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The Dalai Lama’s Smile

In eight short stories, travelers and locals become entangled in situations that send their moral compasses spinning.
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Defiant Acts

Drawing on the author’s experiences, this debut novel follows an interracial blended family living in Chicago in the 1990s.
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Scream / Queen

A debut poetry collection drawing on horror-movie tropes to examine the body—both its traumas and its possibilities.
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Unlove Story

Unlove Story

A gay novel in which the rural landscapes of Bengal set the stage for a story that transcends the boundaries of tradition and love.
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The Last Syrian

The Last Syrian

A rare narrative of gay love in the Arab world that travels into the lives of a group of spirited youth during the Syrian Revolution.
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Antiboy

Antiboy

A queer memoir that takes place at the messy intersection between gender and desire, challenging stereotypes and embracing the nuance of ide...
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Decapitated Poetry

Decapitated Poetry

Poems from a boisterously out and open queer voice from Taiwan.
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The Great Game

In this essay collection, Amit Majmudar meditates on the poetic canon of the West and the traditions of world literature.
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The Alcestis Machine

Inspired by the Greek myth of Alcestis, this poetry collection brings to life myriad voices who venture beyond the known world and exist bet...
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Nothing Vast

A sweeping multigenerational tale complicates traditional narratives as it follows two families—one Moroccan, one Polish—filled with Zionist...
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Mettlework

A memoir of Johnson’s unusual upbringing during the 1970s and ’80s, interwoven with the story of her transition to parenthood in post-recess...
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Sleepaway

A haunting debut novel from celebrated poet Kevin Prufer.
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Bad Mexican, Bad American

This collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a rising star in the poetry community.
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PILGRIMS 2.0

Pilgrims 2.0

A novel following four passengers on a luxury cruise line that promises complete reinvention through plastic surgery.
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Dual

A poetry collection examining masculinity, aggression, and violence.
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On the Way to the End of the World

On the Way to the End of the World

In 1963, an eclectic group of characters embark on President Kennedy’s ambitious walking challenge.
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Survivor's Notebook

Survivor’s Notebook

A collection of prose poems that chronicles the family life of two cancer survivors.
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You Shall See the Beautiful Things

You Shall See the Beautiful Things

Envisioned as a “nocturne,” Steve Amick’s playful, multilayered novel expansively retells Eugene Field’s famed verse “Wynken, Blynken, and N...
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Black Avatar and Other Essays

Black Avatar and Other Essays

This first nonfiction collection by internationally acclaimed writer and translator Amit Majmudar combines elements of memoir, biography, hi...
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Metabolics

Metabolics

In this debut poetry collection, a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navig...
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Design Flaw

Design Flaw

Hugh Sheehy’s riveting new collection draws heavily from the genres of horror, mystery, science fiction, and myth.
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Manatee Lagoon

Manatee Lagoon

The third full-length collection from physician and poet Jenna Le blends traditional form and the current moment.
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All The Tiny Beauties

All the Tiny Beauties

Jenn Scott's debut novel follows five characters in California as their lives intertwine.
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Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking

Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking

The coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner.
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Dear Queer Self

Dear Queer Self

An unvarnished accounting of one man’s struggle toward sexual and emotional maturity.
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This Fierce Blood

This Fierce Blood

A multicultural saga, This Fierce Blood follows three generations of women in the Sylte family.
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Our Cancers

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.
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Here Is a Game We Could Play

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 t...
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I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction

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 o...
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Persephone in the Late Anthropocene

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene

Through lyric verse, magical-realist prose poems, and speculative crypto-studies of the Anthropocene, this ecopoetic collection explores bot...
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The Beforeland

The Beforeland

Set in the Mojave Desert and the suburbs of Southern California, this revelatory novel moves swiftly among characters caught between the dep...
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Glossary for the End of Days

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.
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Grace for Grace

Grace for Grace

These wildly imaginative stories present characters in search of meaning and belonging, and often, at the same time, redemption and revenge.
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Keeping Time

Keeping Time

A crumbling marriage. An ancient mystery. And a way to change the past . . .
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The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons

The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons

This poetry collection imagines a human mission to Mars, a consequence of Earth’s devastation from climate change and natural disaster.
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Big Familia

Big Familia

With wit, insight, and tenderness, this novel explores the complexities of desire, devotion, and the mysteries of the heart.
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HoodWitch

HoodWitch

This riveting debut is a reclamation of power for Black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against th...
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Spider Love Song and Other Stories

Spider Love Song and Other Stories

These stories present characters who, despite challenging circumstances, find ways to honor their identities and their Chinese heritage.
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The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century Art

