January will start the year off great with the publication of Ralph Ellison's lost masterpiece (some even thought it didn't exist) Three Days before the Shooting. Edited and reconstructed from lost computer files and discs by John Callahan and Adam Bradley, we know this will be great from the earlier book-length fragment Juneteenth. The story of a U.S. Senator who "passes" as white. Filled with some of the most marvelous reconstructions of black religious language and rhetoric, this one will not disappoint. Modern Library plans for the rollout on January 26. It weighs in at a hefty price tag of $50. It will join my first edition of the Invisible Man.
And in August, we are finally promised Evil River by William S. Burroughs, a book I have had on order for three consecutive years. The manuscript found among Burroughs' archive after his death.
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