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2024 Publications
Broughtupsy |
The Teller's Cage |
Malas |
The Gunman & the Carnival |
Anita de Monte Laughs Last |
Starmen |
The Great Divide |
Are You Prepared for the Storm |
Splinters |
Burn Man: Selected Stories |
Homefront |
The Story of Your Obstinate Survival |
36 Ways of Writing |
The Road from Belhaven |
Wish Ave |
Death Styles |
How to Disappear and Why |
Oye |
We Were Girls Once |
Neighbors and Other Stories |
The Rich People Have Gone Away |
mother |
Come and Get It |
There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven |
The Selected Shepherd : Poems |
Also, the Cat |
Digging Stars |
PlayHouse: Poems |
2023 Publications
| Coriolis A. D. Lauren-Abunassar November 01, 2023 | The Thing in the Snow Sean Adams January 03, 2023 | Discipline Park Toby Altman May 12, 2023 | Programmable Planet Ted Anton July 01, 2023 |
| What You Wish For Ruth Bardon March 10, 2023 | Wonder Travels Josh Barkan September 12, 2023 | Gad’s Book Dylan Bassett October 03, 2023 | Playhouse Richard Bausch February 14, 2023 |
| Wind—Mountain—Oak: The Poems of Sappho Dan Beachy-Quick June 01, 2023 | The Blue Window Suzanne Berne January 10, 2023 | All Black Everything Shane Book November 21, 2023 | The Weight Jeff Boyd April 11, 2023 |
| Blue Skies T.C. Boyle May 16, 2023 | I Walk Between the Raindrops T.C. Boyle June 13, 2023 | Witness Jamel Brinkley August 01, 2023 | Bang Bang Crash Nic Brown February 21, 2023 |
| An Autobiography of Skin Lakiesha Carr February 28, 2023 | Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton March 07, 2023 | The Repetition of Exceptional Weeks Rajnesh Chakrapani January 15, 2023 | This Indian Kid Eddie Chuculate September 19, 2023 |
| Maximum Speed Kevin Clouther November 01, 2023 | The Ferryman Justin Cronin May 02, 2023 | Day Michael Cunningham November 14, 2023 | Beckett and Embodiment : Body, Space and Agency Amanda Dennis May 22, 2023 |
| No Use Pretending Thomas A. Dodson October 04, 2023 | The Last Language Jennifer duBois October 17, 2023 | Creature Michael Dumanis September 15, 2023 | Ponyboy Eliot Duncan June 01, 2023 |
| Shore Dina Elenbogen March 01, 2023 | Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter Patricia Foster September 26, 2023 | Confidence Rafael Frumkin March 07, 2023 | The Martyrs, The Lovers Catherine Gammon March 01, 2023 |
| Brotherless Night V. V. Ganeshananthan January 03, 2023 | The Glow Jessie Gaynor June 20, 2023 | Forgiving Imelda Marcos Nathan Go June 13, 2023 | To 2040 Jorie Graham April 20, 2023 |
| Live in Suspense David Groff July 01, 2023 | Say Anarcha J.C. Hallman June 06, 2023 | Starmen [Ebook] Francis Hamit October 20, 2023 | This Other Eden Paul Harding January 24, 2023 |
| oh orchid o’clock Endi Bogue Hartigan April 01, 2023 | The Last Ranger Peter Heller August 01, 2023 | Undershore Kelly Hoffer May 01, 2023 | Pink Noise Kevin Holden April 18, 2023 |
| Public Abstract Jane Huffman September 01, 2023 | Sparrow James Hynes May 04, 2023 | Green Sky Kai Ihns October 20, 2023 | Pay As You Go Eskor David Johnson October 24, 2023 |
| Danny the Ambulance Jared Joseph September 12, 2023 | I Want to Tell You Jesse Lee Kercheval January 01, 2023 | The Glass Château Stephen P. Kiernan June 20, 2023 | Chaotic Good Lee Klein July 17, 2023 |
| The Diver Samsun Knight November 10, 2023 | Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience Sherry Kramer July 13, 2023 | Women on the Moon Debora Kuan September 15, 2023 | You Were Watching From the Sand Juliana Lamy September 19, 2023 |
| The Apartment on Calle Uruguay Zachary Lazar February 28, 2023 | The Engineers: Poems Katy Lederer October 15, 2023 | Time’s Mouth Edan Lepucki August 01, 2023 | Wednesday's Child Yiyun Li September 05, 2023 |
| But Will You Love Me Tomorrow? An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups Emily Sieu Liebowitz and Laura Flam September 05, 2023 | Innards Magogodi oaMphela Makhene June 06, 2023 | Happily Sabrina Orah Mark March 14, 2023 | The Deluge Stephen Markley January 10, 2023 |
| The Unsettled Ayana Mathis October 24, 2023 | Hitchhiking Home from Danang : A Memoir of Vietnam, PTSD and Reclamation Gerald A. McCarthy December 10, 2023 | The Hungers of the World John Morgan April 08, 2023 | human/nature poems Tracie Morris May 15, 2023 |
