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Upton focuses on personal relationships, especially the immediacy and estrangement that emerge from the intensity of family life … Upton specializes in ending her stories with epiphanies that can be searing in their poignancy. These 17 tales explore personal and familial relationships with both pathos and humor—and all are well worth reading.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e —\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e *Starred* Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Poet, essayist, and fiction writer Upton’s stories are playful, full of clever allusions that are deftly presented … Upton’s story openings tend to be vivid; they’re great hooks … This is a smart and highly entertaining book.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e —PW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Upton, award-winning poet and literary critic, shows her mastery of the short form … This entertaining collection will appeal to fans of a variety of literary authors, such as Grace Paley, Edith Pearlman, and Lewis Nordan\u003cem\u003e.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eUpton elicits tremendous sympathy on the part of the reader for these and other characters facing existential crises, often with great aplomb ... These well-imagined stories bear the mark of the poet in the best sense, and the reader will not soon forget them.”\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e —Library Journal \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*Starred* Revie\u003ci\u003ew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eLee Upton\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es stories in The Tao of Humiliation are startlingly original, emotionally compelling, and delicately crafted, making them that most satisfying of finds: a great read.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Bathsheba Monk, WDIY, Lehigh Valley’s NPR Affiliate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Simply put, this is one of the finest short story collections published in 2014. Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, Upton’s stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a woman who searches through her past lives to recall a romantic encounter with the poet Yeats; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the poignant scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman. This is short story writing at its best.” \u003cstrong\u003e—BUSTLE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e “\u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003eIris and Jacob slept with their backs to one another, as if even during dreams they were headed in opposite directions.' If you’re charmed by that sentence—the opening sentence of 'Touch Us,'—then Lee Upton’s gracefully written collection of storie\u003ci\u003es T\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ehe Tao of Humiliation\u003c\/i\u003e is for you. For Upton, fiction is a primary form imagination assumes to reveal the contours of the inviolable mysteriousness of human relationships. Her stories are at once deeply insightful, and wise enough to leave the mystery intact.”\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\" data-mce-style=\"color: black;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Stuart Dybek\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lee Upton’s new story collection \u003cem\u003eThe Tao of Humiliation\u003c\/em\u003e is funny and wise, in the way that Grace Paley’s and Edith Pearlman’s stories are funny and wise. Which is to say, the humor and wisdom in Upton’s stories are never cheap, always hard earned, and the stories themselves are beautifully written and moving, even, or especially, at their most perverse ... What a collection! Another remarkable book by one of our most remarkable writers.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Brock Clarke, author of \u003cem\u003eExley\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Imagine if M.C. Escher had taken up the short story form, or Borges had constructed labyrinths not out of libraries but lives of quiet desperation, and you have a sense of Lee Upton’s sublime \u003ci\u003eThe Tao of Humiliation\u003c\/i\u003e. This is the rare book that reminds us how, once upon a time, storytelling was both a maker’s and seer’s art; Upton’s stories have the quality of winding dreams—illusory, intricately textured and architectured—and you emerge from them with the uncanny feeling that their world hasn’t quite let go of you yet. \u003ci\u003eThe Tao of Humiliation \u003c\/i\u003eis transcendent.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Joseph Bates, author of \u003ci\u003eTomorrowland: Stories  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eA poet, fiction writer, and essayist, Lee Upton is the author of thirteen books. Her poetry appears widely in such venues as \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic, American Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, and more than three dozen of her short stories have been published in various places. Upton’s awards include the Lyric Poetry Award and The Writer\/Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, and the National Poetry Series Award, among many others. She is currently the Writer-in-Residence and a professor of English at Lafayette College.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublication Date: May 13, 2014\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cstrong\u003e978-1-938160-32-5\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2014\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8420301381,"sku":"9781938160325","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":12467881705553,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/thetaoofhumiliation_bookstore.jpeg?v=1527683613"},{"product_id":"reptile-house","title":"Reptile House","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of The BOA Short Fiction Prize\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eBest Book of 2015\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fascinating characters in these nine short stories abandon families, plot assassinations, nurse vendettas, tease, taunt, and terrorize. They retaliate for bad marriages, derail their lives with desires and delusions, and wait decades for lovers. How far will we go to escape to a better dream? What consequences must we face for hope and fantasy? Probing the dark underbelly of human nature and want, Robin McLean’s stories are strange, often disturbing and funny, and as full of foolishness and ugliness as they are of the wisdom and beauty all around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eReptile House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eOnce you’ve read these nine stories, forgetting them is as unlikely as discovering the end-point of pi. Kissing cousins to George Saunders, Donald Barthelme, and perhaps even Don DeLillo, they are nonetheless powered by a distinctive new voice. McLean dives fearlessly through the Looking Glass; she scrubs the psyche raw, perhaps in an effort to get even closer to what constitutes 'reality.