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A first paperback edition of the great small family novel originally published by Doubleday in 1971.

Imagine middle European 19th century royalty, Twilight Zone twists, urbane humor, loving characterizations.

The Green Parrot is a strange and beautiful story with the faintly arid charm of a miniature painted on the cover of a seventeenth snuff box. There is a great deal of reticent drama, but no melodrama. The overtones of the story are left to the reader's imagination. The result is a slender, but captivating and completely self sufficient novel. THE NEW YORK TIMES

A riveting and entertainingly arch and intimate diary by one of the 20th Century's most mercurial of gay writers. It is filled in equal parts with personal poignancy and deliciously outre accounts of a circle which included Gertrude Stein, the Sitwells, and Pavel Tchelitchew. Ford 92, still writes and draws in his Manhattan abode, and this newly uncovered nine year diary will transform an important but little known gay poet in to a wirter of tremendous honesty, heartbreak, humour and grace. A surrealist at heart, he was a contemporary of Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst.

From the two-time winner of the Goodman Short Story Award and nominee for the Pushcart Prize, this collection of short stories is written with a relentless honesty and an unusually focused and knowing insight into the lives of ordinary people, each story mastering those small, puzzling, and inconclusive moments of human contact that we all experience. 'With wit, nerve, and a disarming depth of feeling, 'Some of Us Have to Get Up in the Morning' prowls through the imagination like some dark shining animal. A fierce debut' -Paul Lisicky

Have a talk with a ghost or a duck or contest the destroyers of the land, listen to the roos and slow worms, marvel and question and rage and love the language with John Kinsella’s Aporia.Aporia is a collectionsearching for logic where logic is hard to find or maybe can't be found. Fromthe death of the poet's father, to considering the complex, troubled, and oftendistressing relationship between humans and non-human life, and through a senseof ghosts being materially present even when we doubt their existence, weundertake a journey in which reality and creative conception are in tension.This tension is embodied in the figure of the poet Hölderlin, and also throughmoments in Ovid's Metamorphosis, ongoing obsessions for Kinsella whichhe constantly circles back to, reconsiders, and departs from. Whetherconversing with ghosts or the living, with animals or plants, these are poemsconcerned with transformative relationships with and within the “natural world.”Kangaroos, echidnas, ducks, owls, deer, slow worms, and many other creaturesfrom around the world inhabit these pages, finding their own way through toautonomy and self-declaration as the poet argues with himself over the dynamicsof life and death.

Originally published in 1951 in a very limited print run, Childhood at Oriol - set in a small villa among the dunes of Le Touquet - is a novel about two energetic, mischievous and sensitive children and their encounters with adults who could have stepped out of a novel by P.G. Wodehouse. Burns depicts a magical time between the two world wars where the reader is poignantly aware of the sun setting over a childhood in a place that will soon be in shambles.

Written in the form of letters written by Wynn O'Leary to his brother, Joel, who died of a heroin overdose, this is a witty and unabashedly politically incorrect novel. It takes place in an enclosed world with its own cutoms and denizens. The time is the late 1980s. Cultural theory and gender politics reign supreme, smoking is still allowed in the cafetria and, unfortunately for O'Leary, Viagra is but a twinkle in a scientist's eye.

The most original book of Julien Gracq's later output is about Nantes. It begins with a quotation from Beaudelaire that is repeated and distorted. Nantes, still haunted by Andr© Breton, Jacques Vache and Rimbaud behind them is reconstructed from a remembered image in which the lyc©e Cl©menceau occupies the centre. Pathos filtered through humour guides the author as he writes of a child's experience of the hierarchy of urban spaces. This is a beautiful work, provocative and powerfully set amid verifiable and equally moving land- and cityscapes.

These astonishing stories deal with people in crisis or at turning points in their lives. Possessed by moods they barely understand, these characters confront moments of choice that determine their identities or self-worth. Typically, they are not equal to such moments, and the stories, which range from Palm Beach to Paris to a New York hotel room, trace the designs, delusions and sometimes painful fluttering of souls in turmoil.

Love is War is as hard, clear and symmetrical (and irrefutable) as a proposition in geometry: the area equals the base times the altitude. The 4 corners of the parallelogram are Chuck Lockhart, Claire McCoy and spouses. Diagonals get crossed.

Poet Mark Ford has described the letters of James Schuyler as witty, graceful, sophisticated and gossipy.' Particularly poignant and delightful are these newly released Schuyler letters to fellow poet Frank O'Hara. They are entertaining, offhanded, intimate and transcendently poetic.'

