![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its protagonist, Maria Griffiths, is a charismatic screw-up trapped in a bookselling job she loathes. It’s easy to see why it has reached cult status. After Topside folded in 2017, taking the book out of print, fans kept Nevada alive-discussing it, recommending it, and distributing it via a site called Have You Read Nevada? Eventually, one such fan, the editor Jackson Howard, reached out to Binnie, which led to Farrar, Straus & Giroux reissuing the book this summer. It became a word-of-mouth hit, generating what the writer Casey Plett calls a “communal response,” especially among trans and queer readers. Nevada was first released by Topside Press, an indie publisher that was run by trans editors and that put out primarily trans literature. Imogen Binnie, whose debut novel, Nevada, came out in 2013, only had to wait nine years. Many writers have to wait until old age to see their work reissued. ![]()
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