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Early Sobrieties
'Suberb . . . vivid' TELEGRAPH 'The arrival of a writer of considerable gifts' TLS 'Michael Deagler is the real deal . . . a truly intelligent work from a clearly intelligent writer' PERCIVAL EVERETT 'Illuminating and moving' AIMEE BENDER Dennis Monk is about to spend his first summer sober. At twenty-six he is ready to re-join sensible adult life, but just when Dennis needs stability, his uptight parents kick him out into a world of couch-surfing. Everything around him has changed and everyone he knows seems to be doing better than he is. At every street corner, former classmates, estranged drinking buddies, and prospective lovers threaten to burst the bubble of his recovery. And Dennis Monk is about to learn the difference between getting sober and staying sober in this new world. Early Sobrieties is a devastatingly witty novel about coming of age a second time. Deagler’s debut marks the arrival of an astonishing new voice in American fiction.
Early Sobrieties
Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction "'Just give me one more day,' Monk says, and Early Sobrieties is such a wise and piercing book that we believe him." —Charlie Lee, The New York Times Book Review "Michael Deagler is the real deal." —Percival Everett, 2023 Windham Campbell Prize recipient and author of Dr. No Don’t worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He’s sober now, ready to rejoin the world of leases and paychecks, reciprocal friendships and healthy romances—if only the world would agree to take him back. When his working-stiff parents kick him out of their suburban home, mere months into his frangible sobriety, the 26-year-o...
The Best American Magazine Writing 2021
The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 presents outstanding journalism and commentary that reckon with urgent topics, including COVID-19 and entrenched racial inequality. In “The Plague Year,” Lawrence Wright details how responses to the pandemic went astray (New Yorker). Lizzie Presser reports on “The Black American Amputation Epidemic” (ProPublica). In powerful essays, the novelist Jesmyn Ward processes her grief over her husband’s death against the backdrop of the pandemic and antiracist uprisings (Vanity Fair), and the poet Elizabeth Alexander considers “The Trayvon Generation” (New Yorker). Aymann Ismail delves into how “The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd”...
Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction
A thorough, illuminating, and entertaining guide to crafting point of view, a fiction writer’s most essential choice. Who is telling the story to whom is the single most important question about any work of fiction; the answer is central to everything from style and tone to plot and pacing. Using hundreds of examples from Jane Austen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Leo Tolstoy to Stephen King, novelist and longtime MFA professor Lisa Zeidner dives deep into the points of view we are most familiar with—first and third person—and moves beyond to second-person narration, frame tales, and even animal points of view. Engaging and accessible, Who Says? presents any practicing writer with a new system for choosing a point of view, experimenting with how it determines the narrative, and applying these ideas to revision.
The Judgment of Yoyo Gold
A National Jewish Book Award finalist! A smart and powerful story set in the Orthodox Jewish community about what it means to fit in, break out, and find your own way, by the award-winning author of The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen. This book is Gossip Girl + My Name Is Asher Lev + I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. Yoyo Gold has always played the role of the perfect Jewish daughter. She keeps kosher, looks after her siblings, and volunteers at the local food bank. She respects the decisions of her rabbi father and encourages her friends to observe the rules of their Orthodox faith. But when she sees her best friend cast out of the community over a seemingly innocent transgression, Y...
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014
Daniel Handler and Lemony Snicket compile the year's best new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and category-defying gems aimed at readers 15 and up.
Het (niet zo) orthodoxe leven van Hoodie Rosen
Een meeslepende jeugdroman over het leven tussen twee werelden en het volgen van je hart. ‘Het (niet zo) orthodoxe leven van Hoodie Rosen’ van Isaac Blum is een boeiende jeugdroman over een orthodox-joodse jongen die in twee werelden leeft, voor lezers van Chaim Potok. Het leven van Hoodie Rosen is zo slecht nog niet. Hij is net verhuisd en heeft genoeg tijd om zijn Thorastudie te ontlopen, te basketballen en koosjere snacks te halen. De inwoners van Tregaron zijn niet blij dat er zoveel orthodoxe joden tegelijk in hun stadje zijn komen wonen, maar dat is niet zijn probleem... Dat wil zeggen, totdat hij Anna-Marie Diaz-O’Leary ontmoet en verliefd wordt. Zij is toevallig de dochter van de koppige burgemeester die Hoodies gemeenschap uit de stad probeert te weren. Terwijl zijn gemeenschap zich tegen hem keert omdat hij partij kiest voor de vijand, zit Hoodie gevangen tussen zijn eerste liefde en de enige wereld die hij ooit heeft gekend. Een prachtig, met vaart en humor geschreven verhaal over haat en verraad – en vriendschap op de meest onverwachte plaatsen.
Cities I've Never Lived In
In subtle, sensuous prose, the stories in Sara Majka's debut collection explore distance in all its forms: the emotional spaces that open up between family members, friends, and lovers; the gaps that emerge between who we were and who we are; the gulf between our private and public selves. At the center of the collection is a series of stories narrated by a young American woman in the wake of a divorce; wry and shy but never less than open to the world, she recalls the places and people she has been close to, the dreams she has pursued and those she has left unfulfilled. Interspersed with these intimate first-person stories are stand-alone pieces where the tight focus on the narrator's life gives way to closely observed accounts of the lives of others. A book about belonging, and how much of yourself to give up in the pursuit of that, Cities I've Never Lived In offers stories that reveal, with great sadness and great humor, the ways we are most of all citizens of the places where we cannot be. Cities I've Never Lived In is the second book in Graywolf's collaboration with the literary magazine A Public Space.
You Are Having a Good Time
"An observant, strange, and startlingly funny collection of short stories"--
Pennsylvania 1860
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