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NEW RELEASE
Badass Mizia
Redfiend Publishing is pleased to announce the release of Badass Mizia by Lauren Fairbanks.
Artemisia Gentileschi was a highly acclaimed seventeenth century painter. In Badass Mizia, the author delves into the life and work of the painter, a woman who suffered greatly at a young age in a period when the achievements of women were not recognized and easily diminished. This novel reimagines her parentage, her relationships with her father, contemporaries like Caravaggio, her achievements and ultimate triumph. By way of a series of urgent, confessional monologues, Lauren Fairbanks provides a kaleidoscopic view of the life and times of an extraordinary painter, ‘a she-wolf representing the darkness, the lightness of all women.’ Gentileschi and her circle offer accounts of their traumas and triumphs in a quirky style that is both Baroque and modern. There is insightful art criticism on both Gentileschi and her fellow painters, and sharp social criticism of the role of women in patriarchal society.
Hardcover, paperback and Kindle editions are available from Amazon.
NEW RELEASE
SPITE; or, Wounds That Wouldn't Heal
Redfiend Publishing is pleased to announce the release of Alexander Theroux’s new book Spite; or, Wounds That Wouldn’t Heal on December 1, 2025.
Spite is a remarkable collection of rich, up-to-date, and astonishingly original short stories, a body of ten unsparing and implacable narratives, each with a different setting and plot – the reprisal for a bitter event in the fourth grade; a hot dog vendor's one nemesis in New York City; an account of several hair-raising murders in Maine; a prep school teacher plagued by a revengeful former student, and several other tales culled from his razor-sharp memory of hurtful personal moments based on his own life. This is a book to be placed fittingly with two other assemblages of his truly memorable short stories, his Early Stories (2021) and Later Stories(2022).
One hundred numbered, autographed copies of the first edition hardcover book, with a custom-designed bookplate, are available for purchase from Redfiend Publishing.
Hardcover and paperback books are available from Amazon. Paperback books are broadly distributed so get a copy from your favorite bookseller.
