“[Hagy] provides an unsentimental portrait of modern
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“[Hagy] provides an unsentimental portrait of modern
“[Hagy] provides an unsentimental portrait of modern-day cowboys. . . . She details each twitch of Boleto’s ears in language both acute and lyrical.” t h e new yor k e r “Even if you are not a horse person, Boleto will move your spirit.” chicago tribune “In her gift for the language of horses, as in the beauty of her prose, Hagy will inevitably recall Annie Proulx, Kent Haruf and Cormac McCarthy.” t h e wa s h i n g ton p o s t “Good stories teach us how to read them, and the opening pages of Boleto are entertaining, entrancing teachers. . . . Hagy often dazzles with her descriptions of the Wyoming landscape and wildlife. Whether it’s the corral of the Testerman ranch, the rugged passes of the Black Bell Ranch or the depressed outskirts of Anaheim, the settings glimmer with well-chosen metaphors.” the new york times book review Boleto A Novel A Ly s o n H AG y With Boleto, Alyson Hagy delivers a masterfully told, exqui- teeth ache. In language that is lucid and true, Hagy tells his story, sitely observed novel about our intimate relationships with one that will resound with readers long after Will Testerman animals and money, against the backdrop of a new West that rides off into the sunset.”—The Dallas Morning News is changing forever. Alyson Hagy was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She is the author of two previous novels, and four collections of stories, most recently Ghosts of Wyoming. She lives and teaches in Laramie, Wyoming. “Hagy follows modern-day Wyoming cowboy Will Testerman on his simple quest: to make his way in the world through his Brit., trans.: Graywolf Press gift for working with horses, and to prove he can spot raw tal- Audio, dram.: Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents ent by training a quarter horse, bought cheap, into a polo pony he can sell for riches. . . . Will himself is an endearing character, Also available: everything you’d want in a cowboy—honest, forthright, polite, Snow, Ashes, Fiction, Paperback (978-1-55597-468-8), $15.00 capable, modest, yet not so squeaky clean that he makes your Ghosts of Wyoming, Fiction, Paperback (978-1-55597-548-7), $15.00 Fiction, 272 pages, 5½ x 8¼, Paperback (978-1-55597-663-7), $15.00, October / Ebook available A L s o AVA I L A B L E City of Bohane There Are Little Kingdoms A Novel Stories The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its These stories summon all the laughter, darkness, and intensity of knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. Logan Hartnett’s contemporary Irish life. As the winner of the 2007 Rooney Prize old nemesis is back in town, his trusted henchmen are getting for Irish Literature, There Are Little Kingdoms marks the stunning ambitious, and his missus wants him to give it all up and go straight. entrance of a writer who burst onto the literary scene fully formed. “Full of marvels. . . . Powerful, exuberant fiction.”—Pete Hamill, “Magnificent. This is show-stopping stuff.”—Sunday Tribune The New York Times Book Review (front page) (Ireland) “A grizzled piece of futuristic Irish noir. . . . Imbued through- “Immensely entertaining. . . . A brilliant example of short story out with Barry’s inventively vulgar language. . . . Virtuosic.” writing at its best.”—The Sunday Business Post (Ireland) —The New Yorker “Some of the most beautiful and lyrical writing ever composed “I found Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane a thrilling and memorable by an Irish writer. . . . There are truly great things here. first novel.”—Kazuo Ishiguro, from the Man Booker Expect more.”—Irish Examiner Prize interview “A collection of vibrant, original, and intelligent short stories, “As you prowl the streets of Bohane with Barry’s motley assort- and a number of the tales contained in There Are Little Kingdoms ment of thugs and criminal masterminds, you will find yourself deserve to be read and reread.”—The Irish Times drawn into their world and increasingly sympathetic to their Brit.: stinging Fly Press assorted aims and dreams.”—The Boston Globe Trans., 1st ser., dram.: Aitken Alexander Audio: Graywolf Press Brit., trans., audio, dram.: Random House Group Ltd Fiction, 160 pages, 5½ x 8¼, Paperback Original (978-1-55597-652-1), $14.00, September / Ebook available Fiction, 304 pages, 5½ x 8¼, Paperback (978-1-55597-645-3), $15.00, June / Ebook available An award-winning collection from the author of City of Bohane, which was hailed as “extraordinary” on the cover of the New York Times Book Review “Wonderfully, restlessly alive.” the times (london) “Laugh-out-loud, put-down-the-book funny.” s u n d ay i n d e pe n d e n t ( i r e lan d ) “The most exciting Irish short story writer of his generation.” t h e s u n d ay t i m e s ( lon d on ) “Scintillating. . . . Barry’s language is intense, precise, given to delightful swerves and with pitch perfect dialogue.” the scotsman “Kevin