Poetry. "On the surface, this book tells a 'Saturday morning world' story of Americans playing it (and singing it) cool, our middle-aged speaker-hero doing nothing more mutinous than 'futzing in
Poetry. "Mary Ann Samyn writes poems in which the impossible happens--through language, the human experience is turned to sky, fire, fireworks, diamonds. This is a poet who is able to hijack sorr
Fiction. History. Winner of the AWP Award for the Novel. Foreword by Mary Gaitskill. Tadek Gradinski grows up witnessing the multiple invasions and crimes of World War II sweep over his village. After
Fiction. Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, judged by Jim Shepard. Follow four friends as they move fromThe Brady Bunch to Seinfeld, from junior high to middle management. There is Quint, whose re
“When I first read Khaled Mattawa’s Tocqueville some years ago, it rewired my brain and pummeled my heart. A daring meditation on what it means to be a poet and a citizen at the center of
Fiction. "If you think we don't need another heavily footnoted Mormon road trip basketball novel, think again. With this unorthodox gem, Darren DeFrain creates a genre of his own, with the athletic ea
Fiction. Born in Melbourne, Austrailia, in 1939, Gerald Murnane recently retired as the senior lecturer in fiction writing at Deakin University with a reputation as one of the finest writers in his co
Poetry. "In Paula McLain's book LESS OF HER, the soul steps forward and sings a torch song. The song is both fevered and measured, bearing the double burden of an almost unforgivable past and the
