ESSAY COLLECTIONS
Alone With All That Could Happen: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom About the Craft of Fiction Writing
Seven essays on such subjects as writing what you
don't know, point of view, the music of syntax, epiphanies, structuring story collections, and the role of contradiction in the creative process. (To read excerpts from these essays, please click on the title above.)
FICTION COLLECTIONS
Black Maps
Winner of the AWP Award for Short Fiction.
"
Black Maps is a moving, impressive, deeply rewarding collection from a very talented writer."
--Lorrie Moore
(To read excerpts, please click on the title above.)
Crimes of Passion
"The stories are executed with verve and wit, and one of them--'Shards'--is terrifying enough to have vexed my sleep for two nights running. A fine collection."
--Tobias Wolff (To read excerpts, please click on the title above.)
MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS
Miscellaneous Interviews and Essays
Selected interviews and essays on the craft of writing, jazz poetry, minimalism, Lynda Hull, James Wright, Flannery O'Connor, William Carlos Williams, and other writers and subjects. (To read excerpts, please click on heading above.)
POETRY COLLECTIONS
You Are Not Here
Winner of the Fleur-de-Lis Press National Poetry Book Competition.
"Compassion, humor, restless intelligence, and flawless technique come together brilliantly in
You Are Not Here to create poems of real tenderness and classical restraint."
--Maura Stanton
(To read excerpts, please click on the title above.)
Improvising Rivers
"Jauss sees the exercise of style as a form of pilgrimage to the human heart. And he knows the heart in all of its intricacies, misery, and splendor. It is hardly the fashion anymore to label a book as
noble--but no other word will suffice."
--David Wojahn (To read excerpts, please click on the title above.)
TEXTBOOKS/ANTHOLOGIES
Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms
A showcase for the finest contemporary examples of nearly 75 traditional forms, ranging from ballads and sonnets to kyrielles and pantoums, by nearly 200 poets, this anthology demonstrates how today's poets have experimented with the old forms to make them "new" and relevant to our times. (To read an excerpt, please click on the title above.)
The Best of Crazyhorse: Thirty Years of Poetry and Fiction
An anthology of the finest poems and short stories published in
Crazyhorse, the journal Raymond Carver called "an indispensable literary magazine of the first order." (To read an excerpt, please click on the title above.)