Barry is a wonderful writer. He may work with traditional materials, but he builds with them structures that seem new and which tower above the flatness of contemporary Irish writing like monuments.” the irish times Dark Lies the Island Stories K E V I n B A R Ry A wickedly funny and hugely original collection of stories about of daily life invest these tales with a startling vitality. Dark Lies misspent love and crimes gone horribly wrong. In the Sunday the Island was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Times Short Story Award-winning “Beer Trip to Llandudno,” Short Story Award, and as one of the most acclaimed collec- a pack of middle-aged ale fanatics seeking the perfect pint find tions in Europe in many years, it heralds the arrival of a new more than they bargained for. A pair of sinister old ladies prowl master of the short story. the countryside for a child to make their own. And a poet Kevin Barry is the author of City of Bohane and two story collections. He has won the European Union Prize for Literature and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. He lives in County Sligo, Ireland. looking for inner calm buys an ancient inn on the west coast of Ireland but finds instead rancorous locals and catastrophic floodwaters. Kevin Barry’s dazzling language, razor-sharp ear Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: Random House Group Ltd for the vernacular, and keen eye for the tragedies and comedies Fiction, 192 pages, 5½ x 8¼, Hardcover (978-1-55597-651-4), $24.00, September / Ebook available E xcerpt from Duplex have been like Mary—they even looked a little bit alike, both Everyone knew the family inside number 37 were robots. Mr. XA, Mrs. XA, Cindy XA, Carol XA—when you saw being bird-boned and pale, and parting their limp mouse- them outside the house they looked like people. Carol had brown hair girlishly down the middle. Miss Vicks’s part was been in Miss Vicks’s class the previous year and she had been always ruler-straight, though, whereas Mary’s jogged to the an excellent if uninspired student; Cindy would be in her left at the back of her head, suggesting a lack of interest in class starting tomorrow. The question of how to teach—or things she couldn’t see. Her teeth were too big for her mouth, even whether to teach—a robot came up from time to time too, making her appear more vulnerable than she really was. Usually in the summer with the windows open Miss Vicks among the teachers. No one had a good answer. had no trouble eavesdropping on Mary’s family, but now the By the time Miss Vicks got to number 49 the storm was rain was drowning out everything except itself. . . . making it almost impossible to find her front door. Often it happened that the world’s water got sucked aloft and came It was only when everyone on the street was asleep that down all at once as rain. She swept her little dog into her arms the robots came flying out of number 37. There were four and felt her way onto the porch. They were both completely of them, two the size and shape of needles and two like drenched, the dog’s red coat so wet it looked black. For a coins, their exterior surface burnished to such a high state while they sat there in the glider, surrounded by thundering of reflective brilliance that all a human being had to do was curtains of rainwater. 1511MV—what kind of a license plate look at one of them for a split second to be forever blinded. was that? One plus five plus one plus one equaled eight, a The robots waited to come out until after the humans were number signifying the World, the very essence of the sor- asleep. They’d learned to care about us because they found cerer’s domain. If you knocked eight on its side it became the us touchingly helpless, due in large part to the fact that we symbol of infinity. could die. Unlike toasters or vacuum cleaners, though, the As she sat there on the porch she tried getting a sense of robots were endowed with minds. In this way they were dis- what was going on in number 47, the house attached to hers tant relatives of Body-without-Soul, but the enmity between where Mary lived. If she had ever had a daughter the girl would the sorcerer and the robots ran deep. Praise for Versailles: “Splendid. . . . Rapturous, like an aria.”—The New York Times © Emma Dodge Hanson Book Review “Elegant. . . . A persuasive and sympathetic portrait of Antoinette.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Davis is so skilled at draping . . . gemlike images around her story.