November 21, 2009
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May - June 2008
by Anne Trubek, from Good 
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Powers and Eugenides are big names with large publishing houses behind them. Another way to go is to find up-and-coming authors publishing with small presses. After I read a borrowed copy of Kelly Link’s Magic for Beginners, I bought a collectible copy on the Small Beer Press website. McSweeney’s is another great press to support and potentially reap gain from. Collectors love its stable of authors, especially mastermind Dave Eggers.

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Another strategy is to sign up for book-release clubs. If you had been a member of Square Books’ Signed First Editions Club in 2002, it would have sent you Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, which now goes for $200 to $3,000. Many small presses are launching similar release clubs to help guarantee their own income. It might help yours, too.

Hot Hypermoderns?

This Shape We’re In
by Jonathan Lethem (McSweeney’s)
Lethem is a consistently strong novelist, and this title is his prettiest.

Tom Thomson in Purgatory
by Troy Jollimore (Margie/Intuit House)
A collection by North America’s next great poet, this book was a surprise winner of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Magic for Beginners
by Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)
Surprising, wacky, smart stories from a rising star.

The World to Come
by Dara Horn (Norton)
The second novel by an underappreciated, lyrical writer. Horn goes backward in history and forward to the afterlife and also manages to pen a page-turning mystery.

Anne Trubek (www.annetrubek.com) is a professor of rhetoric and English at Oberlin College. Reprinted from Good(Nov.-Dec. 2007). Subscriptions: $20/yr. (6 issues) from 9155 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069; www.goodmagazine.com.

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