David Wright

An extraordinary, incomparable work of world literature that requires and rewards multiple readings.

“Warm and human even as it’s post human,” as Jo Walton observes in her introduction, Reed’s remarkable debut skillfully blends mind-bending speculation with riveting intrigue, alluring romance and harrowing drama, set in a prescient de-souled future.

Beacon Press has brought back that landmark 1985 selection of James Baldwin’s essays, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948–1985. Autumn is a great season to acquaint horror readers with vintage novels and tales they haven’t already read, and Valancourt Books continues to pour out creepy goodness. 

The goal of this newly revived column will be to highlight recent and forthcoming reprints and rediscoveries, with the aim of helping busy librarians replenish their stock of not merely treasured classics but also notable recoveries from the past, to populate the shelves with exciting, unexpected finds for readers and patrons for years to come.

David Wright, a reader services librarian at Seattle Public Library’s downtown branch, highlights Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus, Molly Keane’s Good Behaviour, Pushkin’s handsome new collection Murder in the Age of Enlightenment, Dorothy B. Hughes’s Ride the Pink Horse, and Donald Westlake’s Castle in the Air for spring.