Pittsburgh, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, June 2023. Described as a “...tender postmodern meditation [on] …the human heart itself” (Ron A. Austin), James Brubaker’s new novel employs a constellation of narrative possibilities in its quest to understand how we can live with loneliness and grief. For some time, the narrator, a......
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, May 2023. The stories in Michael Czyzniejewski’s new collection showcase a menagerie of personalities: the Bigamist, the Pyromaniac, the Nihilist, among others—all of whom reveal a moment of existential crisis. This is not a question of “How the world works” or “How best to live”.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, 2023. The stories in Jen Michalski’s new collection reveal an America in which ideas of genuine community ring false and the spiritual backbone of family life is damaged, perhaps beyond repair. Characters, many of them queer Gen-Xers of a certain age, find themselves looking—often desperately—for.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, 2022. Praise for RemembranceThurmond’s poems of personal loss move us by implying a shared vulnerability. They also square up quietly to the imponderable impact of death and how it impresses irreversibly lost opportunities. He melds “poetic” language with the colloquial to suggest the elusiveness of.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, July 2022. Praise for Sounds of the Night “Sounds of the Night is perfectly titled and perfectly shaped, a work of prose fiction that incorporates true poetry. William Lychack shows both range and depth; he traverses astonishing landscapes, from “The Devil's Slide” of the Portland Cement Company to the floor-mat.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, 2022. Working on a broad dramatic canvas, Jewel Thomas’s new novel, Abandoned in the Lions’ Den, takes the reader on a heady rollercoaster ride through the most influential events of the twentieth century African-American experience—the Great Migration, the Depression, World War II, and the cultural revolution.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, Oct. 19, 2021. Described as a “…collective of love and longing, of disappointment and loss and, ultimately, faith” (William Lychack), John Vanderslice’s new novel, Nous Nous, lays out a dark vision of the awful human consequences a community faces when one man’s small world is.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, September 2020. In the small lake town where LuLu, Rainey, and Saul are growing up, day-to-day life is anything but easy. Navigating the usual obstacles of youth would be enough for anyone, but for this trio a world marred by the Vietnam war, detached parents.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, June 1, 2020. Radio Eldorado again proves that Tyrone Jaeger is a “writer with a big heart, a delight in language, and a deft and subtle touch” (Lauren Groff). Painting on a canvas large enough to encompass all the hopes and fears of a generation.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, June 1, 2020. Imagine stepping into an apartment expecting to meet your brother and his young family only to discover twin babies abandoned to a merciless and empty interior. In prose that resonates with energy and introspection, Pushcart Prize nominee Siân Griffiths brings us to.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, February 2020. There is good reason why William Lychack’s writing has been called “Precise, exhilarating, sometimes wonderfully funny and always beautiful” (Margot Livesey). In prose you can practically feel moving in your hands, Cargill Falls takes you through a series of unforgettable scenes that coalesce.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, September 2019. For music journalist Daniel Morus the notion that things could be going better is a double album-sized understatement. He finds himself on the wrong side of a brief second marriage, professionally irrelevant, and facing the last act of his life with few friends.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, June 2019. There are stories and then there are Ron MacLean stories—the ones that seem almost impossible to believe, the ones that dig deep into layers of truth, the ones you simply can’t get out of your head. In prose that crackles like high-tension wires.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, May 2019. The author of the award-winning What the Zhang Boys Know (“…utterly beautiful and unforgettable”—Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang) now gives us a heart-rending first novel about love, displacement, and the powerful ghosts that haunt so many families.The Alexanders have farmed the.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, May 2019. Widely known as a masterful storyteller, David H. Lynn is also the highly regarded editor of The Kenyon Review. In this probing collection of new and selected stories, Lynn brings his keen eye and astute sense of drama and narrative to bear on.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, October 2018. So Many True Believers gives voice to the wanton, the restless, and those hellbent on self-destruction. The Nat Mota School for at-risk youth is the nexus of Tyrone Jaeger’s spiraling narrative; loosed from it is an array of characters yearning, raging, and chasing.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, December 2018. The world is in crisis. Every day geopolitical tensions and uncontrollable natural disasters threaten to destroy life as we know it, and for cosmologist Dr. Theodore “Teddy” Copeland, getting lost in his work seems to be the only reasonable stance to take as.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, September 2018. The Best Small Fictions is the first contemporary anthology solely devoted to honoring the best short hybrid fiction published in a calendar year. The series, which began in 2015, has featured an international group of both seasoned and emerging authors who work in.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, June 12, 2018. In New York City, college isn’t just paid for—it’s bought. Admissions draws back the veil of privilege on New York’s affluent applicants and the families that will do anything to secure their futures. The right high school, the right SAT tutor…everything counts.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, March 2018. Eli was right. The act of kindness he envisioned as a lesson to his young son Mark would have serious consequences. Just not the ones he imagined. In carefully modulated prose, Curtis Smith takes us on a journey into one family’s encounter with.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, Reissue November 2017. This second installment of The Best Small Fictions, edited by series editor Tara L. Masih and guest editor Stuart Dybek, continues to celebrate the diversity and quality captured in fiction forms fewer than 1,000 words. Forty-five acclaimed and emerging writers--including Alberto Chimal.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, Reissue November 2017. Featuring spotlights on Pleiades journal and Michael Martone, this international volume—with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler serving as guest editor and award-winning editor Tara L. Masih as series editor—is a celebration of the diversity and quality captured in fiction forms fewer.....
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, January 30, 2018. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough arrived in the United States from Poland in 1984, bringing memories of life under a totalitarian regime, where the personal was always political. In essay after essay in Objects of Affection, her remarkable debut, Hryniewicz-Yarbrough shows the immigrant’s double perspective.....
Braddock, PA: Alleyway Books, October 10, 2017. With the publication of Remember to Forget Me comes the highly anticipated follow-up to Kerry Neville’s award-winning debut, Necessary Lies. In this new volume, Neville peers with a steady eye into the universal struggle to lead a life of purpose and dignity. In.....
Braddock, PA: Alleyway Books, July 11, 2017. Every Single Bone in My Brain is an enthralling debut story collection—by turns electric and thoughtful, comic and wise. A young music journalist tries to avoid becoming a band groupie, only to discover she has far more to offer to their music than.....
