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"Serious art does not need to be weighty or explicitly topical. It can be, as it is here, apparently as light as a feather: The Lumberjack's Dove is, in its manner, a folktale; it is also a meditation on attachment, on loss, on transformation. Like its le …
Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize "This is a deeply impressive book, and I think an important one. Its intensity, its narrative attack, the fascinations of its era and setting, make it impossible to tear the attention away. Energy a …
No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that further demonstrate the breath …
LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE AN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK IN NONFICTION "[A] tremendous new book." --The Boston Globe "Carney and Miklian write vividly in the fashion of a cinematic disaster flick." --The Washington Pos …
One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in …
"Deeply affecting. . . . Like the best novels of Nadine Gordimer, it makes us appreciate the dynamic between the personal and the political, the public and the private, and the costs and causes of radical belief." -- New York Times A triumph of the imagin …
This compact volume of the journals of Lewis and Clark, compiled by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, includes all of the most riveting tales of their adventure--in their own words The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the …
The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature an …
An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to t …
Osip Mandelstam was perhaps the most important Russian poet of the nineteen-hundreds--a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg and a political non-conformist who earned the enmity of St …
Now an HBO Max series starring Ray Romano and Cristin Milioti NAMED A RECOMMENDED READ BY GQ - PopSugar - NPR - Huffington Post - Electric Literature - The New Yorker - Publishers Weekly - New York Magazine - Buzzfeed - Refinery29 - Vulture - Nylon From …
"The Risen is an important novel -- and an intriguing one -- from one of our master storytellers. In its pages, the past rises up, haunting and chiding, demanding answers of us all." --The News & Observer New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash demons …
In the tradition Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Banks's quintessential novel of a disaffected homeless youth living on the edge of society "redefines the young modern anti-hero. . . . Rule of the Bone has its own culture and language …
The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy meets What to Expect When You're Expecting for today's professional black woman The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy is a straight-talking handbook to pregnancy with contributions by doctors and personal stories fro …
My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934. The place was Third and Hill, Los Angeles. I was twenty-one years old, living in a world bounded on the west by Bunker Hill, on the east by Los Angeles St …
A Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * Alma From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the …
"Bakopoulos has invented a man for all rainy seasons--a horny, heartbroken cousin of Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe." --Tom Piazza "A winning distraction, a smart entertainment." --New York Times Book Review A clairvoyant when it comes to the Starbucks or …
A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America--including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more--with a foreword by Jelani Cobb This anthology from the pages of the New Yorker …
The life's work of "one of the true master poets of his generation,"* whose poetry helped shape the consciousness of an age For Galway Kinnell, it was "the poet's job to figure out what's happening within oneself, to figure out the connection between the …
The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture ido …
"A love letter to the 'largest, loudest, oldest' mammal ever to have existed...exhilarating." -People Magazine Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, From his childhood fascination with the gigantic Natural History Museum model of a blue …
From the author of Home to Harlem, a novel about dreams, diaspora, and drifting back home Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known to his drifter cohorts on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as "Banjo," passes his days panhandeling and dreaming of starting his own litt …
For fans of Crazy Rich Asians: Meet the Wangs, the unforgettable immigrant family whose spectacular fall from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings them together in a way money never could. Charles Wang, a brash, lovable businessman who built …
It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be f …
"The sustained comedy in this hilarious novel is equaled only by its heart, and the myriad ways there are for it to break. I love this book. Michael Poore writes like an angel." --Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish John Scratch, the Devil himself, is the …
Winner of the 2019 New American Voices Award Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize A Recommended Book of 2019 from: Southern Living * Buzzfeed * The Huffington Post * Bustle * Fierce * Hip La …
A poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and myths of family, race, and religion--from Nigeria to England to America Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid cultur …
"A rich, engrossing, and deeply intelligent story....This is a book I won't soon forget." --Molly Wizenberg, bestselling author of A Homemade Life "Fresh, smart, and consistently surprising. If this beautifully written book were a smell, it would be a cri …
"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author "He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriter Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant …
Former Poet Laureate Robert Hass 1979's Praise, the writers second volume of poetry.
"[A] tender, insightful book... Perfectly paced and leavened with humor, it's a wonderful read." -- People *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING* An epic novel of intertwining friendships and families set in the Northw …
"Myles speaks with one of the essential voices in American poetry." --New York Times A collection of new and selected past work from one of America's most celebrated poets Eileen Myles's poetry and prose are known for their blend of reality and fiction, t …
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of …
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of …