The death of their youngest brother and layoffs in the steel industry disrupt the lives of Michael and Luke, who become aimless wanderers

The fifth station: A novel (Collier fiction)

McIlvoy, Kevin

Collier Books

In this exquisite debut short story collection, people with unusual jobs and lives embark on extraordinary journeys. A taboo romance breaks the laws of gravity. Albert Einstein writes letters to the daughter he abandoned. A female physicist meets Stephen Hawking in a bar.... In the closing novella, All Those Stairs, an elevator operator with a genius IQ rides up and down all day enclosed in a metal box. Author Erin Stalcup explores these lives with remarkable compassion, depth, and insight examining loss and longing, and how our bodies and minds can be both weighted and freed. And Yet It Moves is a powerful combination of both absurdist and realist―stories that literally defy gravity.

And Yet It Moves (Break Away Books)

Literature & Fiction

Black, Robin

Horvath, Tim

Stalcup, Erin

Yanique, Tipahnie

Short Stories & Anthologies

Break Away Book Club Edition

The dramatic story of Peg O'Crerieh, a woman desperately trying to rebuild her life, reveals the various roles she assumes--wife, mother, teacher, and patient-- as she tries to make sense of her past and future. By the author of Hyssop. Reprint.

Little Peg

Perennial

The dramatic story of a woman trying to rebuild her life reveals the roles she assumes as she tries to make sense of her past and future

United States

Atheneum

The son of a folk healer in New Mexico, eighty-seven-year-old thief Red Greet describes his lifelong friendship with Catholic bishop Francisco Velasco, who becomes his confessor and partner in a quest for miracles, love, and redemption. UP.

Hyssop

TriQuarterly

The death of their youngest brother and layoffs in the steel industry disrupt the lives of Michael and Luke, who become aimless wanderers

The Fifth Station: A Novel

Contemporary

Algonquin Books

"Compelling and complex . . . Strange and wonderful." ―The New York Times Book Review, in praise of McIlvoy's previous fiction
I am going to write about the state of New Mexico and put in some maps and stuff from the encyclopedia. My theme is the Don Juan Onate trail and the Jornada Del Muerto. But I might write some other important things which as it turns out my stepmother got angry about and said she wouldn't type this until my Dad said "Dammit now it is history" and told her maybe there weren't commas in those days.
"The Complete History of New Mexico" is no ordinary research paper, and this is no ordinary collection of short stories. Eleven-year-old Chum's "history" unfolds over three distinctive and increasingly disturbing sections. He writes that "Coronado explored around and found Santa Fe in 1610"; that "William Becknell was tracking wagons over everyplace in 1821"; and that every day his best friend, Daniel, is afraid to go home.
Kevin McIlvoy intersperses the title novella with equally distinctive stories set in New Mexico. Laura, a plain, overweight nurse, encounters a terrified young man on his way to the Vietnam War and takes matters into her own hands. Zach spends time with his "white-trash" relatives and finds love's terrible and true face. 
The Complete History of New Mexico is a stunningly original collection that will further McIlvoy's growing reputation.

The Complete History of New Mexico: Stories

Graywolf Press

Fiction. Based loosely on a tragic real-life incident in 2014; ONE KIND FAVOR explores the consequences of the lynching of a young black man in rural North Carolina. After the lynching of Lincoln Lennox is discovered and subsequently covered up in the small fictional community of Cord; North Carolina; the ghosts who frequent the all-in-one bar and consignment shop take on the responsibility of unearthing the truth and acting as the memory for the town that longs to forget and continues to hate. A reimagined Kathy Acker; the groundbreaking literary icon; engages Lincoln in a love triangle and brings a transgressive post-punk esthetic to the mission. The down-the-rabbit-hole satirical storytelling of ONE KIND FAVOR; Kevin McIlvoy's sixth novel; echoes Appalachian ghost stories in which haunting presences will; at last; have their way. "In ONE KIND FAVOR; Kevin McIlvoy crafts a novel we haven't seen before: a rare book about race and place that offers a nuanced take on the world we live in. This book feels vital for our times."--Nina McConigley "I describe Cord as 'spirit-haunted;' but is any place in America not haunted by ancestral misdeeds?"--Rion Scott Amilcar

One Kind Favor: A Novel

WTAW Press

Is It So?: Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels

Literary

A hybrid collection comprised of short stories, flash fiction, and prose poems, the works in 57 Octaves Below Middle C enact the dilemma of self-forgetting. This book is for any reader who hears the states of dissonance that are disturbing and natural aspects of the human comedy.

57 Octaves Below Middle C

Four Way Books

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The fifth station: A novel (Collier fiction)

And Yet It Moves (Break Away Books)

Little Peg

Little Peg

Hyssop

The Fifth Station: A Novel

The Complete History of New Mexico: Stories

One Kind Favor: A Novel

Is It So?: Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels

57 Octaves Below Middle C