The revised edition of City of Exiles is now out via this website and all good Berlin bookstores!
A new preface updates my thoughts on the city eight years since the first edition was published.
The revised edition is also out on ebook via the usual platforms.
Here's a quote from the new intro:
Perhaps I stay in Berlin because I remain a stranger. No one cares who I am or where I work and went to school. In this amorphous borderland one can still resist classification, can be accepted at face value for whomever they choose to be.
" ... an uncompromising attempt to capture the spirit of the place, the city emerging like a constantly evolving Berliner cabaret that makes you want to go there and see for yourself." The Age"
"Australian journalist and author Stuart Braun takes us through time, space and place to evoke the cultural and political idiosyncrasies of his adopted home, largely through the countless exiled souls who’ve breathed this city’s electric, life-transforming Luft.” The Goethe Institute
"Stuart Braun has produced a powerful piece of work which tells us things most of us did not know about Berlin and its shifting population of exiles. More than that, however, he raises important questions concerning the influence of place on the human psyche and the nature of belonging." Minor Literature[s]
“Essential reading ... Everybody’s in here, from the Expressionists of the 1920s to the Geniale Dilletanten of the 1980s, Rosa-Luxemburg’s pre-WWI Spartacists and the RAF to the American transvestites of the 1970s and the gang of digital exiles allied with Edward Snowden ...” Exberliner
My story on Berlin's bookstore renaissance, and why more now open than close (a miracle in the Amazon age)...
www.dw.com/en/why-bookstores-are-thriving-in-socially-conscious-berlin
I also wanted to thank the 50-odd indie bookshops in Berlin that stock "City of Exiles" and are so supportive of local writers and small publishers ... to name but a few: Do you read me, Hundt Hammer Stein, Saint George's English Bookshop Berlin,Buchhandlung Kisch und Co, „ocelot, not just another bookstore“, Bartleby & Co., Motto Berlin, Topics Berlin, Curious Fox Books, Berlin, Buchhandlung Moritzplatz, Zabriskie - Buchladen für Kultur & Natur, Shakespeare and Sons Bookstore, Berlin etc ....
For those not in Berlin, remember that "City of Exiles" is distributed in Australia by Books at Manic Distribution and ships internationally via this website.
January, 2016
A special thanks to all who supported City of Exiles in 2015 and who made a crazed literary dream come true. Following an epic Australian book tour (below is a pic of our surreal return flight into foggy Berlin), City of Exiles finished 2015 with positive reviews and mentions in several top reads of the year lists. Watch out 2016, a lot more to come ...
www.3ammagazine.com/…/top-reads-of-2015-fernando-sd…/
fasterlouder.junkee.com/10-great-music-books-…/853818
http://www.planetartsmelb.com/126850
Interview on ABC Radio National
November 4, 2015
Extremely excited to confirm that Books at Manic, which specialises in books on contemporary culture that "fall outside the scope of the mainstream publishing industry", is distributing City of Exiles throughout Australia. Books are due on the shelves of all good independent book sellers in Australia from late
November 2015.
October 29, 2015
Very pleased to announce an upcoming east coast Australian book tour with City of Exiles launches in Melbourne, Sydney and beyond. First off, on Nov 14, I will be discussing my adopted city at Face the Music, the event Berlin: City of Exiles also featuring Dr Motte of Love Parade fame, among others. Watch this space for more announcements, including a pre-discussion of the film B-MOVIE: LUST & SOUND IN WEST BERLIN (Nov 13) and a talk at RMIT in Melbourne on December 3 as part of an exhibition on the Geniale Dilettanten in '80s West Berlin ...
October 8, 2015
Another big thanks to all the Londoners who made it out to The Hospital Club on Oct 5 to hear stories from Berlin.
Also, we are very happy to announce that the fine Daunt bookstore, with locations across London, is exclusively stocking City of Exiles in the UK.
On October 5 Stuart Braun Reads from "City of Exiles" in London
@The Hospital Club
Join author Stuart Braun at London's Hospital Club to hear readings from "City of Exiles" for the first time in the UK.
Find out why Londoners from Christopher Isherwood to Nick Cave and Tacita Dean have sought refuge in Berlin ...
Signed copies also available on the night.
www.thehospitalclub.com/events/view/05-10-15-city-of-exiles-berlin-from-the-outside-in
August 14, 2015
Many thanks to all the new and established Berliners who gathered @ Shakespeare and Sons Bookstore and Cafe on August 12 to celebrate the City of Exiles ... was a great evening
And just a note that the First Edition is selling kinda fast (and will also be distributed in the UK), so pick it up at Berlin's best bookstores while signed copies can be ordered internationally here:
www.stuartbraun.com/store/p5/City_of_Exiles.html
29 May 2015
After the first edition of City of Exiles arrived in fine shape last week, we're very happy to announce that some of Berlin's finest bookstores are stocking it, including:
Do you read me, Pro qm, Curious Fox Books, Berlin, Topics Berlin, Poor and literate, Shakespeare and Sons Bookstore, Berlin, Saint George's English Bookshop Berlin, Berlin Story Verlag and BUCHBOX. It is also shipping internationally via the order page.
28 May 2015
City of Exiles has launched! Wonderful to see so many people at Agora last night, awesome energy and support, really appreciate it, video footage of the engaging Q&A session to come ... Stuartx
City of Exiles has launched! Wonderful to see so many people at Agora last night, awesome energy and support, really appreciate it, video footage of the engaging Q&A session to come ... Stuartx
