Open City Magazine features a dynamic mix of prominent writers, undiscovered aspirants, and lost treasures from writers from past eras. Since its launch in 1990, Open City has brought together fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork by Michael Cunningham, Nick Tosches, Mary Gaitskill, Irvine Welsh, Martha McPhee, David Foster Wallace, Richard Serra, David Mamet, Sam Lipsyte, Rem Koolhaas, Allen Ginsberg, James Purdy, Honor Moore, Meghan Daum, Denis Johnson, Deborah Garrison, and David Berman, as well as posthumously published writing by Delmore Schwartz, Richard Yates, Edvard Munch, Terry Southern, and Ford Madox Ford. As reflected by it's name, Open City presents writing and art preoccupied with the forces effecting the physical, intellectual, and emotional character of the city, with a sense of openness and possibility that provides readers with an urban portrait of a literary generation in the making. Open City is edited by Thomas Beller and Joanna Yas, and was founded by Thomas Beller, Robert Bingham, and Daniel Pinchbeck. Open City Books was launched in 1999 with an interest in furthering the promotion of writers whose work had been published in the magazine, as well as in publishing daring and unique writing that would go otherwise ignored by the mainstream. Books so far include Actual Air, poetry by David Berman, Venus Drive, stories by Sam Lipsyte, My Misspent Youth, essays by Meghan Daum, and World on Fire by Michael Brownstein. Open City Magazine & Books hosts a monthly reading series in New York City as well as many events and parties both in New York and nationwide. See www.opencity.org for more info on forthcoming issues, books, and events.
		November 2003 Some Hope: A Trilogy Edward St. Aubyn Some Hope marks the U.S. debut of Edward St. Aubyn, highly acclaimed in the U.K. as one of the most original, intelligent, and acerbically witty voices of our time. From Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, through the savageries of a childhood with a tyrannical father and an alcoholic mother, to a young adulthood fraught with drug addiction, we follow Patrick Melrose’s search for redemption amidst a crowd of glittering social dragonflies whose vapidity is the subject of his most stinging and memorable barbs. A story of abuse, addiction, and recovery, the trilogy is a haunting yet hilarious depiction of a journey to and from the farthest limits of the human experience. A masterpiece. Edward St. Aubyn is a writer of immense gifts. His wit, his profound intelligence, and his exquisite control of a story that rapidly descends to the lower depths before somehow painfully rising again—all go to distinguish the trilogy as fiction of a truly rare and extraordinary quality. --Patrick McGrath With his savage wit and scalpel-sharp prose Edward St. Aubyn is the ideal writer to dissect the bloated corpse of the English upper classes. Mordant, acute, and ultimately deeply moving, this trilogy establishes him as one of the preeminent English writers of his generation. --Will Self Speedballs, incest, and royalty are just a few of the things that make Some Hope exquisitely harrowing entertainment. Beyond the highborn squalor, though, is a saga of genuine wit and heartache. --Sam Lipsyte VISIT WWW.OPENCITY.ORG FOR THESE TITLES AND OTHER DEALS