That has nothing to do with Short Story Month. We've been sitting on this one for a few days, waiting for those that get paid to break things to go ahead and break the news. From Publisher's Weekly and the Deals section of their fine institution:
"Go 'West,' Young Man
Chuck Adams at Algonquin has acquired world English rights to Jonathan Evison's buzzed-about second novel, West of Here. Evison's strongly reviewed debut, All About Lulu (published by Soft Skull last summer), drew comparisons to Catcher in the Rye;
here he writes about the history of an American town. Mollie Glick, who
brokered the deal, compared the book to David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas,
saying it touches on “themes of regeneration, the trappings of history
and the elusive nature of perception.” Movie scouts are also eager to
get their hands on West, which Glick said has not officially gone out for film; Lulu was optioned by Crossroads Films last year." We've talked about All About Lulu one or two times here and are big Evison fans (both as a writer and a person) and can't wait. Sounds like late 2010 with early galleys and a ton of promotion for this one and this blog cannot wait. Our only hope is that Ms. Glick got Evison enough to allow him to sit down and get deep into novel number three before he's out promoting West of Here.
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