New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses. Blurbs provided by publishers.
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Posted July 21, 2021
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Ariadne Awakens
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- Subtitle Instructions for the Labyrinth
- Book Type Poetry
- by Laura Costas
- Publisher (link) Paycock Press
- Date Published July 2021
- ISBN-13 978-0-931181-89-4
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128pp
- Price $12.95
“[ . . . ] The prose poems that make up Laura Costas’ Ariadne Awakens: Instructions for the Labyrinth, rearticulate the myth of following, finding, losing and following again an invisible thread that connects body to body, body to soul, soul to soul—for our time of answering machines, voice mail, screens, clocks, gas stations and parking lots. These poems are in the imperative because they are directions, however openended, so we can join her there.” —Anne Becker, Author of Human Animal
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City of Skypapers
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Marcela Sulak
- Publisher (link) Black Lawrence Press
- Date Published May 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-62557-837-2
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80pp
- Price $16.95
“The title of Marcela Sulak’s fifth collection of poems, City of Skypapers, feels apt for its deliciously long lines hang suspended between the holy and the home, between the rituals that ‘elevate the loaf’ and those of Shabbat that ‘place roses in their vase, candles in their stick.’ [ . . . ] The brilliant cadence of Sulak’s poems, ‘keeping pace with the current’ of the Yarkon River along which the poet runs, not only enact, but also celebrate what it means to be alive ‘in a place where the flowers are old enough to have stories.’ These poems should be read, perhaps even sung.” —Sarah Wetzel. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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- Subtitle An Essay on Jean Eustache's La maman et la putain
- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Matt Longabucco
- Publisher (link) Ugly Duckling Presse
- Date Published May 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-946433-82-4
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128pp
- Price $18.00
Jean Eustache came of age as a director in the aftermath of the French New Wave and made La maman et la putain (The Mother and the Whore) already disillusioned by the events of May '68. Several years after the film's 1973 release, he committed suicide. Matt Longabucco's book-length essay reckons with Eustache's document of political bitterness and romantic catastrophe from the standpoint of our own vexed present in which the unfulfilled legacies of the Left and the sexual revolution still haunt our hopes and darken our horizons. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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Radicals
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- Subtitle Volume 2: Memoir, Essays, and Oratory – Audacious Writings by American Women 1830-1930
- Book Type Anthology Edited
- by Meredith Stabel & Zachary Turpin
- Publisher (link) University of Iowa Press
- Date Published 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-60938768-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288pp
- Price $25.00
Radicals is a two-volume collection of writings by American women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with special attention paid to the voices of Black, Indigenous, and Asian American women. In this volume, selections span from early works like Sarah Mapps Douglass’s anti-slavery appeal “A Mother’s Love” (1832) and Maria W. Stewart’s “Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall” (1833), to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s final essay “The Right to Die” (1935). Readers will discover a host of vibrant and challenging lesser-known texts that are rarely collected today. Radicals undoes such silences by collecting powerful writings by American women of genius and audacity who looked toward, and wrote toward, what Charlotte Perkins Gilman called “a lifted world.”
