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1 month ago | 
bookpage.com | Phoebe Farrell-Sherman
Ocean Vuong and Wallace Stevens share the mantle of being great poets of Hartford, Connecticut—where Vuong grew up and where Stevens spent much of his life.
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1 month ago | 
bookpage.com | Phoebe Farrell-Sherman
If you’ve spent any part of your life in New England, something about The Emperor of Gladness will be immediately familiar.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
bookpage.com | Phoebe Farrell-Sherman
The Dublin-born author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin, for which he won the National Book Award, Colum McCann returns to his Irish roots in his eighth novel, Twist, which tells the story of Irish journalist Anthony Fennell’s reportage on the…
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
bookpage.com | Phoebe Farrell-Sherman
With Scorched Earth, Tiana Clark has sculpted a collection for those who love literature and who wrestle with what it means to love themselves. From the outset of the collection, it becomes clear that we are exploring life after personal apocalypse.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
bookpage.com | Phoebe Farrell-Sherman
The title of this collection is arresting—Scorched Earth, a phrase used to describe the destructive wake left by General Sherman’s march through Georgia at the end of the Civil War. That association is strengthened by the extraordinary cover featuring Kara Walker’s Buzzard’s Roost Pass, which is printed over an 1864 illustration of one of Sherman and Johnston’s battles. Would you tell us how you chose this title and cover? How are you hoping they will set up readers for the book?
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
bookpage.com | Phoebe Farrell-Sherman
This book was nearly lost to history: It was burned with other papers of Hurston’s after her death, and only rescued, remarkably, by a friend of hers (Patrick Duval), who passed by the fire and was quick enough with a garden hose to save the manuscript. How, from there, did The Life of Herod the Great come to be in your hands? What condition was the manuscript in when you first read it?
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
bookpage.com | Phoebe Farrell-Sherman
For a collection titled Modern Poetry, the latest offering from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss spends a fair amount of time communing with the past. In the title poem, named after a textbook she studied in college, she reminisces about how she and her roommate referred to William Carlos Williams as “Billy C.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
bookpage.com | Phoebe Farrell-Sherman
Each of the poems in Victoria Chang’s latest collection responds to a painting with the same title by abstract artist Agnes Martin (1912-2004). If you aren’t familiar with Martin’s work, or typically feel unmoved by minimalist paintings, this conceit could seem like a barrier. But turn to the first poem in With My Back to the World and the magnetism of Chang’s language will convince you of the power of her project. “I learned that . . .
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
bookpage.com | Phoebe Farrell-Sherman
David Wroblewski spent 10 years writing his first book, the remarkable instant classic The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Now, 16 years later, he’s delivering a follow-up: Familiaris, which will go on sale June 4th, and is available for preorder now.
We’re thrilled to reveal the beautiful cover, as well as an exclusive excerpt, below, but first, here’s the official synopsis:
It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle’s imagination has gotten him into trouble . . . again.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
bookpage.com | Phoebe Farrell-Sherman
NonfictionMemoirGraphic Memoirs Like many little boys, Darrin Bell wanted a water gun when he was 6 years old. Unlike the white boys in his neighborhood with slick black water guns, he received a bright green one, accompanied by “The Talk” from his mom.
