We are pleased to offer our readers the following list of noteworthy books, many of
which are by authors whose work appears in Serving House Journal. Please
click on cover images for details.
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Winter Tales: Men Write About Aging
Edited by Duff Brenna and Thomas E. Kennedy
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A collection of poems, stories, essays, and drawings
available from Serving House Books in November 2011 *
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(To view quotations on back cover,
click on image and then resize as needed.)
* Companion collection, Winter Tales: Women Write About Aging, available in 2012
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The Tiger’s Eye: New and Selected Stories
By Gladys Swan
“…one of America’s most distinguished writers of fiction, long and
short…. Swan’s way is to make music of harsh reality…”
—Kelly Cherry, poet laureate of Virginia 2010-2012
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The Bay of Marseilles and Other Stories
By Greg Herriges
“…a brilliant collection of stories, precise in details—about possibility
and yearning and loss and intimacy—and sweeping in scope. What a fine, fine book
this is….”
—Tony Romano, author of When the World Was Young
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Korean Echoes: A Collection Not By the Numbers But in Alpha Formation
Poetry by Tom Sheehan
“…steel moments of clarity rendered from language…a testament to the tenacity
of the human spirit to survive the killing fields of war through time eternal.”
—From Barnes and Noble overview
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This River
Memoir by James Brown
(Issue 3 Featured Author)
“…raw and palpable and beats like a heart. Brown gave everything
he had: infinite strength, exacting discipline, fearsome courage…
When you put this book down, trust me, you will think about it for a long
time.”
—Robert Olmstead
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Falling Sideways
A Novel by Thomas E. Kennedy
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USA Edition,
March 2011
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UK edition,
November 2011
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“Sharp, funny, but remarkably tender,
Falling Sideways
is the second book in Kennedy’s virtuoso
Copenhagen Quartet,
and a book that will continue to build his
reputation
as one of America’s most versatile literary novelists.”
—Bloomsbury Publishing
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The Girl With Red Hair: Musings on a Theme
Edited by Thomas E. Kennedy and Walter Cummins
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“Inspired by centuries of red hair lore, but especially
the languorous photo on the front cover, nineteen authors
created stories, poems, and an essay to reveal the special
powers of the world’s redheads, the forces of their hold
over the other 98 percent of humanity.”
—Serving House Books
The Story Behind the Book
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What We Choose to Remember
Memoir by Steve Heller
“…The narrative essays in What We Choose to Remember
tread the tenuous, shifting grounds of memory, revealing how our
imperfect recollections shape not only how we live our lives, but
[also] the act of storytelling itself.”
—Serving House Books
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George W. Bush Buys Coke in Mid-Eternity
By Liam MacSheóinín
“…a Menippean satire [which] relocates James Joyce’s
Dublin to the New Jersey shore with the same spirit of inventive wordplay.
Frank McCourt called an excerpt ‘a language mad romp with many,
many laughs along the way.’”
—Serving House Books
Read an
excerpt…
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A Democracy of Ghosts
A Novel by John Griswold
(Issue 2
Featured Author)
“A brilliant and lyrical historical novel…conjures the affairs behind one
of the most violent labor disputes in American history—the brutal killing
of 21 scabs and coal miners…”
—The Huffington Post
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Lurid Confessions
Poems by Steve Kowit
(Issue 2 Featured
Poet)
“…a verse perfectly apt for our epoch:
half
flamboyant farce, and
half sebastomanic matanza.”
—Harold Flowerd
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In the Company of Angels
A Novel by Thomas E. Kennedy
(Issue 1 Featured Author)
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USA Edition
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UK edition
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“A luminous love story and an internationally
acclaimed masterpiece, published in
the US and the UK for the first time.”
—Bloomsbury Publishing
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Speech Acts
Poems by Laura McCullough
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“Bold, witty, erotic, and provocative,
McCullough’s poems re-imagine for our time
E. M. Forster’s tremendous artistic and
humane injunction: ‘only connect!’”
—Fred Marchant, author of Tipping Point,
winner of the Washington Prize in poetry
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Usher
Poems by B. H. Fairchild
“…one of those poets prose readers love:
Meaty, maximalist, driven by narrative, [Fairchild] stakes out an American mythos
in which the personal and the collective blur…”
—David L. Ulin, book editor, Los Angeles Times
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The End of the Circle
Stories by Walter Cummins
“…stories of men and women displaced: from their
homelands, from lovers, from families, from careers and ambitions, but most poignantly
(and often chillingly) from themselves…”
—Peter Selgin, author of Drowning Lessons and
Life Goes to Hollywood
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The Consequence of Skating
A Novel by Steven Gillis
“…blends politics, drama, ice skating, mountain
climbing, the music industry and world affairs—not to mention artificial
intelligence and G.O.D.—to create an inimitable tour de force.”
—Dzanc Books
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Pirate Talk or Mermalade
A Novel by Terese Svoboda
“Told entirely through dialogue, this quirky tale
of period pirate wannabes makes a jeu d’esprit of the privateer life
even as it baldly de-romanticizes it.”
—Publisher’s Weekly, 20 July 2010
Author interviewed in Issue 2
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Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche
to Belly Dancing
Literary and Cultural Essays
by Yahia Lababidi
“…his sentences… spring back to the touch… There is also a
finely calibrated sense of the absurd, the whimsical, the slyly surrealistic
throughout…”
—Eric Ormsby, author of Ghazali (Makers of
the Muslim World)
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Signposts to Elsewhere: A Book of Aphorisms, Epigrams, Maxims, and
Other Tailored Thoughts
By Yahia Lababidi
“That little book is brilliant…think of the wild mind
of Blake and the calmly collected Wallace Stevens, with a touch of Franz Kafka’s
hammer inside a velvet glove.”
—Duff Brenna, author of The Holy Book of the Beard
and The Law of Falling Bodies
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The Book of Worst Meals:
25 Authors Write about
Terrible
Culinary Experiences
Edited by Walter Cummins and
Thomas E. Kennedy
“…tales of wretched dining in Paris, Edinburgh,
Philadelphia, and throughout the UK, as well as disastrous holiday meals and the
food of failed relationships.”
—Serving House Books
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The Holy Book of the Beard
A Novel by Duff Brenna
“If Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski, Damon Runyon, John Kennedy Toole
and Samuel Beckett were all rolled into one literary package, the result would be Duff
Brenna’s [novel]…an uproarious ride…”
—Lauren B. Davis, author of The Stubborn Season
and The Radiant City
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