The Pebble Chance

Co-op available Possible blurbs from Carmine Starnino, Scott Esposito/Daniel Medin Select print campaign; Poetry, Verse Daily, The New Criterion, Poets & Writers, Poetry Show, Parnassus, Slate, NPR.org/David Orr; also print media reviewers with an appreciation for belles lettres/eccentric memoir/personal essays (Michael Dirda, possibly; Dwight Garner) Will also appeal to the translation circuit (compare media targets for Ondjaki, Mia Couto), as text is very comp. lit friendly; will play on Javier Marias connection (though he won't ask for a blurb); strongly influenced by European traditions Print campaign targeting British media, esp. those who have covered the lives/deaths of the poets Marius was friendly with (Guardian, TLS, Wasafiri, Independent); David Winter Print campaign targeting bookseller newsletters/antiquarian bookseller associations (a la David Mason) Select radio campaign (targeting NPR/The Writers Almanac) Print campaign will also target poetry bloggers/reviewers Goodreads giveaways

Essays and anecdotes from travel-writer, poet, and bookseller Marius Kociejowski, including pieces on encounters with Bruce Chatwin and Javier Marias."Kociejowski draws on all the aspects of his life in these engaging, idiosyncratic personal essays ...[that] proffer the reader equal measures of autobiography, insight and quirky charm." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post In the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you study the world's surface, there is always a chance an unseen pebble will knock your ball in an unexpected direction. In these essays, poet, antiquarian bookseller, and celebrated travel writer Marius Kociejowski chronicles serendipitous encounters with authors, manuscripts, and eccentrics, in which "the curious workings of fate" and "art's unbidden swerve" intervene to shift the course of fortune. Carried by keen wit, aphoristic prose, and a rich sense of characterization, and featuring chance meetings and comic misadventures with such figures as Bruce Chatwin, Zbigniew Herbert, and Javier Marias, The Pebble Chance is a sumptuous offering of belles lettres exploring the incandescent moments when skill and providence collide.