Bradford Morrow Books In Order

Forgers Books In Publication Order

  1. The Forgers (2014)
  2. The Forger’s Daughter (2020)

New Mexico Books In Publication Order

  1. Trinity Fields (1995)
  2. Ariel’s Crossing (2002)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Come Sunday (1988)
  2. The Almanac Branch (1991)
  3. Giovanni’s Gift (1997)
  4. The Diviner’s Tale (2010)
  5. The Prague Sonata (2017)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Fall of the Birds (2011)

Picture Books In Publication Order

  1. Didn’t Didn’t Do It (2007)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Danae’s Progress (1982)
  2. Posthumes (1982)
  3. World Outside the Window (1987)
  4. The Uninnocent (2011)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis (1978)
  2. A Bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press 1966-1978 (1981)

Conjunctions Books In Publication Order

  1. Conjunctions #1 (1981)
  2. Conjunctions #2 (1982)
  3. Conjunctions #3 (1982)
  4. Conjunctions #4 (1983)
  5. Conjunctions #5 (1983)
  6. Conjunctions #6 (1984)
  7. Conjunctions #7 (1985)
  8. Conjunctions #8 (1985)
  9. Conjunctions #9 (1986)
  10. Conjunctions #10 (1987)
  11. Conjunctions #11 (1988)
  12. Conjunctions #12 (1988)
  13. Conjunctions #13 (1989)
  14. Conjunctions #14 (1989)
  15. Conjunctions #15 (1990)
  16. Conjunctions #16 (1991)
  17. Conjunctions #17 (1991)
  18. Conjunctions #18 (1992)
  19. Conjunctions #19 (1992)
  20. Conjunctions #20 (1993)
  21. Conjunctions #21 (1993)
  22. Conjunctions #22 (1994)
  23. Conjunctions #23 (1994)
  24. Conjunctions #24 (1995)
  25. Conjunctions #25: The New American Theater (By:) (1995)
  26. Conjunctions #26 (1996)
  27. Conjunctions #27 (1996)
  28. Conjunctions #28 (1997)
  29. Conjunctions #29: Tributes (With: Lee Smith) (1997)
  30. Conjunctions #30 (1998)
  31. Conjunctions #31: Radical Shadows (1998)
  32. Conjunctions #32 (1999)
  33. Conjunctions #33 (1999)
  34. Conjunctions #34: American Fiction (2000)
  35. Conjunctions #35: American Poetry (2000)
  36. Conjunctions #36: Dark Laughter (2001)
  37. Conjunctions #37: Twentieth Anniversary Issue (2001)
  38. Conjunctions #38: Rejoicing Revoicing (2002)
  39. Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists (With: Peter Straub) (2002)
  40. Conjunctions #40 (2003)
  41. Conjunctions #41: Two Kingdoms (2003)
  42. Conjunctions #42: Cinema Lingua (2004)
  43. Conjunctions #43: Beyond Arcadia (2004)
  44. Conjunctions #44: An Anatomy of Roads (2005)
  45. Conjunctions #45: Secret Lives of Children (2005)
  46. Conjunctions #46: Selected Subversions (2006)
  47. Conjunctions #47 (2006)
  48. Conjunctions #48: Faces of Desire (2007)
  49. Conjunctions #49: A Writers’ Aviary (2007)
  50. Conjunctions #50 (2008)
  51. Conjunctions #51: The Death Issue (2008)
  52. Conjunctions #52: Betwixt the Between (2009)
  53. Conjunctions #53: Not Even Past, Hybrid Histories (2009)
  54. Conjunctions #54: Shadow Selves (2010)
  55. Conjunctions #55: Urban Arias (2010)
  56. Conjunctions #56: Terra Incognita (2011)
  57. Conjunctions #57: Kin (2011)
  58. Conjunctions #58: Riveted (2012)
  59. Conjunctions #59: Colloquy (2012)
  60. Conjunctions #60: In Absentia (2013)
  61. Conjunctions #61: A Menagerie (2014)
  62. Conjunctions #62: Exile (2014)
  63. Conjunctions #63: Speaking Volumes (2015)
  64. Conjunctions #64: Natural Causes (2015)
  65. Conjunctions #65: Sleights of Hand (2016)
  66. Conjunctions #66: Affinity (2016)
  67. Conjunctions #67: Other Aliens (2016)
  68. Conjunctions #68: Inside Out (2017)
  69. Conjunctions #69: Being Bodies (2018)
  70. Conjunctions #70: Sanctuary (2018)
  71. Conjunctions #71: A Cabinet of Curiosity (2019)
  72. Conjunctions #72: Nocturnals (2019)
  73. Conjunctions #73: Earth Elegies (2019)
  74. Conjunctions #74: Grendel’s Kin – The Monsters Issue (2020)

Bibliomysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. The Book of Virtue (By:Ken Bruen) (2012)
  2. Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By:C.J. Box) (2012)
  3. The Book Thing (By:Laura Lippman) (2012)
  4. The Book Case (By:Nelson DeMille) (2012)
  5. An Acceptable Sacrifice (By:Jeffery Deaver) (2012)
  6. Death Leaves a Bookmark (By:William Link) (2012)
  7. The Final Testament (By:Peter Blauner) (2013)
  8. Rides a Stranger (By:David Bell) (2013)
  9. The Long Sonata of the Dead (By:Andrew Taylor) (2013)
  10. The Book of Ghosts (By:Reed Farrel Coleman) (2013)
  11. The Compendium of Srem (By:F. Paul Wilson) (2014)
  12. What’s in a Name? (By:Thomas H. Cook) (2014)
  13. Remaindered (By:Peter Lovesey) (2014)
  14. The Sequel (By:R.L. Stine) (2014)
  15. The Gospel of Sheba (By:Lyndsay Faye) (2014)
  16. The Nature of My Inheritance (2014)
  17. It’s in the Book (By:Mickey Spillane) (2014)
  18. The Scroll (By:Anne Perry) (2014)
  19. The Book of the Lion (By:Thomas Perry) (2015)
  20. The Little Men (By:Megan Abbott) (2015)
  21. Condor in the Stacks (By:James Grady) (2015)
  22. Mystery, Inc. (By:Joyce Carol Oates) (2015)
  23. Every Seven Years (By:Denise Mina) (2015)
  24. From the Queen (By:Carolyn Hart) (2015)
  25. The Travelling Companion (By:Ian Rankin) (2016)
  26. Citadel (By:Stephen Hunter) (2016)
  27. Reconciliation Day (By:Christopher Fowler) (2016)
  28. Dead Dames Don’t Sing (By:John Harvey) (2016)
  29. The Haze (By:James W. Hall) (2016)
  30. Hoodoo Harry (By:Joe R. Lansdale) (2017)
  31. The Pretty Little Box (By:Charles Todd) (2018)
  32. Seven Years (By:Peter Robinson) (2018)
  33. The Hemingway Valise (By:Robert Olen Butler) (2018)
  34. The Last Honest Horse Thief (By:Michael Koryta) (2018)
  35. The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By:John Connolly) (2018)

Bibliomysteries Books In Chronological Order

  1. The Book of Virtue (By:Ken Bruen) (2012)
  2. The Scroll (By:Anne Perry) (2014)
  3. Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By:C.J. Box) (2012)
  4. An Acceptable Sacrifice (By:Jeffery Deaver) (2012)
  5. Death Leaves a Bookmark (By:William Link) (2012)
  6. Seven Years (By:Peter Robinson) (2018)
  7. The Book Thing (By:Laura Lippman) (2012)
  8. The Book of Ghosts (By:Reed Farrel Coleman) (2013)
  9. The Long Sonata of the Dead (By:Andrew Taylor) (2013)
  10. The Final Testament (By:Peter Blauner) (2013)
  11. Rides a Stranger (By:David Bell) (2013)
  12. What’s in a Name? (By:Thomas H. Cook) (2014)
  13. It’s in the Book (By:Mickey Spillane) (2014)
  14. The Nature of My Inheritance (2014)
  15. Remaindered (By:Peter Lovesey) (2014)
  16. The Compendium of Srem (By:F. Paul Wilson) (2014)
  17. The Gospel of Sheba (By:Lyndsay Faye) (2014)
  18. The Sequel (By:R.L. Stine) (2014)
  19. The Book of the Lion (By:Thomas Perry) (2015)
  20. The Little Men (By:Megan Abbott) (2015)
  21. From the Queen (By:Carolyn Hart) (2015)
  22. Every Seven Years (By:Denise Mina) (2015)
  23. Citadel (By:Stephen Hunter) (2016)
  24. Condor in the Stacks (By:James Grady) (2015)
  25. Mystery, Inc. (By:Joyce Carol Oates) (2015)
  26. The Travelling Companion (By:Ian Rankin) (2016)
  27. The Haze (By:James W. Hall) (2016)
  28. Dead Dames Don’t Sing (By:John Harvey) (2016)
  29. Reconciliation Day (By:Christopher Fowler) (2016)
  30. Hoodoo Harry (By:Joe R. Lansdale) (2017)
  31. The Pretty Little Box (By:Charles Todd) (2018)
  32. The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By:John Connolly) (2018)
  33. The Hemingway Valise (By:Robert Olen Butler) (2018)
  34. The Last Honest Horse Thief (By:Michael Koryta) (2018)
  35. The Book Case (By:Nelson DeMille) (2012)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The New Gothic (1991)
  2. Conjunctions #29: Tributes (1997)
  3. A Convergence of Birds (2001)
  4. Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists (2002)
  5. The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death (2011)

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Bradford Morrow Books Overview

