I know, I know. 2009? What about reviewing a few more 2008 titles? I hear you and, at least in my own mind, have that all under control. You'll see more of those soon, as well as varying lists of my favorite books, novels, story collections, poetry collections, non-fiction titles - well, you know the deal.
In the mean time, I've been looking at catalogs and getting emails from authors and am already a little terrified that there's no way in hell I'm going to be able to read every title published in 2009 that I already know I want to read. One interesting thing to note - some of these were submitted to Dzanc Books and, well, since I'm not going to include the Dzanc titles publishing in 2009 in this post, obviously were not accepted by Dzanc Books. However, it is absolutely possible to find yourself both receiving a no thank you note from myself in regards to your book, and then finding out I am anxiously looking forward to it when published elsewhere.
I'll state right now, in order to at least slightly expedite matters, the following are only organized in that they will be published in 2009 - they're not listed by month, or by publisher, as I'd originally intended. Nor are these in the order of my excitement towards their release, etc. Just simply, the order I grabbed their names and/or found their cover photos to include.
I'll also state, swing by over the course of the next week as I realize what titles I forgot the first time around and try to sneak them into the middle when nobody's looking. No way you say? Already happened three times since the original post!
I'll actually start off with one I've read already, Brian Evenson's Last Days, an extension of the previously published (in limited edition form) The Brotherhood of the Mutilation via the addition of a second novella, itself titled "Last Days", which was recently published in full by Unsaid, a fantastic literary journal. I had the pleasure of reading the novella in journal form, had the disappointment of inability in finding a copy of TBotM, and then the distinct excitement in finding out newcomer, Underland Press, was publishing the combination of novellas as a full-length novel. It's fantastic, really. Much as I loved the novella "Last Days", you add that other novella before it to give it even more context, as well as a slightly larger body count, well, just do yourself a favor and get this one. It's due out in February.
Another writer I've probably read most of the book from will be
Mary Miller, whose
story collection, Big World, will be the second effort from Hobart's Short Flight/Long Drive mini-books division. This is another February planned title and at under $10 for 200 plus pages is a steal. Mary's been knocking the ball out of the park the past few years with both short stories and flash fictions.
May will see Southern Methodist University Press bringing out God's Dogs from Mitch Wieland. This will be their second collaboration and their first, Willy Slater's Lane, pulled off a 5 star review from the EWN back in 2002. God's Dogs is a novel in stories and I'm excited as I've read a few of Wieland's stories since loving his novel, and because Kathryn Lang at SMU Press does a remarkable job of finding steadily incredible quiet writers. Rare is the big care chase, or explosion, or even protagonist with out of the ordinary problems - instead she finds writers that mine the daily lives of people that you might know, that you might be, and do so with an intelligence and care that makes you the reader care about them and what happens to them. I'm positive this effort will be no different for either Wieland, or Lang's SMU Press.
January has Little Brown/Back Bay Books bringing out the debut novel from Michael Shilling.
Personally, I'm a sucker for good novel about rock bands and this one, Rock Bottom, about the Blood Orphans sounds like it has it all - from the website: "They were locked and loaded for rock and roll greatness. And then everything … went … wrong. The singer became a born-again Buddhist who preaches from the stage. The bass player’s raging eczema turned his hands into a pulpy mess. The drummer, a sex addict tormented by the misdeeds of his porn-king father, is losing his grip on reality. And the guitar player - the only talented one - is a doormat cowed by the constant abuse of his bandmates. Set in Amsterdam on the last day of Blood Orphans’s final tour, Rock Bottom is the raucous story of a band - and their heroically coked-out female manager - trying to get in one last shot at fame’s elusive bullseye."
Marlon James will see his second novel (after his wonderful debut, John Crow's Devil) coming from Riverhead in February. The Book of Night Women looks to be grand in scale and scope - some 430 plus pages and described as a "sweeping, stylish historical novel of Jamaican slavery that can only be compared to Toni Morrison's Beloved" (no pressure there). I really enjoyed JCD and have been looking forward to this one since finding out Riverhead was publishing it.
