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TALES OF NEW YORK CITY NIGHTLIFE
BY SUSANNE BARTSCH; FOREWORD BY RUPAUL
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A decades–deep dive into the intoxicating world of queer NYC nightlife through entertainer and fashion icon Susanne Bartsch
“Ms. Bartsch’s name,” wrote the New York Times, “is the night life equivalent of a couture label.” Beginning with her first party in 1986, Bartschland: Tales of New York City Nightlife leads readers chronologically through each year of Susanne Bartsch’s reign as New York City’s “Queen of Clubs” until present day. For each year, Bartsch provides commentary focusing first on a snapshot of her life at the time, then showcasing exquisite accounts of her most iconic party that year, and finally, an introduction to a close friend and member of Bartsch’s eclectic, artistic community—from drag queens to dancers to designers. The result is a kaleidoscope of queer culture, glittering New York City nightlife, and unmatched fashion, shared with us by the woman at the center of it all.
Susanne Bartsch has been the queen of New York City nightlife for thirty years and counting. The Swiss–born “patron saint of transformation and inclusion” moved to NYC in the early ’80s and opened an eponymous SoHo store curated with avant–garde British fashion. Soon, she became known throughout the city not just for her eclectic, trend–setting style, but for the extravagant weekly parties she threw. Among the beautiful, strange, outlandish, and iconic artists and personalities who attended her world–renowned soirees, Bartsch discovered names like RuPaul, Amanda Lepore, and Aquaria. The Bartschland brand continues to expand through a popular Netflix documentary Susanne Bartsch: On Top, a recent FIT exhibition on the most notable looks of her three–decade career, a new weekly cabaret extravaganza, and a multitude of incredible events and happenings that continue to be hosted by Bartsch in New York City and around the globe.
HIGH–PROFILE
CONTRIBUTORS: Susanne Bartsch has an impressive social media following (120,000 Instagram, 7,000 Facebook, 7,000 Twitter), and the book will showcase the most exciting and influential of Bartsch’s friends and community. Foreword by drag legend RuPaul (4.3 million Instagram followers) and rising star Aquaria (1.7 million Instagram followers).
MARKETING AND PUBLICITY
OPPORTUNITIES: Susanne Bartsch has been profiled and featured in top magazines and media outlets for the past three decades, has a successful documentary on Netflix, has exhibited her work in fashion in solo shows at FIT, and is currently releasing a long–awaited clothing line. She has worked with clients such as Dewar’s, Sony, and Barneys and at venues like Ian Schrager Hotels, Edition, Le Bain & The Rooftop of The Standard.
RELEVANT TOPICS: New York City, its nightlife from the ’80s to today, and the thriving LGBTQ+ community are all hugely popular topics today.
SPECIFICATIONS
*Full-color illustrations throughout *240 pages *WIDTH: 7 3/4" - 197mm *HEIGHT: 9 7/8" - 251mm
*Hardcover
PUB MONTH: MAY ISBN 978-1-4197-6756-2
US $35.00 CAN $44.00 UK £25.00 ËxHSLELJy767562z
THE ART OF REBECCA MORGAN
BY REBECCA MORGAN
The first monograph of the contemporary art world’s newest sensation
Town and Country is the first monograph dedicated to the work and unique universe of artist Rebecca Morgan. From deep in rural Pennsylvania to the Pratt Institute and back to Pennsylvania, the book traces the journey of this gifted artist as she becomes increasingly famous in the art world, but feels constantly torn between the rural and the urban. Her paintings, drawings, ceramics, and cartoons subvert the stereotypes of Appalachia and are imbued with folk tradition and a sly sense of humor. Stylistically, Morgan embraces the hyper–detailed naturalism of the Dutch masters as well as the absurd, repulsive caricature suggestive of underground cartoonists such as R. Crumb. Although her artwork often contains modern clues, the characters and scenes evoke a romanticized, nostalgic United States, one that is nonexistent but wistfully recalled. With a preface by Amy Sedaris and an essay by poet and art critic John Yau, this book showcases Morgan’s most famous paintings and drawings alongside many previously unseen personal documents from her archives, making Town and Country a truly unique and never–before–seen type of art book—a combination of monograph, personal diary, and scrapbook.
Rebecca Morgan received a BA from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from the Pratt Institute in New York. Her work has received coverage from outlets such as the New York Times, Time Out New York, Hyperallergic, ARTnews, Whitehot magazine, Beautiful Decay, Artslant, Juxtapoz magazine, the Huffington Post, Paper magazine, and Berlin’s Lodown magazine. She is the recipient of residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts Residency, among others, and has received a Vermont Studio Center full fellowship and the George Rickey Endowed Residency at Yaddo. Morgan has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. She lives in Woodstock, Vermont. CONNECTED AUTHOR: Morgan has close ties to animators, the comedy world (the book will feature a foreword by Amy Sedaris and an essay by poet John Yau), and the independent comic scene.
