“Wasp Box is full of wonders, by which I mean it’s full of drunken fathers and the Finger Lakes of New York and middling wineries and too-smart-and-nosy-for-their-own-good kids and bomb shelters and young love and lost love and lost diaries and killer wasps. In this, his unbelievably smart, tense, breakneck first novel, Ockert has made something strange, and great, a book that is absolutely impossible to put down once you’ve started it.”—BROCK CLARKE, author of Exley  “With sentences as darting and sharp as the wasps that haunt this remarkable debut novel, Jason Ockert has crafted an unforgettable vision of an America—and a family—in peril.”—LAURA VAN DEN BERG, author of The Isle of Youth  “Wasp Box may cause swelling, itching, anaphylactic shock, renal failure, barbed terror, stinging empathy, and profound joy.”—BENJAMIN PERCY, author of Red Moon When a soldier returning home to a small New York town inadvertently transports an invasive species of deadly parasitic wasps, he sets off a frightening chain of events that throws an entire community into an unpredictable crisis. Escalating in its psychological, emotional, and narrative intensity, Ockert’s gripping first novel examines the choices individuals make in the face of danger, the limits of personal strength, and the value of family loyalty when the familiar world unravels.Praise for Ockert’s previous work:  “Ockert’s voice is quirky, funny, and totally original—it conveys, in these dreamlike, virtuosic stories, a strange and vulnerable kindness you haven’t read before.”—George Saunders, author of Tenth of December  “Beautiful stories, searching and generous. Ockert never ceases to astound.”—Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao  “Ockert’s plots are hair-raisingly original, his humor is feverish and dark, his language soars. And yet no matter what altitude of weird Ockert achieves here, his imaginary worlds are always populated by real people, characters who matter deeply to each other, and to their readers.”—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!

Wasp Box

Literature & Fiction

Ockert, Jason

Contemporary

Panhandler Books

“Stefan Kiesbye…is the inventor of the modern German gothic novel.” —Elmar Krekeler, Die Welt “In Strathleven, a village near Lübeck, mysterious events occur. The newly arrived Benno and his family are faced with the corpse of an unknown woman, superstition, vicious sermons and isolation. A modern gothic novel: quirky, very readable and interesting from the first page to the last.” Peter Peterknecht, Deutschlandradio Kultur “Kiesbye pulls out all the stops...The novel ends in a scary-exciting finale.”—Helmut Lenz, Borromäusverein “Ancient pagan Germanic myths and customs pervade the history of Stratleven and its inhabitants. Nothing seems to follow the simple course of events, but old and savage rules; the only apparent escape is to commit new acts of violence.”—Magdalene Geisler, der Freitag Moving from Berlin to Strathleven, a picture-perfect village on the Baltic Coast, was supposed to be a new beginning for Benno, his wife Carolin, and their six-year-old son, Tim, who is suffering from a mysterious illness. However, shortly after arriving in the country, Benno finds the corpse of a young woman in the woods, and when no one in the village admits to having known her, Benno initiates his own investigation. He digs deep into Strathleven’s superstitions and ritualistic past to recover the history of the murdered woman, yet will he be able to save his marriage and the lives of his wife and son?

Knives, Forks, Scissors, Flames

Kiesbye, Stefan

United States

Oregon Book Awards Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry - Finalist Praise for Previous Work ?Peterson is one of our most valuable poet-thinkers and thinker-poets, a writer who can show us how much is within our grasp and much is beyond it.??LA Review of Books ?His observing eye, as astute as the most finely honed telephoto lens, is such that he?s able to transform even the ordinary into something so exquisite it provokes wonder and awe.??Mary Jo Bang ?Like ?Brazil?s undiscovered caverns of amethyst,? Allan Peterson?s Fragile Acts is a major find.??John Ashbery ?He puts music to the tension between the desperate human experience and the cool removal of the cosmos. His poems are refreshingly discrete artifacts?perfected and edgy?raw at the same time.??Laura Kasischke ?Allan Peterson?s meditations on domestic tranquility and ecocatastrophe are so smart that they could actually make you smarter.??Boston Review ?Soul-poppingly magnetic.??The Rumpus From the vast complexities of a world in which synesthesia is our natural translator, Allan Peterson?s poems convey the consistent message that the ordinary isn?t. Selected from books and chapbooks covering almost thirty years of writing, Peterson?s work draws heavily from landscapes like the Gulf Coast, the sciences, history, and the author?s background in visual arts. Details of perception and observation demonstrate why these reflective works, often dense with images and intuitive jumps, have received national and international recognition.

This Luminous: New and Selected Poems

Peterson, Allan

Poetry

Spectacle

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Proper Imposters: Four Novellas

Parker, Jeff

Bhuvaneswar, Chaya

Figueiras, Mauricio Montiel

Literary

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