Another writer I've been reading stories from for what seems to be years is
Kevin Wilson and he's now seeing his story collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, come out from Ecco in late March. This is one of a long line of authors I was introduced to by Kyle Minor, whose (sadly) no-longer-around The Frostproof Review published the title story. After reading it is when I began looking for Kevin's name in table of contents. The great thing is, those listings have been fairly regular since that initial reading of Kevin's work. You can even get a taste of this collection as one of the stories was published in the online journal, Diagram. "The Dead Sister Handbook: A Guide for Sensitive Boys."
To keep in line with the Kyle Minor suggestions, Holly Goddard Jones' debut collection, Girl Trouble, will appear from Harper Perennial in the fall. Kyle suggested I include one of Holly's stories, "Good Girl", in the EWN Holiday Gift Email a few years back as she was a classmate of his at Ohio State University (I hardly cringed typing that school's name). The story was incredible and was absolutely included that year, drawing quite a bit of praise from EWN'ers at the time. Since then I've done my best to gobble
up every journal that's been wise enough to include a new HGJ story. She's seen her work included in the last two New Stories from the South anthologies, as well as Best American Mystery Stories 2008. Absolutely one to watch.
I'm greatly looking forward to June's release of Dave Reidy's Captive Audience, a short story collection from Ig Publishing. The lead story in the collection, "The Regulars", was selected by Charles D'Ambrosio as the winner of the first ever EWN Short Fiction Contest, and I've been paying attention to - ie, enjoying the hell out of - Dave's stories ever since.
I find myself starting each of these paragraphs in my mind with "This might be the one I most look forward to . . ." In this case, it might just be the case as it's been six years since Rick Collignon's third Guadalupe novel was published in late 2002. Dolt that I was, I'd not heard of Rick's previous two novels, but seeing that the latest was set in this mythical town he'd created with the first two, thought I should pick them up as well. You'll note from these links that I sort of loved all three. Now comes Madewell Brown, described in a 2004 announcement as: "Rick Collignon's fourth novel, the story of Madewell Brown, the mysterious man who made his first appearance in the opening pages of his second novel Perdido, chronicling his experiences in the Negro Leagues." The book will be a spring title from Unbridled Books - it's great to see this team stick together, as Fred Ramey has been the editor of each of Rick's books, the first two via MacMurray & Beck, the third with BlueHen, and this time with Unbridled, and each of those efforts has also seen the effort of Greg Michaelson and Marketing Director, Caitlin Hamilton-Summie, behind them as well.
Tin House has been on a roll as of late - Jeff Parker's Ovenman, Keith Lee Dixon's The Dart League
King and Adam Braver's November 22, 1963 are all fantastic novels and come February, they'll publish Jan Elizabeth Watson's novel, Asta in the Wings.
Trying to do a better job of making sure I pay attention to literature from outside the United States, I've become a fan of a couple of publishers that concentrate on publishing such. One is Archipelago Books. For one thing, they publish some of the nicest looking books around, typically in a closer to square measurement than your standard trade paperback, with a solid color surrounding the actual cover photo. You can tell immediately that it's an Archipelago title and that's an impressive feat these days. This April has them publishing The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer, and it looks great.
Another such publisher is Chad Post's Open Letter Press.
Seriously, spend about 20 seconds with Chad and you'll decide that you love him, can't wait to read more translated work, and will be happy to take a look at anything he's publishing. I've enjoyed two of the initial six titles Open Letter Press has published (The Pets and The Taker and Other Stories) and certainly look forward to reading more of what they choose to present to those of us looking to read material originally published in languages not English. In February, they'll publish The Conqueror by Jan Kjaerstad, translated from the Norwegian by Barbara Haveland.
An author I'm not at all familiar with, but excited about her third story collection, is Jessica Treat. Her Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters comes out in June from BOA Editions, Ltd. This will be their third (I believe) fiction effort after years of absolutely stellar poetry publishing. I have a feeling I'll be kicking myself for not having figured out that Treat was a writer to read prior to now as her previous collections were published by Coffee House Press and FC2, a couple of publishers that I almost always enjoy books from.
And as I've also almost always enjoyed poetry collections that Peter Connors of BOA has been kind enough to send me in the past, I'm fairly certain I'll enjoy Dark Things by Novica Tadic, translated from the Serbian by Charles Simic (as well as having an introduction written by Simic). Especially seeing the description that "Tadic's poems are dark, brilliant, spare, and ever-mindful of the enormous acts of evil that human beings commit against one another."
