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Two of BOA's recent stars, Nikola Madzirov and the inimitable team of John Gallaher and G.C. Waldrep, were recently featured in the Bloomsbury Review, a bimonthly "book magazine" devoted to sharing the best contemporary literature. "Our mission," they write, "is to seek out those quality books that are underserved and undeservedly overlooked by other media—bringing you reviews of books from large publishers that don’t receive the promotional budget of their bestsellers, and new books from small, regional, nonprofit, independent, and university presses you won’t discover elsewhere." Besides this, the Bloomsbury Review is "simply lively writing about good reading and great...

[caption id="attachment_1015" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Your Father on the Train of Ghosts. Poems by G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher."][/caption] Don’t Answer the Door (or Do) In this second of six part series, poets John Gallaher and G.C. Waldrep continue to explore their experience writing Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, the product of a year-long exchange of poems via email, discussing the interior life of the poems and the collaborative nature of their book, a collection that John Ashbery referred to as one where the pair write within "a growing region, but there are others too, regions/ and examples of...

In a recent review of G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher's Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, blogger C. Moniz at California Poetics highlights the glittering electricity of their words, finding that "[t]he lines could stand on their own without the reader having to know a single detail about 'the performance,' which could be any number of life’s glittering spectacles." Moniz references the poem "A Short History of Friendship," saying, "The power of these lines is intensified by the dismissive tone of 'just' and 'anyway.' ... The downplay of these phenomena—a luminescent insect, a celestial body, a shard of geologic...

[caption id="attachment_1017" align="alignnone" width="252" caption="This New & Poisonous Air. Stories by Adam McOmber."][/caption] In his debut short story collection This New and Poisonous Air, Adam McOmber brings the influence of Angela Carter, Isak Dinesen, and Edgar Allen Poe to the next generation in stories that are a blend of the fantastic and the macabre.  The book, a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly, explores in dense, richly written stories the nature of fantasy and the obsessions that too often drive them. Recently profiled in Time-Out Chicago, McOmber is also the author of the upcoming novel Empyrean. His debut novel details the story of...

[caption id="attachment_1380" align="aligncenter" width="465" caption="35th Anniversary Summer Celebration Sale"][/caption] In celebration of 35 years, BOA is holding a 35th Anniversary Summer Celebration Summer Sale.  All BOA titles are discounted 10% now until August 31st.  It is one way for us to thank our readers and offer some quality summer reading! For a link to the BOA Editions bookstore, follow the link here.