Call It What You Want
Stories by Keith Lee Morris
April 2010

In this stunning story collection inhabited by dreams and disappointments, good intentions and small triumphs, Keith Lee Morris chronicles the lives of men lost in the liminal spaces between adolescence and adulthood.

“Here are thirteen manic, beautiful stories, each centered around working men, dads, and boys, all of them broken or on the edge of breaking. Each bears witness to fragility, confusion, and beauty. Each is quietly brilliant.”
—Anthony Doerr, author of The Shell Collector

Agaat
A novel by Marlene van Niekerk
Translated by Michiel Heyns
May 2010

“I was immediately mesmerized . . . Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting.”
—Toni Morrison

Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene van Niekerk creates a story about love and loyalty.

The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
By Bernard DeVoto
Introduction by Daniel Handler
June 2010

One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto’s The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink—properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author turns his shrewd wit on the spirits and attitudes that cause his stomach to turn and his eyes to roll (Warning: this book is NOT for rum drinkers).

"The Hour is not simply a piece of humorous cultural patriotism either. It is a manual of witchcraft, a book of spells and observances."
—Wallace Stegner, author of Angle of Repose

Mentor: A Memoir
A memoir by Tom Grimes
August 2010

A chance encounter between two writers, Tom Grimes and Frank Conroy, the author of the classic memoir Stop-Time, develops into a wonderful friendship neither expected. Through honest and heartbreaking prose, Grimes explores the writing life and the role of a very important teacher while offering an inside view of the most famous writing program in the world.

"One of the truest accounts of a writer's life—of two writers' lives—I've yet seen. A poignant and beautiful book."
—T. C. Boyle

River House
A memoir by Sarahlee Lawrence
October 2010

River House, an exquisite blend of memoir and nature writing, is the story of Sarahlee Lawrence’s return from rafting the world’s most dangerous rivers to her family’s remote ranch. She and her father brave the central Oregon winter to build a log house by hand.

"River House is about rediscovering family and working through the compromises involved in finding your life, the people and days you actually love. It’s tough, smart and eloquently told, a dead on beauty. Enjoy. I surely did."
—William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky and The Willow Field

A Householder’s Guide to the Universe
By Harriet Fasenfest
November 2010

A Householder’s Guide to the Universe takes up the banner of progressive homemaking. Streetwise and poetic, fierce and romantic, the book provides not only a way out of our current economic and environmental logjam but also a readable and often funny analysis of how we got there in the first place.