“Wonderful . . . Revell’s unusual take makes this as much a warmhearted essay on metaphysics as a guidebook, which is likely to make any poetry lover stop and pay attention.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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FORTHCOMING AUGUST 2010
The newest book in the popular Art of series, a line a books intended to reinvigorate the practice of craft and criticism
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FORTHCOMING AUGUST 2010
Dean Young's first book of prose on poetry and the newest addition to the Art of series
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Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.
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“One of our most acute poetic thinkers.”
—EDWARD HIRSCH
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James Longenbach offers a provocative look at poetry in the newest addition to the Art of series, a series on writing that specializes in sharp-witted lucidity, edited by Charles Baxter.
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“While this study (and the eight others in the series) is geared to aspiring fiction writers or poets, it will also be of interest to nonwriters who are fascinated by literature and how the enjoyments of works of art can be enhanced by knowing how authors use techniques to make their works effective.”
—LIBRARY JOURNAL
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In The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self.
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“Delving into the past, in this wonderful, singularly wry memoir, turns up enough guilt to go around for everyone. And yet, such is the honesty, humor and literary skill of Terese Svoboda that she manages to turn this sad story into a triumph of compassion and insight.” —Phillip Lopate, author of The Art of the Personal Essay
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The reissue of a classic book on writing, now with two new essays and a new preface
“[The book] is a pleasure to read, and it performs an important function—by mucking around in the problems that plague contemporary fiction, Burning Down the House may spur both readers and writers first to a recognition of guilty complicity and then to constructive thought.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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"Beautifully written essays that deftly explore the act of
memoir-making and the art of storytelling. Ranging from tales of trauma
and loss to quotidian and even banal events, they probe the tension
between memory and forgetting and the mysteries of how we do each." —Library Journal
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The critically-acclaimed "masterpiece of mood" about memory, guilt, power, and violence from one of our most imaginative young novelists (BOLDTYPE)
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FORTHCOMING MAY 2010
The critically-acclaimed novel about memory, guilt, power, and violence and a "terrific story," now available in paperback ( THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)
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“Farah, the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years, is also one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review
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All of Jane Kenyon's published poems gathered for the first time in one definitive volume.
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The visceral new work by Katie Ford, whose poems “possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night.” ( New York Times Book Review)
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The long-awaited and resplendent new poetry collection by Tess
Gallagher, whose poems “are a gift of a poet’s heart and soul to her
readers” —Robert Coles
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Beloved poet Tess Gallagher's seventh collection, a Bloomsbury Review "Editors' Favorite," now available in paperback
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**FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD**
** WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD**
“Ravenous prose…a literary tour de force.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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“The characters in The Man from Kinvara are men, women, and children who observe the world in terms of story, which is to say, they view themselves, and others, as part of a larger meaningful narrative. The stories are rife with generosity or compassion, and the characters possess great sentiments without the residue of sentimentality, and possess also a curious, uncommon dignity, operating with a worldview that relies upon hope as its fuel.”
—RICK BASS
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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
A New York Times Notable Book
“Matthea Harvey's vision of America is spooky, apocalyptic, and beautiful: proof that there is wonder in even a dark time like ours.” —George Saunders
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"Darian Leader has always been a terrific intellectual stylist, but The New Black, a profound meditation on grief and other modes of unhappiness, always buoyed by a mysterious, rather wonderful sympathetic pressure, is perhaps his wisest, most involving work."
—JOSEPH O'NEILL
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“You may never again see the American West in quite the same way if you take the time to view it through the eyes of William Kittredge.” —Seattle Times
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THE NOVEL THAT IS STEALING PRIZES, SALES, AND HEARTS ACROSS THE WORLD
With over 230,000 copies sold worldwide and 70 weeks spent on the Norwegian bestseller list, Per Petterson's heartfelt and unforgettable novel makes its U.S. debut.
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The marriage of science and poetry: 18th century medicine and the mystery of the female body.
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FORTHCOMING JULY 2010
The powerful influential last poems of an unsung master, now available again, with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Mark Doty
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“Literature that is truly world-class.” —Los Angeles Times
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“ Stupid Hope is a generous, entertaining, and disturbing collection by a poet who left us all too soon. On full display is Shinder’s gift for confronting the truths of sex and sickness, lust, and the betrayal of the body from within—all part of a search for the path that will lead him out of loneliness and into love.”
—BILLY COLLINS
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"Nuruddin Farah is one of the finest contemporary African novelists.” —Salman Rushdie
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“[The Winter Sun] is full of wondering, noticing and empathetic efforts to weave connections between events and individuals and the cultures they inhabit.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
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