As we move past Pride Month, our celebration of queer literature continues. For this installment of Pivotal Pages, we feature “Louise” from Nancy Au’s Spider Love Song and Other Stories. "Louise" follows May and her wife, Lai, two dissimilar yet fiercely devoted...
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Pivotal Pages / All the Tiny Beauties
We’re starting a new series, Pivotal Pages, whereby we isolate snippets from our titles, short spans in which someone or something alters dramatically. Today we inaugurate the series with a spectacular scene from Jenn Scott’s All the Tiny Beauties, a novel that...
An Interview with Jenn Scott
Author Jenn Scott on POV, Intention, and Identity in ALL THE TINY BEAUTIES
Announcing Our September 2022 Release! Jenn Scott’s All the Tiny Beauties
Set in Oakland, California, All the Tiny Beauties begins with a kitchen fire that sends the reclusive Webster Jackson to the home of his new neighbor, Colleen, who discovers him on her doorstep wearing a lacy peignoir, his house in flames.
Rob McLennan: 12 or 20 Questions with Ian Stansel
We’re very lucky to be blessed with another fantastic interview of an Acre author. This time it’s Ian Stansel, whose superb, haunting collection Glossary for the End of Days was released last September. Click here (or the image) to read his engrossing conversation...
Megan Grumbling’s Persephone in the Late Anthropocene and Corinna Vallianatos’s The Beforeland Officially Release Today!
Today is the day: receive a double dose of the finest, piping-hot Acre literary cuisine. Dig deep into the harrowing apocalyptic bricolage of Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, Megan Grumbling’s second poetry collection featuring “Farmers Almanac entries,...
Watch the Trailer for Ian Stansel’s Newly Released Glossary for the End of Days!
Get even more excited to read Glossary for the End of Days than you already are by viewing this excellent trailer created by our talented videographer Ben Dudley!
Our Fall Titles Have Been Officially Announced!
We are beyond excited to present our Fall 2020 books, displayed below: Glossary for the End of Days, stories by Ian Stansel; Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, poems by Megan Grumbling; and The Beforeland, the debut novel from Corinna Vallianatos. As with all of our...
An Interview with Thomas Legendre, Part 3
Nicola Mason: Because the book involves time travel, there are two Aarons and two Violets (what one reviewer calls a ménage à quatre). As readers, we are privy to the thoughts of both Violets—the impassioned musician in 1988 and the frazzled mother of two in 2006....
An Interview with Thomas Legendre, Part 2
Nicola Mason: In your essay “A Phenomenology of Fiction,” you describe how modern philosophy and quantum physics undergird not just your characters’ perceptions but your writing methodology as well. I was particularly struck by Christopher Tilley’s treatment of...