Soho Press imprint: 138 books
The Elfish Gene
Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
**In this witty memoir of nerd life, the author reflects on “how D&D twisted his teenage development—and about how twisted teenage development is in general” (The Seattle Times).
Summer, 1976. Twelve-year-old Mark Barrowcliffe had a chance to be normal. He blew it. While other teenagers...
Bomb
The Author Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews,...
Never Look an American in the Eye
A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian Amiercan
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The author of Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain tells his own immigrant’s tale, where what is lost in translation is often as hilarious as it is harrowing.
Okey Ndibe’s funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential—but...
Visions and Revisions
Coming of Age in the Age of AIDs
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
“A coming-of-age tale for both the gay community at large and a nation coming to terms with that community’s place in American society” (The Boston Globe).
Part memoir, part extended essay, Visions and Revisions is a foray into the period between 1987, when the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power...
The Funny Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
This dark comedy about celebrity is from the author who is “among the most perceptive and edgy chroniclers of an increasingly coarse American culture” (New York Journal of Books).
The funny man is a middling comic in an unnamed city. By day he takes care of his infant son; by night he performs...
by Andromeda Romano-Lax
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In a tour-de-force tapestry of science fiction and historical fiction, Andromeda Romano-Lax presents a story set in Japan and Taiwan that spans a century of empire, conquest, progress, and destruction.
2029: In Japan, a historically mono-cultural nation, childbirth rates are at an all-time...
by Sue Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
A rollicking comic adventure starring “one of literature’s most endearing figures” (The Observer).
Readers worldwide have loved Adrian Mole ever since he wrote his first diary at age thirteen and three quarters. Now he is age thirty-four and three quarters—not quite fully grown up,...
Prelude
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
A man looks back on his student days and an illicit, doomed romance with his piano teacher in this “triumph” of a novel (Alexander McCall Smith).
Seventeen-year-old Kim is a student at one of Britain’s most extraordinary institutions, Eton College—crammed with over a thousand boys and not...
The Hippopotamus
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Now a major motion picture: A “deliciously wicked and amusing” tale of a cranky curmudgeon investigating strange goings-on at an English country house (The New York Times).
“I’ve suffered for my art, now it’s your turn.” So begins the story of Ted Wallace, unaffectionately known...
Love Shrinks
A Memoir of a Marriage Counselor's Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
A highly successful couples therapist reveals the true story of her own failed marriage—and reflects on why we stay so long in unhappy relationships.
For years, Sharyn Wolf was a practicing psychotherapist and “relationship expert” revitalizing the marriages of countless couples. But...
by Clarissa Goenawan
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man’s path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister’s murder.
Ren Ishida has nearly completed his graduate degree at Keio University when he receives news of his sister’s...
by Andromeda Romano-Lax
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
From the author of The Spanish Bow comes a lush, harrowing novel based on the real life story of Rosalie Rayner Watson, one of the most controversial scientists—and mothers—of the 20th century
“The mother begins to destroy the child the moment it’s born,” wrote the founder of behaviorist...
That's Not a Feeling
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This Whiting Award Winner is “a bold, funny, mordant, and deeply intelligent debut” (David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest).
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
Benjamin arrives with his parents for a tour of Roaring Orchards, a therapeutic boarding school tucked away in upstate...
The Butterfly's Way
Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
In five sections—Childhood, Migration, Half/First Generation, Return, and Future—the thirty-three contributors to this anthology write movingly, often hauntingly, of their lives in Haiti and the United States. Their dyaspora, much like a butterfly's fluctuating path, is a shifting landscape in...