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WELCOME TO DZANC BOOKS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Shortly after opening our doors in 2006, Dzanc Books was hailed as “the future of publishing”
by Publishers Weekly. A fully invested publishing house with print distribution through Consortium, and
eBook distribution through Open Road Media, Dzanc Books is committed to not only publishing great
works, but promoting our authors through print and online media, author tours, and through audio/visual
media. In our first few years, Dzanc authors have been reviewed everywhere both in print and online,
including the Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Believer, Time Out New York, NewPages, Bookslut,
Mid-American Review, American Book Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Publishers Weekly,
Rain Taxi, Elle Magazine, Vanity Fair, and numerous others. With award-winning authors such as Josip
THE OLD REACTOR
a novel by david ohle
OFFERINGS FROM A RUST BELT JOCKEY
a novel by andrew plattner
A DIFFERENT BED EVERY TIME
stories by jac jemc
Novakovich, Laura van den Berg, and Hesh Kestin, coupled with great emerging writers like Sean McGrady,
BY LIGHT WE KNEW OUR NAMES
stories by anne valente
Eugene Cross, and Jac Jemc, Dzanc is excited to present the best and the brightest authors writing today.
The Maggot People
a novel by henning koch
As of 2008, Dzanc has also formed imprint relationships with other established independent publishers.
These publishers continue to run editorially as they did previously; however, they now have the publicity
and distribution support of Dzanc Books. Heading into 2014, these publishers include OV Books, Keyhole
Books, Starcherone Books, Ellipsis Press, and Disquiet. These relationships have led to extraordinary
works by authors such as Allison Amend, Tod Goldberg, James Morrison, Stacey Levine, Joshua Cohen,
and Alissa Nutting as well as a cutting-edge anthology of 30 Writers Under 30. The titles publishing under
the Disquiet imprint are works in translation or works written in English with a heavy foreign country
aspect to them. Between Dzanc and our imprints, we publish novels, short story collections, poetry
collections, anthologies, works in translation, nonfiction, and chapbooks in both print and eBook form.
Dzanc Books also supports three literary journals: The Collagist, an online monthly that
contains fiction, poetry, essays, novel excerpts, and book reviews; and Monkeybicycle, an online journal
of both fiction and poetry that features podcasts.
As a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization, Dzanc Books is also fully committed to developing
writing programs in the schools and community at large. Dzanc funds and has operated workshops and
Writer-in-Residence programs in several cities, including Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and New York. Dzanc
has also set up a low-cost writing instruction program for beginning and emerging writers by connecting
them with accomplished authors through the innovative Dzanc Creative Writing Mentorships. Dzanc
has organized the Disquiet International Literary Program, a writing conference held in Lisbon, Portugal.
Dzanc creates internship opportunities for students looking to gain valuable experience in independent
publishing. With a full vision for our future, both as publishers and as leaders in the community, Dzanc
is excited about what we can do to continue bringing great books to wider audiences while inspiring
generations of readers to come.
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Dzanc FRontlist Books.................................4
The Annotated Mixtape
essays by joshua harmon
History of Cold Seasons
stories by joshua harmon
Come Away
a novel by stephen policoff
My Beautiful Hook-Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave
poems by jeff kass
Words & Wisdom of Charles Johnson
essays by charles johnson
If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home
stories by dave housely
Gun, Needle, Spoon
a novel by patrick o’neil
The Guild of St. Cooper
a novel by shya scanlon
like a woman
a novel by Debra Busman
The Zoo, a Going
a novel j.a. tyler
WAIT ’TIL YOU HAVE REAL PROBLEMS
poems by scott beal
REcently Published.......................................36
The Reprint Series..........................................40
The Writer-in-Residence Program.........44
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THE OLD REACTOR
a novel by david ohle
A strange and twisted tale of two imaginary cities of the future
from the author of the cult classice motorman
Moldenke is sent to the “free” prison town at Altobello with an indeterminate
sentence for defecating on a grave. It was an accident. He has a rare bowel
condition. Altobello is full of Jellyheads and features an old nuclear reactor on
the edge of town. No one seems to remember what the reactor really is until it’s
almost too late.
David Ohle is the author of Motorman, The Age of Sinatra, and The Pisstown
Chaos. He has taught fiction writing at the University of Texas in Austin, the
University of Missouri in Columbia, and currently teaches both fiction and
screenwriting at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
“No amount of description will prepare you for the icky, cavernous, taboo places in
your mind to which he’ll lead you, hand in hand, Virgil to your Dante. You’ll recognize some of these places, of course. The question is, how did he get in there?” — The Believer
“…awesomely carving deep, black holes into the edifice of the English language.” — Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet
Fiction | Trade Paper | 5.5 x 8.5 | September 2014 | 184 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-56-2
Rights: US/UK/Canda/Ireland, Translation
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OFFERINGS FROM A RUST
BELT JOCKEY
a novel by andrew plattner
a jockey experiences an unexpected crest in his career and decides
to pursue a woman he might otherwise not have
Decades in the saddle have taught longtime jockey Carl Arvo about all the things
he can have and all the things he cannot. An unexpected turn of fortune gives
him the chance to be with a woman, Christine Fleming, who in some ways is
the person he’s been looking for his entire life.