Trinity Fields

A powerful novel about innocence and guilt, atonement and healing, friendship and betrayal, Trinity Fields maps the landscape of the American soul. Kip and Brice were best friends, born on the same day in 1944 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the most secret place on earth. Sons of men who engineered the atom bomb, they play macabre games as children, tempting the fate that looms over their closed community. As they come of age in the mid 60s, Brice is drawn into antiwar activism, while Kip disappears into Vietnam and ultimately into the secret war in Laos leaving Brice to marry Jessica, the woman they both love. Twenty five years later, Kip returns, a ghost soldier come, perhaps, to reclaim what was lost. ‘Brilliant…
dramatically real and poignantly felt…
a remarkable feat.’ Chicago Tribune ‘Morrow’s assiduous probing of the intricacies of moral choice hits us where we live or ought to live.’ The New York Times Book Review ‘Astonishing in its breadth and vision an intimate record of a dangerous age.’ The Boston Globe

Ariel’s Crossing

When, after years of secrecy, Ariel Rankin learns that her birth father is not who she had always believed he was, but rather a man named Kip Calder who went to Vietnam before she was born and then disappeared into Laos as a covert warrior, her world is shaken to its core. When she herself becomes pregnant by a man who wants no part of parenthood, Ariel realizes she can no longer elude her buried past if she is to have any future. She decides to leave behind her life in New York City and everything she knows to head west to find the mysterious Calder. Ariel’s search will lead her from the holy village of Chimay&oacute, New Mexico, to Los Alamos and the pueblo valley of Namb&eacute, and ultimately across the restricted badlands of the White Sands proving grounds. Morrow conjures an array of dynamic, strong willed individualists whose own distinct quests for home converge with Ariel’s. Audaciously weaving social with magic realism, he offers a rhapsodic portrait of how faith, family, and self identity are inscribed in each of us, uneasy heritages it is our burden to discover and embrace.

The Almanac Branch

A brilliant allegory that traces the life of a young woman whose sanity teeters on the edge as she tries to hold together her troubled family Since childhood, Grace Brush has suffered episodic migraines. With them come hallucinatory visions, which reveal buried memories, leading her inexorably on the path to discovering secrets that could send her family’s business empire into ruin. Among the many branches in this provocative novel are the limb of a tree outside Grace s window where the ghost of her dead brother, Desmond, lives, and the corrupt branch of a dummy corporation at the heart of her father s vast conglomerate. As Grace grows into adulthood, her quest for personal freedom collides with the mysteries of her past, making of her story an almanac of the perplexing nature of truth itself. In The Almanac Branch, Bradford Morrow maps the geography of a family s tragedy and one woman s redemption with astounding psychological insight, grace, and nuance.

Giovanni’s Gift

In this hugely entertaining novel, rich with suspense, and written with the delicate precision and lyrical resonance that have earned broad critical praise for his earlier novels, Bradford Morrow delivers a brilliant, mystery laden spin on the classic myth of Pandora’s box. A series of terrifying nocturnal visits to a solitary mountain ranch. The unexplained, grisly death of the ranch’s immigrant caretaker. A young man hoping to heal a broken heart, suddenly confronted with a love stronger than he has ever known. And a cigar box, circa 1940, filled with assorted personal effects and a hidden message. All connected but how? Woven into these mysteries, and set in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains’ towering beauty, are powerful themes of greed, love, and deception that pit nature against progress, honor against lust, and man against his greatest enemy himself. Morrow’s previous novel, Trinity Fields, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award

The Diviner’s Tale

The Diviner’s Tale is at once a journey of self discovery and an unorthodox murder mystery, a tale of the fantastic and a family chronicle told by an otherwise ordinary woman. Walking a lonely forested valley in upstate New York, Cassandra Brooks comes upon the shocking vision of a young girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities, the girl has vanished, leaving in question Cassandra’s credibility, if not her sanity. The next day, on a return visit, a dazed, mute missing girl emerges from the woods, alive and the very picture of Cassandra’s hanged girl. What follows is the narrative of ever deepening and increasingly bizarre divinations that will lead this gifted young woman, the struggling single mother of twin boys, hurtling toward a past she’d long since thought was behind her. When Cass’ dark forebodings take on tangible form, she is forced to confront a life spiraling out of control. And soon she is locked in a mortal chess match with a real life killer who has haunted her since before she can remember.

Didn’t Didn’t Do It

Building a tree house has never seemed so impossible. Maybe the instructions are too complicated, maybe it’s because no one can agree or maybe everyone is just plain clumsy; whatever the reason, Didn t and his friends can t seem to get anything right. And when they finally start making progress, they re in for a colorful surprise that might change their minds about the whole project! Bradford Morrow s nimble wordplay and Gahan Wilson s giddy illustrations give readers a colorful look at teamwork gone wrong and new friendship prevailing.

