Contemporary Literature & Non-Fiction
Fiction
TEMPORARY PEOPLE
Steven Gillis
“[A] fable for our time.” — Chris Bachelder, author of Bear v. Shark and U.S.!
FLOATING HOLIDAYS
Christopher Torockio
“Torockio is, quite simply, a young genius.” — Chuck Kinder, the real-life Wonder Boy
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE
Marcel Jolley
“[T]he music and promise of the narrative…is simply captivating… attentive and muscular prose.” — Ilya Kaminsky
THE LAST GAME WE PLAYED
Jo Neace Krause
“Strange and compelling [stories].”
— Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN 978-0-9768993-8-9 $18.00
SIGNS OF LIFE
Norman Waksler
“Like Chekhov,Waksler finds the drama
in small problems...” — Dale Barrigar
ISBN 978-0-9768993-8-9 $16.00
ISBN 978-0-9768993-8-9 $20.95
UNENDING ROOMS
Daniel Chacon
“Daniel Chacón’s distinctive storytelling...is a testament of identity as experienced, not on the margins, but at the center of the beautiful and terrifying cycles.” — Rigoberto González
ISBN 978-0-9768993-8-9 $16.00
ISBN 978-0-9768993-8-9 $18.00
Contemporary Literature & Non-Fiction
ISBN 978-0-9768993-8-9 $16.00
SAID AND DONE
James Morrison
"An artful, often suspenseful collection of stories by a gifted writer who looks out clearly, and darkly, upon the world." — David Ebershoff
ISBN 978-0-9815899-0-9 $16.00
"Black Lawrence Press (is) apparently waging its own admirable battle to preserve and extend the art of the short story." -Dale Barrigar
The above quote comes from a review of both The Last Game We Played by Jo Neace Krause
and Signs of Life by Norman Waksler. The review was published in the Spring Issue of Fifth Wednesday.
WAKSLER & KRAUSE BOOK BUNDLE
Get both titles at a discounted rate.
$25.00 ANATOLIA AND OTHER STORIES
Anis Shivani
“In Anatolia and Other Stories, Anis Shivani does no less than deliver a world.”
— Julie Shigekuni
ISBN 978-0615281827 $16.00
THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR
Fred McGavran
ISBN 978-0-9815899-5-4 $16.00
LOSING CAMILLE
Paul Kilgore
“There’s a good drinker’s mixture of ten tales in this book.”
— Bill Holm
ISBN 978-0-981589985 $16.00
DEAD LETTER OFFICE
Daniel Natal
"The gift for metaphor Mr. Natal demonstrates lifts the prose above that of the typical “suspense novel”. It's a thinking man's thriller."
—John Jeter
ISBN 978-0981589947 $18.00
EVERY BITTER THING
Hardy Jones
"Every Bitter Thing is a very readable, intense, and compelling addition to the literature of difficult, harrowing childhoods...I am sure it will affect you deeply."
—Moira CroneISBN 978-0-9825204-1-3 $16.00
TODOS SANTOS
Deborah Clearman
“Deborah Clearman introduces us to characters who are both utterly unlike any we have encountered on the page before, and utterly believable.”
—Joyce Maynard
ISBN 978-0-9825204-0-6 $18.00
THE CONSEQUENCE OF SKATING
Steven Gillis
“Steven Gillis possesses that rarest of gifts, the voice that seems to flow effortlessly. Read the first three pages of The Consequence of Skating, and if you're not hooked, go see a doctor.”
—Jonathan Evison
ISBN 978-0982622872 $18.00
PICTURES OF HOUSES WITH WATER DAMAGE
Michael Hemmingson
“Pictures of Houses with Water Damage gives
me confidence that the American short story,
as an art form, is hardly dead—indeed, Hemmingson
shows us that it's vibrantly alive and kicking smug booty!”
—Valerie Grey
ISBN 978-0-9825204-2-0 $16.00
A CATALOGUE OF EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD: NEBRASKA STORIES
Yelizaveta P. Renfro
“A Catalogue of Everything in the World is truly that—a vividly illustrating, achingly honest, and stunningly lyrical examination of everything in these characters' hearts.”
—Susan Straight
ISBN 978-0-9826228-8-9 $16.00
FROM THE DARKNESS RIGHT UNDER OUR FEET
Patrick Michael Finn
"Populated with destitute strippers, damaged punks, polka lovers, bereaved widows, and the chronic unemployed amid lard factories and Catholic churches and gritty streets, these are the kind of stories that Balzac might have written if he had visited the economically ravaged American Midwest in the early 1980s."
—Donald Ray Pollock
ISBN 978-0-9826228-8-9 $16.00
PULLED FROM THE RIVER
Jon Chopan
"Jon Chopan is the Chuck Close of fiction, synthesizing in his brilliantly vivid novel, Pulled from the River, these startled struck renderings of the hyper-real with the pins and needles pixilation of the minutely abstract."
—Michael Martone
ISBN 978-1-9368731-5-9 $18.00
