The Party Upstairs A Novel by LeeConell Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2020 by Penguin Press ISBN-13: 978-1-984880-27-7, ISBN: 1-984880-27-6
"An electrifying debut novel that unfolds in the course of a single day inside one genteel New York City apartment building, as tensions between the building's super and his grown-up daughter spark a crisis that will, by day's end, have changed everything.Ruby has a strange relationship to privilege, having grown up the super's daughter in the basement of an Upper West Side co-op that is full-on gentrified, and getting more so with each ..."
Subcortical (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) by LeeConell Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-2422-4, ISBN: 1-4214-2422-3
"The off-balance and lively characters in Subcortical use braininess and grit in their attempts to navigate beyond the borders of their homes and histories.Winner of the Story Prize Spotlight Award of The Story PrizeWinner of the Short Fiction Award of the American Book FestBronze Book Award Short Story Fiction of the Independent PublisherRecipient of the 2018 Story Prize Spotlight AwardLee Conell’s linguistically deft stories examine th ..."
"Literary Short stories by established and emerging writers.John Thornton Williams Darling, Keith, the Subway Girl, and Jumping Joe Henry Darling kept his head down. Probably none of those girls had been in that fraternity basement last night, where he'd fought another homeless man for a fifth of liquor, but he didn't want to take the chance. Claire Luchette Full In New York, he shows you the Angel of Bethesda in Central Park, and, with ..."
The Party Upstairs A Novel by LeeConell 320 Pages, Published 2020 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-1-984880-28-4, ISBN: 1-984880-28-4
"Told from the alternating perspectives of the super, Martin, and his daughter, Ruby, as they are obliged, one way or another, to interact with the various species of inhabitant of the little ecosystem of their building, the novel builds ..."
Subcortical by LeeConell 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Jhu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-2423-1, ISBN: 1-4214-2423-1
"Let's see, tiny dinghy, freezing cold water, strong current, nighttime . . . Stupid.”
Stupid, they all agreed, with total confidence. As if “stupid” was the right answer to
the question of death, of grief. I decided that day to stop eating lunch with the AP
World girls. The next morning, on my subway ride to school, Disney sat next to
me. At first, just looking at her out of the corner of my eye, I didn't totally recognize
her, sep ..."
The Party Upstairs A Novel by Conell, Lee Paperback, Published 2020 by Penguin Random House Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-984881-89-2, ISBN: 1-984881-89-2
The Party Upstairs A Novel by Conell, Lee Softcover, Published 2021 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-1-984880-29-1, ISBN: 1-984880-29-2