While I'm discussing poetry, I'm also greatly looking forward to the new collection from Keith Taylor. Wayne State University's Made in Michigan series wisely selected Keith's If the World Becomes So Bright and will bring it out in February. Keith has an amazing ability to bring together nature and city life and investigate how the two affect how we go about our daily lives. His work is lyrical, and more important for a reader such as myself, accessible while still adhering to the rigors of poetry (if that even makes sense - it does to me, but it's still me discussing poetry, so . . .).
WSU will also be publishing a new story collection from EWN favorite, Bonnie Jo Campbell, titled American Salvage in April. This, another Made in Michigan series entry sounds like a winner and I believe the title is perfectly suited to Campbell's writing. She has consistently given us characters over the years that are doing what they can to salvage their own lives - maybe not getting all the way to that salvation, but at least attempting to, giving their all, no matter how pathetic that all might sometimes be. At times she's dark, she's nearly always funny, and her sentences crackle. Keep this one in mind.
There is a repeat offender in this post. Brian Evenson also has a short story collection coming this July from Coffee House Press. It's Fugue State, and is illustrated by graphic novelist Zak Sally. Having finally taken the plunge deeply into the world of Evenson's writing this year, including past short fiction collections, I'm really excited to see another Evenson/Coffee House collaboration, The Open Curtain still haunts me many months after reading it. And his short stories are having the same effect on me, at least two or three from both Altmann's Tongue, The Wavering Knife, and Contagion have sat with me, popping into my head at inappropriate moments, these past few months since plowing through the Evenson oeuvre.
And from repeat offenders to a debut author, Paul Yoon will see his short story collection, Once the Shore, published by Sarabande Books in April as a paperback original. He's seen his work collected in both Best American Short Stories and Best of the Web, and is a rising young talent. Described by the publisher as "Ethereal stories set on a South Korean island introduce a haunting new voice in international fiction." Having read some of Paul's work throughout the past few years in journals such as American Short Fiction, Ploughshares and One Story (where I go to discover writers), not to mention his wonderful piece from Memorious we included in Best of the Web, it's very exciting knowing there'll be a collection of his work I can refer to from now on.
Dipping back into poetry, two more Michigan authors will see collections this spring and they are truly giants of the industry - Jim Harrison will see the number of works he's published reach the thirties in April when Copper Canyon Press publishes his latest collection, In Search of Small Gods. The other is Thomas Lynch, whose new collection is due from WW Norton in 2009, but I can't find a single damn thing about it online anywhere - Norton's site, Amazon, Lynch's homepage, etc.
In June, Manic D Press will publish Cheryl Klein's second book and debut novel, Lilac Mines. From the description from Manic D: "A contemporary historical novel about the ties that bind and wounds that never heal." I've had the opportunity to read some of this and am looking forward to seeing the entire novel together.
Dan Beachy-Quick is another EWN favorite with a new poetry collection coming out in 2009, April to be precise, from Tupelo Press. This Nest, Swift Passerine has Beachy-Quick entwining "found and original texts, creating literal form - this book - out of sheer metaphor. In this language nest, the mind of poet and reader find a common dwelling place."
Two Dollar Radio, a great young press, has Joshua Mohr's debut novel, Some Things That Meant the World to Me, hitting stores in June. Besides being from Two Dollar Radio (who published Amy Koppelman's wonderful I Smile Back recently), any book that Donald Ray Pollock writes "Joshua Mohr's scorched-up prose nearly burned my eyes out; and his main character, a young man known as Rhonda, is one of the most troubled and heartbreaking people you will ever encounter in literature," about is one that I'm going to pick up a copy of.
Press 53, one of my favorite indies, has a few titles coming in 2009 that I'll be looking forward to. They've become THE house to go to if you've got a creative idea for an anthology of short fiction and they'll continue that next year with at least two I want to see - Surreal South 2 edited by Pinckney and Laura Benedict. They're amassing what I'm sure is another creepy collection
of poetry and short fiction with that gothicy southern feel to them. That will be available in the fall. Earlier than that will be J. Dillon Woods edited, Vs. Anthology, capturing stories from folks like Kyle Minor, Pinckney Benedict, Brad Vice, John McNally, Stacy Richter, Andrew Scott, and other great writers with topics like "Jesus vs. Thor" and "Adolf Hitler vs. Grendel" and even one about two Detroit Lions teams. They've also got a new single author collection, Women Up On Blocks, by Mary Akers that looks fantastic.
