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"If you can read [God's Fool] without being astonished and touched, then you'd better check to see if your heart is made of stone... simply brilliant. A book of the year." -- Dallas Morning News Born attached at the chest... See More
Literature & Fiction
"A vibrantly told love story" with tragic roots in WWII Czechoslovakia (The Washington Post). An American-born son of Czech immigrants grows up in postwar New York, part of a boisterous community of the displaced where he... See More
Literary Fiction
A searing, poignantly rendered collection of stories chronicling the lives of ordinary people battling the forces of love and loss, from "one of the great unsung writers of our time" (Colum McCann). In fifteen beautifully... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
"I have never before read anything except Nabokov's Speak, Memory that so relentlessly and shrewdly exhausted the kindness and cruelty of recollection's shaping devices." -- Geoffrey Wolff Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark... See More
Short Stories
"Relentlessly observant, miraculously expressive, these [stories] see through the mirrored surface into a hidden yet strangely intimate world." -- New York Times Book Review Set in a tiny Czech community on the shores of... See More
Literature & Fiction
"Intense and elegiac... devastatingly agile." -- New York Times Book Review The year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt over his older brother's... See More
Literature & Fiction
Born attached at the chest, Chang and Eng were considered a marvel, an omen, an act of God, evidence of His glory or proof of His wrath. Uniquely cursed, enslaved to one another for life, they were a joke of nature variously... See More
Essays & Correspondence
A new collection of prophetic essays from one of the sharpest practitioners of the form Mark Slouka writes from a particular vantage point, one invoked by Thoreau, who wished "to improve the nick of time... to stand on the... See More
Literature & FictionThe Spring 2012 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Nick Flynn. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More
Literature & FictionThe Fall 2012 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Patricia Hampl. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More
Literature & Fiction
Jon, Ray, Frank e Karen, come dire avere diciassette anni a Brewster, cittadina operaia nello Stato di New York, nell'America di fine anni Sessanta. Un'amicizia vera, spontanea, a tratti disperata, unisce i quattro compagni... See More