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NewPages Book Stand – January 2021

January 20, 2021 Posted by Katy Haas

Be sure to check out the first Book Stand of 2021! We start the year off with six featured titles, as well as other great new and forthcoming fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books.

Featured All the Rage by Rosamond S. King addresses everyday pleasure as well as the present condition of racism in the United States—a time marked both by recurring police violence and intense artistic creativity—from a variety of perspectives: being Black, an immigrant, a woman, and queer.

The fifth edition of The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics by Lewis Turco is the go-to reference and guide for students, teachers, and critics filled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies.

Benjamin S. Grossberg’s My Husband Would is at the crossroads of middle age, this book investigates love and family—both the families we are born into and those we create for ourselves.

The stories in Siamak Vossoughi’s A Sense of the Whole feature characters who refuse to believe that we are unconnected, refuse to not aspire to the notion of the human family across all manner of differences.

In The Shape of the Keyhole, Denise Bergman examines a community’s fear-driven silence and envisions the innocent woman’s days as she awaits her execution.

Women Speak: Volume Six edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour brings “offerings of survival and strength” of the fierce women of Appalachia.

You can learn more about each of these New & Noteworthy books at our website. Click here to see how to place your book in our New & Noteworthy section.

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NewPages Book Stand – December 2020

December 22, 2020 Posted by Katy Haas

The last Book Stand of the year is here! As usual, we’ve featured five titles, and you can find other great fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books at our website.

Featured nonfiction Fragments of a Mortal Mind by Donald Anderson shows us how the disparate elements of our lives collect to construct our deepest selves and help us to make sense of it all.

Mckenzie Cassidy’s Here Lies a Father follows fifteen-year-old Ian as he uncovers the truths of his late father’s life and secret families.

The poems in Polly Buckingham’s The River People move through both dream and natural landscapes exploring connection and loss, abundance and degradation, the personal and the political.

Brian Phillip Whalen explores the loss of relationships in Semiotic Love [Stories], reminding us that for better or for worse, we’re all a little rougher with the people we love the most.

In Women in the Waiting Room, Kirun Kapur “makes an imaginative whole from Hindu mythology, confessions from a hotline for sexual abuse, meditations on a friend’s mortal illness, and the poet’s private pain.”

You can learn more about each of these New & Noteworthy books at our website. Click here to see how to place your book in our New & Noteworthy section.

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NewPages Book Stand – November 2020

November 25, 2020 Posted by Katy Haas

Are you adding titles to your holiday wishlist? Find even more additions to pine for at this month’s Book Stand. Five featured titles, and books in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are waiting for you.

The Best of Brevity anthology collects 84 of the best-loved and most memorable essays from Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction with contributions by Roxane Gay, Ander Monson, Jenny Boully, and more.

Ron Nyren’s The Book of Lost Light explores family loyalty and betrayal, Finnish folklore, the nature of time and theater, and what it takes to recover from calamity and build a new life from the ashes.

The poems in Vivian Faith Prescott’s The Last Glacier at the End of the World are witnesses to the effects of climate change on Alaskan communities.

Åke Hodell tells the story of his artistic journey through the absurd, satirical, tour-de-force that is The Marathon Poet, originally published in 1981.

In A Woman, A Plan, An Outline of a Man, Sarah Kasbeer’s vivid descriptions of growing up in Illinois recall the coming-of-age memoirs of Mary Karr, but are written for the #MeToo era.

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NewPages Book Stand – October 2020

October 21, 2020 Posted by Katy Haas

A new Book Stand is here with new and forthcoming books you can order from your local indie bookstore. This month, check out six featured titles, as well as our usual selection of titles in a variety of genres.

In Ken Janjigian’s A Cerebral Offer, Harry Gnostopolos is struggling to keep his indie theater afloat. The solution? Join a subversive cabal of thieves, who have planned a heist that will rewrite history.

Larry Smith’s Mingo Town & Memories is a vivid and revealing portrait of a town and a way of life in Mid-America.

Prompt Book by Barbara Henning includes three parts to help jumpstart your poetry and fiction.

Hafizah Geter’s The Sadness of Spirits provokes strong emotions, leaving the reader with hope and admiration as the characters are awakened to the nuance and possibility melancholy can bring.

In Some of the Times, Gina Myers builds on the same base of social consciousness in previous work, while also pushing in new directions.