The Uninnocent

The Uninnocent is a masterpiece of empathy and of storytelling. I love this chapel of unholy stories with their charming, monstrous, wholly sympathetic characters. Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!Bradford Morrow’s stories have garnered him awards such as the O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes and have given him a devoted following. Now gathered here for the first time is a collection of his finest, gothic tales. A young man whose childhood hobby of collecting sea shells and birds nests takes a sinister turn when he becomes obsessed with acquiring his brother s girlfriend, in The Ho*arder selected as one of the Best American Noir Stories of the Century. An archeologist summoned to attend his beloved sister s funeral is astonished to discover it is not she who has died, but someone much closer to him, in Gardener of Heart. A blind motivational speaker has a crisis of faith when he suddenly regains his sight, only to discover life was better lived in the dark, in Amazing Grace. In all of these stories, readers will find themselves enthralled and captivated by one of the most potent voices in contemporary American fiction.

Conjunctions #13

This first rate literary review contains excerpts from forthcoming novels by William S. Burroughs, Jim Crace, Toby Olson and many more.

Conjunctions #20

Edited by John Guare. 6 x 9 in.

Conjunctions #21

Edited by John Guare. 6 x 9 in.

Conjunctions #27

Edited by Robert Antoni and Bradford Morrow. 4 b&w and 3 duotones. 6 x 9 in.

Conjunctions #28

Edited by Bradford Morrow. 12 b&w and 15 duotones. 6 x 9 in.

Conjunctions #29: Tributes (With: Lee Smith)

Edited by Martine Bellen, Bradford Morrow and Lee Smith. 45 duotones. 6 x 9 in.

Conjunctions #30

Edited by Bradford Morrow. 7 b&w and 18 duotones. 6 x 9 in.

Conjunctions #31: Radical Shadows

Edited by Peter Constantine and Bradford Morrow. 11 b&w and 28 duotones. 6 x 9 in.

Conjunctions #32

Edited by Bradford Morrow. 45 b&w and 67 duotones. 6 x 9 in.

Conjunctions #33

10 b&w and 20 duotones. 6 x 9 in.

Conjunctions #34: American Fiction

Edited by Bradford Morrow. 6 x 9 in.

Conjunctions #36: Dark Laughter

Contains a special portfolio, co edited by Jonathan Safran Foer and Bradford Morrow, presenting work exploring the darker sides of comedy. Authors include Robert Coover, Jonathan Ames and others. The issue also contains new work by Homero Aridjis, Sarah Rothenberg and William T. Vollman amongst others.

Conjunctions #37: Twentieth Anniversary Issue

In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Conjunctions, ‘arguably the most distinguished journal of prose and poetry in America’ Elle, gathers a virtual Who’s Who of innovative contemporary literature. Conjunctions:37 will feature new work by writers as diverse as Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Chinua Achebe, Rick Moody, Richard Powers, Jorie Graham, William T. Vollmann, Paul West, Carole Maso, Ann Lauterbach, and many surprise contributors. This special issue will also feature an important short story by Vladimir Nabokov, newly translated by Dimitri Nabokov for Conjunctions, which has never before appeared in English. Joyce Carol Oates offers a first look at her haunting new novel in progress, The Falls, and William H. Gass gives us a darkly hilarious tour de force with his novella, Charity. The 20th anniversary issue will surely be, as the Village Voice has said of Conjunctions, ‘A must read’ for anyone interested in contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama.

Conjunctions #38: Rejoicing Revoicing

It has been said that translators are the unacknowledged ambassadors of literature. With Rejoicing Revoicing, Conjunctions celebrates these masterful artists as the bearers of cultural riches that they are. In an unprecedented gathering of works in progress by many of America’s most renowned translators and some of the field’s younger stars, Rejoicing Revoicing invites readers on an odyssey through both classic and contemporary world literature. From Latin America to Europe, from Africa to East Asia, and from Medieval and Renaissance to the present, these works show how rich, diverse, and challenging is the art of translation. Richard Howard offers poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, with a preface about what drew him to this author. Edith Grossman, acclaimed for her translations of Marquez and Llosa, presents a chapter from her new Don Quixote. Kafka translator Breon Mitchell gives a first look at prize winning German novelist Uwe Timm’s new book. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky foremost translators of Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy share their new version of Dostoevsky’s The Adolescent. Rejoicing, Revoicing also presents new work by cutting edge poets, playwrights, and fiction writers who test the edges of English as the mother tongue.

Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists (With: Peter Straub)

For perhaps two decades, a small group of writers rooted in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror have been simultaneously exploring and erasing the boundaries of those genres by creating fiction of remarkable depth and power. Their connections to the genres they have been radically redefining have, for many of these writers, limited the appreciation of their accomplishments to a specialized readership. For example, though John Crowley and Jonathan Carroll have massive underground reputations, and Peter Straub has written two books with Stephen King and other bestselling novels such as Ghost Story, Koko, and The Throat, many if not most readers of Conjunctions will be unfamiliar with their work. In this haunting and beautiful collection of tales, Crowley, Carroll and Straub join Elizabeth Hand, China Mieville, M. John Harrison, Neil Gaiman and Kelly Link to demonstrate precisely how science fiction, fantasy and horror have been unobtrusively colonizing serious literature during the past 20 years. As an added bonus, science fiction and fantasy experts Gary K. Wolfe and John Clute offer a critical perspective and explain everything in sight. With original cover art by master cartoonist Gahan Wilson.