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Kathryn Davis is the author of six novels. She has received a Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, “[An] elegant, idiosyncratic novel. . . . The voice Davis has and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. She teaches at Washington given [Antoinette] is by turns sage, mercurial, and ravishing.” University, and lives in Vermont and St. Louis, Missouri. —The New Yorker Time, place, and mind all bend in extraordinary ways in this new novel from the acclaimed author of The Thin Place and Versailles “Davis’s writing is so extraordinarily visual that she is practically a video artist: the reader closes the book as it waking from a dream.” —The New Yorker DUPLEX Praise for The Thin Place: “[A] brilliant, peculiar book. . . . Davis writes hallucinatory, literate prose, and adopts a cosmic perspective.” the new yorker A Novel “Rare, brave and original. . . . [Davis] has done something great here, something heathen, anarchic, democratic.” the new york times book review Ka t h r y n Davis “No amount of character sketching or plot summary . . . can begin to convey the experience of reading this strange and delightful novel.” t h e wa s h i n g ton p o s t “Never has Davis’ prose seemed more effortless. . . . The Thin Place is a bright, shimmering book, and the variety of voices come together like a globe cut from glass in the sun.” chicago sun-times Duplex A Novel K AT H Ry n DAV I s Mary and Eddie are meant for each other—but love is no of robots and sorcerers, slaves and masters, bodies without guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all children, they exist souls. Kathryn Davis, an author the Chicago Tribune called “one in an eternal present; time is imminent, and the adults of the of the most inventive novelists at work today,” has created street live in their assorted houses like numbers on a clock. here a coming-of-age story like no other. Once you enter the Meanwhile ominous rumors circulate, and the increasing agita- duplex—that magical hinge between past and future, human tion of the neighbors points to a future in which all will be lost. and robot, space and time—there’s no telling where you might Soon, a sorcerer’s car will speed down Mary’s street, and as come out. past and future fold into each other, the resonant parenthesis of Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: The Wylie Agency her girlhood will close forever. Beyond is adulthood, a world Fiction, 208 pages, 5½ x 8¼, Hardcover (978-1-55597-653-8), $24.00, September / Ebook available E xcerpt from Unapologetic No, I can’t prove it. I don’t know that any of it is true. I don’t do. These emotions must be alien, freakish, sad, embarrass- know if there’s a God. . . . But then, like every human being, ing, humiliating, immature, pathetic. These emotions must be I am not in the habit of entertaining only the emotions I can quite separate from commonsensical us. But they aren’t. The prove. I’d be an unrecognisable oddity if I did. Emotions emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. But emotions made their way across the common ground of human experi- are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our ence as an adult. They are utterly familiar and utterly intel- way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn’t sus- ligible, and not only because the culture is still saturated with ceptible to proof or disproof, that isn’t checkable against the the spillage of Christianity, slopped out of the broken con- physical universe. We dream, hope, wonder, sorrow, rage, tainer of faith and soaked through everything. This is some- grieve, delight, surmise, joke, detest; we form such unprov- thing more basic at work, an unmysterious consanguinity able conjectures as novels or clarinet concertos; we imagine. with the rest of experience. And religion is just a part of that, in one sense. It’s just one It’s just that the emotions in question aren’t usually form of imagining, absolutely functional, absolutely human- described in ordinary language, with no special vocabulary; normal. It would seem perverse, on the face of it, to propose aren’t usually talked about apart from their rationalisation that this one particular manifestation of imagining should be into ideas. That’s what I shall do here. . . . You can eas- treated as outrageous, should be excised if (which is doubt- ily look up what Christians believe in. You can read any ful) we can manage it. number of defences of Christian ideas. This, however, is But then, this is where the perception that religion is weird a defence of Christian emotions—of their intelligibility, comes in. It’s got itself established in our culture, relatively of their grown-up dignity. The book is called Unapologetic recently, that the emotions involved in religious belief must because it isn’t giving an ‘apologia,’ the technical term for a be different from the ones involved in all the other kinds of defence of the ideas. And also because I’m not sorry. continuous imagining, hoping, dreaming, etc., that humans Praise for Francis Spufford: © Bart Koetsier “The man writes like a dream.”—The Guardian (London) “Spufford is an amused and amusing observer of human beings, and it is a pleasure to be in his company.