Next up, a memoir from Kathleen Rooney entitled Live Nude Girl from the University of Arkansas Press. This is an expansion of the essay that got Kathleen included in the Random House anthology, TwentySomething Essays by TwentySomething Writers ,back in 2006 and it takes an intimate look at the power and vulnerability that are shared by those modeling. I enjoyed the original essay and much of Kathleen's poetry and look forward to the full memoir.
Amelia Gray's short fiction collection, AM/PM, is due in February from Featherproof Books. I've recently read a spate of Gray's stories that have been published online and found her writing to be truly exciting. Featherproof will also be published a collection of stories by Blake Butler, Scorch Atlas, more towards the fall from what I understand. No covers can be found for either of the titles as of yet, but with these two titles, Featherproof has lined themselves up for
a killer year.
Speaking of Blake Butler, the always incredible Calamari Press will be publishing his novella, Ever, which will also include artwork from Derek White. Blake has a very interesting style that he's been developing over the past couple of years and I think he's really honing in on something unique with each new effort, something
that has taken bits and pieces from those writers that he really loves, without outright doing what they do. I think this book could be a monster.
Aaron Gwyn, whose story collection, Dog on the Cross, was absolutely excellent, returns in early 2009 (April) with a novel from WW Norton. Gwyn's The World Beneath is a compact (192 pages) novel and is set in Perser, OK, where many of my favorite stories from Dog on the Cross took place.
Dalkey Archive brings a new William Gass title, Cartesian Sonana and Other Novellas, in February. I'm woefully behind on reading any Gass and I love novellas, so here we go.
Lauren Groff's short story collection Delicate Edible Birds will hit stores thanks to Hyperion in January. While I enjoyed her novel, The Monsters of Templeton, last year, I still recall reading stories of her in journals like Ploughshares, The Atlantic and Hobart, and am really looking forward to having them all in one place.
John Domini's The Sea-God's Herb: Essays at Reading and Culture will be published by Red Hen Press in 2009 - I've really enjoyed John's last two novels and assume the non-fiction is right on par! Also, in the fall Red Hen will be publishing a trio of novellas, Extraordinary Renditions, by Andrew Ervin. I've read early versions of these and they're damn good!
Ed Falco finds his third book to be published by Unbridled Books, Saint John of the Five Boroughs, coming out in the fall. Ed previously published a collected stories collection, and a novel, with
Unbridled.
William Gay returns with yet another step back into the 1950's and southern America. I'm guessing his new one, The Lost Country, headed our way via MacAdam/Cage, might be a bit dark, might have incredible language, and possibly will be the best damn thing any of us reads in 2009. Hey, you want to mess with somebody? Give them William Gay's Twilight while the Stephanie Meyer phenomenon is still high - they might not sleep for a week.
While we're looking at the category of long-standing favorites, Percival Everett
comes to mind, and not so surprisingly, he has a new novel coming out from Graywolf Press this year (not so surprisingly as I believe Everett averages a little under 1 1/4 books per year since publishing his first title). Late May will see I Am Not Sidney Poitier. A brief description of the title, Everett's 17th novel (I believe) from Graywolf:
Diana Joseph has a new memoir coming out in March courtesy of Amy Einhorn Books (Putnam) titled I'm Sorry You Feel That Way. I've been a big fan of Diana's ever since reading her debut story collection, Happy, or Otherwise, a few years back and am really excited to see what she does with the non-fiction form.
The Counterpoint/Soft Skull combo has a couple of exciting looking titles as well. From Counterpoint in January, Roger Alan Skipper's The Baptism of Billy Bean. Skipper has been compared to the aforementioned William Gay, and Tom Franklin. Good enough reason to check him out in my book. From Soft Skull comes Milk, Sulphate and Alby
Starvation from Martin Millar in February, a reprint of a 15 year old title from the author that Neil Gaiman raves about. The description has me recalling Something About Lulu, even though it's nothing at all like the way you'd describe that novel.
Burgeoning publishing house Tyrant Books is planning on heading out of the gate at full speed: a new novella from the previously (twice) mentioned Brian Evenson and then the fall will have new novels from Eugene Marten (whose 2008 Waste is one of the best books I've read this year) and Michael Kimball (whose 2008 Dear Everybody was fantastic). Not much information up at the site yet, but knowing that the press is affiliated with the journal NY Tyrant, and has this trio to start them off? Count me in.
