Chris Adrian (BA, 1993) McSweeney’s, 2006 ISBN: 9781932416602 A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they’ve lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, a young medical student finds herself gifted […]
Chris Adrian (BA, 1993) Broadway, 2001 ISBN: 0767902815 The literary debut of an electrifying talent that gives the historical novel an exhilarating dose of originality, style, and visionary energy. Gob’s Grief recounts the lives of Gob and Tomo Woodhull, fictional twin sons of the real Victoria Woodhull, the nineteenth-century proto-feminist. In August of 1863, Tomo, who […]
Chris Adrian (BA, 1993) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 ISBN: 9780374289904 In this inventive collection of stories, Chris Adrian treads the terrain of human suffering — illness, regret, mourning, sympathy — in the most unusual ways. A bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead […]
Mary Robison Counterpoint, 2009 ISBN: 9781582433059 One D.O.A. One on the Way is a novel which opens on Jay, a location scout for a movie production company. She is complacently married to Alt, who has just been diagnosed with a grave illness and gone back to his palatial family home, back to the care of his […]
William Logan Penguin, 2017 William Logan’s classical verve conjures up the past within the present and the foreshadowings of the present within the past. In their sculptural turns, their pleasure in the glimmerings of the sublime while rummaging around in the particular, the poems in Rift of Light, Logan’s eleventh collection, are a master class […]
Ange Mlinko Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017 In Distant Mandate, Ange Mlinko moves between the tormented southern landscape, with its alternately arid and flooded scrublands, and the imaginative landscapes of Western art. Guided by her spiritual forbears―Orpheus, Mallarmé, Pound, Yeats, and others―Mlinko deftly places herself within the tradition of the poet in protest against the […]
Sidney Homan Purdue University Press , 2008 ISBN: 9781557534866 The storyteller has a fascinating place in our world. The storyteller personalizes history, extends fable, and imparts folk wisdom. The storyteller unfolds images into a multi-layered fabric of voices and places. The storyteller raises hope. Sidney Homan is a storyteller. He tells tales of growing up in […]
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Mary Robison Counterpoint Press, 2001 ISBN: 978-1-5824-3255-7 After a ten-year silence, Mary Robison has emerged with a novel so beguiling and funny it has brought critics and her live-reading audiences to their feet. Why Did I Ever takes us along on the darkes of private journeys. The story, told by a woman named Money Breton, is submitted […]
Padgett Powell Serpent’s Tail, 2011 ISBN: 9781846688164 Described as “Waiting for Godot on acid,” this radiant and enigmatic novel will take you on a journey into the subconscious. Confounding, experimental fiction for everyone who loved The Interrogative Mood. “This book is a conversation, apparently on a porch, between two men who may be difficult to grasp. They […]
Debora Greger Penguin USA, 2004 ISBN: 0143034219 In Western Art, her seventh book of poetry, Debora Greger walks out of art history class and into the world, from the awe-inspiring valleys of the Rocky Mountains to Europe and even to the edge of Asia. A night wedding in Venice, an encounter with a girl on an […]