Like This Afternoon Forever

Manrique is a Colombian-born author living in New York City who is very well-connected in academic, literary, and Latino circlesManrique is a contributing editor to BOMB and was previously on the PEN American Center's Board of Trustees, the chairperson of the Open Book Committee (PEN), and on the Board of Directors for Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at CUNYThe previous novel Akashic published by Manrique, Cervantes Street, was named a Latinidad List Best Book of 2012, and received glowing reviews in Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal; it was also praised by author Junot Diaz Manrique has been a finalist multiple times for a Lambda Literary AwardThis new novel will be published on our Kaylie Jones Books imprint, and will be supported by Kaylie Jones and her network of authors, teaching colleagues, and students who are very active at helping to spread the word, especially through social media