“The world(s) of” Vanessa Roveto’s a women “plural, adjacent, playful, shrewd, and constantly unfolding. Roveto makes fluid use of prose form.”

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NewPages Book Stand – September 2020

September 23, 2020 Posted by Katy Haas

It’s that time of month again: a new Book Stand is now up on the website. With the September update, you can find five featured titles, as well as a selection of new and forthcoming books to check out.

In the forthcoming I’ll Fly Away, Rudy Francisco’s poems savor the day-to-day, treating it as worship, turning it into an opportunity to plant new seeds of growth.

The essays in Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World by Jennifer Sinor offer a lyric exploration of language, love, and the promise inherent in the stories we tell: to remember.

Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From is Sawako Nakayasu’s first poetry collection in seven years. The book radicalizes notions of “translation” as both process and product.

Hafizah Geter’s debut collection, Un-American, moves readers through the fraught internal and external landscapes—linguistic, cultural, racial, familial—of those whose lives are shaped and transformed by immigration.

Joseph Harris’s interconnected narrative You’re in the Wrong Place presents characters reaching for transcendence from a place they cannot escape in a landscape suddenly devoid of work, faith, and love.

You can learn more about each of these New & Noteworthy books at our website and find them at our our affiliate Bookshop.org. You can see how to place your book in our New & Noteworthy section here: https://npofficespace.com/classified-advertising/new-title-issue-ad-reservation/.

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NewPages Book Stand – August 2020

August 19, 2020 Posted by Katy Haas

Stop by and visit the August Book Stand at NewPages. This month, you can check out five featured titles, as well as a selection of new and forthcoming books to add to your to-read list.

The poems in Elsewhere, That Small by Monica Berlin are “intimate, contemplative, seeking out the smallest folds of language,” and urge readers to really listen to what they’re taking in.

The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy by James Kochalka and Sydney Lea follow the exploits of a worm who embarks on an adventure of rescue.

In The History of Our Vagrancies by Jason Irwin, readers can find “comfort, companionship, longing, and then suddenly an acute sorrow that somehow makes us want more of the whole tragic beautiful thing.”

Jon Boilard’s Junk City is set in San Francisco, following characters that roam in a shadowy world but, from time to time, find slivers of light.

The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith & Spirit edited by Leah Silvieus & Lee Herrick spotlight 62 poets of Asian descent. These poets create a varied and nuanced portrait of today’s Asian American poets and their spiritual engagements.

You can learn more about each of these New & Noteworthy books at our website and find them at our our affiliate Bookshop.org. You can see how to place your book in our New & Noteworthy section here: https://npofficespace.com/classified-advertising/new-title-issue-ad-reservation/.

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NewPages Book Stand – July 2020

July 22, 2020 Posted by Katy Haas

This month’s Book Stand is now up at our website. We have five new featured titles, and plenty of new and forthcoming books to add to your to-read list.

The stories in Ancestry by Eileen O’Leary champion those who are tenacious in the face of life’s surprises.

Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle follows nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah as he navigates difficult social, cultural, and ethnic divides.

Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets is an anthology edited by Abayomi Animashaun and brings a number of established and emerging poets together to welcome new and beginner poets into the art and craft of poetry.

Deborah Jang’s Float True carries story and emotion via reflections on an immigrant family, history, metaphysical musings, and earthly perplexities.

The poems in T.R. Hummer’s In These States are haunted by precise and troubling questions: what, exactly is the condition of the body politic, and how does that condition affect us, both in large and small ways, in abstract and concrete symptoms, in dailiness and in eras?

You can learn more about each of these New & Noteworthy books at our website and find them at our our affiliate Bookshop.org. You can see how to place your book in our New & Noteworthy section here: https://npofficespace.com/classified-advertising/new-title-issue-ad-reservation/.

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NewPages Book Stand – June 2020

June 24, 2020 Posted by Katy Haas

This month’s Book Stand is now up at our website. Visit for new and forthcoming book titles, including five featured books.

I’ll Be Here For You: Diary of a Town by Robert McKean is made up of interconnected stories and takes readers to the hardscrabble western Pennsylvania mill town of Ganaego.

In Johnny Cash International: How and Why Fans Love the Man in Black, Michael Hinds and Jonathan Silverman examine Cash’s fan communities and the individuals who comprise them, revealing new insights about music, fandom, and the United States.

