothing left to protect. One by one, aspiring strongmen seized what the Senate had surrendered, stretching the limits of their legal power, using the military against their own people, undermining elections, and killing their enemies—until one of them, Augustus, gained total control and became an emperor. Berenfeld’s argument is both clarifying and urgent: Rome’s slide into autocracy was not inevitable—and neither is ours.
Thursday, September 10th, 7pm
Pasadena, CA/ Vroman’s Bookstore
Sunday, October 11, 5pm
Narberth, PA / Narberth Bookshop
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