ENGAGED FOLLOWING: Morgan has a dedicated online following of students, art fans, and fellow artists who interact with her by asking questions about her work and techniques. As both an art instructor and artist, she takes time to answer and discuss these questions, making her very close to her followers.
UPCOMING EVENTS: Morgan will have two solo shows in 2022, which are timed perfectly with the release of her first monograph.
SPECIFICATIONS
*300 color illustrations *240 pages *WIDTH: 7 3/4" - 197mm *HEIGHT: 9 7/8" - 251mm * Hardcover
PUB MONTH: MARCH
ART, ART HISTORY, DESIGN
ISBN 978-1-4197-5879-9
US $40.00 CAN $50.00 UK £30.00 ËxHSLELJy758799z
CARTON QTY: 7
STORIES
BY DENNARD DAYLE
For readers of Jason Pargin, Paul Beatty, and George Saunders, an electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories that create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism, capitalism, and politics—now in paperback!
Praise for Everything Abridged
“By turns prescient of our anxious, conspiracy–fraught times and mournful of majestic worlds to come ruined by all too familiar hatreds. But the post–WWIII stand–up riffs? Truly funny stuff.” ―Vulture
“Incredibly entertaining and so damn illuminating.” ―Entertainment Weekly
“Slyly defiant and blazingly imaginative, like the best modernist literature, Everything Abridged is a powerful celebration of flaw and failure. It’s a book that revels in the timelessness of obsolescence and the freedom of powerlessness. Dayle’s a genre–shattering writer, whose wit and intellect never cease to entertain. This refreshingly original and powerfully funny collection is a debut to remember.” ―Paul Beatty, New York Times bestselling author
“Everything Abridged: Stories by Dennard Dayle: 1.Miscategorized. Calling this addictively book–shaped act of language subversion “stories” is like calling New York City “buildings” 2.The nonstandard reference to all sorts of things it would have been disturbing to learn if you hadn’t been laughing so hard 3.Herald of a major new talent—what more do you need to know? Why are you still reading the cover and not the inside?” ―Susan Choi, National Book Award–winning author of Trust Exercise
Framed as a reference work of humorous “entries” that offer trenchant social commentary, Everything Abridged presages a dark vision of the near future but tells jokes in the face of it: An intelligence agency operative uncovers a conspiracy to generate conspiracies and realizes his participation in the scheme. A Caribbean monarch meets four decades of American presidents and adjusts his country’s foreign policy accordingly. Experiment participants are asked to bring back a gun as quickly as possible. A copywriter on a space colony advertises a weapon with the potential to destroy his home during an intergalactic war. These and other linked stories, many of which feature a speculative bent—about being Black in America, law enforcement practices in an android society, Olympic speed walking, consumerism, nuclear war, and more—are interspersed with hilarious, one–line definitions for words ranging from abolition to zygote, creating a sharply humorous portrait of American inequality. With his singular wit, sharp prose, and shrewd observations, Dennard Dayle captures the struggles his characters face to keep hold of their sanity in a society collapsing into chaos and absurdity.
Dennard Dayle is a Jamaican–American writer from New York City. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received his MFA from Columbia University. His short fiction has been published by The New Yorker, Clarkesworld, Matchbook, the Hard Times, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and his satirical performance art has been covered by NBC, the New York Post, and New York magazine. Dayle is based in Brooklyn. Everything Abridged is his debut collection. PHENOMENAL PRAISE: The book has been supported by such literary powerhouses as Paul Beatty, Susan Choi, and Gary Shteyngart, and was reviewed in Vulture and Entertainment Weekly, and covered by The New Yorker.
TARGET AUDIENCE: For readers of Jason Pargin’s This Book is Full of Spiders, Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, George Saunders’s CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Lincoln in the Bardo, and Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash.
HUMOR FOR OUR TIME: The topics and themes covered in the stories in Everything Abridged perfectly capture the national mood during such uncertain and tumultuous times while cracking jokes and creating madcap scenarios that readers cannot help but laugh at.
SPECIFICATIONS
*320 pages *WIDTH: 5 1/2" - 152mm *HEIGHT: 8 1/4" - 229mm
*Paperback
PUB MONTH: APRIL FICTION
ISBN 978-1-4197-6097-6
US $17.00 CAN $22.00 UK £12.99 ËxHSLELJy760976z
