Print run 2,000
Co-op available
Advance reader copies at Winter Institute
North American TV & radio campaign: NPR Fresh Air, Weekend Edition, All Things Considered
National print campaign: Booklist, Foreword, Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness; Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, New Yorker, New York Times, New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post; The Atlantic, The Believer, Bookforum, Elle, Glamour, Harper’s, Los Angeles Review of Books, Marie Clare, Ms., O Magazine, Time, Vogue
Online and social media campaign: pitch reviews and interviews to Book Riot, Brooklyn Rail, Bustle, Electric Literature, Flavorwire, Jezebel, Largehearted Boy, Lit Hub, New Yorker Book Bench, New York Review of Books, NPR.org, NPR Books, Quarterly Conversation, Slate, Salon, Vol. 1 Brooklyn. GIveaways through Edelweiss, Facebook, Goodreads, Twitter, Instagram.
E-book available same date as print edition, e-book ISBN included on press materials and websites and promoted via social media
Confirmed excerpt in The Walrus
Excerpts in Lit Hub, Electric Lit
Regional East Coast tour
B&N Discover submission
An A.V. Club Book to Read for June 2019
In moments of exile and self-exile, exodus and return, Elise Levine’s uncanny narratives lay bare the secret grammar of their characters’ psyches. An ill-tempered divinity-school candidate refuses to minister to a dying man’s wife; a couple fails to connect as they tour an ersatz cave in the south of France; holy women grieve in medieval England, and a pregnant runaway hitches a ride with a Church leader of dubious intentions. Propelled by their longing for pasts that no longer exist, these reluctant Adams and contemporary Eves confront the unspoken, the maligned, the abject aspects of their inner geographies, mining them for gems that glint and scatter in the light. Uncompromising and honest, lyrical and wry, This Wicked Tongue dares to tell the truth about the places we have come from and the new ones we might find.
