2020 Books

Necessary Deeds, Mark Wish’s fourth novel, is a high-octane thriller, a murder mystery, a suspense novel—and more.

Jack Remick’s recent work, Man Alone, is a hard-hitting, hard-boiled existential novella at its best.

Lanie Tankard reviews the novel Nadia, in which Christine Evans pens a literary editorial in her narrative of lost identity.

Maryanne O’Hara’s affecting memoir tells the story of her adult child’s death and her reflective grief in aftermath.

The micro-fiction pieces in Michael C. Keith’s latest collection seem “as likely to inspire sleeplessness as to cure it.”

Elizabeth Gauffreau’s unobtrusive description brings the past to life “so vividly that the story seems like her own recollected experience” in TELLING SONNY.

Our increasingly apocalyptic times have sent Susan Neville instinctively in search of meaning that underlies headlines in her latest collection of short stories.

WTP guest writer Lisa Zeiger reviews SLEEPLESS NIGHT By Margriet de Moor, “a novel for the floating world we live in now.”

Tim O’Brien’s new book, a nonfiction hybrid, is part journal about his late parenting and marriage, part memoir and confession, and part love-letter to his sons.

“Her voice regarding the genre is indispensable.” Beth Kephart’s twenty-third book is a guidebook for writers of lessons learned over years of writing memoir.

Jane Brox’s latest novel explores the effect of silence in prison and monastic lives to draw conclusions about its effects. “Remarkable both in its evocative research and its lyricism,” WTP prose editor DeWitt Henry reviews.

Jennifer Acker’s deeply considered and expansive novel focuses on love and family transcending races, cultures, religions, geography and time, and serves to expand the horizons of American readers for whom distant nations remain more “other” than familiar.

Jack Smith’s newest is a collection of essays on the craft of writing, geared toward beginners and featuring thoughts from scores of literary figures.

Joyce Peseroff reviews DeWitt Henry’s forthcoming collection of lyrical essays, SWEET MARJORAM.

DeWitt Henry reviews two essay collections released earlier this year, VOICES, PLACES and OBJECTS OF AFFECTION.

Richard Gilbert explores the long history of the cumulative sentence structure in a review of Brooks Landon’s instructional book.

Margot Livesey’s essay collection explores her own experience growing as a writer as well as thoughts on the craft itself.

Beth Ann Fennelly’s collection of micro-memoirs tells the story of a life lived and imagined, complete with irony, sentiment, and honesty.

Editor DeWitt Henry reviews former Ploughshares editor and TINGE Magazine founder Don Lee’s new novel, forthcoming June 2017.

Richard Gilbert reviews Sonya Huber’s new book about chronic pain and shares a conversation with her about writing, humor, and politics.

An ensemble of regarded writers pen works inspired by the art of Edward Hopper in a new anthology of short stories edited by Lawrence Block.

Richard Gilbert reviews and appreciates Living by Fiction, the 1982 exploration of the art of writing by Annie Dillard.

The Medium and its Messenger

Richard Gilbert reviews Beth Kephart’s memoir, Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir, inspired by her experiences teaching creative nonfiction.

Richard Gilbert reviews Dani Shapiro’s book, Still Writing, discussing the balance between the personal versus the universal in memoir.

Announcing The Woven Tale Press’s Selected Works publication.