Sarabande Books: 84 books

“In Syzygy, Beauty**, T Fleischmann re-imagines the essay, creating a spare little book that reads like a collection of prose poems.”** (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) In Syzygy, Beauty, T Fleischmann builds an essay of prose blocks, weaving together observations on art, the narrator’s...

“These pieces are not so much essays as prose poems, lyrical hymns to beauty and aesthetics.” —Publishers Weekly Lia Purpura’s daring new book of lyric essays, On Looking, is concerned with the aesthetics and ethics of seeing. In these elegantly wrought meditations, patterns and meanings...

**A suburban Chicago family comes undone in this “**fresh and riveting” novel of domestic disquiet by an award-winning author (Booklist, starred review).   Taking its title from the childhood game of conjuring dread, Pushcart Prize-winner Sharon Solwitz delivers a harrowing, razor-sharp satire...

“A sublime anthology” of essays, memoirs, stories and careful considerations from 66 writers riffing on a single word (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   In this darb collection, Molly McQuade asks the question all writers love to answer: what one word means the most to you, thrills you, or...

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Village Voice. Indeed, Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher,...

An “entertaining collection of tributes and insights” from Jay McInerney and other novelists and poets about the writers who inspired them (Booklist). In this “significant contribution to our understanding of how an older generation of writers . . . affected its students”, an assembly...

A freewheeling journey through midcentury America as art, literature, and the interstate highway system intersect. In 1943, Peggy Guggenheim commissioned a mural from Jackson Pollock to hang in the entryway of her Manhattan townhouse. It was the largest Pollock canvas she would ever own, and...

“I finished this book with my heart pounding and grateful, my coffee cold and my smile wide and crying like a baby.” —Daniel Handler The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture classmates, fall in love, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect...

A pantoum about a child touching the smallpox-scarred face of an aunt; a dialogue between Jesus and Pilate in the form of a nursery rhyme; Joseph and Mary sleeping on the Sphinx's stone paw: these are some of the experiences brought before us in The Heronry. Mark Jarman is the author of ten poetry collections. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

The winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and the Towson Prize for Literature. “Exquisite storytelling” from the author of The Let Go (Foreword Reviews).   Jerry Gabriel delivers an unsentimental portrait of rural America in Drowned Boy, a collection of linked stories that reveals...

Sometimes calculating, other times bewildered, Catapult's characters orbit around each other enacting the deeply human tragicomedy of wit and misunderstanding and loss. With dexterous, atmospheric, and darkly comic prose, Fridlund conjures worlds where longing is open-ended, intentions misfire, and...

A “delicately eccentric” collection of stories from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Binocular Vision (Publishers Weekly). “Put [Pearlman’s] stories besides those of John Updike and Alice Munro. That’s where they belong.” —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto Spanning...

An “extraordinary first novel” about a father trying to escape the past and a son lost in a world of imaginary voices—winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize (Booklist).   Levi Revel is a boy in danger of losing his family and maybe his mind. He’s in awe of his father, Everest—a majestic dreamer,...

Bingham has 50 years of experience as a writer and promoter of her own work, with deep inroads and relationships in the bookselling and library communities Former Director of the NBCC Bingham's family owned the major daily in Kentucky, and her part in that paper's sale has made her a...