The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art

Through museum exhibit labels, as well as the musings of an elderly visitor wandering the galleries of this legendarily odd institution, the...
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Synonyms for Silence

Synonyms for Silence

These sharp, brief lyrics and prose poems subject the world to ethical and metaphysical scrutiny.
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Every Human Love

Every Human Love

Set seemingly in the quotidian, these stories veer into the unexpected, the uncomfortable, occasionally the eerie, thrusting characters in c...
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Warnings from the Future

Warnings from the Future

Ten provocative stories that explore crises of conscience in troubling present and ominous future realities.
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Duty To Warn

Duty to Warn

A troubled young man sets out to find past tormentors and is pursued by his therapist, who is concerned his patient will commit violence.
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Rosarium

Rosarium

Dow engages the mysteries of faith as a catalyst for meditations on the contradictory human condition—our knot of body and spirit.
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The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist

The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist

In this novel, Michael Downs imagines the life of the historical figure Horace Wells, whose discovery would change the world.
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A Very Angry Baby: An Anthology

A Very Angry Baby

In its premiere publication, released summer 2017, Acre Books presents a themed anthology, including an array of established and new poets a...
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Her Adult Life

Her Adult Life

The stories in Jenn Scott's debut collection are sharply funny and deeply poignant.
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After the Afterlife

After the Afterlife

T. R. Hummer's poetry collection explores the zone between language and spirit.
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Mettlework

A memoir of Johnson’s unusual upbringing during the 1970s and ’80s, interwoven with the story of her transition to parenthood in post-recess...
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Sleepaway

A haunting debut novel from celebrated poet Kevin Prufer.
Read More

Bad Mexican, Bad American

This collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a rising star in the poetry community.
Read More
PILGRIMS 2.0

Pilgrims 2.0

A novel following four passengers on a luxury cruise line that promises complete reinvention through plastic surgery.
Read More

Dual

A poetry collection examining masculinity, aggression, and violence.
Read More

The Dalai Lama’s Smile

In eight short stories, travelers and locals become entangled in situations that send their moral compasses spinning.
Read More

Defiant Acts

Drawing on the author’s experiences, this debut novel follows an interracial blended family living in Chicago in the 1990s.
Read More

Scream / Queen

A debut poetry collection drawing on horror-movie tropes to examine the body—both its traumas and its possibilities.
Read More

The Great Game

In this essay collection, Amit Majmudar meditates on the poetic canon of the West and the traditions of world literature.
Read More

The Alcestis Machine

Inspired by the Greek myth of Alcestis, this poetry collection brings to life myriad voices who venture beyond the known world and exist bet...
Read More

Nothing Vast

A sweeping multigenerational tale complicates traditional narratives as it follows two families—one Moroccan, one Polish—filled with Zionist...
Read More

The Dalai Lama’s Smile

In eight short stories, travelers and locals become entangled in situations that send their moral compasses spinning.
Read More

Defiant Acts

Drawing on the author’s experiences, this debut novel follows an interracial blended family living in Chicago in the 1990s.
Read More

Nothing Vast

A sweeping multigenerational tale complicates traditional narratives as it follows two families—one Moroccan, one Polish—filled with Zionist...
Read More

Sleepaway

A haunting debut novel from celebrated poet Kevin Prufer.
Read More
PILGRIMS 2.0

Pilgrims 2.0

A novel following four passengers on a luxury cruise line that promises complete reinvention through plastic surgery.
Read More
On the Way to the End of the World

On the Way to the End of the World

In 1963, an eclectic group of characters embark on President Kennedy’s ambitious walking challenge.
Read More
You Shall See the Beautiful Things

You Shall See the Beautiful Things

Envisioned as a “nocturne,” Steve Amick’s playful, multilayered novel expansively retells Eugene Field’s famed verse “Wynken, Blynken, and N...
Read More
Design Flaw

Design Flaw

Hugh Sheehy’s riveting new collection draws heavily from the genres of horror, mystery, science fiction, and myth.
Read More
All The Tiny Beauties

All the Tiny Beauties

Jenn Scott's debut novel follows five characters in California as their lives intertwine.
Read More
This Fierce Blood

This Fierce Blood

A multicultural saga, This Fierce Blood follows three generations of women in the Sylte family.
Read More
Here Is a Game We Could Play

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 t...
Read More
I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction

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 o...
Read More
The Beforeland

The Beforeland

Set in the Mojave Desert and the suburbs of Southern California, this revelatory novel moves swiftly among characters caught between the dep...
Read More
Glossary for the End of Days

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.
Read More
Grace for Grace

Grace for Grace

These wildly imaginative stories present characters in search of meaning and belonging, and often, at the same time, redemption and revenge.
Read More
Keeping Time