Another one from Graywolf, coming in April, is the new novel from J. Robert Lennon, Castle. I love the premise - somebody buys a plot of land only to find out that there is a block in the middle that they do not own, and the paperwork showing who might own the property has all of the interesting information blacked out.
Ladette Randolph, former editor at the University of Nebraska Press, and current editor of Ploughshares, will see her novel, A Sandhills Ballad, published by the University of New Mexico Press this April. This follows her excellent short story collection and two anthologies she's edited, not to mention being responsible for many, many great books while at the U-Nebraska Press.
A book I know Ladette had much to do with, Sherrie Flick's debut novel, Reconsidering Happiness, will be out in the fall from the University of Nebraska Press.
Late July will bring us an interesting looking anthology from Plume, edited by Michael Taeckens, Director of Publicity for Algonquin Books during the day, and a really nice guy by email, phone AND in person. Love is a Four Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts will include an introduction from Neal Pollack and 23 essays from the likes of Junot Diaz, Maud Newton, George Singleton, Amanda Stern, Jami Attenberg, and even Michael himself.
In September, Free Press will publish the non-fiction title, Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in an Island Ghost Town by Elyssa East. It's about a murder in an abandoned colonial settlement in Massachusetts that is believed to be haunted.
In February, Bottom Dog Press is going to publish the next novel from Jeff Vande Zande, Landscape with Fragmented Figures. Not many details yet, but I've enjoyed the little bit of Jeff's writing I've read in the past.
April Fool's Day will see LSU Press, via their Yellow Shoe Fiction Series (a top
notch series at that), bring us Darrin Doyle's Revenge of the Teacher's Pet: A Love Story.
The University of West Alabama Press will be bringing out Chris Tusa's novel, Dirty Little Angels. I don't know much about it yet, but Don Pollock suggested I might look into it and that man has yet to lead me astray. I'll be looking into it.
J.A. Tyler will see his novella, Someone, Somewhere, published by Ghost Road Press in the summer.
Starcherone Books adds to their great catalog with Donald Breckenridge's You Are
Here in the fall. I recall the excerpt that this refers to, and remember really liking it a lot.
July has Permanent Press bringing out Stephen March's novel, Strangers in the Land of Egypt. While I know I also have his short story collection, Love to the Spirits around here sadly unread, I did enjoy his novella, the prize-winning
Armadillo back when it was published.
I really loved Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits when it came out, so now that Algonquin is again publishing Laila Lalami, this time around her debut novel, Secret Son, I am really excited to dig into it. It comes out in April.
"Eminently mullworthy, Tim
Horvath’s Circulation is a glittering performance of the narrative
imagination, an elegy for books and libraries as we have heretofore known
them, and a profound meditation on death, family, language, and the limits
of human knowledge—all this disguised as a
contemporary parable, a book of modest length."
--David
Huddle
This blurb sells me on this Sunnyoutside forthcoming title (March). Those who have been around the EWN long enough know I'm a huge David Huddle fan and I'm going to trust his taste. So, I suggest you pick up Mr. Horvath's novella, and while you're in the store, have them special order anything they can by David Huddle for you too.
Sunnyoutside will also be publishing, it looks like later in the fall, a collection of essays from EWN
favorite Curtis Smith titled The Agnostic's Prayer.
Keyhole Books will be publishing their first titles this year and William Walsh's Question Struck leaps out as one I'll be interested in having read Without Waxxx by Walsh and some of his shorter work online as well. He's got a unique sensibility about his work that is always interesting.
Underland Press will be publishing the next Jeff VanderMeer Ambergris novel, Finch, in November. There is no cover yet, but based on the other Underland covers, and other covers from Jeff's work, I look forward not only to the novel, but to the cover itself.
Cinematheque Press looks to come out running hard, with book design as much a part of the process as who and what they publish. One early project is a limited edition (84 copies, and I think that's really down to 83 as I have one reserved!) hard cover book of ten new "brothers" stories from Peter Markus entitled The Moon is a Fish. Some of these stories will re-appear in We Make Mud, Peter's next full-sized collection, but that's not until early 2011. Some may only appear in this book. It's supposed to have drawings by Rebecca Markus, whose work Peter Markus fans have seen on the NMP chapbook cover.
