Five Plays by Samuel D. Hunter
This collection of Hunter's work includes five plays all set in the playwright's home state of Idaho. Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times calls Samuel D. Hunter "a welcome theatrical voice from the American West."
Publications and Productions
The Midnight Cool by Lydia Peelle
In Peelle's debut novel, set in 1916, a middle-aged Irish immigrant and the teenage son of a prostitute join forces to sell a surprisingly valuable commodity for the troops in Europe—mules. Booklist writes, "the skillfully crafted characters are rendered with acute psychological insight into the moral dilemmas that shape one’s humanity."
World of Made and Unmade by Jane Mead
Mead's fifth collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award in poetry, is an exploration of grief and death. Publishers Weekly writes, "Mead's earthiness sometimes morphs into otherworldiness."
The Abridged History of Rainfall by Jay Hopler
Hopler's collection, a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, mourns the death of his father. "Even as they engage grief and loss," says fellow Whiting winner and poet Dana Levin, "the poems here are funny and sardonic, not afraid to wear their feelings on their sleeves; they're a tonic."
Clover by Erik Ehn
Ehn's latest play follows the tragedy of Emmett Till and his mother that helped spur the Civil Rights Movement as well as three other stories, illustrating America’s history of violence towards those most vulnerable.
Berlin Notebook: Where are the Refugees? by Joshua Weiner
In his Berlin Notebook, Weiner chronicles a fall and spring spent in Berlin from 2015-16, when the peak influx of refugees into the country took place. Weiner documents the mixed German response to the refugee crisis: some feel an obligation to assist rooted in the past, and others, a deep skepticism.
BANANA PALACE by Dana Levin
Levin's latest collection is an ode to spiritual meaning and approaching apocalypse . Of Banana Palace, Plougshares writes, "these poems question the moral, aesthetic, and metaphysical needs that poetry exists to fill."
Aneurysm of the Firmament by Thylias Moss
Moss's new chapbook of poetry, available on Kindle, is a collaboration with fellow poet Thomas Higginson, and a work "in which differentiating words of one from word of the other is impossible as true collaboration should be."
THE MAIDS by Jose Rivera
Two sisters and maids dream of liberating Vieques from the mistress of the largest sugar plantation on the island. In Rivera's latest, premiering at INTAR Theatre, "poison is consumed, genders collide, and a psychosexual drama is unleashed."
LONER by Teddy Wayne
Loner is the story of David Federman, a withdrawn Harvard freshman who meets a beautiful, sophisticated Manhattanite named Veronica. David quickly becomes infatuated, to devastating circumstances. Kirkus Reviews calls Loner "stunning" and "as absorbing as it is devastating."