Promotional Information

Participate in the CBSD Galley Box and send copies to the top 50 or so Open Letter bookstore accounts: City Lights, McNally Jackson, Elliot Bay, etc.

Approximately 200 advance copies sent to primary publications. This list includes: New York Times, SF Chronicle, LA Times, n+1, New York Review of Books, The Nation, Bookforum, The Believer, Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Rain Taxi, Time Out New York/Chicago, World Literature Today, Flavorwire, Washington Post, BOMB, Literary Review, Complete Review, Words Without Borders, B&N Review, Harper's, Shelf Awareness, Quarterly Conversation, Chicago Tribune, Typographical Era, Slate, Salon, etc. Also sent to the following trade publications: Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal.

Advance copies also sent to members of the NBCC Award Committee and the Best Translated Book Award Fiction Committee.

Strong push to editors at io9 as an example of a unique, very literary sci-fi universe that would interest their readers.

Giveaway of 25 copies on GoodReads, along with contacting members who have given his other works positive reviews.

Promote on Three Percent and on social media via Open Letter's FB & Twitter accounts (over 5,500 likes on FB; over 10,300 followers on Twitter).

Interview with Volodine to appear in The Paris Review. This builds on the "Week of Volodine" that appeared on the Music & Literature site, and the long essay by Volodine about the scope of his literary project that appeared in The New Inquiry.

Ebook available and will be mentioned on all press release materials, Open Letter website, etc.

About the Author

Antoine Volodine is the primary pseudonym of a French writer who has published twenty books under this name, several of which are available in English translation. He also publishes under the names Lutz Bassmann and Manuela Draeger. Most of his works take place in a post-apocalyptic world where members of the "post-exoticism" writing movement have all been arrested as subversive elements. Together, these works constitute one of the most inventive, ambitious projects of contemporary writing.

J. T. Mahany is a graduate of the masters program in literary translation studies at the University of Rochester. He is currently translating several books by the enigmatic and intriguing French author Antoine Volodine while studying for his MFA at the University of Arkansas.

Reviews

"Funny, humane, and sympathetic to the silly creatures we humans are. The Dalai Lama himself would probably approve."&151;Kirkus Review

"Volodine's novel is energetic, offbeat, fast-paced, and shows an off-kilter sense of humor. He writes with a comic purpose, populating his world with strange characters and inexplicable events and outcomes."&151;Eric Maroney, Colorado State University

"[Volodine's] book is a hugely impressive imaginative feat. He creates worlds and atmospheres that are strange and unique yet thoroughly believable"—Kevin Gildea, The Irish Times

"Volodine puts us all—overachievers and slackers, religious and decidedly not—'in the same boat, balanced between the dreadful and the useless, obligated to pretend not to care.'"—Kristine Morris, Foreward Reviews