Wickedly wonderful. Not kidding about the Spark and Waugh vibes.

"The word 'heretic' has still about it an emotional thrill—a glow reflected, it may be, from the fires at Smithfield, the ardours of those who were burnt at the stake for love of an idea."

A lazy Saturday afternoon reading the newly rereleased The Unspeakable Skipton by Pamela Hansford Johnson. With a foreword by Michael Dirda. Not a single @mcnallyeditions.com release has disappointed so I have high hopes for this one as well.

So honored to host the very talented Carolivia Herron at People's Book at 2pm on Sunday 9/28. Read about why this DC classic is getting reissued with @mcnallyeditions.com! RSVP at: peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/therea... www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/18/w... @washingtonian.com

“We liked him for a lot of reasons. Some liked him because they were afraid of him, others because they admired him and still others because they hated him. But I think most were drawn to him because of his luck. You could not help wondering how a fellow could have such luck.“

From the prolifically gifted Pamela Hansford Johnson, neglected peer of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, comes “a maliciously witty account of literary skulduggery and lofty pretensions” (The Telegraph). THE UNSPEAKABLE SKIPTON is available now on our website and everywhere books are sold.

“The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones is neither a kind nor a comforting book, but it is a good one, wry, caustic and wise about the young, doomed American male.”—Matthew Keeley, @washingtonpost.com

Charles Neider’s The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones— the 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarthy—is back in print today! Get your copy on our website and everywhere books are sold.

Ursula Parrott’s Ex-Wife chronicles the friendships, one-night stands, and misadventures of Patricia, a twenty-something divorcée in Jazz Age New York. RSVP to join us on August 14th for a conversation about this unforgettable novel between writer Iva Dixit and NYT Books editor Joumana Khatib.

“Las Vegas: a circus of human misery turned comedy; a cacophony of grotesque utterances, self-soothing repetition, and relentless hope. This is what Dunne writes best.” Stephanie Danler’s Foreword to Vegas by John Gregory Dunne is live now on our new Substack!

Join us and Ama Kwarteng on Monday (7/21) at McNally Jackson Downtown Brooklyn to discuss Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer! A breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion, it shocked critics in 1958 with its “feminine rage” (New York Times). RSVP on the MJ website!

Precise, enigmatic, and suspenseful, Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag is a taut story of hidden violence and self-deception from “an Indian Chekhov” (Suketu Mehta). It is now available on our website, in McNally Jackson stores, and everywhere books are sold.

Extremely important announcement from our Associate Publisher Nathan Rostron, who is reporting live from our NYC warehouse: RENT BOY and WINTER LOVE are back in stock on our website! Get your copies now before they sell out again!

Thrilled to have Todd Grimson’s Stainless included in @literaryhub.bsky.social’s 33 Most Anticipated Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for the Rest of 2025!

There's a new edition coming out next month from @mcnallyeditions.com.

A Post from the Past. WINTER LOVE by Han Suyin, a stylish, elegantly written novel of doomed love set in 1940s London. Published by @mcnallyeditions.com. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2022/06/05/w...

Join us this week at two events in celebration of the reissue of John Gregory Dunne's Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season. Tomorrow, meet us at Anais for a launch party with Stephanie Danler, who wrote the introduction to our new edition.

We mourn the loss of the great Edmund White, "the godfather of queer lit" (Chicago Tribune) and "grandee of the New York literary world" (NYT), whose more than 30 works of fiction and non-fiction that gorgeously and unapologetically chronicled gay life.

Started this AM. Rebecca West’s account of the 1945 trial of William Joyce, the Brooklyn born, Irish raised Black & Tan fellow traveller & English passport holder best known for propaganda broadcasts for Nazi Germany, aka Lord Haw Haw. Another beautiful @mcnallyeditions.com rerelease.

“A work of art as well as a fount of tantalizing gossip.” —Michael Scammell

“Taking us from the high bohemia of 1930s London to the European intellectual scene of the 1940s and 1950s, Ariane Bankes weaves a story as spirited and alluring as the Paget sisters at its centre.” — Antonia Fraser

“This relatively slender book contains enough mad capers, heaving proposals and dramatic death throes to be a veritable Harlequin romance for the literary set, with a dash of Sweet Valley High... It’s lacy and necessary filigree between the sober straight lines of history.” —Alexandra Jacobs

I’m like some eccentric 19th century dandy trying to bring culture to the provinces

Join us tonight as Ariane Bankes presents “The Dazzling Paget Sisters: The English Twins Who Captivated Literary Europe” in conversation with Kate Bolick. www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/042920...

“It was intoxicating to know, while she sat pouring whisky and listening to the three men talk, that underneath her thick woollen dress so correct, so respectable, she was naked.” John Broderick's The Pilgrimage, with a new foreword by Colm Tóibín, is now available on our website.

