Turtle Press: 37 books

"One of the best social observers in American fiction." —John Freeman, Literary Hub “Mr. Carroll's world is a little vicious, slippery in its sexuality . . . strangely reminiscent of the hootier, hard-candy end of the Tennessee Williams spectrum. It is flat-out odd, fun, and seeming...

"These are stories to cherish, as brilliant and charming as the writer himself."—Olivia Laing "The sensibility of a magician, a trickster's dark humor, and a formidable musical and literary erudition."—The New York Times Joseph Keckler's signatures are his magnificent...

Mike Mazza is a decade-long surf dad with a top-ranked son in the NSSA Northwest surf conference; their shared experiences have informed this story. Mafuri Long is a bold young competitor with a hot-wired style that female readers will admire. The novel is a riveting summer read that ventures to the most spectacular and challenging surfing destinations around the world.

"Dangerous, charming, and funny, this elegant miniature rediscovery will delight even brilliant minds."-Simon Van Booy André Maurois' novella, published in the same year as Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa, is about a couple who become shipwrecked on an uncharted South Seas...

Marketing will be limited to a personal letter to individual booksellers along with a copy of the cover. We will detail the ways in which this book straddles different markets: Dog fanciers, Seekers of spiritual solace, Death and dying, Philosophy, French literary non-fiction

“The Magician’s Study is a sparkling tour de force. Seamon leads us through the odd memorabilia belonging to Robert ‘The Great’ Rouncival and along the way gives us his marvelously bizarre and convoluted biography. . . . If anything is more astounding than Rouncival’s trickery, it’s the endless inventiveness of the author.”—Eugene Mirabelli

"This magnum opus confirms David Trinidad's place in the poetic firmament: he is simply the best we have. A worthy successor to James Schuyler, Trinidad writes soulfully and sometimes photorealistically about the melancholy threshold where dolls and stars become inner objects—dirty, glamorous,...

"Marten's powerful novel focuses on a man trying to put the shards of his life together...Fans of Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Thompson, in particular, should take note." —Roberta Johnson, Booklist (starred review) Eugene Marten's In the Blind takes readers through a keyhole and shows...

"Follow the Sun is just plain fantastic. Edward J. Delaney has orchestrated a tight, tense page-turner and a harrowing, deeply imagined literary portrait of an entire family. . . . What a knockout read." —Paul Harding "In this pungent, gritty novel, hardscrabble lives are rendered...