Fiction. Art. Sandler's novel brings to life the New York art world from the death of Jackson Pollock in 1956 to the emergence of Andy Warhol in 1962. The setting is downtown New York. The novel follows the careers and interactions of four artists o...
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Fiction. Jewish Studies. Based on Siegfried Kra's own childhood, TWILIGHT IN DANZIG is an important addition to pre-Holocaust literature and a unique chronicle of European Jewish culture that reads like a thriller. Young Jonas Kruger's parents are s...
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Poetry. Edward Harkness writes about family, history, family history, the natural world—its beauty, its degradation—the strange miracle of consciousness. Nothing is off the table. In fact, everything is on the table, including the kitchen sink. They...
Fiction. A hit and run driver pinwheeled his daughter's car into the waters of Tomales Bay and his life is turned upside down. Then the sheriff's detective tells him he may have found the driver, a rich man who lives nearby. Fueled by his anger and ...
Fiction. Jewish Studies. On the night of November 6th, 1941, the life of Isaac Gochman, a 16 year old Polish Jew, changes tragically and profoundly. Over 20,000 Jews from Rovno, Poland are marched into the Sosenki Forest by the Nazis, stripped and s...
Poetry. Far ranging in its geography, WAYPOINT is a collection of poems that mark the itinerary of a poet wanderer—in matter and mind—over many years. As he acknowledges in his statement about the book, John often writes about places he has been bec...
Fiction. WHEN BLOCH, a popular London novelist, starts writing a fictionalized story featuring his unremarkable friend Oscar, the invented details from the story start to come true. Gradually, Oscar embarks on a surreal odyssey into fame, while Bloc...
Poetry. THE DOMAIN OF SMALL MERCIES is a new and selected poems by Louis Phillips, the second edition of such a work. His previous book, DOMAIN OF SILENCE/DOMAIN OF ABSENCE (2015) also collected new poems with selected older poems. Phillips is parti...
Poetry. Women's Studies. BREAKFAST WITH ALLEN GINSBERG is a collection of fifty poems, some very funny and others very personal and poignant, written by the author of GOD IS A TREE AND OTHER MIDDLE-AGE PRAYERS (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2008) and The Bo...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Reading through Russell Connor's brilliant MASTERS IN PIECES II is a bit like wandering into a museum late at night where the subjects of the paintings have all slipped out of their frames to go visiting in the tableaux nex...
Fiction. Science Fiction. TIME IS THE FIRE recounts a day in the existence of Leopold Bloom O'Boyle, chronophobe, travel writer, would-be novelist, and husband ofthe Reverend Annabel Chance. The day is September 8, 1992, and the place is Harvard Squ...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Translated from the Portuguese by Maria do Carmo de Vasconcelos and Philip Eggers. KUNUAR is a volume of fifty-two poems framed by the feminist and postcolonial sensibilities of the Portuguese author, Luís...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "The uncanny quotidian. Spare, excruciating terrors. The advice column. The pared-down, economically elusive narrative of myth. Also the great gift of laughter. Driscoll is a great comedian and tragedian. These poems chisel ...
Poetry. This book brings together a wide selection of poems on diverse subjects (the circus, Ted Williams, marriage, joys, grief, raising children, The Marx Brothers, etc.) written in diverse styles and numerous forms. The poems trace the career of ...
Fiction. Women's Studies. SISTER MAPLE SYRUP EYES is one of the first books published from the historically under-reported perspective on rape: from that of the lesser and oft-forgotten "other victim," the individual's partner. With terse lyricism, ...