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times Francis Spufford is the author of four previous books, including “I am not alone in thinking that [Francis Spufford] has one The Child That Books Built and Red Plenty. He teaches writing of the most original minds in contemporary literature.” at Goldsmiths College and lives near Cambridge, England. —Nick Hornby A brief, witty, sharp-tongued defense of Christian belief that takes on Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion and Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great “A wonderful, effortlessly brilliant book.” the evening standard (london) “Unapologetic is a rare gem, a book that carries conviction by being honest all the way through.” the independent (london) “[A] remarkable book, which is passionate, challenging, tumultuously articulate, and armed with anger to a degree unusual in works of Christian piety. . . . [Spufford] admits he doesn’t know if there’s a God or not. Nobody does: it’s unknowable. What’s on offer here is vehement thought, ardent expostulation, and the conviction that what Spufford writes about is for him the most important thing in the world, or out of it.” t h e s u n d ay t i m e s ( lon d on ) Unapologetic W hy, Despi te Ever y t hing , C hr i s t iani t y C an St il l Make Sur pr i sing E mot ional Sense FRAnCIs sPUFFoRD “Unapologetic successfully skewers various atheist holy In Unapologetic, Francis Spufford does not claim that Christianity is true—because how could anyone know that, or its opposite? cows. . . . In a literary field that is fast becoming overpopulated, Instead, he argues that Christianity is recognizable, that it it is an intelligent, sophisticated and much welcome addition.” draws on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human —Nick Spencer, The New Statesman feeling, and that it satisfies those who believe in it by offering a Brit.: Faber and Faber Ltd ruthlessly realistic account of the parts of our lives that are not Trans., dram.: Aitken Alexander Associates happy or perfect. It’s a book for believers who are tired of being Audio, 1st ser.: Graywolf Press patronized, for nonbelievers who are curious about how faith Also available: can possibly work in the twenty-first century, and for anyone Red Plenty, History, Paperback (978-1-55597-604-0), $16.00 who feels there is something indefinably wrong, literalistic, anti-imaginative, and intolerant about the way that the case for atheism is now being made. Nonfiction, 256 pages, 5½ x 8¼, Paperback Original (978-1-55597-658-3), $16.00, October / Ebook available The long-awaited third poetry book by Vijay Seshadri, “one of the most respected poets working in America today” (time out new yor k) First I had three apocalyptic visions, each more terrible than the last. The graves open, and the sea rises to kill us all. Then the doorbell rang, and I went downstairs and signed for two packages— —from “This Morning” 3 sections Poems V I j Ay s E s H A D R I Vijay Seshadri’s new poetry is assured and expert, his line “This is a strong, almost reckless voice turning dark experi- as canny as ever. In an array of poetic forms from the rhym- ence into an unrelenting sense of possibility. From the rhyming ing lyric to the philosophical meditation to the prose essay, stanzas to a long prose meditation, the power of casual decla- 3 Sections confronts perplexing divisions of contemporary life— mation holds sway.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review a wayward history, an indeterminate future, and a present con- Vijay Seshadri is the author of two previous poetry collections, Wild Kingdom and The Long Meadow, winner of the James Laughlin Award. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York. dition of wanting to out-think time. This is an extraordinary book, witty and vivacious, by one of America’s best poets. Brit., trans., audio, dram.: Graywolf Press Praise for Vijay Seshadri: 1st ser.: Author c/o Graywolf Press “Seshadri is a son of Frost by way of Ashbery: both the high- Also available: frequency channels of consciousness and the jazz of spoken lan- The Long Meadow, Poetry, Paperback (978-1-55597-424-4), $14.00 guage are audible in these poems.”—The New Yorker Poetry, 80 pages, 7 x 9, Hardcover (978-1-55597-662-0), $22.00, September “Bang’s thrillingly contemporary translation of the first part (the juiciest part) of Alighieri’s fourteenth-century poem The Divine Comedy is indeed epic. . . . Once you embark on this journey, you may wish to read not only all of Mary Jo Bang’s work but all of Dante’s, too.” vani t y fa i r Stopped mid-motion in the middle Of what we call our life, I looked up and saw no sky— Only a dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig. I was lost. —from Canto I Inferno A N e w Tr a n s l a t i o n DAnTE ALIGHIERI T R A n s L AT E D, W I T H A n I n T Ro D U C T I o n A n D n oT E s , B y M A Ry j o B A n G I L L U s T R AT E D B y H E n R I K D R E s C H E R “Imagine a contemporary translation of Dante that includes “An epic both fresh and historical, scholarly and irreverent. . . . references to Pink Floyd, South Park, Donald Rumsfeld, and This will be the Dante for the next generation.”