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2008 Titles: October
"These interlocking stories ... are harsh, raw, desperate, smart-ass, smooth, fast, and frequently hilarious...." Barton Sutter
"No one since John Haine's Winter News has written so well about the interminable winters, the snow, the cold and the human solitude of those living in polar regions." Charles Simic, 2007 Poet Laureate of the United States
"Tim Nolan's voice is funny and serious at once, sly and direct, wry and heartfelt." Jim Moore
Tricia Currans-Sheehan
The River Road, stories
American Fiction Series
2009 Nashville Book Festival - Honorable Mention, General Fiction
The River Road, stories
American Fiction Series
2009 Nashville Book Festival - Honorable Mention, General Fiction
"An amazing journey into rural Iowa, full of animals, passion, childhood imagination and longings, and unique characters—a magical world, which reminds me painfully how America has fallen from grace into suburbia and corporate farming." Josip Novakovich
Penelope Schwartz Robinson
Slippery Men, essays
Stonecoast Book Prize
Wins Maine Individual Artist Fellowship 2008:
This is awarded to only one literary artist a year and carries a $13,000 honorarium.
Honorable Mention, Maine Writers and Publisher Alliance Literary Awards (SM came in second after Richard Russo's latest novel.)
Slippery Men, essays
Stonecoast Book Prize
Wins Maine Individual Artist Fellowship 2008:
This is awarded to only one literary artist a year and carries a $13,000 honorarium.
Honorable Mention, Maine Writers and Publisher Alliance Literary Awards (SM came in second after Richard Russo's latest novel.)
"Penelope Schwartz Robinson manages to be both clever and warm, a neat trick, and a real storyteller, too. Both women and men will smile at themselves in the mirror she holds up to contemporary life." Katha Pollitt
2007 Titles
John Chattin
Cars Go Fast, stories
Many Voices Project, 2005
Marianne Herrmann
Signaling for Rescue, stories
Many Voices Project, 2005
Finalist, 2008 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Diane Jarvenpa
The Tender Wild Things, poems
Many Voices Project, 2005
Wins Midwest Book Award:
The Midwest Independent Publishers Association has announced that The Tender, Wild Things won in the poetry category. Diane Jarvenpa is a Minnesota native whose grandparents all emigrated from Finland. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and, as Diane Jarvi, performs folk and world music in Europe, Australia, and the United States.
The Midwest Independent Publishers Association has announced that The Tender, Wild Things won in the poetry category. Diane Jarvenpa is a Minnesota native whose grandparents all emigrated from Finland. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and, as Diane Jarvi, performs folk and world music in Europe, Australia, and the United States.
2008 Finalist, WILLA Literary Awards in Poetry:
Diane Jarvenpa is a Minnesota native whose grandparents all emigrated from Finland. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and, as Diane Jarvi, performs folk and world music in Europe, Australia, and the United States.
⇒Interview with Penelope Schwartz Robinson: Click HERE.
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Many of our authors are available for telephone or online conversations with book groups. Email or phone (218-477-5870) and tell us what you’re reading, the size of your book group, when you’d like to have a conversation with the author, and whatever else we need to know to help coordinate arrangements.
New Books October 2009
Fallibility, poems
Elizabeth Oness (Houston, MN)
"I am grateful for this beautiful book." Jeffrey Harrison
Friend Among Stones, poems
Maya Pindyck (Brooklyn, NY)
"The best advice re writing a poem is Emily Dickinson's: Tell the truth but tell it slant. Most poets try to do that, most of us fail. Maya Pindyck's poems very often find exactly the right slant, the right channel, the right wire, the right hypodermic--straight to the reader's heart!" Thomas Lux
When Love Was Clean Underwear, novel
Susan Barr-Toman (Philadelphia, PA)
“This novel captures the pulse of life—even when I put the book down and go about my day, I think about these characters. Barr-Toman writes with precision and wonderful humor about the human experience, and the need for forgiveness.” Elizabeth Cox
Click HERE to read first chapter.