Andy Plattner is a longtime horse-racing journalist and has published two short
story collections, one of which, Winter Money, won the Flannery O’Connor
Award. His stories have been published in journals such as The Paris Review,
Fiction, Epoch, and The Sewanee Review.
“There are grooms and trainers and bookmakers aplenty, but it’s the crazy woman
who stuffs her house with other people’s garbage, the corrupt, know-it-all cop, and
the pot-smoking floozy that provide the swing and verve.” —Boston Review
“Plattner’s stories prove again and again that you don’t have to be flashy to be
good.” —Louisville Courier-Journal
Fiction | Trade Paper | September 2014 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 224 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-59-3
Rights: World, Performance, Audio, and Serial
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A DIFFERENT BED EVERY
TIME
stories by jac jemc
follow-up to the highly praised My Only Wife, a 2013 pen/bingham
finalist
In Jac Jemc’s short stories, a woman lures men home, scouring them for answers.
A man swallows perfume to forget and a thief steals even the air from the room.
A band of pretty girls rot from the outside in and a petty charade amongst a pair
of identical sisters turns into so much more. Both acute and lyric, A Different
Bed Every Time peeks into fairy tales and domestic dramas and the locked-up
minds of the disturbed for moments so brief you cannot look away.
Jac Jemc’s My Only Wife was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Bingham Prize for
Debut Fiction. Jemc received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago and has completed residencies at Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center.
She lives in Chicago.
“To Jemc the world is a place where each person, every human cypher, must devour
another. What then can we do, if we are devoured, if we are overcome with our
own devouring? Her escape plan is inspired and ancient—to become protean, to
dwell in costume after costume, parceling away the truth that can be found in
each. But where is it hid? Ask her, though she may not say.” —Jesse Ball, author of
Silence Once Begun
Fiction | Trade Paper | October 2014 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 184 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-53-1
Rights: World and Audio
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BY LIGHT WE KNEW OUR
NAMES
stories by anne valente
thirteen stories exploring the thin borders between wonder and loss
and magic and grief
From midnight sirens to pink dolphins to a fight club of young women who meet
beneath the aurora borealis, By Light We Knew Our Names examines the beauty
and heartbreak of the world we live in, and the one that hovers just beyond
it, enigmatic and out of reach. Across thirteen stories, this collection explores
the thin border between wonder and loss, between magic and grief within the
human experience.
Anne Valente’s fiction appears in Hayden's Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, The
Journal, and Redivider, among others, and her essays appear in The Washington
Post and The Believer. She is also the author of the fiction chapbook An Elegy for
Mathematics (Origami Zoo Press, 2013). Winner of Copper Nickel's 2012 Fiction
Prize, her work was listed as notable in Best American Non-Required Reading
2011. She received an MFA in Fiction from Bowling Green State University and
currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
“In these wonderful stories, Anne Valente shows again and again her talent for
extracting the obsessions and anxieties and wonder of childhood, then extrapolating them across the whole of a life.” —Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the
Dirt between the Lake and the Woods
Fiction | Trade Paper | October 2014 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 232 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-62-3
Rights: World, Performance, Audio, and Serial
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The Maggot People
a novel by henning koch
A man inherits a house in the south of France, only to find himself
embroiled in a sinister plot
In the south of France, a young man meets a woman and falls in love with her,
despite her protestations that he will soon turn into “a maggot person”—a human
skin stuffed with maggots and topped by a still-functioning brain. Michael begins
experiencing severe pains, and the young woman’s prophecy begins to take hold.
Henning Koch was born in Sweden in 1962 but has spent most of his life in
England, Spain, and Sardinia. He is a writer, screenwriter, and literary translator. In 2011, Dzanc published Love Doesn’t Work, a short story collection. The
Maggot People is his first published novel. He lives in Berlin with his partner
and their two-year-old son.
Praise for Love Doesn’t Work:
“This short collection of short stories from Dzanc Books was a pleasure to read.
Surreal, a little lusty, with characters caught in the disillusionment of career artists,
Henning Koch’s debut book Love Doesn’t Work evokes Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt,
Kelly Link, or perhaps Haruki Murakami.” —Matt Pine
Fiction | Trade Paper | November 2014 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 231 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-54-8
Rights: US/Canada
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The Annotated Mixtape
essays by joshua harmon
An in-depth look at how record collecting has shaped—and continues
to shape—the author’s life
“Most of the time,” Theodor Adorno has noted, “records are virtual photographs
of their owners.” The Annotated Mixtape, a memoir of record collecting, crossfades music with personal history and American history and culture (the 2008
Recession, AM radio, Reaganomics, nuclear war) to show how the vinyl LP has
shaped and informed the author’s life.
