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Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition
At another point, she asserts, “The question is who to be writing this.” Writer, mother,...
$20.00Not a Thing to Comfort You
It’s the sort of literary paradox definitely worth exploring. And it may be the very...
$17.00The Museum of Small Bones
We delight in the distractions of the circus, though we understand its wonders are illusions,...
$19.95You Are Still Alive
Rather than this dissipating energy, however, Stobb uses the material to perform serious, nearly Buddhist...
$16.00The Clearing
Despite being caught in the eddies of loss, returning in memory and emotion to past...
$22.00Paula Regossy
Crawford, like her characters, is not fearful, but bold and courageous in molding a novel...
$15.00Try to Get Lost
Frank pays affecting tribute to the lives of her mother and sister, both now gone,...
$19.9550 Miles
It’s lyrical, textured, natural, and unexpected. While the form these essays take are varied in...
$17.00A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World
Over the course of ten essays, Rember delivers a withering, if darkly humorous, diagnosis of...
$24.95Stone Skimmers
One might excuse oneself for reading it in a single sitting, as I did, finding...
$15.95El Misterio Nadal: A Lost and Rescued Book: Purportedly Compiled and with Introduction in 2001 by Roberto Bolaño
This is no novel. This is writing about writing itself that explores the intersections between...
$18.00Fur Not Light
The strength of these impossible-to-summarize poems and the disorder of any narrative is in the...
$14.00Almonds are Members of the Peach Family
Leading by example, Sauer shows that not only can our stories can be messy, hard...
$18.00The River Twice
Kathleen Graber’s The River Twice troubles the distinction between past and present. Rather than eschew...
$17.95Stamford ’76
If one remains open during the excavation process, it is possible to dredge up unexpected,...
$19.95Utopia Pipe Dream Memory
Refusing to be confined by the limits of narrative genre and form, she nevertheless exploits...
$14.00Hear Trains
While these poems share approaches, their larger effect is to sketch the history of civilization...
$25.00The More Extravagant Feast
Green is a careful student of human strength and frailty, aware of the dichotomies always...
$16.00Three Prize-Winning Short Story Collections of 2019
Based on some similarities between the books and the characters’ concerns, it’s tempting to draw...
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