Conjunctions #40

In celebration of Conjunctions’ 40th issue, the journal has gathered together fiction, poetry, plays, and creative essays by some of its favorite contemporary writers. Featuring novels in progress from authors including Richard Powers, Howard Norman, Paul Auster, and Lois Ann Yamanaka, as well as ‘Heli,’ a surreal novella by China’s foremost fiction writer, Can Xue, in which a boy falls in love with a girl who lives entrapped in a glass cabinet from which he must free her. Short fiction by writers such as Rikki Ducornet, William T. Vollmann, William H. Gass and Diane Williams appears, in addition to ‘Condition,’ a harrowing story by Christopher Sorrentino, based on historical events from the 1970s, charting the psychological disintegration of a female newscaster who, on her last day alive, methodically plots her suicide on live TV. 40×40 also features creative nonfiction by David Shields and Eliot Weinberger, poetry by Cole Swensen, Martine Bellen, John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, and Robert Creeley, and a visual poem by Tan Lin. Rounding out this diverse celebration of contemporary work is a previously unpublished play by Joyce Carol Oates, specially commissioned for this anniversary issue, and a lively full color portfolio of new work by Russian emigr artist Ilya Kabakov. Edited by Bradford Morrow. Paperback, 6 x 9 in. 420 pages, 12 color illustrations

Conjunctions #41: Two Kingdoms

This fall, Conjunctions lives up to its name by bringing together two distinguished and award winning novelists Howard Norman, who guest edits the issue, and Rick Moody, who edits a special portfolio. Conjunctions: 41, Two Kingdoms is an anthology of previously unpublished writing that addresses the theme of inescapable dualism in our lives. The issue’s title derives from a letter by Edward Lear. Collecting fiction, poetry, essays and multi genre works, this issue explores the individual who inhabits two spheres, from the geographic to the linguistic, from the psychological to the historic and beyond. Contributors include Peter Matthiessen, David Mamet, Jerome Rothenberg and many others. ‘The Gaddis Dossier,’ edited by Rick Moody, gathers specially commissioned essays paying tribute to one of the 20th century’s greatest writers, William Gaddis, on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of his death. Contributions to this section range from defenses of the difficulty of his work to appreciations of its lightness and comedy, and they blend the insights of readers with the tributes of friends and colleagues. Texts come via Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Susan Cheever, Russell Banks, Stewart O’Nan, Siri Hustvedt, Bradford Morrow, Christopher Sorrentino, David Shields, Ben Marcus, Steven Moore, Joseph McElroy, Robert Coover, William H. Gass, Maureen Howard, Joanna Scott and others.

Conjunctions #42: Cinema Lingua

Now that the art of motion pictures has matured into its second century, Conjunctions has commissioned a diverse group of writers to respond in poetry, fiction, and multi genre works to the countless cultural, historical, psychological, and theatrical aspects of the seductive flickering medium we watch in the dark. Cinema Lingua pays creative homage to the symbiosis between filmmaking and the written word. Our authors explore, rewrite, and celebrate all avenues of film, from its narrative plots to visual storytelling, from character to mood, from lighting to suspense. Each contributor presents defining visions of the movies and focuses the lens of writing on one of our liveliest modern art forms, from mainstream Hollywood to the most exotic corners of the experimental and avant garde. A movie theater of the mind, Cinema Lingua’s contributors include Joyce Carol Oates, who explores the troubled relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his leading ladies, Peter Straub writing on film noir, Peter Gizzi, who offers a multi genre poem on silent film, Frederic Tuten, whose Never Never Land Near Marienbad is based on the Alain Resnais film, as well as works by Peter Hutton, Elizabeth Willis, Robert Coover, William H. Gass, Tan Lin, Kent Jones, Joshua Furst, and many others. Edited by Bradford Morrow. Paperback, 6 x 9 in./400 pgs /

Conjunctions #43: Beyond Arcadia

The contemporary innovative poetry world is as lively and provocative today as at any time in the last century. Over the course of more than two decades, Conjunctions has published the work of hundreds of highly original poets, both young and established. For issue no. 43, Beyond Arcadia, Conjunctions has invited 12 prominent and respected writers to undertake the difficult task of selecting their favorite young writer, one they feel is destined to become a major voice in American poetry. Among the 12 selectors are prize winning poets including Jorie Graham, Ann Lauterbach, Lyn Hejinian, Peter Gizzi, Fanny Howe, Michael Palmer, Robert Creeley, John Ashberry, Martine Bellen, Sandra Cisneros, Forrest Gander and Nathaniel Mackey. Each of the young poets chosen whose work has not yet enjoyed wide exposure will be represented by a chapbook length selection of new work with an introduction from their mentor/selector. Beyond Arcadia introduces a cross selection of unique voices from among many in the talented new wave of poets at work today. This groundbreaking issue will also feature a previously unpublished play by filmmaker John Sayles; new fiction by John Barth, Ben Marcus, Jon McGregor, Rick Moody, and many others; as well as a previously unpublished masterpiece of Russian surrealism, A Certain Quantity of Conversations Or, The Completely Altered Nightbook, a play by Aleksandr Vvendensky.