—Publishers Star Trek. Now imagine that this isn’t gimmicky. . . . Imagine Weekly, starred review instead that the old warhorse is now scary again, and perversely Dante Alighieri (c.1265–1321) is the author of the Divine Comedy, a masterpiece of world literature. Mary Jo Bang is the author of six books of poetry, including Elegy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. funny, and lyrical and faux-lyrical in a way that sounds sometimes like Auden, sometimes like Nabokov, but always like Mary Jo Bang.”—BOMB Brit., trans., audio, dram.: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment LLC Poetry, 352 pages, 6 x 9, Paperback (978-1-55597-654-5), $20.00, September “Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs. . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic.” su san s t ewart (citation for the Academy of American Poets Fellowship) Urban tumbleweed, some people call it, discarded plastic bag we see in every city blown down the street with vagrant wind. —from Urban Tumbleweed U r b a n Tu m b l e w e e d N o t e s f r o m a Ta n k a D i a r y H A R Ry E T TE M U LLE n innuendo, and signifying, and this way makes the reader alert Written out of a daily practice of walking, Harryette Mullen’s stanzas adapt the Japanese tanka, a poetic form suited for to the cunning of the English language.”—Jackson Poetry recording fleeting impressions and contemplating the human Prize judges’ citation being’s place in the natural world. But, as she writes in her Harryette Mullen is the author of seven books, including Recyclopedia and Sleeping with the Dictionary. She teaches at the University of California–Los Angeles. preface, “What is natural about being human? What to make of a city dweller taking a ‘nature walk’ in a public park while listening to a podcast with ear-bud headphones?” Brit., trans., audio, dram.: Graywolf Press 1st ser.: Author c/o Graywolf Press “[Mullen’s poetry is] brilliant and enigmatic, familiar and Also available: subversive. Like jewels, her poems are multifaceted and shoot Recyclopedia, Poetry, Paperback (978-1-55597-456-5), $16.00 off lights. Mullen uses the techniques of sound association, Poetry, 120 pages, 5 x 7, Paperback Original (978-1-55597-656-9), $15.00, November Winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation O ludicrous swoon, O blind hind-sight, O torching of bridges and blood boiled white, O sparrow, and arrow, and hell below, O, she says, because she loves to say O. —from “O, She Says” swoop Poems HAILEy LEITHAUsER Swoop is a sonically audacious first book, a ringing up and down “Hailey Leithauser’s poems make the brain buzz with infectious the musical scales. Hailey Leithauser’s resplendent array of rhyme and lusty rhythms. It’s hard to sit still while reading them, forms—from traditional verse to more fragmented, onrushing so truly are they busting with gusto.”—Amy Gerstler experiments—takes the reader to the heights of lyricism. In Hailey Leithauser’s poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, the Gettysburg Review, and Poetry, and she has received numerous awards including the Discovery/The Nation Prize. She lives in the Maryland suburbs near Washington, DC. these poems, sharp objects speak up for themselves, sex is taken up alfresco (among other things), an enigmatic question is posed from To Have and Have Not, and the song of a mockingbird drives us out of bed. A paean to excess, Swoop is a virtuosic Brit., trans., audio, dram.: Graywolf Press and exhilarating debut. 1st ser.: Author c/o Graywolf Press Poetry, 80 pages, 6 x 9, Paperback Original (978-1-55597-657-6), $15.00, October Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major Jackson The stub of your left leg dangles as I hold you up, my hands inserted under your arms like a child. You are complaining about the itch, the burn; scratch the ghost of your calf and heel. —from “Scratching the Ghost” scratching the Ghost Poems DExTER L. BooTH Dexter L. Booth’s ruminations on loss in this award-winning and reckless plausibility.Yet, lest the reader get too giddy in a debut are rooted in a time past but one still palpable and per- fun house of mirrors, here, too, are the melodic laments and sistent. Here are memories of love lost, family mourned, a remarkable lyric passages of a poet who acknowledges the father absent, ghosts of hometowns and childhood. Here too is infinite current of melancholy that underlines his journey.” a “Short Letter to the Twentieth Century” and, finally, a “Long —Major Jackson Letter to the Twentieth Century,” as if across this collection Dexter L. Booth earned an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University. His poems have appeared in Amendment, Grist, the New Delta Review, and Willow Springs. He lives in Tempe, Arizona. the poet is mustering up the force to speak back to history. “In Dexter L. Booth’s Scratching the Ghost, a cracked egg means Brit., trans., audio, dram.: Graywolf Press the universe is splitting, the slap of a double-dutch rope is a 1st ser.: Author c/o Graywolf Press broken-throated hymn, and splitting a squealing hog is akin to lovemaking. 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