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
“I admire the work of Benjamin Percy for its sheer ferocity and compassion, for its deep empathy for people at the hard edges of rage and grief and fear. The stories in Refresh, Refresh are big-hearted and drunk and dangerous, and there’s a heightened, unnerving vibe as you travel through Percy’s world. You never know where you will end up at the close of a Percy story, but you can be sure that he’ll actually take you somewhere.”—Dan Chaon
Now available in paperback: The hilarious and poignant novel by Pocketful of Names author Joe Coomer, "a marvelously creative comic writer." (Washington Times)
By Kim Stafford "A masterful memoir...Early Morning would be a rare and
exceptional book in any season, any year. Coming as it does in a time
of national crisis, it is needed in the same way victims of scurvy and
pellagra need vitamins." —Bloomsbury Review
By W.D. Snodgrass "Shrewdly provocative, the anthology teaches and keeps on teaching....
letting poetry speak for itself and ward off amateurish interlopers." —Ruminator Review
By George Packer "Central Square confirms again that George Packer is one of the
great young talents of American fiction. This beautifully wrought
novel, about a city, a love affair, and the perpetual American hope for
renewal, makes high art—and compelling drama—from the follies and
compromises that attend all of those things." —Scott Turow
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell 
Skin, Inc. by Thomas Sayers Ellis
