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 Tess Gallagher "These poems are a gift of a poet's heart and soul to her readers—songs
of love and loss, of pain and recovery: a touching, at times haunting,
reminder of what it means to walk through this life wide-eyed and
head-up, no matter the obstacles and impasses." —Robert Coles
"Belle Boggs infuses these stories of sometimes hardscrabble, dreams-deferred lives with a finely crafted, absolutely confident elegance. Boggs is a writer who knows how deep and how hard we can love and live. Her characters are too real to ever forget."
“‘Hopper and I form one single person,’ says the Catalan poet
Ernest Farrés of his poems on Edward Hopper’s paintings. Joining this company
of two, Lawrence Venuti carries Hopper home by making him stranger. The idiom
Venuti has invented is at once American and otherworldly, doubled, like the
poems he translates, like the paintings Farrés translated into poems. Not just
a brilliant sequence of poems, Edward
Hopper is a three-part invention.”
“While this study (and the eight others in the series) is geared to aspiring fiction writers or poets, it will also be of interest to nonwriters who are fascinated by literature and how the enjoyments of works of art can be enhanced by knowing how authors use techniques to make their works effective.”
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell 
Skin, Inc. by Thomas Sayers Ellis
