Of Song and Water paperback launch party

Please join Archipelago Books and McNally Jackson to celebrate the paperback release of Joseph Coulson’s Of Song and Water.

—Novelist and poet Joseph Coulson will be in conversation with Eric Banks—

McNally Jackson Bookshop
52 Prince Street (b/t Lafayette & Mulberry)
June 3rd, 7 p.m.
Refreshments will be served!

Joseph Coulson’s first novel, The Vanishing Moon, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick in 2004 and received a Gold Medal in Literary Fiction from ForeWord Magazine.

Eric Banks, former Editor-in-Chief of Bookforum, is a writer and book critic. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

“The power of this beautiful novel stems as much from the rich and poignant music that emanates from it, from its constant ebb and flow between past and present, as from the tide of memories that recount the painful drift of one man.” —Le Monde

 “Love abandoned, violence sustained, guilt, grief, the transcendence of sailing and making music, all play in jazzlike counterpoint. Coulson’s rhapsodic novel progresses from harsh equations of black and white to an exaltation of color.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist

Of Song and Water
by Joseph Coulson
$15 paperback * isbn 978-0-9819873-8-5 * available June 1st