| Anything You Recognize Daniel Mueller August 01, 2023 | The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee Bharati Mukherjee (Ed. by Ruth Maxey) July 07, 2023 | Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough Dina Nayeri March 07, 2023 | April Sara Nicholson April 20, 2023 |
| What Napoleon Could Not Do DK Nnuro February 07, 2023 | Back to the Bright Before Katherin Nolte May 30, 2023 | Early Works Alice Notley February 21, 2023 | The Speak Angel Series Alice Notley February 21, 2023 |
| House Work Cindy Juyoung Ok March 01, 2023 | Always Crashing in the Same Car Lance Olsen February 01, 2023 | The Gathering of Bastards Romeo Oriogun October 01, 2023 | Tom Lake Ann Patchett August 01, 2023 |
| Surfing Sisterhood Hawai‘I : Wahine Reclaiming the Waves Mindy Pennybacker May 01, 2023 | Night Watch Jayne Anne Phillips September 19, 2023 | The Disappeared Andrew Porter April 11, 2023 | A Council of Dolls Mona Susan Power August 08, 2023 |
| Zoo World: Essays Mary Quade September 19, 2023 | Hope Andrew Ridker July 11, 2023 | Rise above the River Kelly Rowe October 20, 2023 | The Badass Brontës Jane Satterfield March 01, 2023 |
| Heartworm Adam Scheffler January 05, 2023 | Information Desk Robyn Schiff August 15, 2023 | Motorcycles, Minotaurs, and Banjos: A Modest Odyssey Steven Sherrill August 30, 2023 | The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It Nina Siegal February 01, 2023 |
| Other Minds and Other Stories Bennett Sims November 14, 2023 | Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld April 04, 2023 | Gauntlet in the Gulf: The 1925 Marine Log and Mexican Prison Journal of William F. Lorenz, MD Claude Clayton Smith March 22, 2023 | The Witch of Woodland Laurel Snyder May 16, 2023 |
| Translate Neighbor Emily Spencer, with translations by Julián Banuelos, Moriana Delgado, Anca Roncea, Lizzie Buehler, Femi Suraju, & Sarah Weiskitt January 06, 2023 | The Thomas Salto Timmy Straw October 10, 2023 | Incendiary Devices Sarah Anne Strickley March 14, 2023 | The Late Americans Brandon Taylor May 23, 2023 |
| H.D.'s Dramatic Poetics Catherine Theis April 18, 2023 | Idlewild James Frankie Thomas September 12, 2023 | Blackouts Justin Torres October 10, 2023 | The Puzzle Master Danielle Trussoni June 13, 2023 |
| This is Salvaged This is Salvaged September 26, 2023 | What Did You Do Today? Anthony Varallo November 22, 2023 | The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese May 02, 2023 | All of Us Together in the End Matthew Vollmer April 04, 2023 |
| Decent People De'Shawn Charles Winslow January 17, 2023 | The Wandering Womb S. L. Wisenberg March 01, 2023 | Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City Jane Wong May 16, 2023 | Here and Other Notions Thomas Zemsky August 15, 2023 |
| The Sorrows of Others Ada Zhang May 09, 2023 | Land of Milk and Honey C Pam Zhang September 26, 2023 |
2022 Publications
| The Birthday of the Dead Rachel Abramowitz March 31, 2022 | The Return of Faraz Ali Aamina Ahmad April 5, 2022 | Hyperphantasia Sara Deniz Akant September 27, 2022 | The Deep Limitless Air, A Memoir in Pieces Mary Allen May 10, 2022 |
| The Deceptions Jill Bialosky September 6, 2022 | Esoteric Cults of the American Soul Jerimee Bloemeke July 1, 2022 | Defenestrate Renée Branum January 25, 2022 | The Family Chao Lan Samantha Chang February 1, 2022 |
| Activities of Daily Living Lisa Hsiao Chen April 12, 2022 | Dearth & God's Green Mirth [Audio] Cody-Rose Clevidence July 13, 2022 | Groundskeeping Lee Cole March 1, 2022 | Quarry's Blood Max Allan Collins February 22, 2022 |
| Star Lake Arda Collins April 1, 2022 | The Truth About the Sun Jamie Cooper March 25, 2022 | Gravity Hill Susanne Davis September 13, 2022 | The Recruit Alan Drew June 14, 2022 |
| Boys In Exile Richard Duggin June 10, 2022 | Radioman: Twenty-Five Years in the Marine Corps Andrew Hesterman and Robert Einaudi April 8, 2022 | The Machine Stops [opera] Cecile Goding (Librettist) and John Lake (Composer) July 30, 2022 | Olga Dies Dreaming Xochitl Gonzalez January 4, 2022 |
| Mercy Street Jennifer Haigh February 1, 2022 | Catching the Light Joy Harjo October 4, 2022 | Oblivion: An After Autobiography Robin Hemley June 1, 2022 | The Tiltersmith Amy Herrick April 5, 2022 |
| Endless Summer: Stories from Days That Last Forever Elin Hilderbrand October 4, 2022 | MissSettl Kamden Ishmael Hilliard April 1, 2022 | Don’t Look at Me Charles Holdefer October 15, 2022 | The Kingdom of Sand Andrew Holleran June 7, 2022 |
| The Unfolding A.M. Homes September 6, 2022 | Still Life Jay Hopler April 5, 2022 | Search Michelle Huneven April 26, 2022 | Disbound Hajar Hussaini November 21, 2022 |
