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 Askold Melnyczuk "If this series continues to find writers as interesting as these three, it will
make a significant contribution."—Boston Book Review
By Per Petterson “[Per Petterson] provides one
of literature’s greatest gifts in his novels—an absorbing interiority that
creates a welcome refuge from our cacophonous world. His books are suffused
with a luxurious, downy silence, a quiet that allows us to slow down and sink
into spare language that evokes complex emotions and primal sensations such as
cold, wet, darkness and light with surprising force.”
By Charles Simic “Charles Simic has performed a great service by
reminding us, precisely at this moment of turmoil and destruction, that ‘there
are still poets and beautiful poems to be discovered and read with lasting
pleasure in this vile old world.’”
Lynda Hull’s Collected Poems brings together her three collections—long unavailable—with a new introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa, and allows, for the first time, the full scale of her achievement to be seen. Edited with Hull’s husband, David Wojahn, this book contains all the poems Hull published in her lifetime, before her untimely death in 1994.
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell 
Skin, Inc. by Thomas Sayers Ellis