Joshua Harmon is the author of the essay collection The Annotated Mixtape, the
novel Quinnehtukqut, the short story collection History of Cold Seasons, and
the poetry collections Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie and Scape. He lives in western
Massachusetts.
Praise for Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie:
“[A] challenging blend of experimental prose and historical fiction...There is no
shortage of bravura in Harmon’s prose.” —The Village Voice
Praise for Quinnehtukqut:
“Joshua Harmon has written a wonderful first novel, austere and beautiful, daringly
original, and deeply mysterious, like history itself.” —David Means
Essays | Trade Paper | November 2014 | 5.5 x 8.5 | xxx pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-24-1
Rights: World and Audio
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History of Cold Seasons
stories by joshua harmon
familial bonds are frayed as characters endure cold seasons both
literal and metaphorical in these new england gothic stories
An old fisherman recites his “sea-sorrow”; two sisters search for their runaway
brother and the girl they believe he keeps tied to a tree; a mother recounts her
son’s rescue from a snowstorm. The landscape comes alive as these stories chart
families broken apart and stitched back together over the course of harsh New
England seasons.
Joshua Harmon is the author of the essay collection The Annotated Mixtape, the
novel Quinnehtukqut, the short story collection History of Cold Seasons, and
the poetry collections Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie and Scape. He lives in western
Massachusetts.
Praise for Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie:
“Harmon’s melancholy portrait of Poughkeepsie is starkly beautiful, a masterpiece
in which landscape functions as an extension of the narration’s despair.” —The
Rumpus
Praise for Quinnehtukqut:
“Joshua Harmon has written a wonderful first novel, austere and beautiful, daringly
original, and deeply mysterious, like history itself.” —David Means
Fiction | Trade Paper | November 2014 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 200 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-43-2
Rights: World and Audio
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Come Away
a novel by stephen policoff
Following a fluke accident involving his five-year-old daughter, a
father fears supernatural forces might be lurking in the shadows
Who is the small, greenish girl Paul Brickner repeatedly sees skittering around
the edge of his yard in upstate New York? No one else seems to see her. Ever since
Spring was injured in a fluke fall, Paul has been possessed with the anxiety that
he might lose her—which may not be so far from the truth.
Stephen Policoff won the James Jones First Novel Prize for Beautiful Somewhere
Else. His essays and stories have appeared in Family Fun, Provincetown Arts,
The Rumpus, Otis Nebula, Wondertime, Review Americana, and many other
publications. He is also the author of two YA books, The Dreamer’s Companion
and Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens (co-authored with Jeffrey Skinner), and
the children’s book Cesar’s Amazing Journey. He has taught writing at Wesleyan
and Yale and is currently Master Teacher of Writing in Global Liberal Studies at
NYU. He lives with his two daughters in Manhattan.
“Policoff shows a flair for pithy characterizations that serve to limn the zeitgeist…
Policoff displays vivid descriptive skills and a low-key, subtle sense of humor.”
—Booklist
“Filled with more gravitas and magic than Bridget Jones could fit in her day planner.” —Salon.com
Fiction | Trade Paper | November 2014 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 184 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-60-9
Rights: World, Performance, Audio, and Serial
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My Beau tiful Ho okNosed Beaut y Queen
Strut Wave
poems by jeff kass
poetry that shouts, snarls, laughs, and wants badly to believe we can
all be better than we are now
It’s hard to be a teacher. Hard to be a father. Harder still to be a husband. So
what can you do? How do you survive? You look for joy everywhere you can.
You write poems about those moments to keep them alive in your breast. These
poems represent hope for a better tomorrow.
Jeff Kass is the author of Knuckleheads, a finalist for Foreword Reviews Best
Short Fiction Collection of 2011, and several chapbooks. He currently teaches
Creative Writing and tenth-grade English at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor,
MI, directs the Literary Arts Program at Ann Arbor’s Teen Center, and serves
as a member of the Board of Directors for the Ann Arbor Book Festival. This is
his first poetry collection.
“Knuckleheads is a high-octane protein shake, equal parts heartbreak and hilarity,
a thing of both sweat-reeking adrenalin and nostalgic, time-stopping beauty. Kass
achieves what all fiction writers want—he makes us believe and makes us care.
Even those of us who stayed as far away from the jocks as possible will want to
cheer.” —Steve Amick, author of The Lake, the River & the Other Lake
Poetry | Trade Paper | November 2014 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 112 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-67-8
Rights: World, Audio, Serial
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WAIT ’TIL YOU HAVE
REAL PROBLEMS
poems by scott beal
Thematically linked poems that look at everything from
fairytales to chicken soup.
Wait ’Til You Have Real Problems, the emotionally charged debut poetry collection from Scott Beal, tackles love and loss in a series of thematically linked
pieces that will leave readers breathless. Beal finds inspiration in everything
from myth to fairytale, from old photographs to the origin of chicken noodle
soup—but always, ultimately, from the core of something unmistakably human.
