Fiction. In the small lake town in Florida where LuLu, Rainey, and Saul are growing up, life is complicated by war, longing, and the sharp pain of conditional love. Coming of age while coming to terms with their detached parents, unrealized dreams, ...
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Fiction. Music. Imagine stepping into an apartment expecting to meet your brother and his young family only to discover twin babies abandoned to a merciless and empty interior. In prose that resonates with energy and introspection, Pushcart Prize no...
Fiction. RADIO ELDORADO again proves that Tyrone Jaeger is a "writer with a big heart, a delight in language, and a deft and subtle touch" (Lauren Groff). Painting on a canvas large enough to encompass all the hopes and fears of a generation, Jaeger...
Fiction. Poetry. There is good reason why William Lychack's writing has been called "Precise, exhilarating, sometimes wonderfully funny and always beautiful" (Margot Livesey). In prose you can practically feel moving in your hands, CARGILL FALLS tak...
Fiction. For music journalist Daniel Morus, the notion that things could be going better is a double album-sized understatement. He finds himself on the wrong side of a brief second marriage, professionally irrelevant, and facing the last act of his...
Fiction. There are stories and then there are Ron MacLean stories—the ones that seem almost impossible to believe, the ones that dig deep into layers of truth, the ones you simply can't get out of your head. In prose that crackles like high-tension ...
Fiction. The author of the award-winning What the Zhang Boys Know ("…utterly beautiful and unforgettable"—Kevin Wilson) now gives us a heart-rending first novel about love, displacement, and the powerful ghosts that haunt so many families. The Alexa...
Fiction. Widely known as a masterful storyteller, David H. Lynn is also the highly regarded editor of The Kenyon Review. In this probing collection of new and selected stories, Lynn brings his keen eye and astute sense of drama and narrative to bear...
Fiction. SO MANY TRUE BELEIVERS gives voice to the wanton, the restless, and those hellbent on self-destruction. The Nat Mota School for at-risk youth is the nexus of Tyrone Jaeger's spiraling narrative; loosed from it is an array of characters year...
Fiction. Poetry. THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS is the first contemporary anthology solely devoted to honoring the best short hybrid fiction published in a calendar year. The series, which began in 2015, has featured an international group of both seasoned...
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. In New York City, college isn't just paid for—it's bought. ADMISSIONS draws back the veil of privilege on New York's affluent applicants and the families that will do anything to secure their futures. The right high school,...
Fiction. Eli was right. The act of kindness he envisioned as a lesson to his young son Mark would have serious consequences. Just not the ones he imagined. In carefully modulated prose, Curtis Smith takes us on a journey into one family's encounter ...
Literary Nonfiction. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough arrived in the United States from Poland in 1984, bringing memories of life under a totalitarian regime, where the personal was always political. In essay after essay in OBJECTS OF AFFECTION, her remarka...
Fiction. Poetry. Anthology. It takes many small things to make something big. Fifty-five acclaimed and emerging writers—including Emma Bolden, Ron Carlson, Kelly Cherry, Stuart Dybek, Blake Kimzey, Roland Leach, Bobbie Ann Mason, Diane Williams, and...
Fiction. Poetry. Anthology. This second installment of THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS, edited by series editor Tara L. Masih and guest editor Stuart Dybek, continues to celebrate the diversity and quality captured in fiction forms fewer than 1,000 words. F...