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Photo Credit: Elizabeth CodyWe complete our Holiday Sampler series with a pesky li’l sample from Acre’s first poetry offering—by T. R. Hummer—about which Derek Mong recently noted: “The pleasure of After the Afterlife is in watching a masterful American poet try to...
In Part 5 of Acre’s Holiday Sampler, we check in with Jenn Scott, whose story collection, Her Adult Life, just made the longlist for the PEN America Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In the passage Jenn selected, two restaurant staffers and antagonists—the...
We continue our review of Acre’s 2018 titles with The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist—a novel that the Los Angeles Review of Books aptly described as “not so much a character study or psychological novel as a meditation on the power of pain—the...
We continue to look back at our premiere year’s titles. This time out we’re featuring Sara Kersting, another debut Acre author, whose taut mystery/psychological thriller DUTY TO WARN, released this October, garnered a starred review from FOREWORD, which called it...
We continue our year-in-review offering with a look at another of Acre’s four debut titles from 2018—Ethan Chatagnier’s Warnings from the Future, a story collection that Kirkus called out as having “real emotional intelligence.” For the sampler, Chatagnier chose a...
It’s been quite an inaugural year for Acre. We’ve put into the world six terrific books—two poetry volumes, two story collections, and two novels—three of them debut titles from brilliant new voices. For your holiday reading pleasure, we’ve asked our 2018 authors to...
MAN EATING TREES, tar and varnish on canvas, 72 in x 96 in (182.88 cm x 243.84 cm), collection Akron Art MuseumT. R. Hummer’s AFTER THE AFTERLIFE features MAN EATING TREES by John Sokol. John Sokol on MAN EATING TREES: “The museum made postcards of the painting. One...
ABSTRACT ROSES, gesso, acrylic, gel ink pen on cotton canvas (100 x 40 x 1.8 cm)On the cover of Hannah Dow’s ROSARIUM is a mixed-media representation of roses by Lithuanian artist Lisa Sadziuviene. Lina Sadziuviene on ABSTRACT ROSES: “Most of my works are inspired by...
Michael Downs’s THE STRANGE AND TRUE TALE OF HORACE WELLS, SURGEON DENTIST provides a chill-inspiring close-up of a tooth key—a tool commonly employed in dentistry during the era in which his novel is set. We found the cover image on the website of Alex Peck Medical...
Skip Lawrence on TIGHT LOOP, acrylic on watercolor paper (15 x 15 in.)Ethan Chatagnier’s WARNINGS FROM THE FUTURE features a portion of a painting titled TIGHT LOOP by Skip Lawrence. “Tight loop refers to the loop created in the fly line when making a proper cast....