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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...
Author Jenn Scott on POV, Intention, and Identity in 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.
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...
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,...
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!
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...
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....
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...
Nicola Mason: In Keeping Time, Aaron is an archaeologist—and American expat in Scotland—and his knowledge of Neolithic sites and rituals derives in large part from your script-writing research for Half Life, an environmental art event (taking place across a hundred...