Bellevue Literary Press
The Port-Wine Stain by Normal Lock
224 page – Bellevue Literary Press/Amazon
Boss Fight Books
World of Warcraft by Daniel Lisi
128 pages – Boss Fight Books
At more than 100 million user accounts created and over $10 billion made, it is not only the most-subscribed MMORPG in the world, but the highest-grossing video game of all time. Ten years after its launch, Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft is less a game and more a world unto itself, and it’s a world Daniel Lisi knows well. More time in his high school years was spent in Azeroth than in his hometown of Irvine, CA—a home he happened to share with Blizzard itself. Now that Lisi has founded his own game development studio, WoW remains his most powerful example of just how immersive and consuming a game can be. Based on research, interviews, and the author’s own experience in a hardcore raiding guild, Lisi’s book examines WoW‘s origins, the addictive power of its gameplay loop, the romances WoW has both cemented and shattered, the enabling power of anonymity, and the thrill of conquering BlizzCon with guildmates you’ve known for years and just met for the first time. –from the Boss Fight Books website
Called Back Books
The Sky Is A Howling Wilderness But It Can’t Howl With Heaven by Adam Fagin
40 pages – Called Back Books
City Lights Publishers
Dated Emcees by Chinaka Hodge
64 pages – City Lights Publishers/Amazon
The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir by Susan Daitch
332 pages – City Lights Publishers/Amazon
Civil Coping Mechanisms
Gaijin by Jordan Okumura
136 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon
If Only the Names Were Changed by Andrew Miller
150 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms
Remember to Never Get Better by Madison Langston
100 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms
Careful Mountain by Sara June Woods
102 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms
The Last Book of Baghdad by Justin Sirois
372 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon
In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse by Carolyn Zaikowski
134 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms
In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse is equal parts experimental novel, half-charred psychiatric file, and self-help poetry book, highly fragmented yet woven together by recursive skeletons: lovers tossing wine down the river while contending with ghosts; a train-hopper who hides pens inside a drum; jails trying to escape themselves; people dying all over Boston; the refusal of food; the interaction between obsession, dream, and memory; animals and lichens loved and mourned; macho anarchists; answers sought desperately through cultural icons; bridges and bodies collapsing. Unnamed narrators rise and fall, weaving in and out of each other while silently nodding to something larger and also, as yet, unnamed. –from the Civil Coping Mechanisms website
Coach House Books
Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality by Sarah Barmak
168 pages – Coach House Books/Amazon
Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity by Jay Pitter and John Lorinc
280 pages – Coach House Books/Amazon
Coffee House Press
Voice’s Daughter of a Heart Yet to be Born by Anne Waldman
160 pages – Coffee House Press/Amazon
Curbside Splendor
New York, 1960 by Barry Gifford
98 pages – Curbside Splendor/Amazon
Dalkey Archive
The Collected Plays by Dermot Healy
230 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy, edited by Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper
320 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Francis Bacon’s Armchair by Sabastien Brebel, translated by Jesse Anderson
98 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
The unnamed narrator of Francis Bacon’s Armchair has just been released from an extended stay at a psychi- atric hospital and now has only one objective: to shut himself away in his apartment and contemplate the best way to restart his life. But his obsession with Cath- ie, a young woman he met during his convalescence, drives him out of his bedroom one night in search of a telephone—which leads him two floors below into the apartment of his morbidly obese neighbor, Sauvage. Sauvage is a translator overwhelmed by his current project, The Dictionary of Rare and Incurable Diseases, and by the inherent difficulties of his profession. The narrator begins paying regular visits to his mysterious neighbor, and the two isolated men develop a bizarre relationship dominated by fear, jealousy, and mutual fascination. A hypnotic and philosophically dense novel, Francis Bacon’s Armchair deftly weaves between explo- rations of loneliness, language, and obsession. –from the Dalkey Archive website
