Other Voices, Other Lives is a selection of poems, plays, and interviews drawn from over 40 years of work by one of America’s most beloved and influential women of letters. Grace Cavalieri writes of women’s lives, loves, and work in a multitude of voices. The book also includes interview excerpts from her public radio series, The Poet &amp; the Poem. Her incisive interviews with Robert Pinsky, Lucille Clifton, and Josephine Jacobsen offer profound insights into the writing life. This series is devoted to career-spanning collections from writers who meet the following three criteria: The majority of their books have been published by independent presses; they are active in more than one literary genre; and they are consistent and influential champions of the work of other writers, whether through publishing, reviewing, teaching, mentoring, or some combination of these. Modeled after the “readers” popular in academia in the mid-20th centuries, our Legacy Series allows readers to trace the arc of a significant writer’s literary development in a single, representative volume.

Other Voices, Other Lives: A Grace Cavalieri Collection (Legacy Series)

Literature & Fiction

Cavalieri, Grace

United States

Alan Squire Publishing

Girls Like Us

Hazen, Elizabeth

Poetry

Woman Drinking Absinthe

Self-Help

Young, Katherine E.

Relationships

Its jaws open wide, a firefighting seaplane skims the glittering Gulf of Portofino on Italy’s jagged Ligurian coast, scooping up a lone swimmer named Joe Gary. The super-rich, retired Italian-American has mob connections and a dirty political past. Has he been snatched by accident or murdered? Red Riviera, Commissioner Daria Vinci’s first investigation, is a wild ride from the tangled trails of the Cinque Terre to glamorous Portofino to roistering Genoa. It’s a Riviera made red by riotous bougainvillea and spilled blood. Half-American, Daria Vinci is an outsider, the unlikely rising star of Genoa’s secretive Special Operations Directorate DIGOS. In Red Riviera, she must face down a Fascist police chief, the CIA’s local mastermind, a former World War Two Spitfire fighter pilot, and a plucky hundred-year-old marquise whose memory is as long as it is vengeful, in order to solve her case.

Red Riviera: A Daria Vinci Investigation (Daria Vinci Investigations)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Downie, David

Mystery

Review\n"'where does the story start' Saida Agostini asks in her stunning debut collection, let the dead in. It starts with a poet in full command of a language so lyrically luscious, each poem feels like a full meal. It starts with a poet courageous enough to plumb emotional depths and limn their fruit. It starts with queer love stories, myths, family histories, and poems that swing from Guyana to Baltimore. 'I prepared a daily feast of hallelujah to lay at your feet,' Agostini writes, and each poem is a hallelujah, a salve, a prayer, and a benediction finely wrought from a ferocious poet who is just beginning to bless us. —Teri Ellen Cross Davis, author of a more perfect Union and Haint\n“'When I say/I love my family/what I mean/is I worship/the battle,' Saida Agostini writes early in let the dead in. What is the battle if not a familiar story of a covetous gaze, the violence following, inevitable; or a wife who 'spins time into fields of obeisance;' or love: 'a wound that you pack and pack'? Two fat black women making love or an ex-lover’s name hidden under a black rectangle, its redaction a dark wall-cum-passageway, from which might emerge 'a revolt of black girls.' Let them come, because they ask questions nobody else would dare imagine. Their questions matter, a matter of survival. Because black women poets have always known, the battle is art. —Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, author of Open Interval and Black Swan\n"These courageous poems of blooming and brutality, of unrelenting voice and witness, take us deep into the ruthless body, into spirit-killing. These brave poems write the murder of black women, hatred of queer and trans bodies as not just common, but endemic—yet Agostini brings survival into light, brings strong black women alive and beautiful and wildly sexual: we are nothing if not houses to each other that can hold/all sorts of brutal tender memory, make rooms of flesh/and light." —Jan Beatty, author of The Body Wars\nSaida Agostini’s first full-length poetry collection, let the dead, is an exploration of the mythologies that seek to subjugate Black bodies, and the counter-stories that reject such subjugation. Audacious, sensual, and grieving, this work explores how Black women harness the fantastic to craft their own road to freedom. A journey across Guyana, London, and the United States, it is a meditation on black womanhood, queerness, the legacy of colonization, and pleasure. These poems craft a creation story fat with love, queerness, mermaids, and blackness.

let the dead in

Agostini, Saida

From Dave Housley, one of the founding editors of Barrelhouse, comes a ghostly, comic new novel that asks just one seemingly innocent question: What would you do if your fellow office workers won the lottery?\n"The Office meets Then We Came to the End meets that recurring nightmare where your most loathsome co-workers win the lottery that you mocked them for playing each week...a sly gem of a novel." 
— Leslie Pietrzyk,author of Admit This to No One\nIn The Other Ones, Housley tracks the actions and reactions of multiple characters in the wake of a cataclysmic event — a coworker winning the lottery. For better or worse, what can you do? Some coworkers dig in, some quit, some go...more than a little crazy. One commits suicide by jumping off the roof of the office, then returns as a ghost to haunt the winners. Funny, tragic, and real, The Other Ones shines a light on our contemporary relationships to money, work, and each other.\n"Using his trademark wry, observant humor, Dave Housley explores a fascinating premise —when an office lottery pool hits the jackpot, what happens to the workers who are now multi-millionaires versus those who didn't put in a dollar to play? Filled with insights and skewering commentary on office politics and relationships, marketing culture, ageism, and commercialism, THEOTHER ONES delivers a funny and suspenseful tale of a corporate crisis as you've never read before." 
— Angie Kim, author of Miracle Creek\n"Dave Housley's The Other Ones is a riotous and bighearted office comedy, about a surprising kind of Rapture where it's not a heavenly force that whisks away half of your co-workers but a winning lottery ticket you forget to throw in on. Fans of Chris Bachelder or Sam Lipsyte will thrill as Housley applies eight point eight million dollars worth of regret to his loveable left-behind heroes, eager to learn who will crack among the cubicles and who might find another way to win their own good life." 
— Matt Bell, author of Appleseed

The Other Ones

Housley, Dave

Humor & Satire

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