Via expansive ruminations and inventive metaphors, this memoir explores the slow, somewhat painful evolution toward the self. Following in the tradition of writers who encounter their truest selves via new settings, "Sometimes I Sing" by... Read More

This debut collection has drawn widespread praise as an “Ovidian adventure” that blurs the “boundaries between the quotidian and the fantastic,” and for its use of thousands of images that “play a kind of dream-tag, each one... Read More

"Blue on Blue"‘s playful tone and Crisp’s inventive use of 1950s pop-culture icons will entertain adventurous readers of speculative fiction. A blend of mysticism and absurdism, "Blue on Blue" is a short but densely packed novel that... Read More

Winner of the 2014 Cowles Poetry Book Prize, the fetchingly named "Underwater Panther" is Angie Macri’s debut collection of poems rooted in Mississippi River landscapes and lore. Ismenian Dragon Is a constellation bigger than the... Read More

This is young adult work for a crowd that has not yet relinquished its claim to awe. Robin Gregory’s "The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman" is a strange and lovely work that winkingly lopes through one child’s extraordinary... Read More

The stories in this collection revere the land surrounding the drama, a mysticism that seems to guide characters in and out of trouble. “At an empty table I sat and listened to the tired voices of forsaken souls seemingly trapped in a... Read More

One fateful day, the president of the United States wakes up to discover he has no mouth, a janitor across town wakes up to discover he has two, and a Pakistani immigrant in Arlington hears the voice of God in a waterspout. With no voice... Read More

This exciting adventure puts magic in a nautical setting to offer a vibrant tale for children. "Jim Morgan and the Door at the Edge of the World", by James Matlack Raney, is a fast-paced adventure that seizes attention from the first... Read More