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The Slap and the Salamander

Publishers of internationalprose, poetry, art,and literary hybrids. The Slap and the Salamander The essays in The Slap and the Salamander move from an execution in seventeenth century Japan to a meditation on the nature of long-tailed tits; from thoughts sparked by the building of a new school to an imaginative approach...

Job Postings

Publishers of internationalprose, poetry, art,and literary hybrids. Shakespearean Job PostingsIn Shakespearean Job Postings: Interviews with Characters Profoundly Unfit for their Intended Professions Stephen Cramer envisions a slew of Shakespearean characters, one from each of the Bard's 38 plays, being grilled about why...

Summer of ’85

Publishers of internationalprose, poetry, art,and literary hybrids. Summer of '85FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2024 THOMAS E. KENNEDY NOVEL AWARD A new Nine Lives Edition with a new preface by the author! Summer of '85 is the story of an old summer love and a modern tragedy: part coming-of-age story, part mid-life crisis story,...

Feather Sel

Publishers of internationalprose, poetry, art,and literary hybrids. Feather & SelWINNER OF THE 2026 THOMAS E. KENNEDY NOVEL AWARD: Sel, an eighty-year-old former marine recovering from a broken hip in Shady Shores nursing home deep in the heat of Florida, wants to return to his childhood home in Ohio, but his hip...

More and Less than a Friend

Publishers of internationalprose, poetry, art,and literary hybrids. More and Less than a Friend: The Songwriting Partnership of Tamás Cseh and Géza Bereményi in HungaryIn December 1970, Tamás Cseh and Géza Bereményi met after midnight, among mutual friends, at a pub in Budapest. The next day, they wrote their first two...

A Way of Happening

Publishers of internationalprose, poetry, art,and literary hybrids. A Way of Happening: Essays on Art, Work, and TravelA Way of Happening is Robert Stewart's latest collection of essays on Art, Work, and Travel.Author: Robert StewartPaperback : 176 pagesLiterature: EssaysISBN-13 : 9781972482155Robert Stewart’s book of...

If You Think Your Heart Can Take It

Publishers of internationalprose, poetry, art,and literary hybrids. If You Think Your Heart Can Take ItShort stories by Suzanne McConnellAuthor: Suzanne McConnellPaperback: 228 pages, 2026Literature | Short FictionISBN-13: 9781972482094 Suzanne McConnell’s award-winning stories have appeared in many literary magazines and...

Everything

Publishers of internationalprose, poetry, art,and literary hybrids. EverythingEverything is J.R. Solonche's seventh book with Serving House Books. It is his second of four releases in 2026. Author: J.R. SolonchePaperback, 114 pages, 2026ISBN-13: 9781972482179Nominated for the National Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book...

Furnace Room

Publishers of internationalprose, poetry, art,and literary hybrids. The Furnace RoomFifteen year old Robbie Merlin’s turbulent coming-of-age draws him through the furnace room at his high school into the hidden Arthurian world of Dragon Light. Here he learns he is a Fire Tender charged with re-igniting the forge and...

Thinking Through

Publishers of internationalprose, poetry, art,and literary hybrids. Thinking Through to the Other Side: A Memoir of IndiaThis is a story about three years the author spent in India, not as a seeker of Truth in an ashram but as a mother caring for two little boys while her journalist husband covered stories all over South...

The Fireflies

Publishers of internationalprose, poetry, art,and literary hybrids. The FirefliesRichard is driving south on the New Jersey Turnpike. Suddenly, a commercial airplane explodes above him and his world changes forever. From small town New Jersey to Key West, Florida, to the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, The Fireflies...

Painting Stories

Publishers of internationalprose, poetry, art,and literary hybrids. Painting StoriesA unique memoir of an artist’s life. For decades, Peter Selgin struggled to reconcile his two great passions, writing and visual art, feeling that he had to choose between them or fail at both. In this unique memoir pairing pictures with...

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