Scott Beal’s poems have appeared in Poemeleon, The Collagist, and the museum of
americana. He was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2013 and currently teaches at the
University of Michigan. Beal serves as a writer-in-the-schools for Dzanc Books in
Ann Arbor. He also teaches in the Sweetland Center for Writing at the University
of Michigan, from which he earned his MFA in 1996. He co-authored Jangle the
Threads with Rachel McKibbens and Aracelis Girmay (Red Beard Books, 2010)
and Underneath: The Archaeological Approach to Creative Writing with Jeff Kass
(Red Beard Books, 2011). He currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Poetry | Trade Paper | November 2014 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 136 pages | $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-941531-81-5
Rights: World/Audio/Serial
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Words & Wisd om of
Charles Johnson
essays by charles johnson
A collection of thoughts and insights from one of America’s keenest
observers and winner of the national book award
Throughout the course of 2011, Ethelbert Miller interviewed National Book
Award-winner Charles Johnson about a wide range of topics, from Buddhism to
race relations in America to his writing habits and everything in between. This
collection contains Johnson’s responses and gives readers a candid look into the
mind of one of the most celebrated voices in American literature.
Charles Johnson is a black American scholar and the author of novels, short
stories, screen- and teleplays, and essays, most often with a philosophical orientation. Johnson has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels
such as Dreamer and Middle Passage. Middle Passage won the U.S. National Book
Award for Fiction in 1990, making him the second black American male writer
to receive this prize after Ralph Ellison in 1953. Johnson’s acceptance speech
was a tribute to Ellison. Johnson received a MacArthur Fellowship or “Genius
Grant” in 1998. He is also the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and
Guggenheim Fellowships.
Essays | Trade Paper | January 2015 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 184 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-64-7
Rights: US/Canada
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If I Knew the Way, I Would
Take You Home
stories by dave housely
an examination of the quiet desperation and occasional triumphs of
growing up and growing older through the prism of music
A KISS cover-band leader pondering a fertility-driven criminal act, a boy watching his hair-metal dad search for love on reality TV, a quiet teenage metalhead
stumbling into her own voice while trailing her former roadie father—these
are the characters seeking resolution, tempering expectations, and occasionally
finding grace and the dignity and strength to go on.
Dave Housley is one of the founding editors and fiction editors at Barrelhouse
Magazine, and one of the co-founders and organizers of the Conversations and
Connections writers conference. He lives with his wife and son in State College,
Pennsylvania, where he geeks out about web sites for Penn State.
“Housely’s book contains one of the ultimate pop culture smashups in recent literary
history, combining figures such as the titular Ryan Seacrest, Jack Kerouac, Elvis, a
frog princess, and a battalion of other pop freaks into a range of literary short stories
that are as surprising in execution as they are in pure random energy.” —Bookslut
“Housely’s stories are almost all irresistibly funny.” —PopMatters
Essays | Trade Paper | January 2015 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 208 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-66-1
Rights: World
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Gun, Needle, Spoon
a novel by patrick o’neil
lost in a world from which he sees no way out, a junky invisions his
life and its inevitable end
This memoir follows a punk-rock pioneer on his slide into drug abuse and life
as an armed robber, all the way through life in recovery and what it’s like to look
back on those times, knowing all the while that the third strike might hit at any
time, triggering a life behind bars.
Patrick O’Neil is the author of the memoir Hold Up, which was published in
France. During punk rock’s heyday (1979–83) O’Neil worked at the legendary Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco’s premier punk venue. He then went on
to become a roadie and eventually the road manager for Dead Kennedys and
Flipper, as well as the Subhumans (UK) and T.S.O.L. (Los Angeles). But that
was before his life got totally out of control. A heroin addict for eighteen years,
incarcerated for two and a half years, he went to two long-term residential rehabs
for a total of three years, worked as a substance-abuse counselor for six years, and
has been clean for the last thirteen. He holds an MFA from Antioch University
Los Angeles and splits his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
“Patrick O’Neil recounts this long journey punctuated by lightning discharges of
adrenaline. A nightmare-like creepy thriller: his life. Brutal!” —Rolling Stone
Memoir | Trade Paper | Feburary 2014 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 320 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-57-9
Rights: World, Audio, Serial
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The Guild of St. Cooper
a novel by shya scanlon
In a dying city, a man rewrites history with dire and susprising conesquences in the present.
An obscure author, drawn in by the mysterious Guild of St. Cooper, must rewrite
the history of a dying city. But the changes become greater than those he set
out to make, and the story quickly unspools backward into its own alternate
history—a world populated by giant rhododendrons, space aliens, and TV’s own
Special Agent Dale Cooper.
Shya Scanlon is the author of the novels Border Run and Forecast, and the poetry
collection In This Alone Impulse. An editor at The Nervous Breakdown and cofounder of Monkeybicycle, he won the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction at Brown
University, where he received his MFA. He lives in New York.
