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 Ander Monson An innovative and engaging nonfiction debut by “an original new voice” (Publishers Weekly) and the second winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.
"Gary Jackson's Miss you, Metropolis embodies a voice uniquely shaped and tuned for the twenty-first century. Playful, jaunty, rueful, and highly serious
—sometimes within a singular poem
—this persona has been forged in the caldron of popular iconography, especially in the culture of the comic book. Anything is possible in such created time and space; immediate tension exists in a climate where other worldly figures are defined by earthly matters and concerns. The funny-book world is a perfect landscape for inuuencdo and signification, and Jackson uses these aptly. This first collection of poems is gauged by a sophisticated heart."
By William Kittredge "With their perfect sentences about the weather and the land and the
terse, necessary people who live on it, these may be some of the best
stories about such matters you've ever read." —Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio's "All Things Considered"
"I love these poems for their unbearable honesty. I love what these
poems say and I love the form in which they say it. Jason Shinder is
one of the finest of our new poets." —Gerald Stern
NEWS FROM GRAYWOLF PRESS:
Jason Shinder has received a 2007 Literature Fellowship from the NEA. This award encourages the production of new work by affording promising
writers the time and means to write. Each literature fellow receives a
$20,000 award.
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell 
Skin, Inc. by Thomas Sayers Ellis
