some upcoming novels of possible interest

[pynchonoid]

news of some recent new book sales,
from Publishers Lunch Weekly Monday, August 11:

Lawyer Dylan Schaffer's first novel MISDEMEANOR MAN,
about a 
slackerish low-level public defender by day and the
lead singer in a Barry 
Manilow cover band at night who is drafted to defend a
seemingly routine 
case that quickly spirals into a high-profile murder
trial, in which he 
uncovers high-level corruption that threatens to turn
him into a real 
lawyer, to Colin Dickerman at Bloomsbury, for
publication in spring 2004, 
by Lydia Wills at Writers and Artists (world).
sara.mercurio at bloomsburyusa.com 	 

New Yorker writer Hilton Als and photographer Darryl
Turner's 
illustrated novel DON'T EXPLAIN, based on a rumored
affair around 
1940 between Billie Holiday and Orson Welles, told in
a series of 
monologues by the main characters and staged "period"
photographs that 
follow the action, to Karen Rinaldi at Bloomsbury, for
publication in fall 
2004, by Jeffrey Posternak at the Wylie Agency.
sara.mercurio at bloomsburyusa.com 

[...] 

K.J. Bishop's first novel THE ETCHED CITY, a literary
fantasy following 
the unusual path of two former assassins, with a
dreamlike narrative and 
organic cityscapes "drawing comparisons to the likes
of China Mieville, 
Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino," previously
published by Prime 
Books, to Juliet Ulman at Bantam Spectra, by Howard
Morhaim (NA).
julman at randomhouse.com 	

[...] 

The brainchild behind National Novel Writing Month
(NaNoWriMo), Chris 
Baty's NO PLOT? NO PROBLEM! A Low-Stress,
High-Velocity 
Approach to Writing a Novel in 30 Days, which promises
to inspire 
anyone to write that novel they've always dreamed of
writing, to Leslie 
Jonath at Chronicle, by Arielle Eckstut at Levine
Greenberg (world).
aeckstut at levinegreenberg.com 	 

THE BASIC WRITINGS OF MAX WEBER, edited by Peter Baehr
and 
translated by Gordon Wells, a new translation of the
works of social and 
political historian, to Danielle Durkin for the Modern
Library, for 
publication in fall 2007 (world).
Rights: ctisne at randomhouse.com 

[...] 

Richard Barber's THE HOLY GRAIL: A Study in
Imagination and Belief, 
tracing the history of legends surrounding the Holy
Grail from Chretien 
de Troyes' great romances to the popular bestsellers
of the late 20th 
century, to Joyce Seltzer at Harvard University Press,
in a nice deal, by 
Sarah Hunt Cooke at Penguin UK (US).
sarah.huntcooke at penguin.co.uk 	 






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