<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText language="eng">City Lights Publishers Spring/Summer 2011 Catalog</TitleText>

City Lights Books onix@onixsuite.com 20130217 eng

GCDS-9780872865143 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100733240 02 0872865142 03 9780872865143 15 9780872865143 BC 01 337 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText language="eng">City Lights Publishers Spring/Summer 2011 Catalog</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Paper Conspiracies</TitleText> 1 A01 Daitch, Susan Susan Daitch Susan Daitch is the author of two novels, L.C. (Lannan Foundation Selection and NEA Heritage Award), The Colorist, and a collection of short stories, Storytown. Her work has appeared in Tinhouse, Conjunctions, Guernica, Bomb, Ploughshares, failbetter.com, McSweeney's The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction VLS, The Brooklyn Rail. Her work was featured in The Review of Contemporary Fiction along with William Vollman and David Foster Wallace. Her fiction has been the subject of The Poetics of Postmodernism (Linda Hucheons, Routledge), History Made, History Imagined (David Price, University of Illinois), among others. She has taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently teaches at Hunter College. 01 eng 264 20 fiction; france 01 One of the most sensational incidents in the history of France, the Dreyfus Affair was a landmark case involving treason and antisemitism. Here is a novel about tangential players far from the trial's main stage: petty forgers, cross-dressers and lovers, actors in an early silent film by Georges Méliès that documents the trial, and a film restorer who's trying to save that crumbling movie nearly a hundred years later - all of them caught in a web of intrigue, menace and betrayal that reaches through space and time."This erudite page-turner takes us from late 19th-century France to the film studios of the great Georges Méliès to the tribulations of a film restorer who finds herself caught up in political intrigue, a century after the famous Affaire Dreyfus. As in her celebrated L.C., she constructs a compelling dialogue with an earlier century that shifts our perspective on our own time." -Susan Bernofsky, author of Foreign Words"It's Susan Daitch at her finest! A smart, absorbing study of those at the margins of history who, under her deft pen, turn out to be vital. Fascinating story, captivating writing." -Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution: The Year I Fell In Love and Went to Join the War and VacationPraise for Susan Daitch:  "It's always a delight to discover a voice as original as Susan Daitch's."-Salman RushdiePraise for Storytown:"An important collection by one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today."-David Foster Wallace"Startling in their intelligence and the breadth of their reimagining history the stories in Storytown are carefully detailed narratives that resist the comforts of traditional narrative devices."-James Surowiecki, Village Voice"It should be read as much for its virtuosity as for its articulation of our moment in history."-Steve Tomasula, American Book ReviewPraise for The Colorist:"The Colorist should be read for Ms. Daitch's drop dead writing style and the pleasure of joining her literary shell game."-Kate Lynch, The New York TimesPraise for L.C.:"Well worth reading for its ingenious interweaving of narrative threads, for its uncompromising treatment of sex and politics, and for the questions it raises about truth and deception in representing self and history."-LA Times 02 The keys to a historic trap are discovered in a cache of forgeries and crumbling film stock. 08 ". . . Daitch manages to reveal her characters in a light that makes us wonder if we are seeing them as they are or as another shadowy transparency. While the book is extensive in scope, the writing is sharp and lean." The Black Sheep Dances 08 "Daitch has lost none of the bristling intelligence that makes her work so uniquely literary. . . . Daitch's narrative can certainly be enjoyed as cerebral noir; the cryptic calls and notes delivered to Frances are reminiscent of Paul Auster." The Review of Contemporary Fiction 08 "The world Susan Daitch spins is like uncovering a lost history first-hand through the eyes and ears of those who were there. An engrossing novel for the age of censorship and redaction." Tottenville Review 08 "In 1993, Susan Daitch was showcased in the Review of Contemporary Fiction alongside David Foster Wallace and William T. Vollmann. Her first novel, L.C., is an unheralded masterpiece, but due to its politics (and the gendered world of literary criticism) it never achieved the critical or commercial success of her peers Wallace and Vollmann. Nonetheless, for many readers the arrival of a new book from Daitch is the most exciting literary event of the year. In Paper Conspiracies, Daitch approaches the Dreyfus Affair, the defining incident of modern anti-semitism before the Shoah, by focusing on the fringes of the case, particularly the film-maker Georges Méliès, who made a silent film about Dreyfus. Fin de siècle France is drawn into the present by a film restorer trying to save the Méliès movie. As expected, Daitch's prose is intelligent and beautiful." Hey Small Press 08 "Enthusiastically recommended to fans of highbrow, erudite historical fiction. Readers who enjoy the novels of Umberto Eco, for example, will probably also enjoy those of Ms. Daitch." New York Journal of Books 08 "Questions of integrity, authenticity and the slipperiness of 'truth' in a politicized society animate Susan Daitch's ambitious and highly satisfying novel about France's infamous Dreyfus Affair and its legacy." Shelf Awareness 08 "Like Herzog's study of Viennese literature, Susan Daitch's third novel, Paper Conspiracies (City Lights, August), shuttles from the fin de siècle to the present, only in France. Daitch takes her impetus from the silent movie about Alfred Dreyfus made by the cinematic pioneer Georges Méliès, best known for his fanciful A Trip to the Moon (1902). A film in which one of the first masters of special effects took on a sensational political event makes good sense as a jumping-off point for Daitch's formally experimental, intertextual fiction. She's the sort of writer who favors footnotes and who imagines how the Yiddish-speaker who busted Lenny Bruce felt; David Foster Wallace once called her 'one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today.' " Tablet Magazine 23 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100733240/extras/PapersExcerptCL.pdf 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100733240/images/87286100733240L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100733240/images/87286100733240S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100733240 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20110830 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20110830 01 02 16.95 USD