Books
Mr. Agreeable
- Pub. Date: September 2009
- Publisher: Mammoth Books
- ISBN: 1595390219
Mr. Agreeable is a collection of flash and sudden fictions, featuring keyhole glimpses of lives at the edge, of characters haunted by shadowy pasts, caught at pivotal moments and braced for what lies ahead. MORE ...
Paradise Road
Winner of the 2007 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
- Pub. Date: September 2007
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- ISBN: 0822943158
The stories in Kirk Nesset's Paradise Road vividly examine the various pitfalls, both physical and emotional, we encounter and suffer trying to find lasting meaning in love. MORE ...
Stories of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study
- Pub. Date: January 1995
- Publisher: Ohio University Press
- ISBN: 0821411004
Raymond Carver, known in some circles as the “godfather of minimalism,” has been credited by many as the rejuvenator of the once-dying American short story. Drawing on representative tales from each of Carver’s major volumes of fiction, Nesset’s critical exploration leads us deep into the heart of Carver country, an eerie post-industrial world of low-rent survivors. MORE ...
Forthcoming Books
Saint X
- Pub. Date: Summer 2010
- Publisher: Lewis Clark Press
- ISBN: tba
Kirk Nesset’s Saint X is exquisite, exuberant, exhilarating, exemplary, exceptional, exceedingly excellent. Nesset’s poems merge the sacred and profane in a seamless vision. Each poems’ lush language, its specificity and heart, make Saint X a holy (and holy moly!) read.
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Alphabet of the World: Selected Works of Eugenio Montejo
- Pub. Date: Fall 2010
- Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
- ISBN: tba
Alphabet of the World is a selected anthology of poetry and prose in translation by Eugenio Montejo, one of Venezuela’s most distinguished poets and a crucial voice in Latin American literature. MORE ...