Slant Books
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Slant Books
@SlantBooks
Slant is an independent, non-profit, literary press, founded & edited by Gregory Wolfe, publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, philosophy, & beyond.
Seattle, WA Katılım Şubat 2020
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7:30 PM TOMORROW, Friday, March 20! Don't miss Slant publisher Gregory Wolfe's keynote address at Benedictine College's Symposium on Transforming Culture—"The Church of What’s Happenin’ Now: Art, Beauty, and the Need to 'Make It New.'"
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"On some level, this is what we want. As if by splitting time, skating over the surface of the things that made us uncomfortable—like the possibility of my husband dying—my son and I might approach the heroic." Caroline Langston on honest and dishonest time for Close Reading:
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Don't forget to follow SlantCast on Spotify to listen to all of our live launch events as podcast episodes. If you missed the launch for The Future of Love earlier this month, it is now available here!
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@americamag Also available online here: americamagazine.org/books/2026/03/…
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Molly McNett's virtuosic Child of These Tears continues to receive glowing reviews—this time in the latest print issue of @americamag. Thank you to Katy Carl for the thoughtful read!
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"Lately, the opening lines of Dr. Samuel Johnson’s 'The Vanity of Human Wishes,' written in 1748, have been buzzing about in my head, especially when I’m watching the news." George Dardess for Close Reading today:
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Read an excerpt from Morgan Meis's The Fate of the Animals in one of America's leading cultural and intellectual journals, Lapham's Quarterly:
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It's Jack Kerouac's birthday. I wrote about him for @SlantBooks a few years ago.
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"Scarlet, gold, blue-green, gin-blue, cobalt, parrot-green, beer-brown, orange: these are remarkably color-full lines." Read Peggy Rosenthal on John Poch's new collection for today's Close Reading:
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SAVE THE DATE: Join us for the live launch event for Tom Howard's new short story collection, Invisibilia, on April 14. Howard takes the reader on a mesmerizing ride through a haunting, haunted landscape of drifters, soldiers, lovers, and ghosts.
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In Molly McNett’s CHILD OF THESE TEARS, settlers “in ‘English America’ face the looming threat posed by historical and political forces beyond their control.”
Fiction from @SlantBooks for #WomensHistoryMonth:
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If you missed it, our launch event with John Poch for The Future of Love is now live on YouTube! Check it out below:
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