New in September: The Report, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards and Skin, Inc.
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane “The
Report is a graceful and dignified look at a single event that
quickly becomes something so much more expansive: a kaleidoscopic examination
of crowds, of disasters, of reverberations and reckoning. I was
absolutely riveted.”
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell
*now available in paperback*
“Like Richard Yates, Robert Boswell seems always to
wish he had better news for us. In the wide-ranging stories of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, he
wishes we weren’t so lost, so conflicted, so stubborn in our
misapprehensions. But he's been watching us too closely, with too
clear an eye, too keen an intelligence, and besides, Boswell’s real
talent, like Yates’s, is for telling us the truth.”
Skin, Inc. by Thomas Sayers Ellis “Thomas Sayers Ellis is one of the most gifted poets of his
generation and more. . . . Ellis has something to say about the moment
we’re in, and he is that rare breed of Poet, the kind whose works will be
studied for generations to come, whose
name will be uttered alongside that other great T. S.”
—ROBIN D. G. KELLEY,
author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and
Times of an American Original
By Carl Phillips "The lyric sounding of human feeling against desire, the natural world
and religious striving has been reenvisioned by Phillips over three
books, including last year's NBA-finalist From the Devotions.
In this brilliant fourth collection, foreboding fields and roaming
creatures...continue to echo the sorrow, alienation and eros of bodily
existence." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
By Carl Phillips "Readers of Carl Phillips's poetry will have some preparation for the
pleasures and insights of this volume, particularly its subtlety,
originality, and historical range. Yet Coin of the Realm will also be
admired as a prose work that stands alone. Incisive essays on George
Herbert, the Psalms, the place of race and identity in habits of
perception and reading, and the author's growth as a writer are unified
by central questions of beauty and ethics that will be of interest to
anyone who cares about literature." —Susan Stewart
By Elizabeth Alexander "The Black Interior, a critical look at some of black America's
most influential cultural voices, may be another such
masterpiece....Best known for her poetry, it may be that poet's
lyricism and eye for nuance that makes this new work so compelling." —SAVOY
By Jeffrey Yang “Here is a first book written from a very high floor of the Tower of Babel, and the view is exhilarating…Jeffrey Yang speaks in tongues as if touched with a Pentecostal flame.—New York Times Book Review
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell 
Skin, Inc. by Thomas Sayers Ellis
