76 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Fall Indie Books
Princeton Univ.
Press
Brooklyn: The
Once and Future City
Thomas J. Campanella
(Sept., $35, hardcover)
First printing: 15,000
Publicity & marketing highlights:
Events and promotions in Brooklyn,
including Brooklyn Book Festival
promotion with branded tote
giveaway and author booth signing; advertising; prepublication adapted excerpt in New
York magazine; social media campaign, including quote cards, archival photos, and video
content.
Author Jennifer Egan calls this 500-plus-page history filled with vintage photos “a
sheer delight. A cornucopia of mysteries, secrets, meticulous research, and fun facts,
it will prove essential reading for anyone with an appetite for New York history.”Soho Crime
Sarah Jane
James Sallis (Oct., $23.95,
hardcover)
First printing: 75,000
Publicity & marketing highlights:
Advertising; reissuing Sallis’s
Lew Griffin series in paperback
this fall.
Sarah Jane Pullman is a
good cop with a complicated
past. Her life takes an unex-
pected turn when she is named the de facto sheriff of a rural town, investigating the
mysterious disappearance of the sheriff whose shoes she’s filling—and the even more
mysterious realities of the life he was hiding from his own colleagues and closest
friends. Writer Laura Lippman calls Sallis “one of our greatest living crime writers....
Try to get his words, his stories, his people out of your head. Just try.”Univ. of California
Press
Meat Planet:
Artificial Flesh and
the Future of Food
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
(Sept., $27.95, hardcover)
First printing: 5,000
Publicity & marketing highlights:
Author appearances, including
Kitchen Arts & Letters/92nd
Street Y’s Food Summit; print
and digital ad campaign.
Wurgaft spent five years researching “cultured meat,” first produced in a lab in 2013
from the cultured tissues of dead animals. It has the potential, he writes, to transformAdvertisement◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Set in rural Arkansas, this
unapologetically bleak noir from
Hinkson (Hell on Church Street)
explores the effects of existential and
spiritual despair in an economically
depressed town where the in uence
of religious fundamentalism is
sti ing. For the last 10 years, Richard
Weatherford has been the pastor of a
church in Stock—a place “with the
lingering stink of Ozark backwater
to it”—and has presided over much
of the community as its spiritual
leader. He and his wife are raising
their ve children there. But when a
person with whom Weatherford once
had a sexual encounter attempts to
blackmail the preacher, just days
before Easter, Weatherford is forced
to make some hard decisions that will
jeopardize himself, his family, and his
marriage. With the 2016 presidential
election looming, politics plays a
signi cant background role. The
unexpected ending will either enrage
readers or have them applauding.
Powered by raw emotional intensity
and a disturbingly realistic portrayal
of small-town America, this story
is unforgettable. Agent: Nat Sobel,
Sobel Weber. (Oct.)
—Publishers Weekly
July 17, 2019
http://www.pegasus.com★Dry County
Jake Hinkson. Pegasus
Crime, $25.95 (256p)
ISBN 978-1-64313-223-5“This story is unforgettable.”
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