Eric Pankey’s Alias: Prose Poems investigates the flexibility and possibility of the prose poem.

Demon Barber by Ruth Bardon explores the grace notes we celebrate in life, and the absences that makes those celebrations ache.

Kari Gunter-Seymour’s A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen explores beyond the boundaries of feminism, science, and spirituality, and renews a sense of understanding and discovery of today’s Appalachian woman.

You can learn more about each of these New & Noteworthy books at our website. Our featured titles can also be found at our our affiliate Bookshop.org. You can find out how to place your book in our New & Noteworthy section here: https://npofficespace.com/classified-advertising/new-title-issue-ad-reservation/.

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NewPages Book Stand – May 2020

May 20, 2020 Posted by Katy Haas

We have a new Book Stand at NewPages. This month, find new and forthcoming book titles, including five featured books at our website.

Audubon’s Sparrow: A Biography-in-Poems by Juditha Dowd  is an indelible portrait of an American Woman in need of rediscovery. The biography-in-poems focuses on Lucy Blackwell and John James Audubon.

Gerry LaFemina’s Baby Steps in Doomsday Prepping pauses time, letting us examine the world with love and intelligence.

Back to the Wine Jug: A Comic Novel in Verse by Joe Taylor is a cross-genre title following Hades as he teleports to Birmingham, Alabama.

Frank Paino’s Obscura sheds light on the most obscure corners of history and human nature, a hagiography of unorthodox saints.

You’ve Got Something Coming by Jonathan Starke is the winner of the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction and follows a down-and-outer and his young daughter across the country.

You can learn more about each of these New & Noteworthy books at our website. Our featured titles can also be found at our our affiliate Bookshop.org. You can find out how to place your book in our New & Noteworthy section here: https://npofficespace.com/classified-advertising/new-title-issue-ad-reservation/.

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NewPages Book Stand – April 2020

April 22, 2020 Posted by Katy Haas

The April 2020 Book Stand is now up at NewPages! It’s important to continue supporting small and university presses, authors, and indie bookstores now by checking out new and forthcoming titles to keep you company at home. This month, we bring you five new featured titles.

Adelante by Jessica Guzman is the winner of the 2019 Gatewood Prize, selected by Patricia Smith who calls collection “unerringly fresh and restless.”

Barbara Sabol won the 2019 Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Poetry Manuscript Contest with Imagine a Town, studying the concept of home and longing to belong.

Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway by Louis Kraft draws on the words and actions of those who participated in the events of the Sand Creek Massacre.

The Story I Am: Mad About the Writing Life by Roger Rosenblatt celebrates the art, the craft, and the soul of writing.

Danielle Vogel’s The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity creates a latticework of repair and moves in the space between the poem and the essay.

You can learn more about each of these New & Noteworthy books at our website, and find out how to place your book in our New & Noteworthy section here: https://npofficespace.com/classified-advertising/new-title-issue-ad-reservation/.

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NewPages Book Stand – March 2020

March 18, 2020 Posted by Katy Haas

Book Stand - March 2020The March 2020 Book Stand is now up at NewPages! Support small and university presses, authors, and indie bookstores now by checking out new and forthcoming titles to keep you company at home. This month, we bring you featured titles from five different presses.

Five titles are forthcoming from Diode Editions this spring: The Last Human Heart by Allison Joseph; Good Timing & Gertrude Stein: Inside Snoopy’s snout maggots feats upon my blood by Julia Cohen; Prismatics: Larry Levis & Contemporary American Poetry: Interviews from the Documentary Film A Late Style of Fire edited by Gregory Donovan and Michele Poulos; Wider Than the Sky from Nancy Chen Long; and The Minister of Disturbances from Zeeshan Khan Pathan. Visit our LitPak for more information.

Before the Fevered Snow by Megan Merchant explores themes of love and loss by using the landscape of the changing seasons.

Cifford Garstang’s House of the Ancients & Other Stories looks at some of the consequences of common human failings.

One Summer on Cutthroat Lake by Owen Duffy focuses on escalating tensions as outsiders come to revitalize Cutthroat Lake Lodge as a famous photographer shows up for a magazine shoot.

Sixteen interviews with some of the most iconic eco-warriors make up Wrenched from the Land: Activists Inspired by Edward Abbey. Edited by ML Lincoln and Diane Sward Rapaport.

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