Stephen King, Author, Peter S. Beagle, Author, Laura Kasischke, Author . Underland $14.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-9802260-8-9
Brockmeier (The Brief History of the Dead
) compiles 20 eclectic and exceptional stories that “graft” fantasy with realistic fiction for this third installment of the annual anthology cofounded by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Standout...
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Laura Kasischke, Author . Harcourt $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-15-100888-9
Acclaimed poet Kasischke applies her lyrical skills to fiction in this double portrait of Diana McPhee as 40-year-old wife and mother and 17-year-old girl. As in her earlier novels (White Bird in a Blizzard
and Suspicious River), here Kasischke'
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Laura Kasischke, Author . ARRAY(0x1c297a8) $14.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-55849-352-0
Kasischke's fourth and fifth collections return to accustomed themes—frustrated domesticity, nostalgia, motherhood, marriage—leaping from personal anecdote to fairy tale to biblical or Greco-Roman myth with astonishing speed and no
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Laura Kasischke, Author . Harcourt $23 (302p) ISBN 978-0-15-101273-2
It all starts with an anonymous Valentine's Day love note that Sherry Seymour, a Michigan community college English teacher and recent empty-nester, finds in her school mailbox. Mystified and flattered, Sherry lets her husband, Jon, in on the...
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Laura Kasischke, Author . Harper Perennial $13.99 (309p) ISBN 978-0-06-176611-4
Poet and novelist Kasischke finds beauty amid the apocalypse in her timely seventh novel. The Phoenix flu is sweeping the world, causing mass hysteria, arousing profound paranoia and inciting anti-American hatred worldwide. Jiselle, 32, is a jaded...
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Laura Kasischke, Author . Wayne State Univ. $18.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8143-3464-5
A beautifully polished, evocative tale by poet, novelist, and Guggenheim fellow Kasischke (In a Perfect World
) pursues an early 20th-century utopian community in Benton Harbor, Mich., and its eventual derailment. The author depicts the evolution of
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Laura Kasischke, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-77397-0
Bestowing her gift of lyricism upon a sordid subject, acclaimed poet Kasischke (Wild Brides, 1992 winner of the Bobst Award for Emerging Writers) limns a young married woman's plunge into prostitution in a first novel that, despite alchemical prose,
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Laura Kasischke, Author Hyperion Books $22.45 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6366-2
Four crucial years in a troubled teenager's life are the focus of this eloquently written, suspenseful second novel by the author of the praised Suspicious River. Having grown up in an extraordinarily suffocating atmosphere, 16-year-old Kat Connors...
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Laura Kasischke, Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-55659-333-8
Frightening in its confrontations with death—that of a father and, eventually, of everything—Kasischke's new work is also ambitiously exhilarating: everything in life and literature, it seems, could come before her eye, could end up in a poem—"the...
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Laura Kasischke, Harper Perennial, $14.99 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-200478-9
Kasischke (In a Perfect World) delivers a satisfying if predictable campus novel that's both gothic romance and coming-of-age tale. A year after sorority girl Nicole Werner died in a car accident, Nicole's boyfriend, Craig Clements-Rabbitt, who was...
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Laura Kasischke. Sarabande (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-936747-49-8
In Kasischke’s moody first collection of stories (after eight novels and eight poetry collections, including the NBCC Award–winning Space in Chains), characters are ill equipped to handle anger and fear, and they find their old refuges lacking. In “M
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Laura Kasischke. Harper, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-228439-6
An unknown horror hovers just out of reach in this gripping psychological thriller from Kasischke (The Raising). One snowy Christmas morning in a Detroit suburb, Holly Judge and her 15-year-old daughter, Tatiana, prepare for the holiday while her...
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Laura Kasischke. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (116p) ISBN 978-1-55659-466-3
Kasischke (Space, in Chains) astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power as she considers illness and mortality through exacting, imaginative poems. The collection’s formal variety amplifies the mysterious, dreamy settings of these poems,...
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Laura Kasischke. Copper Canyon, $17 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-55659-636-0
Magic and survival are at the center of Kasischke’s marvelous 12th poetry collection. A master of the symbolic, Kasischke (Where Now) evokes shadowy figures and totems: a tongue “as white as a strip of paper” in a glass jar; “a stranger [...]...
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