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The Summer of Shooting Stars

by Kevin Prufer ...

It is the summer of 1989—but not the summer you remember. This is the summer of shooting stars, when every evening the Ohio sky blazes with hundreds of meteors burning high in the atmosphere, a season that begins in wonder and ends in terror.Fourteen-year-old Hustle spends his days with his best friend Dmitri, peering through neighbors’ windows, hanging around the record store on Lee Road, and ... Read more

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It is the summer of 1989—but not the summer you remember. This is the summer of shooting stars, when every evening the Ohio sky blazes with hundreds of meteors burning high in the atmosphere, a season that begins in wonder and ends in terror.Fourteen-year-old Hustle spends his days with his best friend Dmitri, peering through neighbors’ windows, hanging around the record store on Lee Road, and
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Kansas City Noir

by J. Malcolm Garcia, Kevin Prufer, Grace Suh ...

Series series Akashic Noir
Dark and gritty tales set in the "Paris of the Plains," including Nancy Pickard's "Lightbulb"—selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2013.Akashic Books' groundbreaking, globetrotting noir anthology series sets all-new stories in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective metropolitan area. Now "Kansas City, famous for its jazz, its barbecue, and its shady history, provides ... Read more

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Dark and gritty tales set in the "Paris of the Plains," including Nancy Pickard's "Lightbulb"—selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2013.Akashic Books' groundbreaking, globetrotting noir anthology series sets all-new stories in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective metropolitan area. Now "Kansas City, famous for its jazz, its barbecue, and its shady history, provides
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The Art of Fiction

by Kevin Prufer ...

An investigation, performed through storytelling, of the constructed beliefs of society and individualsIn this his eighth collection of poetry (and fifth with Four Way Books), Prufer’s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our ... Read more

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An investigation, performed through storytelling, of the constructed beliefs of society and individualsIn this his eighth collection of poetry (and fifth with Four Way Books), Prufer’s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our
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The Fears

by Kevin Prufer ...

An unflinching study of death, Kevin Prufer’s The Fearsinvites us to consider what it means to matter.Editor, publisher, and poet Kevin Prufer presents his ninth poetry collection,The Fears, an intimate meditation on storytelling and mortality. "Ghostlit by streetlights” and filtered through tale and recollection, Prufer examines our fears of loss, death, and obscurity. Narratives are braided ... Read more

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An unflinching study of death, Kevin Prufer’s The Fearsinvites us to consider what it means to matter.Editor, publisher, and poet Kevin Prufer presents his ninth poetry collection,The Fears, an intimate meditation on storytelling and mortality. "Ghostlit by streetlights” and filtered through tale and recollection, Prufer examines our fears of loss, death, and obscurity. Narratives are braided
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Sleepaway

A Novel

by Kevin Prufer ...

A haunting debut novel from celebrated poet Kevin Prufer.It’s 1984, and the invisible mists are falling, mists that cause people to slip into dreamless slumber—sleeps from which most, but not all, awaken. Those who do wake live in fear of the next mist, and the next, each a little longer and more dangerous than the last.Alternating between the perspectives of a kleptomaniac waitress named Cora and ... Read more

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A haunting debut novel from celebrated poet Kevin Prufer.It’s 1984, and the invisible mists are falling, mists that cause people to slip into dreamless slumber—sleeps from which most, but not all, awaken. Those who do wake live in fear of the next mist, and the next, each a little longer and more dangerous than the last.Alternating between the perspectives of a kleptomaniac waitress named Cora and
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Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Travis Kurowski, Wayne Miller, Kevin Prufer ...

