Mitch Levenberg
Write Something
A must read for anyone who's ever wanted to take a trip down someone else's memory lane, and at the same time revisit the warmth of their own. Mitch Levenberg writes about writing and reading his writing.
The Dementia Diaries
The Dementia Diaries is the story, in journal form, of the last five months of the narrator's mother's life in an assisted living facility in Florida. As time goes on he begins to realize it is no longer he who can depend on his mother but she who now must depend on him for her very survival. At the same time, with her oncoming Dementia, he must cope more and more with her feelings of frustration and humiliation.
Jive Poetic
Skip Tracer
Blending poetry and prose, music, and genealogy, Jive Poetic's Skip Tracer is a memoir structured as a "hybrid sound system" (complete with "records," "tracks," "decks," and "channels"), expertly curated to convey the complexity of Blackness in the Americas.
Ian Maloney
Melville's Monumental Imagination
The book charts the territory of Melville's novels to provide a trajectory of the monumental image in one particular literary form. This feature allows the reader to gradually see the monumental image as an important marker that sheds light on Melville's eventual abandonment of long fiction. Melville's Monumental Imagination combines literary analysis and cultural criticism for a long-neglected aspect of our nation's iconic development in statuary.
South Brooklyn Exterminating
Ian Maloney's South Brooklyn Exterminating immediately takes its place among the plain-spoken, hilarious, and heartbreaking classics of American working-class fiction. It's a book about many things...Also, it's about rats. Lots and lots of rats. Jesus Mary and Joseph, all the rats.