The Shape of 2010
We have just finalised our 2010 publication schedule – a process akin to assembling a rather tricky jigsaw without a pattern to follow – and can now stand back and look at the year with that combination of excitement, optimism, relief, nervousness and self-chastisement that typifies the January mood of the publisher.
A few books have moved, a few have slipped, and a few have bounced in ahead of schedule. But a definite shape has emerged, from the speculative fictions in this month’s McSweeney’s 32, all set in 2024, to the invigorating and often hilarious meditations on mortality in David Shields’s The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll be Dead, at the end of the year.
If, like us, you are a fan of old-fashioned calendars, you may want to add the following titles to their relevant dates:
28 January
McSweeneys 32
4 February
Arundhati Roy: The Shape of the Beast
Paul Murray: Skippy Dies
25 February
David Shields: Reality Hunger
4 March
Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals
Colin Elford: A Year in the Woods
Bernardine Evaristo: Hello Mum
25 March
Noam Chomsky: Hopes and Prospects
Dave Eggers: Zeitoun
Marilyn Chin: Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen
1 April
James Kelman: If it is your life
27 May
Toby Litt: King Death
24 June
Shane Jones: Light Boxes
J.D. Salinger: the box set
29 July
Adam Phillips: On Balance
5 August
James Robertson: And The Land Lay Still
Lydia Davis: The Collected Stories
Daniel Swift: Bomber County
4 November
David Shields: The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead
Luke Williams: The Echo Chamber