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New in June: I Am Not Sidney Poitier and The Looking House


*Order any book online through the end of July, and Graywolf Press will donate a book to an organization that needs it, including places like Books for Africa, Girls Write Now, prisons, and libraries*
Cover image of Not SidneyI Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
"Driven by the most sidesplitting dialogue this side of Catch-22, Everett's latest tells the story of a young man named Not Sidney Poitier who bears an uncanny resemblance to the famed actor. . . . Not only is the novel smart and without a trace of pretentiousness, it shows Everett as a novelist at the height of his narrative and satirical powers."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review
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Cover image of Looking HouseThe Looking House
by Fred Marchant

“In a time of a historical nightmare, Fred Marchant manages to give us a lyrical impulse that consoles. Few American poets, these days, tell us the truth. But Marchant’s new book gives us dwellings, tears, tenderness, flood, escape. In a time of lies and mediocre ironies in literature, here is the voice that is never afraid to say what matters. This is the poetry of home, yes—but the many doors and windows in this book first and foremost ‘teach the heart how to be a heart.’ I read these poems with joy.”
—ILYA KAMIN
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ON SALE NOW

Praise Song cover imageFor the month of July, Elizabeth Alexander's Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration, is on sale for $3.50, more than 55% off the book's list price! The bilingual Spanish/English edition of this beautifully-designed chapbook is also on sale.
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Upcoming Events

Thu, Jul 9th, @7:30pm
Dobby Gibson Reading at Mager's & Quinn (Minneapolis, MN)
Author: Dobby Gibson >>
Book: Skirmish >>

Sun, Jul 12th, @10:00am
Robert Boswell to lead a weeklong writer's workshop at the Taos Writer's Conference (Taos, NM)
Author: Robert Boswell >>
Book: Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards >>

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—RODDY DOYLE

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