Conjunctions #44: An Anatomy of Roads

Leaving home is a dangerous business. Whether it’s to walk across the street or travel to another continent, one never returns the same. Conjunctions: 44, An Anatomy of Roads: The Quest Issue, explores in fiction and poetry the fascinating, complex process of defamiliarization as the ultimate path to knowing oneself. John Barth contributes an astonishing, hilarious novella entitled, ‘I’ve Been Told: A Story’s Story,’ which may be the ultimate quest narrative in that the story of a quester is narrated by the quest itself. Young Bristish author and Booker Award finalist for his first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor offers a story of a distraught man who travels to an unnamed island in search of his lost father. David Schuman’s story ‘Miss’ is an eerie modern desert journey in which a man and his daughter, who is convinced that she is a cat, encounters the mother who abandoned him working in a Twilight Zone like diner in the middle of nowhere. ‘Kronia,’ by celebrated fantasy writer Elizabeth Hand, details a love story that may or may not have actually happened over the course of decades around the world. Joanna Scott, Carole Maso, Rikki Ducornet, Nathaniel Mackey, Forrest Gander, and some 24 other writers contribute to this journey of the mind.

Conjunctions #45: Secret Lives of Children

Our years as children are often the most vulnerable, harrowing, expansive, mysterious, blissful, and dangerous times we must negotiate. Whether rich with possibility or scarred by trauma, childhood offers an endless arena of exploration for writers. This issue of the lauded literary magazineConjunctions gathers fiction, poetry, and memoirs by three dozen of the most innovative writers working today. One of China’s foremost fiction writers, Can Xue, contributes the tale of young Sumei in ‘Blue Light in the Sky,’ a surreal vision of village life among rats and scorpions. Robert Clark’s memoir ‘Headlong’ pays bittersweet homage to his socially ambitious gay stepfather. Illustrated with photographs of family life, it is a remembrance punctuated by obsessions with washing machines, snow forts, Boy Scouts, and Socrates. ‘Close to Home,’ Joshua Furst’s startlingly original fiction work, portrays a bleak foster childhood, tracing a tremulous path from the narrator’s first memory of his mother to the moment of his deepest fantasy about her. Mary Caponegro’s novel excerpt, ‘Chinese Chocolate,’ narrates the strange life at a Long Island Catholic school in which nuns dwell on the ‘gory details’ of backseat fumbling and Father Connelly bristles at a bare assed Romeo on the big screen. Contributors include noted naturalist Diane Ackerman, novelist Paul LaFarge, among others.

Conjunctions #46: Selected Subversions

This anthology of commissioned writing on subjects as wide ranging as rock and roll lyrics, movies, science, po*rnography, curiosity cabinets, jazz and magic offers rich insights into a vast spectrum of ideas. The classic essay form postulation, argument, exegesis, conclusion ain’t what it used to be. Lately it’s too often referred to as what

Conjunctions #47

‘In its first issue, published a quarter of a century ago, Conjunctions established itself immediately as a major journal of international literary arts, with contributors including Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams, Octavio Paz, Denise Levertov and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Over the ensuing years, it has remained at the forefront, publishing writing by then unknowns William T. Vollmann, David Foster Wallace, Rick Moody, Mary Caponegro and Jonathan Safran Foer. This special Twenty fifth Anniversary Issue continues the work at which Conjunctions is unparalleled: discovering tomorrow’s literary giants while keeping readers abreast of new work by the most important, edgy and distinguished voices of the day. This issue showcases new fiction, poetry and essays by such luminaries as Jonathan Lethem, Jim Crace, William H. Gass, Robert Coover, John Ashbery, Ann Lauterbach, Thalia Field, John Barth, Rikki Ducornet, Joyce Carol Oates, C. D. Wright, Peter Straub, Shelley Jackson, Richard Powers, David Shields, Lydia Davis, Rick Moody, Marjorie Welish and Jorie Graham, along with a number of surprise guest writers. As the first issue of Conjunctions defined the fiction and poetry that came to dominate the last 25 years, so this issue will become an indispensable handbook for our literary future.