“Like a Philip K. Dick of the American Southwest, or a futuristic Cormac McCarthy.” — Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
“Strikes a flawless balance between satire and heart, adventure and meditation.”
— Laura Van Den Berg, author of The Isle of Youth and What the World Will
Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
Fiction | Trade Paper | March 2015 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 360 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-61-6
Rights: World, Audio, Serial
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like a woman
a novel by Debra Busman
two girls come of age on the mean streets of LA against a backdrop
of racism, poverty, and violence
Reminiscent of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Debra Busman’s like a
woman is a vivid coming-of-age story, revealing the lives of teenage girls on the
streets of Los Angeles, trying to hold onto their self-defined sense of ethics and
humanity against a backdrop of racism, poverty, sexism, and violence.
Following Taylor, a working-class white girl too tough and too tender for her
own good, who helps friends, rescues strays, and carries her battered copy of
Ghandi on Non-Violence everywhere she goes. She reads curled up in the sewer
drain by Venice Beach under the shot-out flashing Chevron light, yet still fights
at the drop of a dime, cuts johns who say the wrong thing, and steals anything she
can get her hands on. Her girlfriend, Jackson, a young African-American street
worker who lives in the back of a junkyard totaled limo, dreams of becoming a
writer and receives daily guidance from her recently deceased mama.
Debra Busman is a fiction/creative nonfiction writer and co-director of the
Creative Writing and Social Action Program at CSU Monterey Bay. She is also
co-editor of Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing.
Fiction | Trade Paper | March 2015 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 232 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-21-0
Rights: World, Audio, Serial
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the Zoo, a Going
a novel by j.a. tyler
A family visit to the zoo becomes a complex discussion of fatherson relationships, coming of age, life, and death
As they travel from cage to bars to glass over all the fake landscapes of the zoo,
Jonah wonders about his mom and dad, what they’ve done and haven’t for him,
and what he has and hasn’t done in return. He realizes, as he goes, the complexities of growing up.
J. A. Tyler’s work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Diagram, Denver
Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, New York Tyrant, and others. An author of several
earlier books of poetic hybrid, this is his first novel. He lives and teaches high
school in Colorado.
“J. A. Tyler has a fantastically tragic story on his hands, not only because of his ability to maintain conflict throughout each passage but also because of his impeccable
attention to detail. His ability to wordsmith is incomparable, not only in form and
function but in style and flow. He harbors an elaborate writing style all his own,
and leaves his essence in every line.” —The Nervous Breakdown
Fiction | Trade Paper | March 2015 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 176 pages | $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-936873-65-4
Rights: US/UK/Canada/Ireland
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WAIT ’TIL YOU HAVE
REAL PROBLEMS
poems by scott beal
Thematically linked poems that look at everything from
fairytales to chicken soup.
Wait ’Til You Have Real Problems, the emotionally charged debut poetry collection from Scott Beal, tackles love and loss in a series of thematically linked
pieces that will leave readers breathless. Beal finds inspiration in everything
from myth to fairytale, from old photographs to the origin of chicken noodle
soup—but always, ultimately, from the core of something unmistakably human.
Scott Beal’s poems have appeared in Poemeleon, The Collagist, and the museum of
americana. He was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2013 and currently teaches at the
University of Michigan. Beal serves as a writer-in-the-schools for Dzanc Books in
Ann Arbor. He also teaches in the Sweetland Center for Writing at the University
of Michigan, from which he earned his MFA in 1996. He co-authored Jangle the
Threads with Rachel McKibbens and Aracelis Girmay (Red Beard Books, 2010)
and Underneath: The Archaeological Approach to Creative Writing with Jeff Kass
