I was 25 when I first read A Moveable Feast, Hemingway’s famous memoir of literary life on the Left Bank of Paris. This, I thought, is what I need: the daily company of writers like Stein and Fitzgerald. Happily, Slant has arrived. A gathering place for some of the most talented poets, essayists, short story writers, and novelists of our time, it adds some real Paris to my life.| Slant Books
In the spirit of Muriel Spark and Walker Percy, The Age of Infidelity‘s eleven stories embrace the comic, the absurd, and the dead serious. Faithless parents betray their children, the young betray the old, and lovers betray each other—but somehow these characters cling to hope. Aging white cheerleaders shout through an online megaphone, remembering a […]| Slant Books
In a small North Carolina riverside town where past and present are mysteriously entangled, young Daniel Waterson is growing up in the towering presence of his father Ray, a decorated Vietnam veteran whose mystical powers extend far beyond those of a trained soldier. Their lives are irrevocably altered when Ray accidentally kills a local boy, […]| Slant Books
