Our Previous Books

IOU: New Writing on Money, edited by Ron Slate

IOU is a fascinating multi-genre book on the theme of money—good, bad, and otherwise. It 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 50+ top-shelf writers, poets, and bank robbers. These diverse voices have a lot to say about money. You'll see. 

The Next Queen of Heaven, by Gregory Maguire

Set in the grotty upstate town of Thebes, The Next Queen of Heaven is a Christmas tale gone horribly wrong. Clocked by a Catholic statuette, Mrs. Leontina Scales starts speaking in tongues. Tabitha Scales and her brothers scheme to save their mother or surrender her to Jesus—whatever comes first. Meanwhile, choir director Jeremy Carr, caught between lust and ambition, fumbles his way toward Y2K. Only a modern master like Gregory Maguire can spin a tale this frantic, funny, and farcical. Novelist Ann Patchett calls it “an out-of-control carnival ride—terrifying, thrilling, a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.” And we agree. Now out in a commercial edition from HarperCollins.

Push Comes to Shove, by Wesley Brown

As the turbulent Sixties draw to a close, police kill Walter Armstead with a shotgun blast to the face. Was Armstead an innocent victim of violent times or a police collaborator? The question haunts the members of the radical activist group Push Comes to Shove for years. This powerful novel from Wesley Brown—acclaimed novelist (Darktown Strutters, Tragic Magic), educator, and former Black Panther—follows a tight-knit group of revolutionaries, lovers, and dreamers as they come to terms with their past and struggle through the Seventies and beyond. Some compromise. Some stay true to their ideals. Others die trying.

Give + Take, by Stona Fitch

The novel that inspired the Concord Free Press! Ross Clifton is a brilliant jazz pianist—and an even more talented thief. He steals millions of dollars in diamonds and BMWs and gives all the money away to people in need. But his life as a latter-day Robin Hood is about to come to an abrupt end as he approaches the outer limits of generosity and faces his demons. Fast, funny, and felonious, Give and Take takes you on an economic shakedown cruise. Now out in a commercial edition from St. Martin's Press.