Pushing the boundaries of what poetry can hold
A recreation of Tokyo in the 1880s by one of Japan’s most influential novelists
A translation of “The Sting of Death” and other stories by Japanese short fiction writer Shimao Toshio
A provocative short story collection planted at fertile and futile crossroads of self and surroundings
An eccentric, otherworldly guide to the domestic spaces Americans inhabit
Following his celebrated debut collection Super Flat Times, Matthew Derby delivers a disturbing new set of stories that plunges us into a lonely heartland of misfits, outcasts, and would-be assassins who lurk in the shadows, searching for connection and meaning in all the wrong places
A story about the passed-along People, about how we are the same and how we are different, about how we become who we are and how we protect our most private places from the cold glare of all that we cannot control
A collection of stories drawn from Michigan’s rich folk heritage
A fictionalized case of medical ethics in Northern Michigan
The story of two Lebanese immigrant cousins who concoct a scheme to import a potent strain of hashish into the United States, using the family's mortuary business as a cover
Arsenic shatters a family in 19th-century Michigan
Lively and engaging essays on aspects of the writer's craft from an acclaimed novelist
A funny, sexy novel about Jewish families in the Midwest
A master storyteller and teacher talks about the tools of the fiction writer's craft
This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates
Where No Gods Came, the 2003 winner of the Michigan Literary Fiction Award for original novel, is a candid portrait of the unlikely faces of good and evil, and how an innocent must learn to recognize them to endure
A novel that puts the reader right in the heart of the 1967 Detroit race riots
A haunting story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope in a time of war
A stirring collection of keenly observed stories from the 2007 winner of the Michigan Literary Fiction Award for short fiction
Startling and compelling stories of small-town life in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
A sharply written piece of fiction that combines memories we all have of attending school with hot-button issues ranging from culture clash to school politics to homosexuality
A family epic of a generation coming of age in a time of cultural upheaval
The searching, poetic tale of emotional and intellectual discovery experienced by two young women from different worlds who come together at a Catholic girl's college