The Fiction Writers Review has posted a lovely piece by Matthew Batt on Halina Duraj’s THE FAMILY CANNON (available here). Read an excerpt: The miracle of this book, calling to mind Anthony Doerr’s recent Memory Wall, is that Duraj manages to distill the historical, cultural, familial, and interpersonal experience of love, memory, and pain in ten crystalline […]
A sincere and enthusiastic thank you to everyone who came out on Friday night, despite bitter cold and hazardous ice, to celebrate the launch of Augury Books’ 2014 poetry collection, BEAST, by Frances Justine Post, and debut fiction book, THE FAMILY CANNON, by Halina Duraj. A special thank you to Berl’s Poetry Shop for an […]
You’ve saved the date, you’ve told your friends. Now all you have to do is show up at 7 pm on Friday, Jan 24, to Augury Books’ 2014 launch party for our new books: Frances Justine Post’s BEAST, and Halina Duraj’s THE FAMILY CANNON, Augury’s first fiction publication. Enjoy the friends, the wine, and the readings […]
From “Tenants,” THE FAMILY CANNON by Halina Duraj My mother scrubbed the blood all evening. She dipped the hard-bristled brush in a bucket of ammonia while my father ate pork chops and sauerkraut at the kitchen table. She came downstairs to make him a cup of tea—he’d never made one for himself—and she turned on the TV […]
Hear Frances Justine Post read her introductory poem, “Self-Portrait as Beast,” from her brand new book, BEAST, available for order from Small Press Distribution (see link below). . Book Trailer for BEAST by Frances Justine Post from Cecelia Post on Vimeo. . . Order BEAST now from Small Press Distribution! . More About BEAST and Frances Justine Post In BEAST, Frances Justine Post […]
. . Purchase THE FAMILY CANNON . More About THE FAMILY CANNON and Halina Duraj, Winner of the 2014 O. Henry Prize for “Fatherland” The debut collection by author Halina Duraj brings readers an American family, strikingly individual but recognizable to us all—as strange and familiar as home. An escalating neighborhood feud takes an unanticipated turn. A […]
PRE-ORDER BELOW: Beast by Frances Justine Post (Poetry, January 2014) AND The Family Cannon by Halina Duraj (Fiction, January 2014) Beast by Frances Justine Post (Poetry, January 2014) There is plenty of Circe, and plenty of Caliban, too, in the poems of Frances Justine Post’s book BEAST. Carl Jung would have nodded in affirmation at the way […]
Hello friends and fellow lovers of the arts. We were amazed and overwhelmed by the quality of your work; an ardent and sincere thank you goes out to all of you who trusted us with your manuscripts. We are pleased to announce that we have selected Halina Duraj’s The Family Cannon as our inaugural […]
In the Night Field Cameron McGill Poetry Cameron McGill’s debut collection of poetry spotlights the effects of memory: its startling artistry, varied discontents, and casual fallibility. “All fire and surprise, sadness and forgiveness…I could never say enough about the beauty of this work.” —Jericho Brown “It’s been a long time since I have heard the […]