FINALIST, FOREWORD 2025 INDIES BOOK OF THE YEAR, ADULT FICTION (HISTORICAL)A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS PICK FOR (THE REST OF) 2025 —Michael Patrick Brady, Substack“BEAUTIFUL AND NECESSARY . . . EXAMINES MANY OF THE LIES UNDERPINNING OUR NATIONAL MYTHS.” —Jeffrey Condran, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteA Bureau of Indian Affairs agent in a remote Wyoming reservation reckons with the clash of cultures, his own failings, and the attempted destruction of a people. Five teenagers take a joyride through the barren landscape of a small Wyoming reservation. Only four survive. It’s 1958, and the death triggers years of pent-up tensions between the town of Suncreek and the members of the Towuk tribe. The locals barely subsist in a tenuous small-town existence; the Towuk are still mourning the loss of their long-gone way of life. The white residents of Suncreek deeply resent what they see as the Towuk tribe’s windfall—oil deposits that have turned the desolate reservation into something of sudden value. But the tribe struggles with its newfound money, which has brought them a modicum of wealth for which they have been swindled and abused. The town’s sheriff threatens to make an example of the teenage driver, Nelson Antelope. Tim Hubbard of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a troubled Korean War vet, acts to thwart that effort and protect the boy. Shut out by the tribe, Hubbard finds guidance in the archived reports from an earlier agent named Dorrance. A protégé of Horace Greeley and his Utopianism, Dorrance was recruited to make farmers out of a horse-borne nomadic tribe—and thus force hard boundaries on how and where they could exist. The dual tales of Hubbard and Dorrance chronicle these conflicted stewards and the devastating toll their reluctant mission takes on a culture not their own.Morally complex and fully relevant to today’s issues of freedom and land occupation, Hard Margins is about captive people and their desire to escape their fates, and the captors who desire just as fervently to escape theirs.

In this powerful look at the underside of life in an unnamed city on one of the Great Lakes, a young man who has recently been released from a six-year stint in prison finds employment in a Syrian-owned locksmith shop. What unfolds is a riveting account of a man's quest to reinvent himself, to find grace, family and community in a sordid, decaying world. It is also a beautifully crafted crime novel marked by indelible observations, mysterious obsessions and an appreciation of the techniques, tools and hazards of a locksmith's life. A great book' - Gordon Lish'

Set in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Ivan Turgenev's most cosmopolitan novels. It is an exquisite study of politics and society and an enduringly poignant love story. Smoke, with its European setting, barbed wit, and visionary call for Russia to look west, became the center of a famous philosophical breach between Turgenev and Dostoevsky.

"No one who has ever read this remarkable novel and looked at human life through Barbusse's peephole can ever forget the experience."—Robert Baldick"It is Barbusse, not Gide, not Proust and not Maurois whose work marks the great turning point in French twentieth-century literature."—Jean FavrilleHell is the most highly focused study of voyeurism ever written. A young man staying in a Paris boarding house finds a hole in the wall above his bed. Through this he obsessively studies the private moments and secret activities of his neighbors. Marriage, adultery, lesbianism, religion and death are all seen through this small spy hole.Decades ahead of its time Hell shocked and scandalized the reviewing public when first released in English. Even so, The New Republic praised "the beauty of the book's nervous yet fluid rhythms. . . . Every simile is faultlessly keyed. The book sweeps away life's illusions."

AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY“Delaney[‘s] splendidfictional biography of Cary Grant . . . perfectly befits the glamour and fakeryof his subject.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant,” mused the world’s most famous leading man. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”It’s 1959, and the 55-year-old man who calls himself CaryGrant is at the peak of a charmed career. He’s also on a turbulent journey tofind the core of a self he hardly seems to know anymore. Introduced to the wonderdrug LSD as part of his therapy at The Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills,he embarks on upward of one hundred psychedelic trips—at times harrowing journeys.And on the way, he rediscovers the long-ago boy who faced the world as ArchieLeach, the earnest, gap-toothed stilt walker and tumbler he once was, long ago.In The Acrobat, fiction writer Edward J. Delaney takes onthe elusive character of Cary Grant. He imagines the inner life of a man who spenta career brilliantly creating a persona as ethereal as his best roles. As Grantlaunches on LSD-fueled trajectories of discovery, The Acrobat likewise transportsreaders through his fractured upbringing, his start in English vaudeville, hislife on the Hollywood sets, and his relationships with fellow travelers prominent in hislife: Howard Hughes, Randolph Scott, Blake Edwards, Tony Curtis, two of the fivewomen he married, and more. Amid the endless versions of himself and thecharacters he’s played, he yearns to shape himself into something singular, forged fromthe layers of illusion he’s smilingly foisted on the world, and for which the worldhas come to love him. This riveting dramatization of the actor’s life takes usbeyond the firm terrain that biographies tread, to offer a new perspective on acomplex Hollywood legend.

Afterword by Sir Edward Creasey

A detective story, a black comedy, a tragedy, and out of print for over 25 years, this monumental tour-de-force is a dissertation on the histories and stereotypes that conspire to man and to unman black Americans by a Faulkner Award-winning writer.

Set in the early part of the 20th century and focussing on the Henderson sisters of Pliny Falls, New York, this novel begins with the sudden death of the family matriarch. Out of this loss, two daughters in their early thirties, Martha and Esther,are left in a world suddenly fractured. For the first time they must encompass the perils of adult life. Their journey of discovery.

