Rachel Zolf (Neighbour Procedure, Human Resource) will be a keynote speaker at Turning on Rights: Politics, Performance and the Text, an interdisciplinary critical/creative conference at SUNY Albany that will bring together graduate students from all across the northeastern U.S. and beyond to engage and challenge the concept of rights -- human and otherwise.
Sean Dixon has sold the rights to The Girls Who Saw Everything in the UK! <!--newline--><!--newline-->HarperCollins has made a deal with Dixon for the publishing rights to The Girls Who Saw Everything and a yet-to-be-completed second book.
In addition to being the start of the summer movie season, a time for flowers and the last name of Rod Stewart's friend Maggie, May is also the month of Doors Open Toronto and the start of Book Expo America! But here's the thing about May: it's the fifth month of the year, and as such (and because we're stumped for sale ideas), we're taking a fifth of the price off every title on the Coach House site!
From May 30 to June 1, the largest publishing event in North America – Book Expo America (or 'BEA' to those in 'the biz') – is hosted at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, and Coach House will be there. Like every year, the Expo provides booksellers and publishing industry workers a preview of exciting new things happening in the world of books.