Finalist Poetry Judge:
Michael Hettich
Finalist Prose Judge:
Ann Hood
American Fiction Series:
Whiskey Heart (novel) by Rachel L. Coyne (Minnesota)
"Coyne understands the human heart - she knows all the dark corners, twisted by the heat and hurt of love, and she knows the odd paths back from ruin. I couldn't put it down." Jonis Agee
Minneapolis Star Tribune review
Interference and Other Stories by Richard Hoffman (Massachusetts)
"The stories in Interference are moving, wise, and bracingly unsentimental. Richard Hoffman writes about male sadness and vulnerability with unusual insight and tough-minded compassion." Tom Perrotta
Click here for MPR Midmorning interview with Ed Bok Lee, author of Real Karaoke People
FictionAnthology
Other
2008 Titles
2007 Titles
Authors Online
Many of our authors are available for telephone or online conversations with book groups. Email or phone (218-477-5870) and tell us what you’re reading, the size of your book group, when you’d like to have a conversation with the author, and whatever else we need to know to help coordinate arrangements.
New Books October 2009
Fallibility, poems
Elizabeth Oness (Houston, MN)
"I am grateful for this beautiful book." Jeffrey Harrison
Friend Among Stones, poems
Maya Pindyck (Brooklyn, NY)
"The best advice re writing a poem is Emily Dickinson's: Tell the truth but tell it slant. Most poets try to do that, most of us fail. Maya Pindyck's poems very often find exactly the right slant, the right channel, the right wire, the right hypodermic--straight to the reader's heart!" Thomas Lux
When Love Was Clean Underwear, novel
Susan Barr-Toman (Philadelphia, PA)
“This novel captures the pulse of life—even when I put the book down and go about my day, I think about these characters. Barr-Toman writes with precision and wonderful humor about the human experience, and the need for forgiveness.” Elizabeth Cox
Whiskey Heart (novel) by Rachel L. Coyne (Minnesota)
"Coyne understands the human heart - she knows all the dark corners, twisted by the heat and hurt of love, and she knows the odd paths back from ruin. I couldn't put it down." Jonis Agee
Minneapolis Star Tribune review
Interference and Other Stories by Richard Hoffman (Massachusetts)
"The stories in Interference are moving, wise, and bracingly unsentimental. Richard Hoffman writes about male sadness and vulnerability with unusual insight and tough-minded compassion." Tom Perrotta
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2007 Titles
Authors Online
Many of our authors are available for telephone or online conversations with book groups. Email or phone (218-477-5870) and tell us what you’re reading, the size of your book group, when you’d like to have a conversation with the author, and whatever else we need to know to help coordinate arrangements.
New Books October 2009
Fallibility, poems
Elizabeth Oness (Houston, MN)
"I am grateful for this beautiful book." Jeffrey Harrison
Friend Among Stones, poems
Maya Pindyck (Brooklyn, NY)
"The best advice re writing a poem is Emily Dickinson's: Tell the truth but tell it slant. Most poets try to do that, most of us fail. Maya Pindyck's poems very often find exactly the right slant, the right channel, the right wire, the right hypodermic--straight to the reader's heart!" Thomas Lux
When Love Was Clean Underwear, novel
Susan Barr-Toman (Philadelphia, PA)
“This novel captures the pulse of life—even when I put the book down and go about my day, I think about these characters. Barr-Toman writes with precision and wonderful humor about the human experience, and the need for forgiveness.” Elizabeth Cox
Click HERE to read first chapter.
Finalist Poetry Judge:
Michael Hettich
Finalist Prose Judge:
Ann Hood
Whiskey Heart (novel) by Rachel L. Coyne (Minnesota)
"Coyne understands the human heart - she knows all the dark corners, twisted by the heat and hurt of love, and she knows the odd paths back from ruin. I couldn't put it down." Jonis Agee
Minneapolis Star Tribune review
Interference and Other Stories by Richard Hoffman (Massachusetts)
"The stories in Interference are moving, wise, and bracingly unsentimental. Richard Hoffman writes about male sadness and vulnerability with unusual insight and tough-minded compassion." Tom Perrotta
Click here for MPR Midmorning interview with Ed Bok Lee, author of Real Karaoke People
Ronna Wineberg's Second Language was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2009 Eric Hoffer Award for Books (for Excellence in Independent Publishing) in the category of Legacy Fiction (books that are more than two years old).