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Still looking for the perfect last-minute holiday gift? We highly recommend Bridge by Robert Thomas. And we're not the only ones! The San Franciscio Chronicle just featured the new fiction collection in a thorough and spot-on review. Calling the book an "energetic, lyrical narration," the review discusses the "precarious mental state" of protagonist Alice. "Bridge ... may borrow a weapon, along with a taut style and a slender economy, from James M. Cain, but this is no crime story. Instead, and perhaps incongruously, it is a quiet, interior novel, a character study in which the prose plays a bigger role...

Lee Upton, author of the wildly successful The Tao of Humiliation, recently spoke with The Quivering Pen for one of its regular features, “My First Time,” in which writers “talk about virgin experiences in their writing and publishing careers.” With clarity and good humor, Upton shares with readers her hallucinations and realizations about being a writer. Here is a fun sneak-peek vignette from the interview: “At first I was so excited I could hardly speak,” says Upton of the first time she learned one of her books would be published. The publisher at University of Alabama Press spoke to her for...

According to a Patheos review, Erika Meitner’s new poetry collection Copia "traverses the nature of existence in a world that is both decaying and blossoming, in which the seemingly mundane provides passage to truth." In this collection about "urban and suburban life, consumption and excess, desire and disappointment, and perhaps mostly about loss and hope," reviewer Dan Wilkinson says "relationships, language, faith, buildings, objects and life itself are simultaneously transitory and expansive, diminishing and abundant. [Meitner's] poems gently explore these tensions, skillfully connecting the past with the present, and the concrete with the spiritual." Many of the collection's poems find...

There has been a wide circulation of holiday book recommendations along the literary landscape this season, and some excellent BOA books are on the lists of many. Check out what some are saying about new and recent titles from BOA. There's a book for everyone on your shopping list! Bridge by Robert Thomas In a recent piece published in The Herald of Everett, WA, the Everett Public Library staff have called Bridge a favorite book of 2014, and a "cream of the crop." The books on this list are noted for "their dexterous and creative way with words; their narrative idiosyncrasies,...

THANK YOU to all of you who shopped small with BOA Editions this holiday season! In doing so, you have helped support independent publishing and our mission of bringing essential, high quality literature to the public. To express our heartfelt thanks, we're offering FREE SHIPPING on any BOA Bookstore order through 12/15! Simply use promo code SHOPBOA at checkout, and select the free shipping option to save big on amazing books! Happy Holidays from all of us at BOA!