Conjunctions #48: Faces of Desire

‘Desire, for hire, would tire a shire,’ James Joyce wrote in Finnegans Wake, though Conjunctions: 48 proposes the shire’d be tired even if the desire weren’t hired. Desire informs everything we do, from the smallest gestures to the grandest concerns. When it establishes residence in the heart, it becomes a tireless engine, motivating good, and by turns evil. Yearning can be sexual or religious, charitable or greedy, thoughtful or callous, profound as belief or superficial as a whim. Is there any more formidable, defining emotion? Mary Gaitskill, Mei mei Berssenbrugge, Mary Caponegro, Robert Kelly, Carole Maso, Brian Evenson, Robert Olen Butler, Joyce Carol Oates, Will Self, David Shields, Frederic Tuten and Rikki Ducornet, mong others, explore its tricky terrain in never before published essays, memoirs, poetry and fiction. Faces of Desire is an exuberant look now grim, now hilarious, now poignant into one of the most mysterious and crucial forces of life.

Conjunctions #49: A Writers’ Aviary

From the mythic phoenix rising from the ashes to the bird of paradise, which, according both to legend and Linnaeus, remained in flight its whole life, birds have set imaginations soaring. The sacred quetzal, the authoritative bald eagle, the wise owl, the gothic raven there isn’t a species that has failed to inspire us symbol crazy, earthbound human observers. Edited by Bradford Morrow, 2007 winner of the PEN/Nora Magid Award honoring a magazine editor with the highest literary standards and taste throughout their career, the newest installment of Conjunctions collects a vast spectrum of works about birds by ornithologists and everyday birders, together with poets and fiction writers from several continents. Among the many contributors are British poet Tim Dee, Canadian writer Sylvia Legris and Americans D. E. Steward, William H. Gass and Peter Orner. The issue also celebrates the distinguished half century career of John Ashbery in a portfolio of essays addressing his oeuvre, book by book. Among the contributions co edited by Morrow and Peter Gizzi: Reginald Shepherd on Some Trees, Susan Howe and Peter Straub on The Tennis Court Oath, Charles Bernstein on Rivers and Mountains, Ron Silliman on Three Poems, Susan Stewart on Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Ann Lauterbach on As We Know, Cole Swensen on Hotel Lautreamont, Harry Mathews on Your Name Here and Robert Kelly on Chinese Whispers.

Conjunctions #50

Winner of the 2007 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Literary Editing. Winner of a 2007 O. Henry Prize for Best Short Story. Winner of two 2007 Pushcart Prizes for Fiction, and four Special Mentions. Honored with two 2007 Harper’s Readings selections. And now, in Spring 2008, Conjunctions publishes its milestone fiftieth issue and offers readers a chance to discover once more why it is the most celebrated and provocative literary journal on the scene today. Conjunctions: 50 features never before published fiction, poetry, essays and drama by 50 of contemporary literature’s finest writers, including Sandra Cisneros, William H. Gass, Diane Williams, Ann Lauterbach, John Ashbery, Rick Moody, Mei mei Berssenbrugge, Can Xue, Eduardo Galeano, Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Christopher Sorrentino and Charles Bernstein, along with exciting new voices like Matthew Hamity and Brian Booker. In the late 1980s, the legendary George Plimpton, editor of The Paris Review, called Conjunctions, ‘The most interesting and superbly edited literary journal founded in the last decade.’ Almost 20 years later, the promise expressed in his words continues to be kept. Fifty Contemporary Writers is a must read for anyone interested in what’s happening at the front edge of writing today.

Conjunctions #51: The Death Issue

As Cormac McCarthy wrote, ‘Death is the major issue in the world. For you, for me, for all of us. It just is. To not be able to talk about it is very odd.’ For the Fall 2008 issue of Conjunctions, editor Bradford Morrow invited award winning writer David Shields, author of the 2008 New York Times bestseller The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, to gather work from a diverse cross section of contemporary authors to address the theme of death. The subject prompted responses ranging from the profound to the jocular, from philosophy to consciousness, fear, doom, irony and even humor. The Death Issue features innovative essays and meditations by Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Robbins, Dr. Pauline W. Chen, David Gates, Mark Doty, Robin Hemley, Albert Goldbarth, Joe Wenderoth, Daphne Merkin, Dr. Lauren Slater, Greg Bottoms, Susan Daitch, John D’Agata, Richard Stern, Mary Ruefle and Christopher Sorrentino, among others. David Shields is the author of eight previous books, including Black Planet a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Remote winner of the PEN/Revson Award and Dead Languages winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. His essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Yale Review, Village Voice, Utne Reader, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s and The Believer. The Chairman of the 2007 National Book Awards nonfiction panel, he is a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, among many other awards.

Conjunctions #52: Betwixt the Between

Postfantasy fiction that defies definition is at the center of a groundbreaking issue edited by Bradford Morrow and Brian Evenson in the Spring 2009 edition of Conjunctions. Imagine an everyday world in which meat is grown in vats by men called collies and butchered by BattleBots while adults play Frisbee with robots. Imagine a world in which secret societies meet in private to have ‘soft evenings’ during which they travel ‘psychotic highways.’ Imagine what might follow the opening lines of ‘Brain Jelly’ by Stephen Wright: ‘Apostrophe came from a country where all the cheese was blue. The cows there ate berries the whole day long. You should see their tongues.’ Along with other fictions gathered in this issue, these stories begin with the premise that the unfamiliar or liminal really constitutes solid, though undeniably strange, ground on which to walk. Contributors include such veterans as Jonathan Lethem, Elizabeth Hand, Theodore Enslin, George Saunders, Peter Straub, James Morrow, China Mieville, Robert Coover, Kelly Link, Jeff VanderMeer, M. John Harrison and Ben Marcus, as well as emerging writers such as Jon Enfield, Karen Russell, Micaela Morrissette and Stephen Marche.

