David Leavitt Bloomsbury USA, 2003 ISBN: 1582343489 From the celebrated author of The Lost Language of Cranes and While England Sleeps, an important literary event: the complete collected short fiction. This handsome edition gathers together stories from Family Dancing (a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Prize), A Place I’ve Never Been, and The Marble Quilt, […]
Debora Greger Penguin USA, 2001 ISBN: 0140424334 God has retired to Florida, like everyone else. He can’t sleep. He watches TV. In the long poem that opens Debora Greger’s sixth book, God, he has retreated to the swamps, where, in the lush particulars of the subtropics, a singular moral world is discovered. Wherever Greger is, she […]
AUTHOR BIOS: Denis Johnson is the author of eleven books of fiction including Jesus’ Son, Train Dreams, and Tree of Smoke, which won the 2007 National Book Award. In addition, he has published books of verse including The Incognito Lounge, a book of reportage – Seek – and several plays for the stage. He lives in Idaho and California. Averill Curdy is the […]
Friday, February 20 8 PM. Marie Ponsot and Norman Rush will read new and published works. Research Room of the Smathers Library (Library East), University of Florida. 10–11 PM. Reception. Research Room of the Smathers Library (Library East), University of Florida. Saturday, February 21 12–2 PM. Informal talks by Festival writers. Marie Ponsot, 12–12:30 PM. Norman Rush, 12:30–1 PM. Lisa Zeidner, 1–1:30 […]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution includes Cries for Help, Various in “12 best Southern books to read this fall” list Book Riot Cries for Help, Various listed among “Out This Week” titles Booklist review Chapter16.org review The Daily City Padgett’s 10/3 event in Florida Independent Bookstore Day roundup Fiction Advocate brief interview Kirkus Reviews print and online review Largehearted Boy soundtrack/essay Literary Hub “30 Questions for 30 Writers at […]
Padgett Powell Henry Holt & Company, 1996 ISBN: 0805042377 Padgett Powell’s fourth work of fiction picks up several years after his first left off, on a strip of coast in the low country of South Carolina, sometime home to Simons Manigault. Simons is now out of college and trying to forestall the career expected by […]
Padgett Powell Houghton-Mifflin, 2000 ISBN: 0618071687 At her kitchen table somewhere in the South, Padgett Powell’s narrator embarks on a spirited and often hilarious imagining of certain historical figures and current national preoccupations. Ostensibly writing her grocery list, Mrs. Hollingsworth most happily loses her sense of herself. Her list becomes a discovery of the things […]
Padgett Powell Ecco, 2009 ISBN: 9780061859410 Are you happy? Do we need galoshes? Are bluebirds perfect? Do you know the distinctions, empirical or theoretical, between moss and lichen? Is it clear to you why I am asking you all these questions? Should I go away? Leave you alone? Should I bother but myself with the […]
William Logan University Press of Florida, 2002ISBN: 0813025621 William Logan has been called “the most hated man in American poetry” and the most dangerous poetry critic since Randall Jarrell. Desperate Measurescontinues the critical fevers of Reputations of the Tongue (UPF, 1999). a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in criticism. Beginning with an exploration of some […]
William Logan Columbia University Press, 2009ISBN: 9780231147323 The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New Criterion, among other journals, Logan’s eloquent, passionate […]