Book #1 in our Blue Bustard Memoir Series "Lyrical and funny and wise, Catto's one-of-a-kind family memoir is a stunning valentine to story telling." - Catherine Browder, author of Secret Lives "An intimate, rather than private look at family life, Patricia Catto applies an impeccable ear and a Coppola-like eye to paint a wonderfully exquisite, moving memoir of the Italian-American experience. Grazie " - Joey Nicoletti, author of Cannoli Gangster "Brisk, frank and always funny... With surpassing compassion, Catto animates the mothers, fathers, seers, ne'er-do-wells, misanthropes and heroes,...

A gorgeous, haunting portrait of the 'we' that lurks in every family. In order to extract something beyond beautiful from ordinary words, c.vance retold his family's history abstractly rather than using the traditional memoir form. Somewhere in the process, the story infected words and the words became fable. Now, the author finds it difficult to remember if his grandfather really built bridges or something else - and in what way his father actually harvested land - and where his parents truly met - and how the world finally ended. In some places, the words succeeded in becoming something...

Book #3 in our Blue Bustard Memoir Series

"Best LGBT Book of 2012" -Laurie Weeks

"Anna Joy Springer fabulates a trauma memoir of losing her bipolar lover to AIDS and, in so doing, creates a unique literary form, one that ignores the often fraught line between truth and fiction in pursuit of something more elusive" -American Book Review

"A powerful book of love, trauma, loss, and forgiveness." -Lambda Literary

"A page turner...electric" -Alice Notley, author of The Descent of Alette and Culture of One

"There is only one Anna Joy Springer. Only one. Her words take me from...

AN ANTHOLOGY OF ART AND WRITING FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION "It's pleasant being naked, as swimmer or writer or reader.... Naked's a way of being free, unencumbered by garment or censor. There exists no other way of knowing certain things, or oneself, without stripping away." -from the Preface by Debra Di Blasi, editor One artist and 54 writers accepted the challenge of creatively defining "dirty" in the 21st Century. Mugi Takei's delicate, profane watercolors position the human body within, on and against nature. While some writers surrendered to play through sexually explicit love...

A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 2013 BOOKS OF THE YEAR FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION

"An Honest Ghost is brilliantly conceived and brilliantly performed." - Adam Phillips, critic and author of Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Inspired by the task of unpacking his library, the narrator returns to writing an autobiographical novel about the sudden appearance his son, Joe, who at age nine shows up on the narrator's doorstep for the first time. The narrator, unnerved by the prospect of sharing his life with his extremely precocious child, is nonetheless moved by Joe's...

COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION. "These rich, spare poems are here to remind us that we are mistaken, thinking so rarely of transformations, and when we do, in thinking mostly of the ends of them. Is the room places us in contact with transformation as action, where with this book's speaker, we come alive to domestic and sentient processes rife with illusion, breakings up and down, passing, being passed, hiddenness, exposure, signs, the failure of signs, waiting, glimpses, dismantling, joy. Rosetta Ballew-Jennings shares Jean Valentine's love of silences (deep listening is there), but these...

A magical, heart-wrenching story about women born covered in hair, and how they love.

"Beth Couture's "Women Born with Fur"is a marvelously strange concoction, a cocktail of super-realism, fantasy, surrealism, occultism, and pop art, Rosenquist style. She develops her lovely conceit with care and kindness, leading us into a heartbreaking world we've never imagined, but in which we feel strangely comforted and right at home. An intoxicating book and brew." -Frederick Barthelme, author of"Waveland" and "There Must Be Some Mistake"

"Where the magic of invention meets up with the heft of...

"Paul's prose is skillful, almost ornate, and obsessed with the truth of the modern experience of religion. "A Song of Ilan "is a remarkable exploration of issues and experiences that are often discounted or outright ignored in American writing today." - "The Public"

"A philosophic meditation on the interplay between religion, violence, and personal faith, "A Song of Ilan" is about what it means to live in a world after 9/11, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as seen through its protagonist, Ilan's, desire for God. Through Ilan we see how a direct relationship with God (or the hope...