Michael Ryan, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (148p) ISBN 978-0-618-40854-2
Michael Ryan's three collections-the Yale Younger-winning Threats Instead of Trees (1974), the National Poetry Series selection In Winter (1981) and the Lenore Marshall-winning God Hunger (1989)-are represented by 11, 12 and 34 pieces, ...
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Michael Ryan. Permanent, $29 (264p) ISBN 978-1-57962-440-8
Set in L.A. in 1996, Ryan’s first novel blends old-fashioned romance and humorous adventure. One unusually rainy day, stand-up comic Robert Wilder drives beautiful bank teller Sabine to her home to Malibu, where they end up in bed, even though he’s...
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Michael Ryan, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-76776-3
Poet Ryan's sexual confession spans from when he was molested at the age of five to his own free-fall into obsessive sexual behavior. (July)
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Michael Ryan, Author Pantheon Books $25 (356p) ISBN 978-0-679-40775-1
Ryan (God Hunger), from a devout Catholic family, was sexually molested at age five by a 23-year-old neighbor and, like many such victims, blamed himself primarily and his parents secondarily. His youth was complicated by his alcoholic father, who...
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Michael Ryan, Author . Graywolf $17 (170p) ISBN 978-1-55597-398-8
Thanks to advances in reproductive technology, the memoir genre has spawned a new offspring: the infertility saga. The plot is predictable: people want a baby but can't get pregnant; they consult infertility specialists, endure various...
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Michael Ryan, Author Viking Books $17.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-670-82498-4
Ryan's disarming voice in his third poetry collection (after In Winter and Threats Instead of Trees ) is a quietly intimate one: ``I think of myself as dust of bones / mornings when I awake / to find the fine white ash / lining the bottom of my box...
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Michael Ryan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $20 (96p) ISBN 978-0-547-68459-8
Sometimes, the poems in Michael Ryan’s fifth book—the first since his New and Selected Poems won the Kingsley Tufts Award in 2004—concentrate on matters so close at hand they appear charmingly picayune: a garbage truck persona poem, a reminiscence...
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Michael Ryan and Luke Burgess. Hardie Grant, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-174379479-1
Australian chefs Ryan and Burgess bring readers on a daylong escapade through the thrumming streets of Tokyo in this vibrantly photographed debut. Enrolling a cast of industry insiders for guidance, the chefs make their way from cramped coffee shops
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