96th of October Editions

96th of October Editions is actively interested in new manuscripts that align with the titles given below. Your submission should include, pasted into the body of the email, the most impressive five page sample of your book, and a very brief outline. Submit your work here.

The Catalogue

Science Fiction

Jim Cheff, Phantom Limb Radio;
Metaphysical thriller. Join Vayle Endlight in The Periphery — a world that’s a misheard whisper, and a million miles, away from our own. With illustrations by the author. Click author’s name for bio and work in 96th of October; click title to purchase, click here to sample book.

Fin de Siècle

Oscar Wilde’s The Sphinx, edited and annotated by Justin Brumby
A poetic catalogue of the erotic misdeeds of Middle Eastern deities, this poem is a gesture of defiant gay pride, and a masterpiece of decadence. Wilde worked on it for 11 years, and published it in 1894, one year before his trial. This is the first edition of the poem in a century to reproduce the ten Charles Ricketts illustrations, and the only one ever to fully annotate the obscurities of the text. Click title to purchase.

Judaica

Rachel Blaustein, Complete Poems, translated from the Hebrew by Mildred Faintly
The first complete translation into English! “Rachel Blaustein’s poetry, written in the dawn of the twentieth century, was the first great lyric expression of modern, living Hebrew. She made it possible for Jews to see themselves as a people with their own beauty—their own language, their own poetry, and (every people’s right) their own country. Similar claims might be made for other modern Hebrew poets, but Rachel Blaustein did what no other poet even attempted. She restored to Hebrew literature the feminine element so long lost to Judaism and to the scriptural religions that developed from it. But the decisive argument for Rachel Blaustein’s special greatness is this: we admire Bialik, we are delighted by Amichai, but Rachel—we love.” Click title to purchase.

East Asia

Classics

Poetry

Non-Fiction

Jacob Rabinowitz, Blame it on Blake
A memoir of Beat generation authors, with explorations of Witchcraft, Egyptology, Voodoo, gender confusion and mind-altering drugs, authorized (more or less) by William Blake