Tough Poets Press

Beginning in A.D. 1000 with Leif Ericson and ending with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, John Sanford (1904-2003), recipient of the PEN Award and the Los Angeles Times Lifetime...

Alexander Theroux's first book of essays, filled with lore and rich anecdote, opens up an entirely new world of art for us. One of America's most illustrious writers, twice nominated for the National...

Expanded new edition of humorist Marvin Cohen's 1974 collection of 30 essays on the art and myth of America's pastime.Author: Marvin CohenPublisher: Tough Poets PressPublication Date: Nov 15,...

Though virtually unknown today, Maxwell "Bogie" Bodenheim (1892- 1954) was considered one of the Jazz Age's most controversial and scandalous writers. Bughouse Dope is an extensive collection of his...

As the title Cape Cod Tales indicates, Alexander Theroux's new work of fiction takes place in that early American destination-the windswept, sea-facing, hook-shaped peninsula of Massachusetts, the...

Author: Russell EdsonPublisher: Tough Poets PressPublication Date: May 01, 2020Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0578671085ISBN-13: 9780578671086

New edition of the 1929 English-language version of Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun's 1923 novel Det Siste Kapitel. Translated from the Norwegian by Arthur G. Chater.Chapter the Last is set in the...

Author: Knut HamsunPublisher: Tough Poets PressPublication Date: Mar 16, 2020Number of Pages: 302 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 057864570XISBN-13: 9780578645704

A collection of all 22 known published short stories by Philadelphia-born experimental novelist, poet, playwright, and screenwriter Gil Orlovitz (1918-1973). Written between 1947 and 1965, these...

A semi-autobiographical novel about a Turkish-born writer living in New York City's Greenwich Village during the late 1950s and early 1960s, with flashbacks to his childhood in Istanbul, who makes a...

In this previously unpublished 1975 novel, Donald Newlove (1928-2021) recounts his journey towards metaphysical enlightenment, visited along the way by the unsettled spirit of Cynara, his "great...

Sundra Glassgarden is trapped in a world she desperately wants to change. Archie London trawls the city for secrets. Set in a dystopian future and 1970s New York, Demolition Night is a haunting novel...

Duke, the Dog PriestAuthor: Dom?cio CoutinhoPublisher: Tough Poets PressPublication Date: 45671Number of Pages: 396 pagesBinding: FictionISBN-10: ISBN-13: 9798218474911

First-ever English translation of Editor Lynge, first published in Norwegian in 1893 as Redakt r Lynge, the third novel by Knut Hamsun, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920...

"The hapless love affair of hopeful poet Tom Jones and wealthy, bohemia-bound Sadie Massey is cross-referenced in brief, satirical, encyclopedic passages from ABORTION to ZOO CAFETERIA." (TIME...

Five previously unpublished seriocomic novellas and short stories written in the mid-1960s by American postmodern writer Marvin Cohen: Harvy's Failure / The Spring That Never Saw Print / The Don Juan...

Peter Marchant's only novel, Give Me Your Answer, Do, originally published in London in 1960 by Michael Joseph, Ltd. and out of print ever since, was described on The Neglected Books Page website as...

It's 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona...

Godfather Drosselmeier's Tears and Other Poems, this new collection by Alexander Theroux, gathers a number of poems that were written in the years subsequent to the publication of his celebrated...

In an era where the allure of distant lands and the promise of new experiences drive us to constant movement, Thomas McGonigle's critically-acclaimed Going to Patchogue brings forth a powerful...

Gulping'S RecitalAuthor: Russell EdsonPublisher: Tough Poets PressPublication Date: Sep 30, 2019Number of Pages: 140 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0578556030ISBN-13: 9780578556031

New edition of Myrtle Johnston's 1927 debut novel of a reluctant executioner in 1870s Ireland.From The State (Columbia, SC), April 8, 1928: "The author, an Irish girl of 18, unknown until her book...

Hold Up the Head of Holofernes is a riveting story of three women who experienced similar horrific assaults on their bodies, and one who wants to help victims like them through legislative means...

The quest romance is at its best when the outward journey reflects the seeker's inner landscape, and even better when it is rooted in a reality we can relate to, as it is in Richard Collins's memoir,...

Incredible Revelations of an Earthworm is a Voltairean dive into the timeless stories of creation, from the beginning duality of dark and light to the beliefs and politics of animalkind. Worms and...

Incre?bles revelaciones de una lombriz es un gran salto Voltariano de cuentos eternos sobre la Creaci?n por la dualidad desde el comienzo de oscuridad a luz a las creencias y pol?tica del tipo animal...

Twenty years in the making, Michael Brodsky's opus, Invidicum, is a sprawling satirical novel about an experimental drug for "Envy Disease" and those involved in its clinical trials: participants,...

A pair of intertwined metafictional literary mystery novellas published in a single t?te-b?che (i.e., reversible) volume.LATIN OMNIVOREThe professor has always preferred to let things play out rather...

MovielandAuthor: Ram? G?ez De La SernaPublisher: Tough Poets PressPublication Date: Jan 17, 2022Number of Pages: 196 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0578336812ISBN-13: 9780578336817