by Linda Lappin John Domini’s work has been featured in Paris Review, The New York Times, and numerous other outlets. He is a versatile, genre-crossing author, and has published several books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry over the course of his prolific career. The organizations that have honored his work include the National Endowment for […]

by Dylan Hicks One of the sharpest music critics to become prominent in the 1990s, Eric Weisbard wrote for Spin, the Village Voice, and the New York Times, and edited, with Craig Marks, 1995’s enduringly useful Spin Alternative Record Guide (whose contributors include future novelists Colson Whitehead and James Hannaham). He’s also the founder and […]

Edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Kate Zeller Immersive Life Practices Edited by Daniel Tucker The School of the Art Institute of Chicago / The University of Chicago Press ($20) Support Networks Edited by Abigail Satinsky The School of the Art Institute of Chicago / The University of Chicago Press ($20) by Jay Besemer Going […]

Poems 1978 - 2013 Wong May Octopus Books ($24) by Daniel Moysaenko Picasso’s Tears is Wong May’s fourth collection, and her first since 1978. A singular voice shapes this work: from Mozart to 9/11, May carries a global, inherited past. Her poems examine the present while striding forward, and how she regards each concern seems […]

Stacy Hardy Pocko Editions ($16) by Noy Holland Stacy Hardy’s first collection of stories, Because the Night, is part book, part art object, an uncanny collaboration between the author and Italian photographer Mario Pischedda. Pischedda’s electrifying images serve as cover, end page, and visual contact between each story. An image precedes the title page of […]

Richard Grossinger North Atlantic Books ($29.95) by Patrick James Dunagan Back in the 1960s Richard Grossinger began editing and publishing the rather idiosyncratic literary journal IO. In its pages creative work appears alongside the scholarly and esoteric, reveling in a lively mixture of poetry and art with ecology and psychology, embedding matters of science within […]

Quan Barry Pantheon ($24.95) by Benjamin Hankey With four books of poetry, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, some coveted prizes, and a professorship at the University of Wisconsin—Madison decorating her byline, Quan Barry comes to her debut in prose with impressive credentials. The question is, will Barry's novel be held in the same esteem as her […]

Edited by Christopher Butters, Marilyn Zuckerman, and Robert Edwards Red Dragonfly Press ($17) by Julia Stein Maggie Jaffe’s poetry is reminiscent of Bertolt Brecht’s, but with a distinctive, tough-edged American voice. After getting a B.A. from the New School for Social Research in New York, Jaffe lived in Guatemala, where she was inspired by Latin […]

INTERVIEWS Sleep is More Than Mystery: An Interview with Ralph Adamo Interviewed by Paul Dean New Orleans poet Ralph Adamo discusses his new book, Ever, and his connections with Lost Roads press and Frank Stanford, and the mysteries of place and time. Poptimism vs. Rockism: An Interview with Eric Weisbard Interviewed by Dylan Hicks Music […]