(Red Beard Books, 2011). He currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Poetry | Trade Paper | November 2014 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 136 pages | $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-941531-81-5
Rights: World/Audio/Serial
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When Blackness
Was a Virtue
Michael Grant Jaffe
Fiction
978-1938604508
byrd
Kim Church
Fiction
978-1938604522
The Brunist Day
of Wrath
Robert Coover
Fiction
978-1938604386
the mayflies
Sara Veglahn
Fiction
978-1938103773
between wrecks
George Singleton
Fiction
978-1938103797
Friday was the
bomb
Nathan Deuel
Memoir
978-1938604904
Not for Nothing
Stephen Graham jones
Fiction
978-1938604539
The festival of
earthly delights
Matt Dojny
Fiction
978-1938103834
The committe on
Town Happiness
Alan Michael Parker
Fiction
978-1938103803
The fish and the
not fish
peter Markus
Fiction
978-1938103810
Sankya
Zakhar Prilepin
Fiction
978-1938604515
THE BOOK OF
IMPORTANT
MOMENTS
Richard Wiley
Fiction
978-1938604454
NEIGHBORS OF
NOTHING
Jason Ockert
Fiction
978-1938604478
LAYMAN’S REPORT
Eugene Marten
Fiction
978-1938604270
STRAY DECORUM
George Singleton
Fiction
978-1938103544
MY ONLY WIFE
Jac Jemc
Fiction
978-1936873685
FLUSHBOY
Stephen Graham Jones
Fiction
978-1938604171
The Sea-God’s Herb
John Domini
Essays
978-1938103780
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THE COST OF LIVING
Rob Roberge
Fiction
978-1938604294
CARTILAGE AND
SKIN
Michael James Rizza
Fiction
978-1938603181
THE COMPLEAT
MEMOIRRHOIDS
Steve Katz
Fiction
978-1938603051
THE TASTE OF
PENNY
Jeff Parker
Fiction
978-0982520444
THE GIFTS OF THE
STATE
Adam Klein
Fiction
978-1938604553
CANNONBALL
Joseph McElroy
Fiction
978-1938604218
FLIGHT OF BROTHERS
Jonathan Baumbach
Fiction
978-1938604256
OTHER RESORT
CITIES
Tod Goldberg
Fiction
978-0981589992
ASUNDER
Robert Lopez
Fiction
978 0982631812
UNCLEAN JOBS FOR
WOMEN AND GIRLS
Alissa Nutting
Fiction
978-0984213320
PIRATE TALK OR
MERMALADE
Terese Svoboda
Fiction
978-0982631805
LIFE GOES TO THE
MOVIES
Peter Selgin
Fiction
978-0979312380
FURTHER ADVENTURES IN
THE RESTLESS UNIVERSE
Dawn Raffel
Fiction
978-0976717799
THE IRON WILL OF
SHOESHINE CATS
Hesh Kestin
Fiction
978-0976717782
WHAT THE WORLD WILL
LOOK LIKE WHEN ALL
THE WATER LEAVES US
MISFITS AND OTHER
HEROES
Suzanne Burns
Fiction
978-0981589961
IN THE DEVIL’S
TERRITORY
Kyle Minor
Fiction
978-0979312366
IN A BEAR’S EYE
Yannick Murphy
Fiction
978-0979312311
Laura van den Berg
Fiction
978-0976717775
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THE REPRINT SERIES
The Dzanc Books rEprint Series is dedicated to publishing great works
of contemporary literature that are deserving and clearly will benefit appearing in electronic form. Our efforts include works that have recently
gone out of print, books in print that have yet to be converted to e-form,
as well as titles where the author holds the eBook rights and is looking
for a publishing partner for the electronic version of their book. These works
are available by Dzanc to the reading public in the form of eBooks compatible with all currently available eBook platforms, distributed both directly
from Dzanc and through eBook resellers.
This series originates out of a belief that many of these titles did not have the
opportunity to reach their fullest potential audiences in the time of their
original publication, and that a second chance for achieving a wider readership is long overdue. By bringing them back into print in widely available
electronic formats, Dzanc hopes to restart the critical conversations around
these books, and to get them into the hands of the enthusiastic readers they
each deserve. Just as the eBook revolution has put an always-connected
bookstore in the hands of every participating reader, we believe that our
rEprint series is an important and innovative part of ensuring that bookstore’s
virtual shelves are stocked with beautiful editions of these titles, all among
the very best books of the preceding decades.
The list of titles available grows weekly and includes multiple titles each by
J. Robert Lennon, Michael Martone, Merrill Joan Gerber, Stephen Dixon,
and Stephen Graham Jones, among many others. New forthcoming titles
are being added weekly, and a full list of upcoming titles can be found on
our website.
Dzanc’s current eBook titles are available at our website, and are distributed
by Open Road Media, which makes them available through all standard
retail outlets, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other eBooksellers.
