Announcing IOU—New Writing on Money

The Concord Free Press just published IOU, a multi-genre collection of new writing about money—earned and spent, given and taken, remembered and imagined, stolen and gifted. Small town money, globalized money. Our times seem ripe for writers to open up on the subject.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and is hardly spoken of in parlors without apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson 

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. —Albert Camus

I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
—Marilyn Monroe 

IOU is edited by Concord Free Press Poetry Editor (and acclaimed poet/critic) Ron Slate and includes work from Jonathan Ames, Augusten Burroughs, Mark Doty, Dolly Freed, Castle Freeman Jr., Michael Greenberg, Tony Hoagland, Michelle Huneven, Robert Pinsky, Jess Row, Mona Simpson, and many more writers, poets, and bank robbers. This  diverse collection of voices has a lot to say about money. You'll see.