The story of Alma, a 14 year old girl coming of age in a city ravaged by war and anarchy. Alma is a plain but precocious adolescent, a day dreamer who has taken up reisdence with a group of teenage orphans in the abandoned Hotel Sarajevo. They live as a family for more than a year scavenging for their daily needs.

FINALIST, FOREWORD 2025 INDIES BOOK OF THE YEAR, ADULT FICTION (SHORT STORIES)Four generations of an extended mixed-race family live with the problems we've all heard about, yet thrive amidst hardship, turning the myth of the Old West on its head.Prize-winning story writer Sallie Bingham's latest group of tales reverse commonly held assumptions about the American West. The Hispanic, Native, and white members of this rough and tumble family pivot around an outrageously funny and fallible rodeo rider known as Cowboy. They live with alcohol and drug addiction, dependency on a fraying welfare system, poverty, violence, and deep-held loyalties. Unlikely learning and unlikely sources of wisdom abound. "During those long winter nights when Dad took off for Sheridan—no liquor allowed on the rez but Sheridan is only about twenty miles west," Fat Annie tells the boy known as Sure Enough some truths about women that will guide him for the rest of his life. Running away on horseback from the imposition of ashes at his Jesuit boarding school, eleven-year-old Jimmy James finds "this little lady priest" in the town park. She makes the cross with ashes on his horse's head, then turns to him, and he feels the cross "burn into him worse than any brand." A bizarre accident in "How Daddy Lost His Ear" results in an equally bizarre wedding. And one of the many "white ladies" who appear briefly and disappear fast finally gets Cowboy to tell the truth. These men, women, and kids don't just endure. They thrive in their own peculiar style, turning seemingly tragic outcomes into sources of madcap humor, and nourishing indelible family ties. This is the West as it was and is, a complex web of traditions and surprising, even shocking, ways of finding triumph.

Joseph Keckler’s signatures are his magnificent three-plus-octave operatic voice and the mesmerizing stories he tells. Combining original pieces with material from his acclaimed performances, Keckler confirms his storytelling mastery, revealing still more of himself on the page.In these tales, one can’t easily draw a line between reality, embellishment, and fantasy. Odd jobs and odder employers: what is it like to work for a blind man who runs an art gallery? Or for an aging club kid who administers a university classics department? These outré characters make an artful spectacle of daily life. Some strive to be center stage and others struggle to be seen, but all soldier on in the margins. In this world, you may board a familiar bus or train and find yourself in some shady netherworld, or skipping past midnight on New Year’s Eve. There is sex with ghosts. And the incessant GPS voice that mocks the last moments of a longtime love.A celebration of the ridiculous and a tour through stations of longing, this diverse collection will thrill devotees and new fans alike.

“Entertaining . . . eminently readable, distinguished by beautifully evoked period atmosphere and sly humor.”—The New York TimesAmerica’s first gay novel, published in 1919.

In First Childhood Lord Berners demonstrates the neat precision of wit and style which typifies his musical compositions. This is a subtle work of art and a masterpiece of understatement. Autobiography of the very finest quality. Having enjoyed in the course of reading it the loudest and longest laughs I have enjoyed in the last two years I am incapable of making any critical observations. I found the book to be enchanting from cover to cover.' - Daily Mail'

The sequel to Lord Berners' First Childhood, A Distant Prospect is a poignant and witty account of Eton, early adolescence and a boy's awakening to the spell of Wagner, ballet and musical composition. Not only witty and amusing, but contains things to ponder over in plenty behind the mere youthful years. The portraits of his friends are complete portraits, sketched brilliantly in a few strokes.' - Tatler'

Exquisite new work along with a selection of her finest poems spanning five decades from the essential poet and national treasure, Frost Medal winner Grace Schulman.Again, the Dawn draws together poems fromeight books plus a generous selection of new poems. In them, Grace Schulmanhears the call to praise tempered by stark details of city life such astrumpets that blare “louder than street sirens.” and iron fences / handwrought with lyres, Greek frets,acanthus leaves.” Schulman brings passion andintelligence to bear on occasions she ponders, whether historical orcontemporary. In joy and in grief, she gazes at the light and sees themajesty in ordinary things. This collection ranges across decades of prize-winning books, and yet, as its title exclaims, the poetry ofGrace Schulman is as new as the rising sun. As Julie Sheehan has written of her most recent volume, “Read this collection if you, too, have grieved. Read it if youneed your own guide to the underworld. Read it if you've ever felt proud to getat the meaning of poems, of art, of music. Read it if you want to be restoredto the world around you, if late-stage capitalism or imperialism or politicshave numbed you. Read it, then look up, breathe in, raise your own hands, andlet Grace Schulman assure you: ‘I'll be there, / gazing impiously — unless / thatis what sacred is, the work, the looking up, / the wonder.’”