2025

Is it possible to leave behind one life and find a new one? This is the provocative question Hey, Pickpocket!poses, and the result is a deeply felt exploration of grief, redemption, and the human heart. Spanning cultures and continents, foggy mornings on the Arans, and hazy memories of the States, Allison Cundiff's debut novel probes the eternal riddle of home, and the enduring allure of hope.

—Jeffrey Zuckerman

ISBN: 9781956907087

April 2025

Combining the powers of speculation of Kazuo Ishiguro and the sharp social critique of Aravind Adiga, this collection offers readers the ultimate experience of global fiction, stories bound and shaped by Katy, Texas, a place made by oil and capitalism. The stories weave between Bangladeshi characters experiencing the reality of the immigrant experience in America and those still in Bangladesh, wishing for the mythos of the American dream. Katy, an oil-rich suburb of Houston, is the background and ultimate symbol of global capitalism. The stories deliver the reality and impact of isolation, materialism, and the looming climate disaster. With sharp intelligence and humor, Wahhaj explores the oil industry's destructive effect on those who live within Texas and those far beyond its borders. 

ISBN: 9781956907131

Presale. 

The stories in Kathryn Kruse’s collection startle with their attention to our most elemental selves: our bodies, our work, our health, our language. We share these traits with the characters, and what’s startling is not so much the familiar moments as the ways in which moments both familiar and unfamiliar intersect and entangle themselves into unusual arrangements. We’re never fully alone, this extraordinary collection suggests. Someone’s always trying to reach us. These stories are a wonderful reminders of that truth—shockingly accurate, bracingly funny, wonderful company all around. 

—Juan Martinez

ISBN: 9781956907124

Amazon

In the wonderful memoir Solace, Cornelia Maude Spelman says, “Everything I have always been writing in my diaries is about Time.” With compelling frankness and consistent intimacy, she explores a rich tapestry of generations of lives, considering so many facets of what makes a life difficult as well as profound—alcoholism, recovery, loss, illness and death, the raising of children, presence and absence, mixed feelings about parents and ancestors, a devotion to art, and marriage—both when it’s comfortable

and when it isn’t. I admire deeply what I have always loved about Spelman’s writing—her willingness to tell an honest story, create moods, then gaze thoughtfully into them, weighing what one does next, or figuring out how it all goes together. This book is a gem.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

ISBN: 9781956907162

Hoax meets homage in this glorious collection, an imaginary where bespoke apocrypha and wishful thinking invite us into a labyrinth of possibility, association, and a kind of readerly revisionist collaboration. Funny, subversive, and authoritatively anti-authoritarian, Glage finds no tradition unassailable or otherwise invulnerable to his joyful repurposing. What Stanley Crawford did for travel writing in Travel Notes, Glage does for and to storytelling and bibliophilia. Joachim Glage is not only a writers’ writer but perhaps writing’s writer. Borges is dancing in his grave.

—Andrew Tonkovich

ISBN: 9781956907117

In 1929, Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize for Buddenbrooks. While he balked at working with a female translator, his standing in the Western canon can be in part credited to the translating work of Helen Lowe-Porter. Based closely on historical source material, the novel follows a young Helen as she struggles against gender roles in the early-mid 20th century to realize the life she desires as a writer and translator. Married to the charming classicist Elias Lowe, whom she met and fell in love with in Munich, the story weaves one woman’s journey as her husband Elias’s career soars, and her translation work earns Mann the Nobel Prize. The novel celebrates the life of Helen Lowe-Porter as she learns to risk stepping out from the long shadow of the dominating men of her life to become a person of letters in her own right. 

ISBN: 9781956907056

The rain-sodden, southern world of David Wesley Williams’ Everybody Knows overflows with satiric fun as it churns up a rich detritus of Biblical allusions, political backstory, musical opinions, literary puns, and local anecdote. The story, set a decade hence, introduces a raft of characters, too, including musicians, an escaped felon, a tyrannical governor atop his state’s old electric chair, various and likable sidekicks and mistresses, and even a writer, the ironic double of the work’s author, whose enthusiasm for his subject matter spills over into strongly opinionated footnotes. And that’s all before the pirates arrive. Original, energetic, and obsessive, Everybody Knows recalls the worlds of Faulkner, Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, and John Kennedy Toole in its broad wit and sorrowful joy.   

ISBN:  9781737513469 

 In eleven fearless, wide-ranging stories, The Sexual Lives of Suburbanites offers us a sometimes absurdist, sometimes satirical but always fresh glimpse into the things that trouble us most. From materialism to regrets and everything in-between, Stenson dissects suburban milieu. Whether narrated by e-trading infants or drug addicts, the characters' worlds unfold with energy and surprise. Variously whimsical, obsessive, charming, and dark, the stories also break your heart.