The Book of Beginnings and Endings

*Total season's marketing budget of $18,000; individual book budget of $3,000. *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database as well as any contacts Boully provides. *2,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, and libraries as well as any contacts Boully provides. *Special initiative to get book covered by blogs, literary e-zines, and other online reviewers. *Additional review copies sent to journals with focus on cutting edge work.

The third collection from this thrillingly innovative master of the lyric essay.“Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch.”—John D’Agata “Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without ‘complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.’ Jenny Boully has done it.”—Mary Jo Bang A book with only beginnings and endings, all invented. Jenny Boully opens and closes more than fifty topics ranging from physics and astronomy to literary theory and love. A brilliant statement on interruption, impermanence, and imperfection. Jenny Boully is the author of The Body: An Essayand [one love affair]*. Born in Thailand, she currently divides her time between Texas and Brooklyn.