Dzanc Books
Movieola! by John Domini
160 pages – Dzanc Books/Amazon
Jamestown, Alaska by Frank Turner Hollon
232 pages – Dzanc Books/Amazon
Fitzcarraldo
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
120 pages – Fitzcarraldo
Gauss PDF
The Trials of St. Anthony by Peli Greitzer
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Gold Line Press/Ricochet Editions
Migration by Ginny Wiehardt
21 pages – Gold Line/Ricochet
Small Change by Sandra Hunter
61 pages – Gold Line/Ricochet
Among Margins edited by Fox Frazier-Foley and Diana Arterian
413 pages – Gold Line/Ricochet
This anthology is a collection of some of the most exciting voices in the field of writing, art, and activism. Each contributor considers different aspects of aesthetics, from what beauty means to them to how disability has informed their practice. Here artists and writers dive deep into how notions of identity, language, and history play out in their work. –from the Gold Line/Ricochet website
Greying Ghost Press
Sky Poems by Nate Pritts
Chapbook – Greying Ghost Press
Graywolf Press
So Much for That Winter by Dorothe Nors, translated by Misha Hoekstra
160 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
128 pages – Graywolf/Amazon
Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar—a man adrift in the wake of his wife’s sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons, who, like him, struggle in their London flat to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow—antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. This self-described “sentimental bird,” at once wild and tender, who “finds humans dull except in grief,” threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow’s efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it, grow up. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter’s extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. –from the Graywolf Press website
H_NGM_N
Thunder Lizard by Chelsea Werner-Jatzke
Chapbook – H-NGM_N
Continual Guidance of Air by Holly Amos
H_NGM_N
Dream Vacation by Cindy St. John
H_NGM_N
Inpatient Press
Nobody Sleeps Better than White People by Rin Johnson
Chapbook – Inpatient Press
Kenning Editions
Almost Never. Sometimes. Often. Always by Margit Säde
Chapbook – Kenning Editions
A Theory in Tears (Annotations & Cases for Freedom & Prostitution) by Cassandra Troyan
Chapbook – Kenning Editions
Les Figues
Antígona González by Sara Uribe, translated by John Pluecker
205 pages – Les Figues/SPD
Antígona González is the story of the search for a body, a specific body, one of the thousands of bodies lost in the war against drug trafficking that began more than a decade ago in Mexico. A woman, Antígona González, attempts to narrate the disappearance of Tadeo, her elder brother. She searches for her brother among the dead. San Fernando, Tamaulipas, appears to be the end of her search. But Sara Uribe’s book is also a palimpsest that rewrites and cowrites the juxtapositions and interweavings of all the other Antigones. From the foundational Antigone of Sophocles passing through Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona furiosa, Leopoldo Marechal’s Antígona Vélez, María Zambrano’s La tumba de Antígona all the way to Antigone’s Claim by Judith Butler. And this book’s writing machine includes testimonies from family members of the victims and fragments and fragments from news stories that provide accounts of all these absences, all the bodies that we are missing. –from the Les Figues website
Melville House
Death by Video Game: Danger, Pleasure, and Obsession on the Virtual Frontline by Simon Parker
272 pages – Melville House/Amazon
The Insides by Jeremy P. Bushnell
288 pages – Melville House/Amazon
Milkweed Editions
The War on Science: Who’s Waging It, What It Matters, What We Can Do About It by Shawn Lawrence Otto
514 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon
Noemi Press
Sister by Steven Karl
94 pages – Noemi Press/SPD
Open Letter Books
Abahn Sabana David by Marguerite Duras, translated by Kazim Ali
108 pages – Open Letter Books/Amazon
Queen’s Ferry Press
Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall by James Magruder
