Graywolf Press imprint: 249 books

by Leslie Jamison
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for...
by Esmé Weijun Wang
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right...

Notes from No Man's Land

American Essays

by Eula Biss
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies....

The Grey Album

On the Blackness of Blackness

by Kevin Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012

*Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism* *A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Literary Criticism and Essays Pick for Spring 2012* The Grey Album, the first work of prose by the brilliant poet Kevin Young, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Taking...

Leaving Orbit

Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight

by Margaret Lazarus Dean
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015

Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of...

Karate Chop

Stories

by Dorthe Nors
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

The first book in English by an acclaimed Danish writer: "beautiful, faceted, haunting stories . . . [from] a rising star" (Junot Díaz) Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors's acclaimed story collection, is the debut book in the collaboration between Graywolf Press and A Public Space. These fifteen...
by Jeffery Renard Allen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

**"Will put Allen in the company of writers such as James Joyce, August Wilson, and Ralph Ellison." —**The Philadelphia Inquirer When it was first published fifteen years ago, Jeffery Renard Allen's debut novel, Rails Under My Back, earned its author comparisons to some of the giants...

If You Want to Write

A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

by Brenda Ueland
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010

THE GRAYWOLF BESTSELLER NOW AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FORM But we must try to find our True Conscience, our True Self, the very Center, for this is the only first-rate choice-making center. Here lies all originality, talent, honor, truthfulness, courage and cheerfulness. Here lies the ability to choose...

Black Glasses Like Clark Kent

A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan

by Terese Svoboda
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012

After her Uncle's suicide, Terese Svoboda investigates his stunning claim that MPs may have executed their own men during the occupation of Japan after World War II [Our captain] commended us for being good soldiers and doing our job well and having a minimum of problems. Then he dropped a...

Burning Down the House

Essays on Fiction

by Charles Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013

Graywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles Baxter As much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiring writers, Burning Down the House has been enjoyed by readers and taught in classrooms for...
by Sara Majka
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016

In subtle, sensuous prose, the stories in Sara Majka's debut collection explore distance in all its forms: the emotional spaces that open up between family members, friends, and lovers; the gaps that emerge between who we were and who we are; the gulf between our private and public selves. At the...
by Paul Lisicky
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Paul Lisicky remembers being not much like other boys his age, but rather the awkward thirteen-year-old with "arms thick as drinking straws," who composes tunes in his head that he might later send to Folk Mass Today or to the producers of The Partridge Family. Born into a family whose incremental...
by Binyavanga Wainaina
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011

*A New York Times Notable Book* *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* *A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year* Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colorful...
by Justin Hocking
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014

Surfing in Far Rockaway, romantic obsession, and Moby-Dick converge in this winning and refreshing memoir Justin Hocking lands in New York hopeful but adrift—he's jobless, unexpectedly overwhelmed and disoriented by the city, struggling with anxiety and obsession, and attempting to maintain...
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