Actor Mickey Greene's life spirals out of control after he lands in rehab, loses his girlfriend, and is forced to take a job as a security guard in an amusement park.
A book as beautiful and infused with longing as the landscape it depicts. Marcel Jolley is a master of desire, and his protagonists, caught between lives they can hardly tolerate and futures they can
Place is a character in Patrick Michael Finn's fiction. It's almost as if the setting, like the working-class characters who people his stories has an ethnicity. The characters try to go on with their
"In the first line of The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, his long-awaited and stunning debut collection, Brent Goodman announces: "There is no afterlife." But there is: in poem after poem "the eye plays
Tandon's keen eye and idiosyneratic ear---he picks up shard of language and refashions them, making new wholes from fragments of everyday speech---combine to create a poetry with its own quiet urgency
"Rachel Galvin's Pulleys & Locomotion, as the title clues us, is a moving book. The poems are in transit between immigration and flight, and indeed defy gravity along their vertical axes like the
Poetry. "You don't need psychedelics or hypnosis. You don't need a shaman or any divine intervention. If it's a trip you're looking for, try Erica Wright's ALL THE BAYOU STORIES END WITH DROWNED. This
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Winner of the 2017 St. Lawrence Book Award. "Regalado's elegant debut, MATRIA, introduces us to a world where 'leaf- cutter ants... could easily strip the lime sapling b
Literary Nonfiction. "In his new collection of essays, PARTISANS, Joe Oestreich piles his readers into a tour van and barrels unflinchingly down the highway into subjects like guilt and murder, race,