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Teacha! Stories from a Yeshiva - Gerry Albarelli
Judge - Dwight Allen
Free Agents - Max Apple
I Love Gootie: My Grandmother’s Story - Max
Apple
Roommates: My Grandfather’s Story - Max Apple
Propheteers: A Novel - Max Apple
Seeing Mona Naked - Thomas Fox Averrill
The Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson - Thomas Fox
Averrill
The King of Gaheena - Squire Babcock
Rock and Roll Heaven: A Trio of Uncollected Stories
- T.C. Boyle
Alison’s Automotive Repair Manual - Brad Barkley
Another Perfect Catastrophe - Brad Barkley
Circle View - Brad Barkley
Money, Love - Brad Barkley
A Man to Conjure With - Jonathan Baumbach
What Comes Next - Jonathan Baumbach
Reruns - Jonathan Baumbach
Chez Charlotte and Emily - Jonathan Baumbach
My Father More or Less - Jonathan Baumbach
The Life and Times of Major Fiction - Jonathan Baumbach
The Return of Service - Jonathan Baumbach
Separate Hours - Jonathan Baumbach
Seven Wives - Jonathan Baumbach
Babble - Jonathan Baumbach
D-Tours - Jonathan Baumbach
B, a novel - Jonathan Baumbach
On the Way to My Father’s Funeral: New and
Selected Stories - Jonathan Baumbach
You, or the Invention of Memory - Jonathan
Baumbach
The Landscape of Nightmare - Jonathan Baumbach
For Out of the Heart Proceed - Jensen Beach
Town Smokes - Pinckney Benedict
Killing Time - Thomas Berger
The Feud - Thomas Berger
Regiment of Women - Thomas Berger
Suspects - Thomas Berger
Changing the Past - Thomas Berger
Orrie’s Story - Thomas Berger
Reinhart in Love - Thomas Berger
Who is Teddy Villanova - Thomas Berger
Robert Crews - Thomas Berger
Escape Artist - Terry Blackhawk
Body and Field - Terry Blackhawk
The Week You Weren’t Here - Charles Blackstone
The Clay That Breathes - Catherine Browder
Secret Lives - Catherine Browder
The Reverse is Also True - Norene Cashen
Augusta Played - Kelly Cherry
Stealing the Fire - Jane Ciabattari
The Origin of the Brunists - Robert Coover
Pricksongs & Descants - Robert Coover
The Public Burning - Robert Coover
Spanking the Maid - Robert Coover
Gerald’s Party - Robert Coover
A Night at the Movies - Robert Coover
Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears
- Robert Coover
Pinocchio in Venice - Robert Coover
John’s Wife - Robert Coover
Ghost Town - Robert Coover
When the Messinger is Hot - Elizabeth Crane
Desire Provoked - Tracy Daugherty
It Takes a Worried Man - Tracy Daugherty
The Boy Orator - Tracy Daugherty
Axeman’s Jazz - Tracy Daugherty
Late in the Standoff - Tracy Daugherty
One Day the Wind Changed - Tracy Daugherty
The Woman in the Oil Fields - Tracy Daugherty
The Salt Palace - Darren Defrain
No Relief - Stephen Dixon
Work - Stephen Dixon
Too Late - Stephen Dixon
Quite Contrary - Stephen Dixon
Movies - Stephen Dixon
Fall & Rise - Stephen Dixon
Garbage - Stephen Dixon
Love and Will - Stephen Dixon
Friends - Stephen Dixon
Tisch - Stephen Dixon
The Play and Other Stories - Stephen Dixon
Sleep - Stephen Dixon
Frog - Stephen Dixon
the Stories of Stephen Dixon - Stephen Dixon
Interstate - Stephen Dixon
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14 Stories - Stephen Dixon
Time to Go - Stephen Dixon
All Gone - Stephen Dixon
Long Made Short - Stephen Dixon
Man on Stage - Stephen Dixon
Gould - Stephen Dixon
30 - Stephen Dixon
I - Stephen Dixon
End of I - Stephen Dixon
Talking Heads: 77 - John Domini
Bedlam - John Domini
Highway Trade - John Domini
Earthquake I.D. - John Domini
For Her Dark Skin - Percival Everett
God’s Country - Percival Everett
Grand Canyon, Inc. - Percival Everett
The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair Percival Everett
Suder - Percival Everett
Walk Me to the Distance - Percival Everett
Cutting Lisa - Percival Everett
The Body of Martin Aguilera - Percival Everett
When All Our Days Are Numbered - Sasha
Fletcher
My Sister’s Continent - Gina Frangello
Fruit of the Month - Abby Frucht
Snap - Abby Frucht
Life Before Death - Abby Frucht
Licorice - Abby Frucht
Are You Mine? - Abby Frucht
We Take Me Apart - Molly Gaudry
An Antique Man - Merrill Joan Gerber
Now Molly Knows - Merrill Joan Gerber
The Lady with the Moving Parts - Merrill Joan
Gerber
King of the World - Merrill Joan Gerber
Stop Here My Friend - Merrill Joan Gerber
Honeymoon - Merrill Joan Gerber
Chattering Man: Stories and a Novella - Merrill
Joan Gerber
This Old Heart of Mine - Merrill Joan Gerber
This is a Voice from Your Past - Merrill Joan
Gerber
Old Mother, Little Kitten - Merrill Joan Gerber
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Gut Feelings - Merrill Joan Gerber
Glimmering Girls - Merrill Joan Gerber
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams - Ellen Gilchrist
Victory Over Japan - Ellen Gilchrist
Drunk with Love - Ellen Gilchrist
The Anna Papers - Ellen Gilchrist
Net of Jewels - Ellen Gilchrist
Light Can be Both Wave and Particle - Ellen Gilchrist
Starcarbon - Ellen Gilchrist
The Age of Miracles - Ellen Gilchrist
The Annunciation - Ellen Gilchrist
The Cabal and Other Stories - Ellen Gilchrist
Falling Through Space - Ellen Gilchrist
Walter Falls - Steven Gillis
The Weight of Nothing - Steven Gillis
Giraffes and Other Stories - Steven Gillis
A World of Strangers - Nadine Gordimer
The Lying Days - Nadine Gordimer
