• Author appearances including South Carolina, Colorado, and
Washington, D.C., as well as participation in Deckle Edge Literary
Festival, South Carolina Book Festival, Get Lit Fest, Lighthouse
Lit Fest, and Blue Ridge Book Festival
• Promotion at AWP
• Mass Galley Mailing
• Major Awards Push
• Timed publication of excerpts and interviews in The Rumpus, The
Millions, Huffington Post, Entropy, Full Stop, and KCRW’s The
Bookworm
•Features, reviews, and other coverage in The Masters Review,
Entropy, The Stranger, The Paris Review, Late Night Library, The
Believer, Quarterly West, and Brooklyn Rail
• Coverage via author connections to the Review of Contemporary
Fiction, Ninth Letter, Tupelo Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, and
Tarpaulin Sky
• Advanced Copy Giveaways on Amazon and Literary Hub
•Promotion through Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, CO
•Forthcoming blurbs from Adam Braver, Amelia Gray, Dan Chaon,
Manuel Gonzales, Kate Bernheimer, Julia Elliott, and Samantha
Hunt
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• Social media campaigns on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and
Tumblr
• Egalleys available on Edelweiss
Lindsey Drager is the author of The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015),
winner of the 2016 Binghamton University / John Gardner Fiction
Award, and The Lost Daughter Collective
(Dzanc, 2017), winner of a 2017 Shirley Jackson Award and finalist
for at Lambda Literary Award. She is an assistant professor at the
College of Charleston.
"A philosophical book ... beautiful in its conception." —Kirkus
Reviews
"Unapologetically Borgesian, at once a library of Babel and a
garden of forking paths, but its ideas hold meaning because real
people live and die by them, caught up in spirals of shame and
compassion, always on the verge of—but never quite tipping over
into—understanding."
—Arkansas International
"[A] taut, deeply philosophical retelling...This is a profoundly
resonating book that will feel both dense and light."
—Historical Novel Society
"Although relatively slim, Drager’s novel is a vast and convoluted
treasure trove. She does a fine job of illuminating the darker
concepts and human relationships with her rich, confident, and
sometimes startling writing. Reading The Archive of Alternate
Endings is an enriching literary experience the reader will
remember hauntingly ever after."
—Philly.com
"A leaner, tighter, more emotionally impactful take on
connectedness and purpose and the immensity of existence than David
Mitchell created with Cloud Atlas––done in a quarter of the pages,
with a more sincere, human touch. There isn’t a grand conspiracy or
plot here. This is a book about life. The result is a bold novel
that challenges the idea of storytelling, time, identity, love,
family, and history. Someone once told me that the best books
haven’t been written yet. This one has."
—Barrelhouse
"There is something both nihilistic and deeply hopeful in Drager's
looping novel. Nihilistic, because in so many ways it indicates
that as parts of a continuum of human storytelling, life, love, and
hate, none of us matter; but hopeful because that continuum means
our stories are related, our narratives interlocking, and so while
we may be insignificant, we are also never alone."
—NPR
"Drager has developed somewhat of a cult following her previous
books...and for good reason—her writing is hypnotic. ... With
themes of sibling love, queerness, time and space, and the earthly,
this is an engrossing and poetic read."
—Brooklyn Rail
"A poetic investigation of queerness and a philosophical meditation
on the mercurial nature of stories...Weaving together fairytale
archetypes, astronomical phenomena and queer history, The Archive
of Alternate Endings is a uniquely rewarding balance between
literary experimentation and human emotion, whilst remaining a
riddling sphinx of a book."
—The Quietus
"The Archive of Alternate Endings will lead you into uncanny
forests both primordial and new, where storytellers forage and
banished children roam. Cosmically expansive and poignantly
intimate, Lindsey Drager’s queer retellings tap into the magic and
menace of ancient tales—a dazzling, moving, brilliant book."
--Julia Elliott, author of The Wilds and The New and Improved Romie
Futch
"A system that includes labyrinths and dark forests as well as
siblings, light, and houses made of ginger bread. ... What a
pleasure it is to enter the safe harbor of Drager’s novel."
--New York Journal of Books
"This beautiful, haunting and innovative novel traces the way
stories live inside us and travel over generations. It's a book
that asks essential questions: What makes us human? What might our
species leave behind when it's gone? A stunning tour-de-force that
will linger with me for a long time."
--Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will
"I could make comparisons—to David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas or
Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger—but I’ve never read anything quite
like Lindsey Drager's The Archive of Alternate Endings. Yes, it's a
remarkable, heart-stunning novel, but it's also a delightfully
original collection of stories that reaches across the centuries to
ultimately shape a narrative of love and tragedy. Behold and
beware, there's magic in your hands, and the chapters that await
you are as thick with gothic shadows and fairy tale whimsy as the
Black Forest of Germany."
--Benjamin Percy, author of The Dark Net and Red Moon
"Lindsey Drager’s novel-in-stories, The Archive of Alternate
Endings, spans the history (and future) of the western world, all
while showing what is, in fact, the short timeline of humanity.
Storytelling. Fables. Legends. Mythologies. Drager’s world is one
that spins variations of itself across time. And yet through the
stories in this collection we find that what does remain constant
across this cyclical continuum is love, devotion, and commitment.
Concise and beautifully written in an understated yet rich manner,
Lindsey Drager not only has given us a book of ideas, but, equally
important, she has given us a work of art."
--Adam Braver, author of November 22, 1963 and What the Women Do
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