(Penguin Random House/Vintage 978-0-593-08115-0, $17, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, June 1, 2021)
Fantasy novel, inspired in part on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, about mercenaries transporting a sacred oracle in 16th-century Netherlands.
With lush, erudite prose and a large cast of darkly eccentric humans and monsters, this spellbinding slipstream novel from Catling (the Vorrh trilogy) feels like stepping into one of Hieronymus Bosch’s playfully macabre paintings works which are aptly referenced in the novel’s second act. In a fantasy revisionist’s version of early 16th-century Netherlands, a troupe of ruffians transporting a malformed oracle and led by the fearsome Barry Follett travel across the wilderness and over Das Kagel, a mountain rumored to be the ruins of the Tower of Babel. Meanwhile, a young monk, Dominic, and his curmudgeonly mentor, Benedict, investigate the mysterious emergence of small demonic creatures called Filthlings and Woebegots, a
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Yuka Igarashi named Graywolf executive editor By Claire Kirch | Mar 01, 2021
Graywolf Press, the venerable Minneapolis literary press, announced this morning that it has hired industry veteran Yuka Igarashi as executive editor, a newly created position; Jeff Shotts is also a Graywolf executive editor, working on poetry and creative nonfiction/essays. Igarashi will assume the position on April 8 and will work remotely from her home in Hawaii. She will report to publisher Fiona McCrae and editorial director Ethan Nosowsky.
Igarashi is well known in the literary publishing world: she currently serves as editor-in-chief at Soft Skull Press, and is the founder of