232 pages – Queen’s Ferry Press/Amazon
Every September since 1958 a fresh batch of residents arrives at the Yale graduate dormitory that bears the name of one Miss Helen Hadley, a nineteenth-century ectoplasmic emanation still residing at 420 Temple Street, New Haven, Connecticut. Every year she selects her favorites, follows their adventures, cheers on their romantic shifts and stratagems, and picks up their lingo. With the university presently threatening to bulldoze her home, she has decided to chronicle her favorite year, the nine months in 1983–84 when Silas Huth, Becky Engelking, Nixie Bolger, Carolann Chudek, and Randall Flinn took up the manacles of erotic attachment and parsed meaning from every little movement of their rapacious, beating hearts. In Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall, Miss Hadley promises her readers carnal congress, a near-homicide, and a wedding finale, for her tale of communal bondage is one of love surprised, love confessed, betrayed, renounced, repelled, of suspect leanings and trembling declarations, of hymens under siege and innumerable searching looks in the mirror. –from the Queen’s Ferry Press website
Restless Books
Super Extra Grande by Yoss, translated by David Frye
160 pages – Restless Books/Amazon
Frankenstein (Restless Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, intro by Francine Prose
288 pages – Restless Books/Amazon
Solar Luxuriance
Daniel, Damned by Tim Jones-Yelvington
24 pages – Solar Luxuriance
Soho Press
The Soho Press Book of ’80s Short Fiction edited by Dale Peck
592 pages – Soho Press/Amazon
In The Soho Press Book of ’80s Short Fiction, editor Dale Peck offers readers a fresh take on a seminal period in American history, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Cold War was rushing to its conclusion, and literature was searching for ways to move beyond the postmodern unease of the 1970s. Morally charged by newly politicized notions of identity but fraught with anxiety about a body whose fragility had been freshly emphasized by the AIDS epidemic, the 34 works gathered here are individually vivid, but taken as a body of work, they challenge the prevailing notion of the ’80s as a time of aesthetic as well as financial maximalism. Formally inventive yet tightly controlled, they offer a more expansive, inclusive view of the era’s literary accomplishments. –from the Soho Press website
Tin House Books
Last Sext by Melissa Broder
80 pages – Tin House Books/Amazon
Torrey House Press
Yellowstone Standoff by Scott Graham
288 pages – Torrey House Press/Amazon
Tupelo Press
Third Voice by Ruth Ellen Kocher
114 pages – Tupelo Press/SPD
Praising the power of lyric drama, T. S. Eliot described the use of third voice as a means for characters to address and interrogate one another, and second voice as a way for characters to talk to the audience. In this daring new book, the principal narrator presents as a caricature reflecting the tangible experiences of a disembodied “I” posed against absurd selfhood—a voice imbued by sublime otherness. Within a dismantled minstrel show, Ruth Ellen Kocher frames a female voice splintered and re-figured as “self” and “character.” The incomprehensible nature of the sublime emerges through a cast of other personages including Eartha Kitt, Geordi LaForge, Immanuel Kant, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Malcolm X. Third Voice asserts lyric beyond personal expression and drama beyond the stage, using the spectacle of minstrelsy as a deformation of mastery in an audaciously conceptual yet visceral performance. –from the Tupelo Press website
Two Dollar Radio
The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga
172 pages – Two Dollar Radio/Amazon
Ugly Duckling Presse
Algaravias: Echo Chamber by Waly Salomão
96 pages – Ugly Duckling Presse/SPD
The Narco-Imaginary: Essays Under the Influence by Ramsay Scott
208 pages – Ugly Duckling Presse
6X6 #34 I Like Softness, poems by Alex Cuff, Kristen Gallagher, s. howe, Aisha Sasha John, Claudia La Rocco, and Grzegorz Wróblewski
Chapbook – Ugly Duckling Presse
Unnamed Press
The Sadness by Benjamin Rybeck
286 pages – Unnamed Press/Amazon
Arcade by Drew Nellins Smith
222 pages – Unnamed Press/Amazon
YesYes Books
i be, but i ain’t by Aziza Barnes
88 pages – YesYes Books/SPD
Inadequate Grave by Brandon Courtney
32 pages – YesYes Books
Blues Triumphant by Jonterri Gadson
96 pages – YesYes Books/SPD