This new, additional club will focus on debut fiction from writers who have caught the attention of our well-read staff and the literary world. Our popular Signed First Edition Club has been delivering important works of literature, memoir, and history to its members for over a decade-including debut works by emerging writers.
How does this new club compare with the pre-existing Signed First Edition Club? Which is to say, I want to give them each a copy of this book, dog-eared and annotated, filled with the evidence of my, and our, aliveness." -Benjamin Q., Harvard Book Store I want to gather all my manyones in a flooded train terminal and give them my whole heart. One uninterrupted expanse, I thought, until I read “Transit,” the jewel of this book, a story so damp, so isolated, so possible, that it returned to me a fondness for the manyones, the manywheres, who built me, whose likeness shattered my mundane and made a miracle out of the most paltry, inconsequential circumstances. No feature of this terrain goes undescribed: across stories steepled with historical anecdote and private calamity, characters reckon with the body and its prejudices, the prickly heat of queer love, the limitations and erasures of the archive, and the derangement of our natural world, a necessary, emphatic reminder that the human brew requires good Earth, stable weather, an expanse. In Manywhere, Morgan Thomas’s tremendous debut, we follow the “many”-the dissident, the freak, the unmoored-as they pursue embodiment on the marshy, opaque margins of the American South. But the reality is, as always: some may, with little trouble, find their way, and many will certainly not. We are inevitable, and the incidental, unconquerable stuff that makes us who we are will come out eventually, like wisdom teeth or heredity, small bulbs of the self that will bloom without nurturing. "In the exhaustive, rebounding discourse surrounding banned literature, one lie-because of its especially heinous optimism-stands out: get rid of our books, our media, and the children will always, somehow, find themselves. Delightfully, compellingly queer." -Roxane Gay A gorgeous chorus of voices joining to sing the vision of a singular and exciting artist." -Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
"Each of the stories in Manywhere is so surprising, with such range.
Manywhere: Stories by Morgan Thomas (Winter 2022)
Wait listers will be notified when space becomes available if a spot is not available for the current selection, your membership will be activated for the following selection. Sign upor give a gift membership! Spaces are limited, and there will be a wait list when we reach capacity on membership for a given season. The Signed New Voices in Fiction First Edition Club brings you some of the finest and most important debut fiction of the season-just as our flagship Signed First Edition Club has been doing across genres for years. Four times a year, Harvard Book Store offers Signed New Voices in Fiction Club members a signed first printing of a newly published debut novel or story collection, selected with an eye toward literary merit and potential collectibility.