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Back to SearchMary Gaitskill : The Mare
From the author of the National Book Award-nominated Veronica: Mary Gaitskill’s The Mare—the story of a Dominican girl, the white woman who introduce…
10 years, 4 months ago
Valeria Luiselli : The Story of My Teeth
Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, The Story of My Teeth is a witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburb…
10 years, 5 months ago
Amelia Gray : Gutshot
NPR calls Gutshot “a book brimming with blood, sexual deviance, mucus and madness.” The New York Times says “reading Gutshot is a little like being b…
10 years, 6 months ago
Ursula K. Le Guin : Steering The Craft
Ursula K. Le Guin believes we cannot restructure society without restructuring the English language, and thus her book on the craft of writing inevit…
10 years, 7 months ago
Liz Prato : Baby’s On Fire
“Liz Prato’s stories are filled with the lost, the lonely, and the damned, and she makes all of them sing with a haunting grandeur. Baby’s on Fire is…
10 years, 7 months ago
David Biespiel : A Long High Whistle
Library Journal calls David Biespiel’s A Long High Whistle one of the best books about reading poetry you will ever find. Biespiel is a poet, editor,…
10 years, 8 months ago
Rebecca Makkai : Music For Wartime
Rebecca Makkai, whose stories have appeared in four consecutive editions of The Best American Short Stories, discusses her much-anticipated story col…
10 years, 8 months ago
Maggie Nelson : The Argonauts
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family. Maggie Nelson binds her personal experience, the sto…
10 years, 9 months ago
Lidia Yuknavitch : The Small Backs of Children
In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fie…
10 years, 9 months ago
Mary Ruefle : An Incarnation of the Now
Beloved and critically-acclaimed poet, essayist, and erasure artist, Mary Ruefle talks about her life as an artist, her approach to poetry, the quest…
10 years, 10 months ago