Conjunctions #53: Not Even Past, Hybrid Histories

For the past 25 years, the journal Conjunctions has been known for introducing unlikely literary juxtapositions. Issue 53 takes such mergers as its theme, examining the hybrids that are created when fiction and poetry enter the supposedly objective realm of history. Many questions are raised by the pairings presented: is it possible, for instance, that the narrative artist can forge a heightened vision of what was, or what might have been, that becomes more compelling, more telling, than the historian’s account? What does it mean when an historical incident becomes myth, and that myth influences history? The instigators of these queries are a stellar selection of voices from contemporary fiction, poetry and drama, including Robert Coover, Nathaniel Mackey, Peter Gizzi, Elizabeth Robinson, William H. Gass, Can Xue, Howard Norman and Paul West. They share a knack for conjuring historical periods, events and characters in a blur of fact, fiction and a visionary hybrid of the two.

Conjunctions #54: Shadow Selves

The mirror is humankind’s most duplicitous invention. When we look into it do we see ourselves or an other? If we see an other, is that other a lie or some complex extension of a truth we don’t quite grasp? And when we set down the mirror and imagine ourselves to be one or the other or some combination of both, who have we become? In this special issue of Conjunctions, the very idea of self is tackled in fiction and poetry that investigates everything from innocent misperception to studied deception, delusion to fraud, crazed misdemeanors to premeditated crime. Shadow Selves offers a spectrum of permutations on these themes, with acclaimed and upcoming writers such as Elizabeth Hand, J.W. McCormack, Jonathan Carroll, Karen Russell, Peter Straub, Eleni Sikelianos, Frederick Tuten, Michael Sheean, Jason Labbe, Jess Row, Rae Armantrout, Melinda Moustakis and Rick Moody.

Conjunctions #56: Terra Incognita

Imaginary voyages are as old as literature itself. In the spirit of the ancient mythographer Euhemerus and such imaginary voyagers as Jonathan Swift, Italo Calvino, Daniel Defoe and Bruce Chatwin, Conjunctions #56: Terra Incognita, Imaginary Voyages gathers the outlandish testaments and peripatetic observations of contemporary writers who have been Elsewhere. Through stories, travel diaries, poems, postcards, new ancient legends, epic quests, mind trips, manipulated histories and dispatches from a wide range of innovative authors, readers will travel to places they have surely never visited before. Contributors include Charles Bernstein, Robert Coover, Kathryn Davis, Peter Gizzi, Benjamin Hale, Tim Horvath, John Madera, Donald Revell, Susan Steinberg and G.C. Waldrep.

Conjunctions #57: Kin

Nothing is more familiar, nothing more ineffable than the emotional prism, the blood knot that constitutes family. We can try to leave them, they can disinherit us, but there is no dispelling DNA, no true exile from that which binds us with our kin. In Conjunctions: 57, Kin, more than two dozen contributors, including Rick Moody, Karen Russell and Jonathan Lethem, explore the intricacies and knots of family ties. Essayist Karen Hays offers a meditation on a sledding outing with her children on the day that her son’s first pet dies, contemplating everything from Euclidean geometry to the algorithm used in credit card encryption to the ‘wintry vista’ of infinity. Micaela Morrissette weighs in with a Calvinoesque portrait of two siblings whose powers far exceed the everyday. This special issue of Conjunctions addresses the labyrinthine nature of kinship through essays, fiction and poetry.

A Convergence of Birds

This special limited edition of A Convergence of Birds follows the successful publication of the trade edition of this wonderful anthology of new fiction and poetry inspired by the art of Joseph Cornell. This book features writing from 22 of the best American writers working today; authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Pinsky, Rick Moody, Howard Norman, and Barry Lopez, all invited to participate by editor and contributor Jonathan Safran Foer. The limited edition of only 225 copies isl linen bound and slipcased, and signed by each author on individual sheets of vellum that are bound into the book at the beginning of their contributions. A wonderful and highly collectable edition that will be treasured by lovers of contemporary writing and fine books. In order to insure safe delivery for this item we can only ship Federal Express 3rd Day. An additional charge of $25. 00 will be added to your purchase.

The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death

What is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers. Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn’t. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art po*rn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomized by the AIDS epidemic; and Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the loss of her husband and faces her own mortality. Other contributors include Annie Dillard, Diane Ackerman, Peter Straub, and Brenda Hillman.

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