Two books have hit the stores very recently by authors with venerable histories, and the nice thing to see is that there are publishers like McSweeneys and Melville House Publishing putting out the likes of them.
Robert Coover has a new short story collection, A Child Again, published by McSweeneys, and Stephen Dixon has a new novel, Phone Rings, out as a paperback original by Melville House Publishing.
These efforts follow up recent McSweeneys releases I by Dixon, and The Stepmother by Coover, and Melville House's Old Friends by Dixon in the past two years.
Again, these fellows are hardly emerging - Phone Rings is Dixon's 25th book and he's been a finalist for the National Book Award two times, and Coover's Pricksongs and Descants is still one of the most stunningly original collections of stories some 36 years after it was published. While they're no longer emerging, they are absolutely deserving of your wider recognition.
Stephen Dixon definitely deserves more readers. His book Interstate (as well as Frog) blew me away, and I've got two more of his books (Tisch and Sleep) waiting on my TBR pile, both of which I'm looking forward to digging in to.
Posted by: Darby | November 09, 2005 at 03:01 PM
I love to see new authors getting a chance. One day I might be one of them, I hope.
Posted by: J. Grant | November 09, 2005 at 06:35 PM