\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Jim Story\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eRobin McLean\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es debut collection is electric. I recommend that you get a copy and put it at the top of your stack.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—Jodi Angel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eReptile House is so wonderful. It\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es full of (almost) unbearable tension and what a wild ride through so many worlds. I enjoyed reading it hugely and am recommending it to all my reading\/writing friends.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Kathy Anderson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eWhen you read Robin McLean\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es stories, she\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es gonna get you. She will take you out into deep, and then deeper, water.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—Noy Holland\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eI haven\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003et read a book this dark and frank and sublimely written in a while. Maybe since Cormac McCarthy\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es No Country for Old Men.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—Alden Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Robin McLean writes in wonderful cascades of language. Her characters are carried along by those cascades, often unwittingly. Sometimes, as with the two young men in \u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003eNo Name Creek,\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e they are carried to a happy end. More often, they seem to be, like Lilibeth in \u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003eCold Snap,\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e overtaken by events beyond their control. Characters’ own words, often inept or pathetic in light of their situations, offer ironic counterpoint. Much is laughable in these stories. Don’t be deceived. Through her sly wit and humor, Robin McLean is luring readers into deeper questions.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Frank Soos\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tonally and structurally, these marvelous stories have no discernable influences. In her debut collection, Robin McLean emerges as a writer with a singular voice and vision. I admire this book immoderately, and I hope that readers will find it.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Chris Bachelder\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Robin McLean\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es fiction is harrowing and wry and compassionate, and always both fiercely rooted in the world and fearlessly willing to take chances.   I love her keen sense of our inherent strangeness, and her heartening sense of just how important it is that we never stop trying to close the gap between who are and who we aspire to be.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—Jim Shepard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eLike [Flannery] O’Connor’s work, \u003cem\u003eReptile House\u003c\/em\u003e is rife with moral ambiguity and extreme violence—elegantly written, abruptly erupting, and starkly moving—as well as other forms of human and inhuman darkness. . . . But there is unadulterated joy in \u003cem\u003eReptile House\u003c\/em\u003e, and it lies in the inventiveness of McLean’s language. Her prose is energetic and lyrical without excising ugliness . . . This skill with language makes possible the stories\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es portraits of human beings, so revealing in their unsentimental bleakness, and it is in this unique style that the worldhood of \u003cem\u003eReptile House\u003c\/em\u003e emerges. . . . To read \u003cem\u003eReptile House\u003c\/em\u003e is to dwell in a broken, funny, frightening, possibly doomed world—a world that may help us to read and live in our own.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eKenyon Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eCharacters struggle to control slivers of their fates in the nine stories of McLean’s debut. . . . McLean has a knack for stunning sentences that resonate with her characters’ circumstances. . . . [She] stages yearning and stasis with poignancy and wit.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eMcLean’s debut collection of short stories moves seamlessly from adultery to kidnapping, from assassination plots to extreme geothermal events, all in a voice that is spare and darkly poetic. . . . McLean’s characters are lonely in their marriages, isolated from the world around them, and not generally given happy endings. What this book does offer, however, is strangely realistic glimpses into conflicts that are equal parts surreal and hyper-realistic, rendered by a voice that gracefully juxtaposes terse reportage and lyrical insight. The result is a taut volume that explores the fate of the dashed dreamer, offering charming insights into the untidy worlds of people who are not where they thought they’d be.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2015\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420391237,"sku":"9781938160653","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/ReptileHouse_Front_compressed.jpg?v=1527683333"},{"product_id":"the-education-of-a-poker-player","title":"The Education of a Poker Player","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e-bestselling author James McManus offers up a collection of seven linked stories narrated by Vincent Killeen, an Irish Catholic altar boy, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. 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Baumann’s stories are layered with humor and heavy with the challenges and triumphs of social and self-acceptance. \u003ci\u003eWhere Can I Take You When There’s Nowhere To Go\u003c\/i\u003e is as original as it is enjoyable to read—a rare combination that should be savored and shared as widely as possible.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Aaron Tillman, author of \u003ci\u003eConsolation Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEvery Single Bone in My Brain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eWhere Can I Take You When There’s Nowhere To Go\u003c\/i\u003e, Baumann uses the fantastic to represent with heart-wrenching precision those ‘tangling feelings’ that threaten to destroy his characters. Some evaporate, some sprout roots on their heads, some change into mirrors, and some create clouds with their fingers—not by accident or scientific experiment but because these are phenomena in their worlds that transform and express raw human emotion with determined and sometimes redemptive clarity. 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