ATELIER26 BOOKS
TO PUBLISH DEBUT
BY PORTLAND
WRITER MARGARET MALONE
Atelier26 Books is proud to announce acquisition of the brilliant short
story collection People Like You, the
debut title by Portland writer Margaret Malone, for publication in
late 2015 or early 2016.
Margaret
Malone is the recipient of fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission and
Literary
Arts, two Regional Arts &
Culture Council Project Grants, and residencies at The Sitka Center and Soapstone.
Her writing has appeared in The
Missouri Review, Oregon Humanities Magazine, Coal City Review, Swink, Nailed, latimes.com, and elsewhere,
including recently the Forest Avenue Press
anthology The Night, and the Rain, and
the River. A Dangerous Writers
alumnus, Malone has a degree in Philosophy from Humboldt State University and has taught creative writing as a
visiting artist at Pacific Northwest
College of Art. She lives with her husband filmmaker Brian Padian and two children in Portland, where she co-hosts the artist and literary gathering SHARE.
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| Photo: Sabina Poole |
With People Like You, Malone delivers an
assemblage of characters and conundrums all at once funny, unsettling, subtle,
and moving. Malone’s people exist, like most of us, in the thick of everyday
experience absent of epiphanies, and they are caught off-guard or cast adrift
by personal impulses even while wide awake to their own imperfections. They win
us over completely although we know they are bound to break our hearts with
each confused and conflicted decision they make.
“I’ve long wanted Atelier26 to be the vehicle for a
phenomenal debut,” says press founder
and publisher M. Allen Cunningham, “and in Margaret’s work you immediately
hear the brave and startling sound of a born writer. Her voice is so assured—she’s
got such a razor wit—and each of these stories is so beautifully controlled and
alive to its own truth, readers will hardly know what hit them.”
For Malone’s launch, Atelier26 plans a significant
promotional campaign to booksellers and extensive events. “We’re going to grow
our operations considerably on behalf of People
Like You,” says Cunningham. “We’re giving it everything we’ve got, and we
anticipate a passionate bookseller response. You can’t read Margaret’s work and
not want to enthuse over it to anyone who cares about great writing.”
More details about People
Like You and its exciting release are forthcoming in the months ahead. Visit
www.Atelier26Books.com
and follow the publisher’s tweets at https://twitter.com/M_A_Cunningham.
Listen to a 10-minute recording of Margaret Malone reading from the title storyon LiveWireRadio (minute 20).
More about Margaret Malone at: www.margaretmalone.com
Atelier26 Books,
an independent press founded in Portland, Oregon in 2011, specializes in
contemporary literature in fine trade editions showcasing the highest design
standards. Atelier26 books are offered for sale through the publisher’s
online storefront, and through an ever-growing roster of independent booksellingpartners around the U.S.
