Flipping the American road trip genre on its head, SCENIC OVERLOOK is a debut novel-in-stories from award-winning author, Anne Ray. Katherine (Katie, sometimes Kate) escapes family dysfunction and an acrid suburban landscape with a nomadic life tha...
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A new collection from award winning author, Erin Pringle. With Midwestern practicality and deft lyricism, award-winning author Erin Pringle has constructed UNEXPECTED WEATHER EVENTS, a collection of stories following irrepressible characters facing...
Deanna Cachoian-Schanz’s new translation of A BOOK, UNTITLED (Girq-anvernagir, 2006) makes Shushan Avagyan’s revolutionary Armenian text available to English-speaking audiences. To read A BOOK, UNTITLED is to experience the erasure of two feminist ...
Clever linked collection weaving together the complex lives of women. Borrowing from Peggy Lee, IS THAT ALL THERE IS? transforms the famed song’s fatalistic exuberance into a slim volume of minimalist and genre-blending narratives. From a vacation ...
A week before spring semester, a Philadelphia writing professor sets out for L.A. to deliver a friend’s car. His first night on the road, alone in a Super 8 motel, he makes three pro/con lists: one for staying in his job; one for staying in his rela...
Edited by Tatiana Ryckman. Is it possible to be free while bound by an American myth? TO THOSE BOUNDED explores the effects of living in the far-reaching shadow of stereotypes, and the pressures one feels when their actions are always framed as rein...
WE ARE INVITED TO CLIMB is a collection of partly computer-generated chance poems exploring “the bigandsmall.” At once a celebration of the impossible and the very real, the poems are made of refrigerator hums and upside-down kites. Watercolor stain...
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Tatiana Ryckman. At once light and aching, BEFORE STONEWALL gives voice to a generation of men whose homosexuality forced them into lives of public exile. These stories articulate the tragic comedy of young love, ...
NAMED ONE OF THE “BEST INDIE BOOKS OF 2021” BY KIRKUS REVIEWSFiction. SEMIOTIC LOVE [STORIES] draws upon symbols and objects to explore the loss of relationships. In these pages, Brian Phillip Whalen reaches deep into the throat of anxiety with a gr...
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The last Midwestern traveling circus is due to arrive in a rural village it has visited for a century of summers. Like the village, the circus is on its last leg. It's down to one elephant and a handful of acrobats. The cir...
Fiction. African & African American Studies. Troubled souls haunt these thirteen interrelated stories of loss and rebirth. From a cramped passenger van in Ghana to a cash-only roadside motel in Utah to a cursed forest in Japan, Donald Quist's narrat...
Poetry. IMMORTAL SOFT-SPOKEN is a collection of short prose poems that resonate well beyond the page. In this ecstatic and beautiful book of dervish essays, Robert Vivian uses style, imagination, and stunning feeling to give voice to the small momen...
Fiction. THE BRICK HOUSE is a place where people dream of love and loneliness, of the world's beauty, and of ongoing environmental degradation. In this short but moving work, travelers confront their lives in the strange, elemental language which dr...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Art. BRONZEVILLE AT NIGHT: 1949 is a debut poetry collection by Vida Cross referencing her ancestry as a third generation Chicagoan, a Bronzeville resident, the artwork of Archibald J. Motley Jr., and the ...