Hey everyone -- book news! Check out the final cover of The Metropolis Case (with new and improved fonts), which is officially publishing on December 28th, 2010. (Only eight months away: save the date!) You can order it now (via Amazon or elsewhere, if that's your cup of tea), or spend one of the many gift cards you're going to reel in over the holidays on some quality literary entertainment to keep you occupied during the snoozy January lull. (ZOMG it's only $16.50 for the hardcover!) Thanks for reading and we'll return to our regularly scheduled garden and cat-blogging tomorrow. <3 MG
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04/27/2010
The Metropolis Case: Final Cover and Official Publication Date (12/28/10)
Hey everyone -- book news! Check out the final cover of The Metropolis Case (with new and improved fonts), which is officially publishing on December 28th, 2010. (Only eight months away: save the date!) You can order it now (via Amazon or elsewhere, if that's your cup of tea), or spend one of the many gift cards you're going to reel in over the holidays on some quality literary entertainment to keep you occupied during the snoozy January lull. (ZOMG it's only $16.50 for the hardcover!) Thanks for reading and we'll return to our regularly scheduled garden and cat-blogging tomorrow. <3 MG
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#gods
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A RADICAL NEW MYTH ABOUT SEX, FAITH, AND THOSE OF US WHO WILL NEVER DIE
A young boy wanders into the woods of Harlem and witnesses the abduction of his sister by a glowing creature. Forty years later, now working as a New York City homicide detective, Gus is assigned to a case in which he unexpectedly succumbs to a vision that Helen is still alive. To find her, he embarks on an uorthodox investigation that leads to an ancient civilization of gods and the people determined to bring them back.
In this colossal new novel from the author of The Metropolis Case, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice collides with a new religion founded by three corporate office workers, creating something beautiful, illogical, and overwhelming. Part sex manifesto, part religious text, part Manhattan noir—with a dose of deadly serious, internet inspired satire—#gods is a sprawling inquest into the nature of faith and resistance in the modern world. With each turn of the page, #gods will leave you increasingly reborn.
Praise for #gods
“#gods is a mystery, an excavation of myths, an index of modern life, a gay coming-of-age story, an office satire, a lyrical fever dream, a conspiracy. One of the most ambitious novels in recent memory—and a wild, possibly transformative addition to the canon of gay literature—it contains multitudes, and seethes with brilliance.” —Mark Doten, author of The Infernal
“Matthew Gallaway’s #gods is a novel so brilliant, so funny, so full of strange and marvelous things, I couldn’t stop writing OMG WTF I <3 THIS SO MUCH in its margins. It’s rare to find a novel that so dazzlingly reinvigorates age-old meditations on faith and f&!*ing, art and eros. Luminous, enterprising, and sublimely cheeky, #gods tells the story, the myth, the dream of the human soul in all its glorious complexity.” —Suzanne Morrison, author of Yoga Bitch
“Matthew Gallaway’s storytelling manages to be both dreamy and serious; lean and luxurious. His words carry an incantatory power of mythic storytelling where beauty and savagery wrap around each other like bright threads in a gorgeous tapestry.” —Natasha Vargas-Cooper, author of Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America
“If the ancient gods were just like us, only more so, then the same could be said for this strange, wonderful book, in which the mundane sorrows and small triumphs of very ordinary lives glow ever so slightly around the edges, sometimes quite literally. At once an oddly romantic send-up of dead-end office culture and an offbeat supernatural procedural, #gods is terrifically weird, melancholy, sexy, and charming.” —Jacob Bacharach, author of The Bend of the World
The Metropolis Case
'It’s to the credit of Matthew Gallaway’s enchanting, often funny first novel that it doesn’t require a corresponding degree of obsession from readers, but may leave them similarly transported: the book is so well written — there’s hardly a lazy sentence here — and filled with such memorable lead and supporting players that it quickly absorbs you into its worlds.'
-- The New York Times
Music: Death Culture at Sea and Saturnine
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Music Video: Remembrance of Things Past
Watch the rock opera Remembrance of Things Past written and performed by Saturnine and Frances Gibson, starring Bennett Madison and Sheila McClear.
Video: The Chaos Detective
The Chaos Detective is a series about a man searching for 'identity' as he completes assignments from a mysterious organization. Watch the first episode (five parts) on YouTube.
Three thumbs up
Posted by: Brian | 04/27/2010 at 10:54 PM
Thanks, Brian!
Posted by: Matthew Gallaway | 04/27/2010 at 11:05 PM
Plan a book signin in San Diego!!
Posted by: marilyn | 04/28/2010 at 12:01 AM
Congrats, Matt! This is great news, and sooner than I expected. I will purchase a copy once it has been published.
Posted by: James van Maanen | 04/28/2010 at 12:10 AM
Oh, yes -- and that cover is GORGEOUS!
Posted by: James van Maanen | 04/28/2010 at 12:11 AM
Have posted a little something on my blog about this... Bravo!
Posted by: Gavin Plumley | 04/28/2010 at 07:48 AM
Thanks, James! Much appreciated...
Posted by: Matthew Gallaway | 04/28/2010 at 09:54 AM
Lovely cover. I'm very excited for you. Congratulations!
Posted by: carla | 04/28/2010 at 10:32 AM
Thanks, Carla!
Posted by: Matthew Gallaway | 04/28/2010 at 10:34 AM
Intriguing cover. Congratulations and good luck. Looking forward to it.
Robert
Posted by: Robert le Diable | 04/28/2010 at 03:16 PM
Thanks, Robert!
Posted by: Matthew Gallaway | 04/28/2010 at 03:17 PM