Bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read--in any genre--from the bestselling author ofThe Dead LandsAnyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy's career will surely have noticed a
Try to imagine not even knowing how to fall, because a hand was always, always there to catch you.How does someone, excluded from the only community he or she has ever known, go on living? Harvard st
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identityIn a book that begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies, Eula
“It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see,” Mark Doty begins. “But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August
A brilliant second collection by Sally Wen Mao on the violence of the spectacle—starring the film legend Anna May WongIn Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displ
An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing HorsesIt is 1989: Communism is crumbling, and Arvid Jansen, thirtyseven, is facing his first divorce.
Daily I sitwith the languagethey've madeof our languageto NEUTRALIZEthe CAPABILITY of LOW DOLLAR VALUE ITEMslike you.You are what is referred to asa "CASUALTY."--from "Personal Effects&
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith—“Hallelujah is an understatement” (Patricia Smith)Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent s
The Wedding Jester offers a new chance to journey to Stern's magical Jewish otherworld - where fantastical events are commonplace, and rabbis - sometimes frequently - take flight.
Magic brewed from the merely commonplace distinguishes the stories in The Delinquent Virgin. A plaster Virgin - conventionally set in a church Nativity scene - goes missing night after night with str
The Time of the Doves, the powerfully written story of a na?ve shop-tender during the Spanish Civil War and beyond, is a rare and moving portrait of a simple soul confronting and surviving a convulsi
A dazzling philosophical investigation of the challenge of living in the present, by a brilliant practitioner of the new essayIn her third book, which continues to define the contours of the contempor
Tug, a thoroughly contemporary first collection, astonishes with its scope and vitality. Ranging in tone from formal to informal, and in mood from longing to celebration, Patterson deftly articulates
"Lawnboy is, quite simply, the real thing, a novel of mystery and great beauty." —Michael CunninghamThey all thought I was good-natured, upright and responsible, generous, affectionate, and kin
William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
The definitive collection of the poems of Lynda Hull, "perhaps the most intensely lyrical poet of her generation." (Mark Doty)If each of uscontains, within, humankind’s totality, each pos
A"A book of unparalleled beauty, sharpness of observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare exactness of language.A" A--The Daily TelegraphI had noticed, more than noticed, the cobwebs, and
Have women finally moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in American poetry and its criticism? In By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry, contemporary women poets reconsi
The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thr
