Belly Up
by Rita Bullwinkel
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Pub Date Nov 15 2016 | Archive Date Jul 31 2018
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Description
BELLY UP is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque and tender stories, characters question the bodies they've been given and what their bodies require to be sustained.
About the author
Rita Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House, Conjunctions, Vice, NOON, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hawthornden Castle, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an editor at large for McSweeney's. She lives in San Francisco. This is her first book.
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Advance Praise
“These stunning stories take place in the spaces between ordinary objects and events. They are mysterious, strange, and fearlessly funny in their expression of human isolation, and they contain the existential surprises of great literature. Belly Up is a powerful debut by an unusually gifted writer.” —Lorrie Moore
“At the intersection of the surreal and the real, Rita Bullwinkel has carved out a unique space in which the mundane and the strange cohabitate and sometimes frolic. The sharp, precise writing and careful observations of the human condition in her excellent first collection Belly Up signal the debut of a major new talent.” —Jeff VanderMeer
“Bullwinkel's delightful, passionate stories of disturbance and worried words have the best kind of frenetic energy.” —Deb Olin Unferth
Marketing Plan
RITA BULLWINKEL's 2018 TOUR EVENTS
* Tampa, FL on March 8—special AWP preview at 7 pm at Gram's Place with Claire Vaye Watkins, Patty Yumi Cottrell, Michael Noll, and Tom Hart
* San Francisco on May 8—7 pm at City Lights Bookstore with Lisa Brown
* Brooklyn on May 11—7:30 pm at Books Are Magic with Alice Sola Kim
* Providence on May 12—6 pm at Ada Books with Joanna Howard
* Chicago on May 18—7:30 pm at Women and Children First with Jac Jemc and Anne Yoder
* Boston on May 13—3 pm at Harvard Bookstore with Laura van den Berg
* New Orleans on May 16—6 pm at Octavia Books with Maurice Ruffin
* Austin on May 17—7 pm at BookPeople
* Los Angeles on May 24—7:30 pm at Skylight Books with Liz Ziemska
Additional events TBA in Portland, OR, and San Diego, CA.
Publicity contact: Alyson Sinclair, aly@alysonsinclairpr.com
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780998518435 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
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