Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir
An unvarnished accounting of one man’s struggle toward sexual and emotional maturity.
Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking
The coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner.
Our Cancers
Poet and playwright Dan O'Brien chronicles the year and a half during which both he and his wife were treated for cancer.
This Fierce Blood
A multicultural saga, This Fierce Blood follows three generations of women in the Sylte family.
Here Is a Game We Could Play
Surreal fantasies with hypothetical lovers, a missing father, and a debilitating fear of poison . . . meet Claudia, whose story unfolds in the dreamlike milieu of a Pennsylvania small town in the 1990s.
I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction
In these sparkling, erudite, and at times personal essays, acclaimed fiction writer Clarke examines the complex discipline to which he and other expert practitioners have devoted their lives and minds.
The Beforeland
Set in the Mojave Desert and the suburbs of Southern California, this revelatory novel moves swiftly among characters caught between the deprivations of the past and the mysteries of the future. With unflinching precision and stunning prose, Vallianatos unearths the vulnerability and volatility at our cores.
Persephone in the Late Anthropocene
Through lyric verse, magical-realist prose poems, and speculative crypto-studies of the Anthropocene, this ecopoetic collection explores both environmental crisis and the nature of story itself.
Glossary for the End of Days
This arresting, relevant collection tunes into and seeks to illuminate shared anxieties about the present—and future—of our world.