Santa Fe Writer S Project: 41 books

Cover of Difficult Weather
by Rose Solari, Katherine Young
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014

This new edition of the first full-length collection of poems by award-winning writer Rose Solari provides an important window into the origins and early influences of this now-established poet and novelist. Though most of these poems are set in Washington, DC, and its less affluent suburbs, their...
Cover of Richard Peabody Reader
by Richard Peabody, Michael Dirda
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

Filling an important gap in the literary world, The Richard Peabody Reader is a wide-ranging selection of this great writer's poetry and prose. As a publisher, Peabody's steadfast dedication to that which is new, challenging, innovative, and dynamic has won him a wide reputation among writers whose...
Cover of Authentic Captain Marvel Ring and Other Stories
by Alan Cheuse
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

The very best short stories and novellas from National Public Radio's Alan Cheuse are brought together in a quintessential collection. Countless listeners depend on the book reviews from Cheuse, America's "voice of books," and many of those listeners also follow his own critically acclaimed...
Cover of Paradise, or, Eat Your Face

Paradise, or, Eat Your Face

A Trio of Novellas

by Alan Cheuse
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

From acclaimed author Alan Cheuse -- National Public Radio's longtime "Voice of Books" -- comes a trio of provocative novellas. In the title piece, "Paradise, or, Eat Your Face," we meet travel writer Susan Wheelis and follow her exotic journey to Bali, and into her own frustrated...
Cover of The Last Girl
by Rose Solari
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014

A shimmering girl who disappears in daylight. A boy who goes to war and comes back forever broken. New landscapes in which old ghosts appear, telling their bits of stories. Lovers and losses, visions and dreams—such are the people, places, and images who fill Rose Solari’s third collection of...
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Black Livingstone

A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo

by Pagan Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

A largely untold story of an extraordinary historical figure, this biography sheds light on the life of William Sheppard, a 19th-century African American who, for more than 20 years, defied segregation and operated a missionary run by black Americans in the Belgian Congo. This work shows how Sheppard...
Cover of The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories
by Pagan Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008

Nonfiction is the new black comedy in this hilarious collection of award-winning literary essays written by the infamous Pagan Kennedy. In the title piece, Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex, reinvents himself as a sex guru in California and hatches a plan to destroy monogamy forever. In the stories...
Cover of Bermuda Shorts
by James Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

In clothing, Bermuda Shorts are a kind of casual formal wear – and in this collection of essays, Bermuda Shorts is the perfect metaphor for James J. Patterson’s fundamentally serious but playful literary style. Patterson writes like the love child of Henry Miller and Mary Karr, with all the contradictions...
Cover of My Chinese-America
by Allen Gee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

Eloquently written essays about aspects of Asian American life comprise this collection that looks at how Asian-Americans view themselves in light of America's insensitivities, stereotypes, and expectations. My Chinese-America speaks on masculinity, identity, and topics ranging from Jeremy Lin and...
Cover of Fatal Light
by Richard Currey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009

A devastating portrait of war in all its horror, brutality, and mindlessness, this extraordinary novel is written in beautifully cadenced prose. A combat medic in Vietnam faces the chaos of war, set against the tranquil scenes of family life back home in small-town America. This young man’s rite...
Cover of That Paris Year
by Joanna Biggar
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

In That Paris Year, five smart, adventurous young women arrive on the banks of the Seine in 1962 for their junior year abroad. What they get is an education of a different sort. As they move from the grueling demands of the Sorbonne by day to late nights of discovery in smoky cafes, the young Americans...
Cover of 'Zine
by Pagan Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

Back in print for the first time in a decade, this is the hilarious autobiography of a pioneer of the 1990s zine movement. A young woman named Pagan, having just graduated from a writing program at a very prestigious university, is left with a single burning question: Now what? She then takes an unusual...
Cover of Milk and Other Stories
by Simon Fruelund
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

The 14 stories in this collection display the often quiet, inconspicuous way in which terrible truths and experiences are intimated: the death of a sailboarder makes a widower see deeper into love and loss; a young poet visits his former teacher only to discover he is literally not the person he used...
Cover of Modern Manners For Your Inner Demons
by Tara Laskowski
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

The best-selling indie hit returns! This revised, expanded edition of Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons brings the darker side of social behavior back to the shelves. Tara Laskowski’s demonically clever stories break the rules of a "decent" society, providing a definitive guide on the...
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