The Season of Change
Autumn titles from Nine Sisters Press
Make no mistake: the first title we are utterly excited to release this autumn is Kathleen Travers’ collection of poems, All We Have and What Remains. The advance praise on the book is sensational. The book will be released September 5. We know – that’s actually summer. But we just can’t hold this fantastic book back another minute. In fact, it’s available for your advance purchase right now!
And we also have two titles coming later in the autumn that we’re increasingly excited about as they come closer to publication. We’re very pleased to announce them right now.
Our press is abridging Richard Henry Dana, Jr.’s classic Two Years Before the Mast in a way that makes the book’s California experience completely accessible to readers who may like to omit the (admittedly thrilling!) voyages around Cape Horn and focus exclusively on what Dana found while here in Old California. A Small Touch of California takes its title from a sentence Dana penned upon first making landfall here. What was the capital of California before Sacramento? Why was Dana Point named for Dana? Why were there Russians and Italians in Santa Barbara before there were Anglophone Americans? What was San Pedro like in 1841? Was San Diego always such an idyllic California city? This book puts all this and much more California history right within easy reach.
And here’s another kind of California history in easy reach: the fourth volume of J. Carroll Clark’s epic series Where Men and Women Live will also later in the autumn. A Place to Stop and Live follows your favorite California crew of artists and surfers through the late 1980s and into the early 1990s.
With a fall lineup like this, we can’t help but feel the buzz!
Also see our previous titles.