[vc_row][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][/vc_row] [vc_row][vc_column width='1/2'] AVAILABLE NOW The lives of two librarians become dangerously intertwined in this razor-sharp exploration of human nature and the lure of artistic obsession. No one knows Margo’s real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged...
[vc_row][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][/vc_row] [vc_row][vc_column width='1/2'] AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE NOW In this taut, arresting debut, a woman becomes fixated on her neighbor—the actress. Though the two women live just a few doors apart, a chasm lies between them. The actress, a celebrity with a charmed career, shares a gleaming...
[vc_row][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][/vc_row] [vc_row][vc_column width='1/2'] In her fourth poetry collection, STAYING ALIVE, Laura Sims envisions the state of the world and of human existence before, during and after the forever-imminent apocalypse. In channeling and sampling works of apocalyptic fiction and non-fiction — The War of...
[vc_row][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][/vc_row] [vc_row][vc_column width='1/2'] The poems in Sims’ third collection engage the escarpment of the page itself: walled-off phrases set against spare lines on largely empty pages, a proto-graphical representation of thought itself. The result are poems of psychic fragmentation: relationship as crime-scene, the...
[vc_row][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][/vc_row] [vc_row][vc_column width='1/2'] In this first-ever book of letters by novelist David Markson—a quintessential "writer's writer" whose work David Foster Wallace once lauded as "pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country"—readers will experience Markson at his wittiest and warmest....
[vc_row][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][/vc_row] [vc_row][vc_column width='1/2'] A mother's illness and death is only the beginning of the story of STRANGER. This is a death whose presence and particulars are inscribed. We feel from all angles, as Sims's quicksilver narrative moves through a mother's life and its...
[vc_row][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][/vc_row] [vc_row][vc_column width='1/2'] Laura Sims's debut is the work of an organic synthesizer, one practiced in the restrained art of listening. Her poems exhibit an attenuation that is akin to devotion: by means of maxim and miniaturization, she sorts and stacks the products...