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Writing the Novella
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Sharon Oard Warner
- Publisher (link) University of New Mexico Press
- Date Published March 2021
- ISBN-13 978-0-8263-6255-1
- Format Paperback
- Pages 248pp
- Price $19.95
While the novella has existed as a distinct literary form for over four hundred years, Writing the Novella is the first craft book dedicated to creating this intermediate-length fiction. Innovative, integrated journal prompts inspire and sustain the creative process, and classic novellas serve as examples throughout. Part 1 defines the novella form and steers early decision-making on situation, character, plot, and point of view. Part 2 provides detailed directions for writing the scenic plot points that support a strong but flexible narrative arc. By turns instructive and inspirational, Writing the Novella will be a welcome resource for new and experienced writers alike. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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Anthology Posted July 21, 2021
Radicals: Audacious Writings by American Women - Volume 1, Ed. Meredith Stabel & Zachary Turpin, University of Iowa Press
Radicals: Audacious Writings by American Women - Volume 2, Ed. Meredith Stabel & Zachary Turpin, University of Iowa Press
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Fiction Posted July 21, 2021
Angels in the Wind: A Mile High Noir, Manuel Ramos, Arte Publico Press
The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier , Other Press
Branching Out: International Tales of Brilliant Flash Fiction, Ed. Brilliant Flash Fiction Staff, Brilliant Flash Fiction
Chola Salvation, Estella Gonzalez, Arte Publico Press
Fabulae: Tales for an Age of Ambivalence, Laura Costas, The Hazel Tree
Honest Stories, Laura Costas, Gut Punch Press
The House of Special Purpose, John Boyne, Other Press
How It Happens, Jean Alicia Elster, Wayne State University Press
How to Be Lonely, Dave Mainelli, WSC Press
Phototaxis, Olivia Tapiero, Nightboat Books
The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins, The Callliope Group
This Ditch-Walking Love, James Braziel, Livingston Press
Tooth of the Covenant, Norman Lock, Bellevue Literary Press
What Isn't Remembered, Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, University of Nebraska Press
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Nonfiction Posted July 21, 2021
Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling, Brian Oliu, The University of North Carolina Press
A Body in Fukushima, Eiko Otake & William Johnston, Wesleyan Univesrity Press
MW: An Essay on Jean Eustache's La maman et la putain, Matt Longabucco, Ugly Duckling Presse
Nothing Special: The Mostly True, Sometimes Funny Tales of Two Sisters, Dianne Bilyak, Wesleyan Univesrity Press
Occasional Views Volume 1: "More About Writing" and Other Essays, Samuel R. Delany, Wesleyan University Press
Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline, Brent Ryan Bellamy, Wesleyan Univesrity Press
Rust Belt Femme, Raechel Anne Jolie, Belt Publishing
Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, Julie Marie Wade, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
We Were Always Here: A Mexican-American's Odyssey, Ricardo Chavira, Arte Publico Press
Wings Over Water: The Late Notes of a Naturalist, Walt Franklin, Wood Thrush Books
Writing the Novella, Sharon Oard Warner, University of New Mexico Press
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Poetry Posted July 21, 2021
Afterwards, Reagan Myers, Button Poetry
Ariadne Awakens: Instructions for the Labyrinth, Laura Costas, Paycock Press
Asked What Has Changed, Ed Roberson, Wesleyan Univesrity Press
City of Skypapers, Marcela Sulak, Black Lawrence Press
En Route, Jesse Wolfe, Cathexis Northwest Press
Green Horses on the Walls, Cristina A Bejan, Finishing Line Press
Hospice Plastics, Rachel Hinton, SEMO Press
Irredenta, Oscar Oswald, Nightboat Books
Kaddish: Before the Holocaust and After, Jane Yolen, Holy Cow! Press
last confession, Frank Rossini, sight | for | sight books
Lost Language, Faith Shearin, Press 53
Magnified, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Wesleyan Univesrity Press
The Man Grave, Christopher Salerno, Persea Books
No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man, Tobias Wray, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
No Small Comfort, Brian Simoneau, Black Lawrence Press
O.B.B., Paolo Javier, Nightboat Books
outside voices please, Valerie Hsiung, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Purple Perilla, Can Xue, Common Era Inc.
Shreela Ray: On the Life and Work of an American Master, Ed. Kazim Ali & Rohan Chhetri, Gulf Coast
Slow Sea Rising, Walt Franklin, Great Elm Press
Tragic City, Clemonce Heard, Anhinga Press
Tramping Solo, Fred Rosenblum, Fomite Press
Waterfall Girls, Kimberly White, Clash Books
West Portal, Benjamin Gucciardi, The University of Utah Press
White Chick, Nancy Keating, Elixir Press
You Better Be Lightning, Andrea Gibson, Button Poetry
