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Ploughshares Solos Omnibus is a series of five anthologies, collecting the first five years of Ploughshares’ digitally published Solos.
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Based on the award-winning William Styron novel of the same name, Lie Down in Darkness: A Screenplay by Richard Yates follows the dysfunctional Loftis family as they reflect on their lives at the funeral of Peyton, the youngest member of the family. Richard Yates is the author of Revolutionary Road, A Special Providence, Disturbing the…
Sam Cornish’s 1935 is a memoir of growing up black in Baltimore during the Depression and World War II. Melding autobiography, poetry, and fiction, the author, like John Dos Passos before him, creates a collage of American experience which allows him to weave twenty years of African-American family life into the life of a nation….
Stories and essays by Hugh Coyle, Carolyn Ferrell, Edward Hamlin, Lisa Horiuchi, Rachel Kondo, Michael Lowenthal, Eli Mandel, Uche Okonkwo, Tim Parrish Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, appear together in this fifth annual print collection. Travel to Belize with a retired businessman desperate for a new…
Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, create this fourth annual print collection. Visit a small island off the coast of Maine where the reappearance of an old friend might just push a painter suffering from artist’s block over the edge. Meet a newly divorced lecturer of critical…
Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, create this third annual print collection. Take a trip across Israel with the deceased Izzy Gam as he tries to find an unoccupied place to rest, visit a ruined hotel in a washed-up resort in Puerto Rico, and become immersed in…
Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the Ploughshares Solos digital series, unite for the first time in this inaugural collection. Follow a street urchin’s transformation into a burlesque star and a woman’s solitary, hectic journey through Israel and the West Bank. Wait with Kafka’s last physician for “the patient in room 12” to…
Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, unite in this second annual collection. The Omnibus features work by Paul Byall, Christopher Castellani, L. C. Fiore, Kathleen Hill, Alexandra Johnson, Brendan Jones, Patricia Grace King, Lisa Heiserman Perkins, and Aurelie Sheehan, as well as an introduction from Ploughshares editor-in-chief…
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