Shane Jones' Light Boxes comes out in February from Publishing Genius. I've had a peek and liked what I saw. The website for the book is great.
Matt Bell's chapbook, How the Broken Lead the Blind, is a great read and one I look forward to doing while holding paper in between my hands, and not just screening a pdf file.
Robert Fanning's second full collection of poems, American Prophet, comes out in January from Marick Press. I've had the extreme pleasure of reading many of these poems, and especially, hearing them read aloud a few times - keep your eye out for this one!
Those of you that ordered the special AWP Priced 4-pack from Cloverfield Press a while back - the fourth and final book, Mike Alber's Reliant Vaccuum, is headed your way soon. While the website doesn't show it, they've come up with a kick ass cover (that I only have a pdf of and cannot post here) and are getting closer and closer to shipping and making it available on their site.
Steve Yarbrough has sold his latest novel, Safe From the Neighbors, to Knopf. I'm assuming fall. As readers of the EWN know, Steve is one of my absolute favorite writers, so this is hardly a post where I've played favorites as to the ordering of these. They were very random.
There will also, I'm sure, be wonderful books from places like Ellipsis Press, Dancing Girl, Rose Metal Press, New Michigan Press, Future Tense, and many other smaller publishers that don't book up months in advance. You'll read about those as I hear about them.
I'm also sure as soon as I hit Save I'll either remember five more titles I can't wait to read, or will get three emails or comments from authors or publicists. I welcome them all, it only means more great material to choose from in 2009. Consider this a small start.
Great post, Dan! Thanks!
Posted by: Rachel Cantor | December 13, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Hi Dan--thanks for mentioning me!--and for putting together this list. It looks great!
Posted by: Diana | December 13, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Great list, Dan. And a great service provided here - for folks not already going to these publishers' sites regularly, and lacking a book catalog from them, these titles can get missed.
Posted by: Matt | December 13, 2008 at 02:02 PM
Let me also add, to the publishers listed in this post: I'd love to hear from you with catalogs, e-mail newsletters, etc.
Posted by: Matt | December 13, 2008 at 02:31 PM
Thanks, Dan.
Bottom Dog Press has a web site:
http://smithdocs.net/
Posted by: Jeff Vande Zande | December 13, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Great post, Dan - I really appreciate this!
Posted by: Colleen | December 14, 2008 at 03:47 AM
Dan, thanks for highlighting Press 53. We're excited about our 2009 titles.
Posted by: Kevin Morgan Watson | December 14, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Looks like a good year in book world! Thanks for the post! =)
Posted by: Sarah Joy | December 15, 2008 at 05:10 AM
Thanks very much for the mention, Dan.
Posted by: Mary Miller | December 15, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Thanks for mentioning Reconsidering Happiness, Dan. That's very sweet of you.
Posted by: Sherrie Flick | December 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Thanks for the shout-out, and for the suggestions--my to-read list has just had a growth spurt!
Posted by: Cheryl | December 16, 2008 at 03:04 PM
Thanks so much for mentioning Women Up On Blocks--and for bringing so many other exciting titles to my attention! Long live EWN. :)
Posted by: Mary Akers | December 17, 2008 at 10:37 AM
Thanks for mentioning Asta in the Wings I, too, cannot wait to read a whole bunch of the titles you've listed here.
Posted by: Jan Elizabeth Watson | December 17, 2008 at 10:14 PM
For those in New York City who cannot wait until the February release date for Asta in the Wings, a book reading will be held in advance of the publication of the brilliant debut novel:
Word Books
126 Franklin Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
718-383-0096
http://wordbrooklyn.wordpress.com
Wednesday, January 21, 7:30pm
Independent Press Nights: TIN HOUSE, with Keith Lee Morris (Dart League King), Adam Braver (November 22, 1963), Jan Elizabeth Watson (Asta in the Wings), and Ben Nugent & Rob Spillmam (Tin House Magazine).
Posted by: Michael Hein | December 21, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Great tips! A copy of The Twin came through the bookstore and I looked at it, made a mental note to take it home, but someone else snatched it up before me. I'm also excited to see another William Gay is headed to the printing press. He's not well known enough North of the Mason-Dixon line.
Posted by: Stacie, HWSchwartz on Downer | December 23, 2008 at 11:45 PM