The JeffCore Books of May 2025 [Teaser]
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It's a bonus bonus Jeff. It's really bonus and I don't know if we're gonna make it through all of these and some might be repeats for what I do for first edition but you're behind the paywall here so you get the real thing. I'm gonna go quick, really quick. This is gonna have to be fast because there's a lot of them. I'm just gonna give the quick pitch to Rebecca and this is not for Rebecca or anyone else but this is, hey Jeff,

Be yourself, go with God, get into this one or Jeff, come back to us. You're spiraling out. You really need to find some other hobbies and interests. And I will indicate that by saying Jeff yes or Jeff no.

which are also emoji responses that we have in our company Slack. Usually it's when Jeff drops a pun. And is it a good Jeff yes, we're all proud of you? Or is it a like, oh, Jeff, you should have crowd tested that. Yeah, the weird one is I kind of am solving for Jeff knows there. That's more entertaining as dad's everywhere. No, but anyway, here we go. First up, Scribner.

May 27th. It's called Fatherhood, A History of Love and Power by Augustine Sedgwick. And Bold, An Original History of Fatherhood, Exploring Its Invention and Transformation from Bronze Age to the Present Through a Collective Portrait of Emblematic Fathers. Jeff, yes or Jeff? Jeff, yes. Okay. Next. We support it.

Edelweiss is going to be the slow dog here. Cast, catch, and release. Finding Serenity and Purpose Through Fly Fishing by Marina Gibson from Scribner out May 27th. For fans of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Helen MacDonald's H is for Hoth, a lyrical memoir about fly fishing by a lady. Jeff, yes. Everyone, yes. Yeah.

Okay, what do we have next here? Strong start. From Atria slash One Signal, May 6th, so next week. Dirty Kitchen, a memoir of food and family by Jill Demotak. In the style of crying in H Mart and minor feelings, filmmaker Jill Demotak blends memoir, food writing, and colonial history. She cooks her way through recipes from her native-born Philippines. Yes, Jeff, yes.

i was waiting for the hook there needs to be something you know more you got me you got me right i was there at the end um scribner as well i guess i did this by publisher so sns here for the beginning and no we will not be dropping a list for no good lord um this is your mother and memoir by erica j simpson for readers of somebody's daughter and ugly cry by danielle henderson

Let's see, Erika seems growing up her mother loom large almost biblical, the daughter of sharecroppers, and then her mom preached this sort of power of a testimony biblical stuff.

Maybe Jehovah's Witness, not really sure, but it's a memoir of growing up with a really powerful, influential mom who you may have complicated feelings about. This is a Rebecca yes. You picked this one for me. That's for you. I didn't even know. There's a better angels. I regret almost everything from Gallery Books, May 6th.

Is this the Keith McNally? That's a Jeff No, but by virtue of being Keith McNally. Yeah, because he's behind Baltasar and Pastis and kind of a jerk. But I'm also kind of interested. So that's a Jeff No. Okay. All right. That's fine. They can't all be yeses. Well, they can, but they won't be. I'm not going to let that happen for your ego. A Broadway memoir by Jeffrey Seller. Simon & Schuster. So...

He's a Broadway producer who became a very, very successful or he's a Broadway producer, but his memoir of growing up, putting on two Pulitzer winning musicals, one called Hamilton, the other one called Rent. Yeah, I think this is a yes.

um understanding his sexual fan sexuality and escaping his dysfunctional household in a poor neighborhood of detroit yes a memoir by an interesting job is like a yes a thousand percent of the time that gets i'm wanting there to be more nose than there are so well i don't know i'm afraid that you know yourself do i and that's and that is a self worth knowing and that i have a lot of affection yeah um novel little brown sing to me by jesse browner

After the fall of Troy, an 11-year-old boy sets off for the Ray City when his father and sister vanish into the war zone. You can hear from my voice, I'm like, I haven't heard Troy historical fiction that isn't retelling an original story. I don't know. I mean, a question mark could be a third choice here. Sure. It's a maybe. Maybe. It's a maybe. Maybe a debut novel of something you haven't heard about. That's just rolling the dice. That's all that is. Up next.

Oh, this is a yes. This is just, this is not, this is so many stars. No question. An Oral History of Trans, Non-Binary, Gender, Queer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Carol J. Roberts. I think this was, I want to see if they can come on first edition. Oh, yes. Yeah, that's an obvious yes. Some of these are a little more, I don't know, makes more sense. The Battle for the Black Bind by Corita L. Brown from Legacy Lit, May 13th. It's nonfiction. Dr. Corita Brown explores the struggle to divine and control the education of Black Americans in

from the dawn of the united states yeah yes sounds cool right see i don't even i can't even stock for entertainment here because these are just edelweiss links that i'm blindly clicking on so i don't even know what the the stranger ones are um okay uh from decapo press the last great dream how bohemians became hippies and created the systems by dennis mcnally may 13th

I think that's a Jeff No. No. That's not really your zone. I'm not really a hippies and bohemians. It doesn't really. Basic books, proof, the art and science of certainty by Adam Kucharski, May 6th. This is a, I'm just putting a yes in. Yeah, that sounds like a yes. I'm only, I have one eyebrow cocked for certainty. Yeah.

yeah a concept word both of you ah here we go harper may 27th carpet diem tales from the world of origin i think i sent you this link on slack and you were like dude i already know i already know about this one is that a yes or no though you said it to me you're enabling this is jeff core i am enabling it and i need more examples because i'm tired of making fun of you for reading a book about pencils

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