To Smithereens

Fiction. The Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions is excited to publish a new edition of TO SMITHEREENS, a novel by Rosalyn Drexler that has been unavailable for far too long. When TO SMITHEREENS was originally published in 1972, the New York Review of Books said of it, "There's hope for literature yet." The novel, based on Drexler's life, chronicles the adventures of a lady wrestler named Rosa Carlo the Mexican Spitfire. Rosalyn Drexler was born in 1926 and her creative career has been long and varied, as she has written novels, essays, and plays as well as painted explosive images that rival the best work of the Pop-art generation.