The Late Bourgeois World - Nadine Gordimer
A Sport of Nature - Nadine Gordimer
A Guest of Honor - Nadine Gordimer
Occasion for Loving - Nadine Gordimer
Spikes: A Novel - Michael Griffith
The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing - Michael
Hickins
The Spectacle of the Body - Noy Holland
What begins with bird - Noy Holland
Women I’ve Known: Stories - Greg Johnson
Pagan Babies - Greg Johnson
Sticky Kisses - Greg Johnson
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti - Stephen Graham
Jones
All the Beautiful Sinners - Stephen Graham Jones
Seven Spanish Angels - Stephen Graham Jones
First There Is a Mountain - Elizabeth Kadetsky
Oedipus Wrecked - Kevin Keck
Nietzsche’s Horse - Christopher Kennedy
Trouble with the Machine - Christopher Kennedy
Still Life With Insects - Brian Kiteley
How the Days of Love & Diptheria - Robert Kloss
The Alligators of Abraham - Robert Kloss
The Iguana Complex - Darby Larson
The Funnies - J. Robert Lennon
Light of Falling Stars - J. Robert Lennon
On the Night Plain - J. Robert Lennon
Happyland - J. Robert Lennon
Grim Tales - Norm Lock
Make Me Work - Ralph Lombreglia
Men Under Water - Ralph Lombreglia
Year of Fire: Stories - David Lynn
Wrestling with Gabriel - David Lynn
Alive and Dead in Indiana - Michael Martone
Safety Patrol - Michael Martone
Seeing Eye - Michael Martone
Winter of Different Directions - Steven J. McDermott
Ancient History - Joseph McElroy
Exponential - Joseph McElroy
Hind’s Kidnap - Joseph McElroy
Plus - Joseph McElroy
Preparations for Search - Joseph McElroy
The Letter Left to Me - Joseph McElroy
Women and Men - Joseph McElroy
Under the Light - Sam Michel
Out of Work - Greg Mulcahy
Malcolm & Jack - Ted Pelton
By the Light of the Jukebox - Dean Paschal
In the Year of Long Division - Dawn Raffel
Where the Glories of April Lead - Charles Rafferty
During the Beauty Shortage - Charles Rafferty
These People are Us - George Singleton
The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail - Greg Sheryl
Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall - Ken Sparling
Harry Kaplan’s Adventures Underground - Steve Stern
The Hieroglyphics - Michael Stewart
I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur - Matias Svlavina
Cookie Lily - Mary Troy
A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed -J.A. Tyler
Inconceivable Wilson - J.A. Tyler
O Fallen Angel - Kate Zambreno
A Cold Spring - Edra Ziesk
Acceptable Losses - Edra Ziesk
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THE WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Since 2006, the Dzanc Writer-in-Residence Program has been committed to increasing literacy
in public school students in Michigan and beyond. During each school year, Dzanc places a
professional author with an individual school or classroom, allowing them to return each week to
build a relationship with students and develop their potential as fiction writers and poets.
In each of the past several years, we have collectively tutored over one hundred students
across several different schools. At the conclusion of each program, we publish a
hard-copy anthology of the participating students’ work, distributing a complimentary edition of this book to every school library in the target school districts,
as well as providing each student participating in the program with a copy.
As the only program of its kind in Michigan that does not charge students or schools, the
Dzanc Writer-in-Residence Program offers a unique relationship for students to work directly
with professional writers, extending a one-of-a-kind opportunity for the young
writers of tomorrow.
The chance for these students to improve their writing skills enhances not only their creative
talents but their overall communication skills in all arenas. It is our firm belief that continuing to
develop and expand these relationships with the students and the schools is a key component in
developing great literary and writing programs.
Participating Schools and Authors
2013-2014
Kathy Wickett Memorial DWIRP at The Ann Arbor Open School
(Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal
2012-2013
Kathy Wickett Memorial DWIRP at The Ann Arbor Open School
(Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal
2011-2012
Kathy Wickett Memorial DWIRP at The Ann Arbor Open School
(Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal
Ann Arbor Community School (Ann Arbor, MI): Jeff Kass
2010 - 2011
Kathy Wickett Memorial DWIRP at The Ann Arbor Open School
(Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal
2009 - 2010
The Ann Arbor Open School (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal
Thurston Elementary School (Ann Arbor, MI): Matt Bell
2008 - 2009
Community High School (Ann Arbor, MI): Jeff Kass
Thurston Elementary School (Ann Arbor, MI): Matt Bell
High School of Telecommunication and Technology (Brooklyn,
NY): Diane Goettel
2007 - 2008
The Ann Arbor Open School (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal
High School of Telecommunication and Technology (Brooklyn,
NY): Diane Goettel
Ypsilanti High School (Ypsilanti, MI): Barry Graham
2006-2007
Community High School (Ann Arbor, MI): Paul Toth
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