Keeping Time

A crumbling marriage. An ancient mystery. And a way to change the past . . .
Read More
Big Familia

Big Familia

With wit, insight, and tenderness, this novel explores the complexities of desire, devotion, and the mysteries of the heart.
Read More
Spider Love Song and Other Stories

Spider Love Song and Other Stories

These stories present characters who, despite challenging circumstances, find ways to honor their identities and their Chinese heritage.
Read More
The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century Art

The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art

Through museum exhibit labels, as well as the musings of an elderly visitor wandering the galleries of this legendarily odd institution, the...
Read More
Every Human Love

Every Human Love

Set seemingly in the quotidian, these stories veer into the unexpected, the uncomfortable, occasionally the eerie, thrusting characters in c...
Read More
Warnings from the Future

Warnings from the Future

Ten provocative stories that explore crises of conscience in troubling present and ominous future realities.
Read More
Duty To Warn

Duty to Warn

A troubled young man sets out to find past tormentors and is pursued by his therapist, who is concerned his patient will commit violence.
Read More
The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist

The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist

In this novel, Michael Downs imagines the life of the historical figure Horace Wells, whose discovery would change the world.
Read More
Her Adult Life

Her Adult Life

The stories in Jenn Scott's debut collection are sharply funny and deeply poignant.
Read More
The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century Art

The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art

Through museum exhibit labels, as well as the musings of an elderly visitor wandering the galleries of this legendarily odd institution, the...
Read More
A Very Angry Baby: An Anthology

A Very Angry Baby

In its premiere publication, released summer 2017, Acre Books presents a themed anthology, including an array of established and new poets a...
Read More

The Great Game

In this essay collection, Amit Majmudar meditates on the poetic canon of the West and the traditions of world literature.
Read More

Mettlework

A memoir of Johnson’s unusual upbringing during the 1970s and ’80s, interwoven with the story of her transition to parenthood in post-recess...
Read More
Black Avatar and Other Essays

Black Avatar and Other Essays

This first nonfiction collection by internationally acclaimed writer and translator Amit Majmudar combines elements of memoir, biography, hi...
Read More
Dear Queer Self

Dear Queer Self

An unvarnished accounting of one man’s struggle toward sexual and emotional maturity.
Read More

Scream / Queen

A debut poetry collection drawing on horror-movie tropes to examine the body—both its traumas and its possibilities.
Read More

The Alcestis Machine

Inspired by the Greek myth of Alcestis, this poetry collection brings to life myriad voices who venture beyond the known world and exist bet...
Read More

Bad Mexican, Bad American

This collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a rising star in the poetry community.
Read More

Dual

A poetry collection examining masculinity, aggression, and violence.
Read More
Survivor's Notebook

Survivor’s Notebook

A collection of prose poems that chronicles the family life of two cancer survivors.
Read More
Metabolics

Metabolics

In this debut poetry collection, a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navig...
Read More
Manatee Lagoon

Manatee Lagoon

The third full-length collection from physician and poet Jenna Le blends traditional form and the current moment.
Read More
Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking

Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking

The coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner.
Read More
Our Cancers

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.
Read More
Persephone in the Late Anthropocene

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene

Through lyric verse, magical-realist prose poems, and speculative crypto-studies of the Anthropocene, this ecopoetic collection explores bot...
Read More
The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons

The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons

This poetry collection imagines a human mission to Mars, a consequence of Earth’s devastation from climate change and natural disaster.
Read More
HoodWitch

HoodWitch

This riveting debut is a reclamation of power for Black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against th...
Read More
Synonyms for Silence

Synonyms for Silence

These sharp, brief lyrics and prose poems subject the world to ethical and metaphysical scrutiny.
Read More
Rosarium

Rosarium

Dow engages the mysteries of faith as a catalyst for meditations on the contradictory human condition—our knot of body and spirit.
Read More
After the Afterlife

After the Afterlife

T. R. Hummer's poetry collection explores the zone between language and spirit.
Read More
Unlove Story

Unlove Story

A gay novel in which the rural landscapes of Bengal set the stage for a story that transcends the boundaries of tradition and love.
Read More
The Last Syrian

The Last Syrian

A rare narrative of gay love in the Arab world that travels into the lives of a group of spirited youth during the Syrian Revolution.
Read More
Antiboy

Antiboy

A queer memoir that takes place at the messy intersection between gender and desire, challenging stereotypes and embracing the nuance of ide...
Read More
Decapitated Poetry

Decapitated Poetry

Poems from a boisterously out and open queer voice from Taiwan.
Read More