Maggie Terry
Sarah Schulman
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- This novel was born out of twenty years of Sarah Schulman teaching writing to police, including Rikers Island corrections officers, Port Authority-stationed cops, and others, and their classroom discussions about the Black Lives Matter movement and controversial killings of black citizens. One of the most important plotlines within the novel deals with individual NYPD members' attempts to reconcile with these issues.
- Maggie Terry is Sarah Schulman's first pulp novel since 1988's cult classic After Delores. In Maggie Terry, Schulman returns to the themes, people, and places that have made her books to beloved—downtown New York City, hardboiled and no-nonsense female characters, complicated explorations of queer relationships—this time, with a slick murder-mystery twist.
- Set in the aftermath of the 2016 election, Schulman explores how social unrest and the rise of political protest affects those largely forgotten or ignored by mainstream media narratives. The title character has missed Donald Trump's elecion due to rehabilitation, and tries to rejoin a world with a drastically changed set of newshooks and headlines.
- This is Feminist Press's second book with Sarah Schulman. As the publisher of her previous novel The Cosmopolitans, we have already established relationships with editors and reviewers who are interested in Schulman's work, and are well-posed to follow up on that interest.
Contributor Bio
Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at CUNY, Sarah Schulman’s honors and awards include a Guggenheim in Playwriting and a Fulbright in Judaic Studies. A well-known literary chronicler of the marginalized and subcultural, Schulman’s fiction has focused on queer urban life for thirty years. She is the author of several books; recent works include The Gentrification of the Mind, Conflict Is Not Abuse, and the novel The Cosmopolitans. Her plays and films have been seen at Playwrights Horizons, the Berlin Film Festival, and the Museum of Modern Art. An AIDS historian, Schulman is cofounder of the ACT UP Oral History Project.
