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ELIZABETH COHEN THE HYPOTHETICAL GIRL What happens when an aspiring actress meets an Icelandic yak farmer on a matchmaking website? Or when an online forum for cancer support turns into a love triangle between an English professor, a Canadian fisherman, and a teacher living in Japan? The characters in this short-story collection, The Hypo- thetical Girl, are ordinary, dissatisfied, and desperate to fall in love. They meet on the Internet under fictitious personas, flirt through e-mails and text messages while restlessly engag- ing in the age-old dilemma of finding a suitable lover. These stories capture the humor and horror of Internet dating, with all if its posturing, deceptions, and complications. In “The Man Who Made Whirligigs,” Whimsy999 and Vivacious002 exchange flirtatious online banter, and despite their obvious differences—he’s an older Jewish man who makes and sells whirligigs; she’s a Latina hairdresser—they plan to meet for lunch at a local farmers’ market in New Mexico. Their meeting unfolds with the anticipation, mystery, and stupor of a magic show or, well, a blind date. The Hypothetical Girl is a convincing, hilarious, and heartbreaking reconfiguration of Pride and Prejudice for the age of online dating and text messaging. ELIZABETH COHEN is writer-in-residence at Western Con- necticut State University’s MFA writing program and an as- sistant professor of English at Plattsburgh State University. Her memoir, The Family on Beartown Road (Random House, 2003), was a New York Times Notable Book, and her articles, stories, and poetry have appeared in Newsweek, People, New York Times Magazine, Salon, Tablet, and the Yale Review. She lives in upstate New York with her daughter, Ava. PRAISE FOR THE HYPOTHETICAL GIRL “Beautiful, funny, and heartbreaking, Cohen’s stories tackle love and all its discontents in a way you’ve never experienced before.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of Pictures of You PRAISE FOR THE FAMILY ON BEARTOWN ROAD “Frank, funny … courageous.” —New York Times Book Review “The adventure and peril of everyday living captured in language that’s light, beautiful, and razor-sharp.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) RIGHTS SOLD TO THE FAMILY ON BEARTOWN ROAD UNITED KINGDOM: Ebury Press FALL 2013 Pages: 208 approx Rights: World FICTION OTHER PRESS • 3
VINCENT CRAPANZANO RECAPITULATIONS How do we remember? Is the act of remembering related to the creation of a responsive self? How do our memories resonate with everyday experience? In Recapitulations, author and distinguished professor Vincent Crapanzano attempts to answer these questions by reflecting on his personal experi- ences as an anthropologist, literary theorist, and critic. At once an autobiography and an ethnographic study, this book brilliantly explores the author’s life—from his earli- est memories to thoughts about death—through seemingly disparate recollections drawn from his wide range of experi- ences. Crapanzano uses these recollections as a way of ques- tioning our cultural and psychological assumptions, and in the process, calls attention to the limits they impose on our self-understanding, imagination, and interpretations of reality. Like Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques and C. G. Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections, this unique memoir is a beau- tifully written guide to the hidden realms of personal memory and experience. VINCENT CRAPANZANO is an author and Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has published articles in major periodicals and academic journals, such as The American An- thropologist, Les Temps Modernes, Yale Review of Literature, The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Times Liter- ary Supplement. His previous books include The Fifth World of Foster Bennett (Viking, 1977), The Hamadsha (University of California Press), Tuhami (University of Chicago Press), Hermes’ Dilemma and Hamlet’s Desire: Essays on the Epis- temology of Interpretation (Harvard University Press), Serv- ing the Word (The New Press, 2000), Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology (University of Chicago Press), and The Harkis: The Wound that Never Heals (University of Chicago Press). PRAISE FOR THE HARKIS “Combining interviews, literary analysis, and psychoanalytical insights, Vincent Crapanzano traces the ways in which betrayal and powerlessness have played out in the lives of the Harkis and their children.” —Times Literary Supplement PRAISE FOR SERVING THE WORD “Crapanzano takes the Fundamental- ists as he finds them and expounds the manifestations of their literalism without condescension or contradiction.” —New York Review of Books FALL 2014 Pages: 300 approx. Rights: World NONFICTION OTHER PRESS • 4
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