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 Tony Hoagland “Few [poets] deliver more pure pleasure. [Hoagland’s]
erudite comic poems are backloaded with heartache and longing, and they
function, emotionally, like improvised explosive devices: the pain comes at you
from the cruelest angles, on the sunniest of days. . . . Listen up, cats: This
plain, unincorporated, free-range American poet is one you’ll want to know
about.”
By Jane Kenyon "Jane Kenyon is our Akhmatova. She will be read and remembered here as
Akhmatova is read and remembered over there. For this we give no thanks
because the gift is beyond thanks. But how deeply we are
indebted!" —Hayden Carruth
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"
By Kate Sontag and David Graham Rich in opinion and theory, After Confession offers the first thorough
discussion on the lyric "I"—the boundaries between literal and
emotional truth, memory and imagination, person and persona, narcissism
and revelation.
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell 
Skin, Inc. by Thomas Sayers Ellis
