Just in Time for Holiday Giving, Bookstock Announces the Authors and Poets Appearing in 2025!
by Lisa Genova
In her newest work, the acclaimed author of Still Alice offers a breathless, riveting novel about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally “normal” life for a career in stand-up comedy. Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is a New York Times bestselling author. She graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. Her TED talks on Alzheimer’s disease and memory have been viewed more than eleven million times.
by Marjan Kamali
In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams for a friend to alleviate her isolation. She forms a strong bond with a girl in school but later on, they drift apart until her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives. Marjan Kamali, born in Turkey to Iranian parents, spent her childhood in Kenya, Germany, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. She’s the 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Award and the author of two other novels.
by Alison Espach
Alison Espach is the New York Times best-selling author of The Wedding People, a propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew. The Wedding People is a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a TODAY Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club pick, a Barnes and Noble Book Club Pick, and the #1 Indie Next Pick for August 2024. She is also the author of Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance, a Chicago Tribune and NPR “Best Book of 2022,” as well as The Adults, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Barnes and Noble Discover pick.
Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
by Hyeseung Song
For readers of Crying in H Mart comes a “scorchingly honest…hugely evocative memoir” (Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H Is for Hawk) about the daughter of ambitious Asian-American immigrants and her search for self-worth. The daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung Song spent her earliest years in the cane fields of Texas. As she grows, years of self-erasure take a toll on Song and she experiences recurring episodes of depression. She enters a psychiatric hospital, where begins her sweeping journey to heal herself by losing everything. Now, Hyeseung Song is a writer and painter, who lives in Brooklyn and upstate New York.
by Melodie Winawer
From the author of the “engrossing historical epic” (Booklist) The Scribe of Siena comes Anticipation, a dual-timeline story set in the crumbling city of Mystras, Greece, in which a modern scientist’s vacation with her young son quickly turns into a fight for their lives after they cross paths with a man out of time. Anticipation was called one of the “Best books released in November” and “Best Historical Fiction Fall 2021” by BuzzFeed. Melodie Winawer is a physician-scientist and associate professor of neurology at Columbia University who has published more than seventy-five scientific articles.
Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022
by Major Jackson
A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems selected from five acclaimed volumes of poetry. It was designated one of Literary Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023. Major Jackson’s honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The poetry editor of the Harvard Review, he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
by Patrick Bringlely
Patrick Bringley worked for ten years as a guard in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. To his surprise and the reader’s delight, this temporary refuge becomes Bringley’s home away from home for a decade. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards. All the Beauty in the World was selected as a best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London).
by Didi Jackson
In her second collection, My Infinity, Didi Jackson continues her exploration of the paradoxical meaning of a world where joy and sorrow simultaneously coexist. These poems investigate both sacred and natural spaces. Her poems move grief and emotional suffering to language as a site of recovery and renewal. Didi Jackson is also the author of Moon Jar (2020). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bomb, The New Yorker, and Oxford American among other journals and magazines.
by Kevin Fedarko
From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile, a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth. Kevin Fedarko has spent the past twenty years writing about conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. The Emerald Mile, which won a National Outdoor Book Award and the Reading the West Book Award, was a New York Times bestseller.
by Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in eight years. In this collection, the poet mines and maps limbal regions: those spaces between differences that can be at once creative and oppressive, enlightening and dark, exciting and fatal. Pinsky was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997-2000 and the recipient of numerous awards and honors, among them the William Carlos Williams Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the PEN/Voelcker Award, the Korean Manhae Prize, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. He teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University.
by Alison Prine
Alison Prine’s spectacular collection, Loss and Its Antonym, sweeps across a lifetime in an attempt to find the right antonym for grief—knowing full well the bittersweet futility of such a project. The only way is through, and through we go: wrestling the devastating loss of the mother in a car accident, which the speaker survived as a child, and other family traumas. Time is the great and ruthless healer of this book, with which the speaker directly converses. While echoes of the past continue to haunt, repair is found in the book’s appreciation for the world: chilly Vermont winters with fresh snow, erotic peonies in season, lush plumages of birds, wounded sugar maples, budding lesbian romances, simple breezes. Here, the poem itself is the only antonym for loss.
—Bianca Stone, author of What Is Otherwise Infinite
An Exaltation of Parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s Crusade to Save America’s Wonderlands
by Steve Kemp
An Exaltation of Parks reveals the inspiring story of this collaboration, showing how the partnership transformed some of America’s most cherished national parks, including Acadia, Grand Tetons, Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone, and Yosemite. It recounts Rockefeller’s lifelong dedication to conservation, digging into his own pockets and toiling as a volunteer to achieve his goals for converting private land into public use. Bringing to life the history and significance of America’s most magnificent landscapes, this volume is both a tribute to past conservation victories and a call to action for the future, emphasizing the need for continued vigilance to preserve these national treasures for generations to come