40 Fiction, Poetry, and Literature at $7
Twain at Sea
The Maritime Writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
I’ll Tell You Mine
Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program
Edited by Hope Edelman and Robin Hemley “Varied and stunning. . . . This expertly curated anthology holds abundant value for the student of writing and lover of literature alike.”—Publishers Weekly “Essays like these do something fiction cannot: speak precisely individual truths. Yes, fiction speaks universal truths, but the essay, at its best, addresses the singular event, the author’s experience.” —PopMatters
2015 280 p. 6 x 9 503 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30647-6 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00
Behind the Book
Eleven Authors on Their Path to Publication
Chris Mackenzie Jones “An indispensable tool for writers eager to peek behind the curtain and learn about the realities of writing and publishing. Myths and mysteries about being an ‘author’ abound, and this book shines a bright light on it all. Full of valuable nuggets, Behind the Book draws on real-life stories as well as the wisdom of the very best writing guides to reveal an empowering truth: There’s no one path to publishing success.” —Katrin Schumann, author of The Secret Power of Middle Children 2018 224 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 504 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-40580-3 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00
The Architecture of Story A Technical Guide for the Dramatic Writer
Will Dunne “The Architecture of Story is part of the most thorough course in playwriting available in print, one that is both an in-depth study in character and its relation to dramatic form, and a practical dramaturgical resource for dramatists in search of the best form for their work.” —Art Borreca, University of Iowa 2016 224 p. 6 x 9 4 tables 505 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-18191-2 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00
Edited by Eric Paul Roorda “Roorda balances these colorful tales with real insights and compassion for the financial woes and family tragedies that kept Twain writing and traveling right up until the last few months before his death in 1910. Taken as a whole, this volume masterfully takes the man Samuel Clemens and the icon Mark Twain from the familiar Mississippi River and sends his legacy out to sea, where it so clearly belongs.” —Sea History Distributed for University Press of New England
2018 304 p. 6 x 9 506 Paper ISBN: 978-1-5126-0151-0 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00
The Sea Is a Continual Miracle Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman
Edited by Jeffrey Yang “Jeffrey Yang has done us a service in extracting from Whitman’s oeuvre a body of poetry and prose on one of the master’s great themes, the oceans and rivers of his world. Yang proves a trusty guide through Leaves of Grass in its labyrinthine backtrackings and revisions. Plunging into Whitman in his company is, as ever, a cleansing and invigorating experience.”—J. M. Coetzee, author of Disgrace Distributed for University Press of New England
2017 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 507 Paper ISBN: 978-1-61168-922-8 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00
Palace of Books
Roger Grenier “Reading Roger Grenier, you feel as if you’re joining him in an inviting library, both of you seated in comfortable leather chairs and sipping calvados. . . . Subtle observations fill this slim volume, giving us a glimpse into the mind and life of this most sensitive of readers. While it may not leave you with many profound truths, I dare you not to fall in love.”—Daily Beast 2014 136 p. 51/2 x 81/2 508 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30834-0 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00
Forms of Attention Botticelli and Hamlet
Frank Kermode “[Kermode] was drawn to the entanglements of the text and its rational mysteries rather than some scaffold of theory. . . . He protected the reader’s freedom to be interested in whatever was interesting.” —New York Times 1985 112 p. 51/4 x 8 509 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-43175-8 $16.00 Your Price: $7.00
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The Flying Mountain
Christoph Ransmayr “A haunting tale, epic in scope, bringing together familial and national histories in a tender and powerfully-observed account of brotherly love.”—Irish Times “The Flying Mountain is an outstanding work of great sophistication, ultra-modern in its technology theme and as ancient as time in the tragic inevitability of the denouement.”—The Swansea Bay Distributed for Seagull Books
2018 336 p. 6 x 9 510 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-474-7 $27.50 Your Price: $7.00
POW!
Mo Yan “Chinese writer Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and . . . Pow! demonstrates for Americans why he deserved to win. It’s a vibrant, visceral novel that is both personal and political, realistic and surrealistic, funny and shocking. The explosive title cries out—Pow!— but it is also a subtle display of narrative wizardry.”—Washington Post Distributed for Seagull Books
2012 392 p. 6 x 9 511 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-221-7 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00
The Safe House A Novel
Christophe Boltanski The Safe House was a literary sensation when published in France in 2015 and won the Prix de Prix, France’s most prestigious book prize. With hints of Oulipian playfulness and an atmosphere of dark humor, this is an unforgettable portrait of a self-imprisoned family. “Complex and meticulously plotted; this mystery house full of odd characters will make the reader consider storytelling as the building of a physical and mental space.”—Kirkus 2017 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones 512 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44919-7 $24.00 Your Price: $7.00
The Waste Land
Martin Rowson Available for the first time in a decade, this is an unforgettably strange trip through modern literature with one of Britain’s best writers and illustrators. “Irresistibly funny . . . Rowson has produced not only a first-rate comic book but also an acute critical commentary, footnotes and all. His book is a marvel of sly scholarship and invention.”—Village Voice Distributed for Seagull Books
1990 73 p. 6 x 9 illustrated in halftones throughout 513 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-041-1 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00