| The Chinese Zodiac: And Other Paths to Luck, Riches, and Prosperity Aaron Hwang December 6, 2022 | God's Children Are Little Broken Things Arinze Ifeakandu June 7, 2022 | Notes From The Road Mike Ingram March 15, 2022 | Chasers Stephen Ira March 22, 2022 |
| The Last Chairlift John Irving October 18, 2022 | Life Is Everywhere Lucy Ives October 4, 2022 | Touch Anywhere to Begin Mark Anthony Jarman September 20, 2022 | Thank You, Mr. Nixon Gish Jen February 1, 2022 |
| A Book About Myself Called Hell Jared Joseph February 15, 2022 | Billie Starr's Book of Sorries Deborah E. Kennedy October 4, 2022 | Tangled: Romantic Suspense with a Twist Blair Babylon March 8, 2022 | Hist Matthew Klane and James Belflower September 1, 2022 |
| The Little Witch's Guide to Backyard Magic Heather Knox July 19, 2022 | The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories Jamil Jan Kochai July 19, 2022 | It got so dark Benjamin Krusling December 1, 2022 | A Ribbon The Most Perfect Blue Christine Kwon March 31, 2022 |
| Planet Drill Jessica Laser December 1, 2022 | Nightwork Lauren Levin December 1, 2022 | Sound Fury Mark Levine November 16, 2022 | The Book of Goose Yiyun Li September 20, 2022 |
| Daemon Blood Mary Maddox January 9, 2022 | The Long Corner Alexander Maksik May 17, 2022 | Very Cold People Sarah Manguso February 8, 2022 | Mercury Pictures Presents Anthony Marra July 19, 2022 |
| May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future Chris Martin August 9, 2022 | All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews August 2, 2022 | The Hero of This Book Elizabeth McCracken October 4, 2022 | 2184 ½ Thomas C. Jackson and Fritz McDonald December 1, 2022 |
| Third State of Being Cassidy McFadzean January 1, 2022 | Life's Work: A Memoir David Milch September 13, 2022 | Tomorrow I Become a Woman Aiwanose Odafen April 28, 2022 | Things They Lost Okwiri Oduor April 12, 2022 |
| Harry Sylvester Bird Chinelo Okparanta July 12, 2022 | Free Clean Fill Dirt Caryl Pagel September 13, 2022 | Maybe It’s Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman Eileen Pollack January 25, 2022 | The Latinist Mark Prins January 4, 2022 |
| Our Dark Academia Adrienne Raphel September 27, 2022 | Night Is This Anyway Robin Reagler March 15, 2022 | American Massif Nicholas Regiacorte May 1, 2022 | Painting Beyond Walls David Rhodes September 13, 2022 |
| Bassinet Dan Rosenberg February 16, 2022 | Child Bed Fever Kelly Rowe November 28, 2022 | The Seaplane on Final Approach Rebecca Rukeyser June 7, 2022 | Mr. Freedom (Constellations: Studies in Science Fiction Film and TV) Tyler Sage June 1, 2022 |
| ryman Christian Schlegel October 4, 2022 | Six Walks Ben Shattuck April 19, 2022 | The Very Last Interview David Shields March 29, 2022 | I'll Show You Mine [film] David Shields [writer] April 16, 2022 |
| You Have a Friend in 10A Maggie Shipstead May 17, 2022 | Outskirts Heathen April 5, 2022 | The Tin Nose Shop Don J Snyder July 1, 2022 | Endlessly Ever After Laurel Snyder April 19, 2022 |
| Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family Debra Spark and Deborah Joy Corey (eds.) May 24, 2022 | The World of Pondside Mary Helen Stefaniak April 19, 2022 | The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life Mary Helen Stefaniak October 25, 2022 | Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett James Sullivan April 12, 2022 |
| January Fifteenth Rachel Swirsky June 14, 2022 | A Map for the Missing Belinda Huijuan Tang August 9, 2022 | H.D.'s Dramatic Poetics Catherine Theis October 18, 2022 | Mother Country Jacinda Townsend May 3, 2022 |
| The Immortal King Rao Vauhini Vara May 3, 2022 | Historically Black: American Icons Who Attended HBCUs Alonzo Vereen December 6, 2022 | They Can Take It Out Cheryl Clark Vermeulen March 1, 2022 | Dragonfly. Toad. Moon. Mary Jane White April 9, 2022 |
| The Grievers' Group (eBook) Richard Wiley May 28, 2022 | A Peculiar People Steven Willis April 5, 2022 | Mouth to Mouth Antoine Wilson January 11, 2022 | The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption Thomas Wolf and Patricia L. Bryan July 21, 2022 |
| Spooks Stella Wong March 15, 2022 | The Real World Emma Winsor Wood January 1, 2022 | Monarch Candice Wuehle March 22, 2022 |
Past releases
2018
2018
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2017
2017
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