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  • THE BLUE BOX
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    THE BLUE BOX
    SALLIE BINGHAM
    “A memoir of three generations of women rich in historical detail” —from the Civil War to the Jazz Age (Kirkus Reviews)   Shortly after her mother’s death in 2011, Sallie Bingham discovered a blue box in her mother’s closet containing the forgotten remnants of her foremothers’ lives. From her great-grandmother Sallie, was a gilded memoir written for her children during her fina...

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  • ELEGY ON KINDERKLAVIER
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    ELEGY ON KINDERKLAVIER
    ARNA BONTEMPS HEMENWAY
    “[An] impressive debut short story collection . . . These haunting stories deserve a wide audience” (Library Journal, starred review).   Winner of the 2015 PEN/Hemingway Award   The stories in Elegy on Kinderklavier explore the profound loss and intricate effects of war on lives that have been suddenly misaligned. A diplomat navigates a hostile political climate and an arranged...

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  • LIMBER
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    LIMBER
    ANGELA PELSTER
    “As the author reveals in these charming essays, nature is imbued with enticing mysteries, and trees can be agents of salvation.” —Kirkus Reviews   Angela Pelster’s startling essay collection charts the world’s history through its trees: through roots in the ground, rings across wood, and inevitable decay. These sharp and tender essays move from her childhood in rural Canada su...

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  • MOTH; OR HOW I CAME TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN
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    MOTH; OR HOW I CAME TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN
    THOMAS HEISE
    "A deeply melancholic and moving work of art."—Carole MasoEvery writer is a man or woman resuscitated, brought back for a little while before being dismissed. While I was hovering in bed barely asleep, my father would sneak in to check on me. Sometimes he came in the shape of a stranger, but his black eyes with a mark of sorrow never changed. When I was younger I could run...

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  • EASY MATH
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    EASY MATH
    LAUREN SHAPIRO
    Witty poems that are “full of vim and vinegar . . . Remember when we all got out of school for the fire alarm? This is even better” (Dean Young).   Selected by Marie Howe for the 2011 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Easy Math is anxious and exuberant both. Lauren Shapiro’s poems are Aesop stood on end, wry fables that defy our instinct to find a moral to the story. Instead, she offers...

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  • POSSIBILITY
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    POSSIBILITY
    PATRICIA VIGDERMAN
    "Reading Patricia Vigderman is like attending an ideal dinner party, where everyone has read your favorite books. Her essays wind particular passages of Proust, or George Eliot, or W.G. Sebald around personal moments; David Foster Wallace's story 'The Depressed Person' is threaded throughout an essay about her own relationship with a loved one's serious depression. Vigderman's ...

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  • BLOODY MARY
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    BLOODY MARY
    SHARON SOLWITZ
    A suburban Chicago family comes undone in this “fresh and riveting” novel of domestic disquiet by an award-winning author (Booklist, starred review).   Taking its title from the childhood game of conjuring dread, Pushcart Prize-winner Sharon Solwitz delivers a harrowing, razor-sharp satire of navigating the sexual, emotional, and spiritual calamities of modern life.   Claire Wi...

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  • SYZYGY, BEAUTY
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    SYZYGY, BEAUTY
    T FLEISCHMANN
    “In Syzygy, Beauty, T Fleischmann re-imagines the essay, creating a spare little book that reads like a collection of prose poems.” (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times)   In Syzygy, Beauty, T Fleischmann builds an essay of prose blocks, weaving together observations on art, the narrator’s construction of a house, and a direct address to a lover. Playing with scale and repetition, we...

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  • SOMETHING IN MY EYE
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    SOMETHING IN MY EYE
    MICHAEL JEFFREY LEE
    An “intriguing and highly original” debut short story collection—winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction (Booklist).   Michael Jeffrey Lee’s stories are bizarre and smart and stilted, like dystopic fables told by a redneck Samuel Beckett. Outcasts hunker under bridges, or hole up in bars, waiting for the hurricane to hit. Lee’s forests are full of menace too—unseen c...

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  • ROUGH LIKENESS
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    ROUGH LIKENESS
    LIA PURPURA
    “All about looking: at a landscape, at language, at a sign . . . Purpura goes beneath the surface, writing not just about what she sees but what it means.” —Los Angeles Times   Lia Purpura’s essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they’re also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational...

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  • SMALL FIRES
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    SMALL FIRES
    JULIE MARIE WADE
    A collection of essays from the author of Same-Sexy Marriage. “A painfully honest but beautiful journey . . . Heartfelt and hopeful” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).   This is a daughter’s story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker’s care, then turns that precise attention on herself. There are floating tea lights in the bath, c...

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  • THE NAME OF THE NEAREST RIVER
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    THE NAME OF THE NEAREST RIVER
    ALEX TAYLOR
    Short stories set in Kentucky from a prize-winning author who “writes with generosity and understanding of rural and small town life” (Chris Offutt, author of Country Dark).   Like a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, the atmosphere of these stories is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn, revealing the hidden dangers in the coyote-infested ...

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  • DROWNED BOY
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    DROWNED BOY
    JERRY GABRIEL
    The winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and the Towson Prize for Literature. “Exquisite storytelling” from the author of The Let Go (Foreword Reviews).   Jerry Gabriel delivers an unsentimental portrait of rural America in Drowned Boy, a collection of linked stories that reveals a world of brutality, beauty, and danger in the forgotten landscape of small-town bas...

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  • DEAR SOUND OF FOOTSTEP
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    DEAR SOUND OF FOOTSTEP
    ASHLEY BUTLER
    “Explores the poetry in dynamic facts, and accumulates stories where life and life’s enterprises meet . . . A lovely debut” (Thalia Field, author of Experimental Animals).   In her daring essay collection, author Ashley Butler engages the reader in an exploration of her mother’s death and an estranged paternal relationship. The candid narrative evolves into a stunning, abstract...

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  • GEORGIA UNDER WATER
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    GEORGIA UNDER WATER
    HEATHER SELLERS
    This tale of a determined young girl and her dysfunctional Florida family is “perfect for fans of Lynda Barry” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   “This smart, edgy book of interconnected stories follows Georgia Jackson from her 12th year through her 15th. Someone in the family seems always to be running away from home. Her depressed mother tries driving the family car into ...

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  • PASSING THE WORD
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    PASSING THE WORD
    JEFFREY SKINNER, LEE MARTIN
    An “entertaining collection of tributes and insights” from Jay McInerney and other novelists and poets about the writers who inspired them (Booklist).   In this “significant contribution to our understanding of how an older generation of writers . . . affected its students”, an assembly of diverse and distinguished talents explore the...

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