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Fiction. "Each of these stories is a gem. Susan Daniels manages to pull the rug out from under even the smallest of gestures and the interactions of couples, families, and strangers, revealing over and over the human touch in all its guises as mirac...
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Fiction. Short Stories. "Vincent Reusch is a magician, and the stories in THE MERCURIAL SCIENCE OF THE HUMAN HEART are like so many rabbits pulled from a hat. At once gorgeously written and enormously felt, they're the kind of stories that remind us...
Fiction. Short Stories. Bruce Pratt's THE TRASH DETAIL collects a series of short stories that feature unique characters, each on a quest to discover their place in the greater world: a concerned wife waiting for her husband, an aging couple's strug...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Tara Ballard's opulently beautiful book guides her readers through the glories and tragedies of the people of the Middle East with such vivid language that we profoundly feel sensations; we can 'taste each / syllable' on th...
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. "ORANGES is a book of quiet, enormous strength, a collection of slow-gathering moments that add up to the story of Michael Dolin, a gay man whose life and loves are shaped by the AIDS crisis, Midwestern social strictures an...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Every poem in Diane Jarvenpa's new collection, THE WAY SHE TOLD HER STORY, has about it a molten rightness, a breathtaking beauty. Based on the voices and histories of Finnish women immigrants and their descendants, these w...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. "DEEP CALLS TO DEEP introduces Jane Medved, a poet fully formed. One poem imagines Herod at the women's shelter. In another set at the Western Wall where prayers are offered, the speaker knows that 'God sends...
Fiction. "Baron Wormser has done something important with TOM O' VIETNAM in the way that he has identified and precisely embraced a stunningly particular historical moment we casually refer to as 'Viet Nam,' as if the name was not a country but a da...
Fiction. From Japan to Germany. From boyfriends to odd family relationships. Twenty authors wield twenty unique stories that capture the very heart of everyone's struggles: love, shame, hope, and disappointment. From poetic to comical. From tragic t...
Fiction. "Writing in heightened, magical prose reminiscent of Marquez and Toni Morrison, Margaret Benbow has produced the liveliest collection of tales you're likely to read this year, or in any year. BOY INTO PANTHER is bursting with incident and p...
Poetry. When a young mother with a traveling husband turns to her five-year-old son and says, `Now you'll have to be the man of the house,' what burdens will that gifted child unwittingly assume? He is the precocious boy we remember from childhood, ...
Fiction. "In her debut novel, FROZEN VOICES, Lynne Heinzmann has performed magic beyond even the skills of Harry Houdini, one of her most delightful characters. Heinzmann pulls off an astonishing feat of literary legerdemain, resurrecting real peopl...
Fiction. Twenty-one new and emerging authors weave in their stories the harsh, yet wonderful, realities of daily life. The diverse American characters and writers within these pages explore the lives of a young girl hoping to cure her father's cance...
Fiction. "Elizabeth Searle's WE GOT HIM is an ingeniously plotted, suspenseful novel written in blood, mother's milk, and the unintended consequence of rage. It is the story of one family's inherited flaws, harbored guilts, and obsessive desires, wh...
Literary Nonfiction. "Joel Peckham's writing is essential reading for me. He's a contemporary whose work I need to read to understand the world I live in. His first collection, RESISTING ELEGY, hit me as a revelation because of its intimacy, its dep...