"A primer on big and small presses, literary magazines and all things digital, diversity, and economics . . . lively, timely, and indispensable." —Rob Spillman, editor and co-founder of Tin HouseGutenberg's invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persistent ... Read more

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"A primer on big and small presses, literary magazines and all things digital, diversity, and economics . . . lively, timely, and indispensable." —Rob Spillman, editor and co-founder of Tin HouseGutenberg's invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persistent
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Writing the Self-Elegy

The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink

by Teresa Leo, Jennifer McCauley, John Chavez, Katherine C. Jueds, Catherine Kyle, Adam Crittenden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Kyle McCord, Jane Wong, Naomi Ortiz, Denise Leto, Carol Berg, Kristy Bowen, Floydd Michael Elliot, Jehanne Dubrow, Carl Phillips, Bruce Bond, Kevin Prufer, Rusane Morrison, Sheila Black, Lauren Shellberg, Anne Kaier, TC Tolbert, Raymond Luczak, Stephanie Heit, Juliet Cook, Tanaya Winder ...

An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selvesHonest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path stemming from one small choice ... Read more

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An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selvesHonest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path stemming from one small choice
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Germany's Covert War in the Middle East

Espionage, Propaganda and Diplomacy in World War I

Translated by Kevin Morrow ...

by Curt Prüfer ...

Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment. The diaries and official reports of German spy and propagandist Curt Prufer - translated here into English in their entirety for the first time - chronicle the complexities of ... Read more

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Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment. The diaries and official reports of German spy and propagandist Curt Prufer - translated here into English in their entirety for the first time - chronicle the complexities of
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Santa Fe Noir

by Kimmy Santiago Baca, Ana Castillo, James Reich, Miriam Sagan, Israel Francisco Haros Lopez ...

Series series Akashic Noir
Seventeen storytellers take readers on a dark tour of the arty New Mexican city in this collection of crime tales.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.With stories by: Ana Castillo, Jimmy Santiago Baca, ... Read more

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Seventeen storytellers take readers on a dark tour of the arty New Mexican city in this collection of crime tales.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.With stories by: Ana Castillo, Jimmy Santiago Baca,
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Santa Cruz Noir

by Tommy Moore, Ariel Gore, Margaret Elysia Garcia ...

Series series Akashic Noir
"A new collection of short fiction stories explores a seedier side of this beach town filled with murder and mystery."— KAZU FMIn Akashic Books' award-winning series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles Noir, San Francisco Noir, San Diego Noir, Orange County ... Read more

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"A new collection of short fiction stories explores a seedier side of this beach town filled with murder and mystery."— KAZU FMIn Akashic Books' award-winning series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles Noir, San Francisco Noir, San Diego Noir, Orange County
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St. Louis Noir

by Scott Phillips ...

Series series Akashic Noir
"St. Louis gets a turn to show its dark side . . . [A] spirited, black-hearted collection" including a story from New York Times–bestselling author John Lutz ( Kirkus Reviews).A vibrant Midwest metropolis, St. Louis has a rich, multicultural history of art and literature—both high and low. That duality is embraced here in an anthology that spans the reaches of noir, from violent criminality to bad ... Read more

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"St. Louis gets a turn to show its dark side . . . [A] spirited, black-hearted collection" including a story from New York Times–bestselling author John Lutz ( Kirkus Reviews).A vibrant Midwest metropolis, St. Louis has a rich, multicultural history of art and literature—both high and low. That duality is embraced here in an anthology that spans the reaches of noir, from violent criminality to bad
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Marseille Noir

by Cédric Fabre ...

Series series Akashic Noir
"Navigates the seedy side of Marseille with 14 stories that range from the creepily introspective to the downright brutal." — Publishers WeeklyThe Akashic Noir series first ventured into France with Paris Noir—and now moves one step deeper . . .A crossroads for the people of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille is a city that does not discriminate. It embodies the down-and-dirty, tough-guy side ... Read more

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"Navigates the seedy side of Marseille with 14 stories that range from the creepily introspective to the downright brutal." — Publishers WeeklyThe Akashic Noir series first ventured into France with Paris Noir—and now moves one step deeper . . .A crossroads for the people of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille is a city that does not discriminate. It embodies the down-and-dirty, tough-guy side
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