“That Broderick writes with the studied coolness of an autopsy report does not detract from the novel’s pleasure; it only reinforces the thematic obsessions with sex and death… A sour and lasting portrait of what boils beneath kept-up appearances” — Mary Marge Locker

My mum sent me this book as a birthday present and I will begin reading it this evening. Harrison is the first of several UK writers I hope to read this year; the forward is by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social (I’ve previously read two of his books). @mcnallyeditions.com publishes beautiful reissues.

I’m reading a Rebecca West book for the first time. Radio Treason- published by @mcnallyeditions.com - is a book-length excerpt of her 1949 work The Meaning of Treason. It focuses on the trial of William Joyce, a fascist who fled the UK in 1939 to become a Nazi propaganda broadcaster. 😔

Grégoire Bouillier’s The Mystery Guest is Belletrist’s pick for February! www.belletrist.com/february2025

In a series of late-night letters, gorgeous, funny, filled with memory, sensuality, and regret, a seducer calls across the years to the great love of his youth: an older, revered expatriate known, in his adoptive city, as the King of Naples.

For anyone who couldn’t get enough of the deluge of articles about polyamory in 2024, read the story of the original unhappy Brooklyn triad (well, sorta), the scandal that ensued, and the trial that transfixed America.

First published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1925, Jane Ellen Harrison’s Reminiscences are the irreverent memoirs of a student who declared Victorian education “ingeniously useless,” who blazed a trail for female scholars, and who changed the way we see the ancient world.

Inspired by a real-life triumph of British counterintelligence, and based on classified sources that he was privy to as a member of Churchill’s war cabinet, Duff Cooper’s Operation Heartbreak was suppressed by the British government until 1950.

Eccentric, incisive, and witty, Henry Van Dyke’s Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes follows the misadventures of a queer Black teen sharing a house with two adoptive mothers, a lascivious cook, and a reticent ghost.

Our bestselling books of 2024 are here, bundled together with a McNally Editions tote, for only $80! Buy the bundle now—or, buy a gift card to give to someone on your list, so that they can choose between our many bundles on our website. www.mcnallyeditions.com/gifts/p/2024...

Just like last year, one of the standout publishers for me this year was @mcnallyeditions.bsky.social. Three of their books made it to my Books of the Year list. And such stunning covers too, some of my favourites.

Cafe Gitane: 30 Years is in the @nytimes.com this week, in a fantastic piece by Alex Vadukul with photos by Lanna Apisukh! Visit McNally Jackson in stores or online to buy your copy today. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/s...

Our 2024 bestsellers are here! Get all five books—and a tote!—for only $80. It’s the perfect introduction to our catalogue: www.mcnallyeditions.com/gifts/p/2024...

What type of reader are you? A realist, an escape artist, or a decadent? Our quiz, now revamped for 2025, matches readers with one of our book subscriptions carefully curated for each reader’s tastes & sensibilities. Take the quiz—or send it to a loved one to know what subscription to buy for them!

Incredible news for people who love to give books as gifts (or people who missed our holiday shipping deadline): we now sell gift cards! www.mcnallyeditions.com/gifts/p/mcna...

Why, our "effervescent comedy (LADIES OF THE RACHMANINOFF EYES) and "the feel-bad book of the year" (THE NENOQUICH) make @slate.bsky.social's list rediscovered delights. ☺️ slate.com/culture/2024...

“That was the thing about New York, it was always bringing up something out of your past, something ridiculous or lovely or glistening.” E. B. White’s New York Sketches is now available on our website, McNally Jackson stores, and where books are sold.

“Not for Blackwood the mimsy modern appetite for characters the reader will like. The energy is created through friction: between Renata and J, but also between J and the reader. That energy drives a linguistic verve that is deeply entertaining even if not directly comic.” Me on Caroline Blackwood:

Cafe Gitane: 30 Years tells the story of the vibrant downtown New York culture that thrived in the ’90s and 2000s through the lens of an iconic institution nestled at its heart. With just 1000 copies printed, it's the perfect gift for anyone who loves New York and its electric cultural history.

“She believed in the vanity of all things and the pessimism in all things, and she wanted to annihilate any slovenly ease of mind in herself, so she deliberately set about annihilating her own soul and her own delicate, sensitive, and keen insight.”

Happy Thanksgiving from McNally Editions!

Martha White’s introduction to New York Sketches, her grandfather E. B. White’s collection of stories, asides, and tall tales about the city he loved best, is now up on @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/small-but-un...

“She had the pathos of those hopelessly flawed objects which one often sees being put up for sale in junk shops... She reminded me of some tea-pot with a missing spout, a compass that had lost its hands, an old-fashioned record that has had all its grooves badly scratched.”

New York's #CafeGitane opened 30 years ago and helped define NoLIta along with our flagship #McNallyJackson bookstore. We're thrilled to be collaborating with them on our first coffee table book! Come and celebrate CAFE GITANE: 30 YEARS with us on Dec 13. RSVP: www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/mcnall...

Very excited to see Rebecca West & Brigid Brophy in @mcnallyeditions.bsky.social’s 2025 catalog! 👏