orison books

The Divine Magnet

If you don't know Melville's letters to Hawthorne, you don't know Melville. These letters are ful...

Miss Portland

After years of medicated struggle, 34-year-old Zoe quits her office job and moves into a trailer ...

You or a Loved One

In his debut story collection, You or a Loved One, recipient of The 2017 Orison Fiction Prize, se...

Intimations of Ghalib: Translations from the Urdu

Oceanography

In his second story collection, Jeremy Griffin hovers like a loving but non-interventionist angel...

Side by Side but Never Face to Face

Side by Side but Never Face to Face asks, Can new love be found in old age? Greta has been wrench...

A Sense of the Whole

The fable-like stories in A Sense of the Whole-reminiscent of the best of Kawabata, Hrabal, Lispe...

Wolf Lamb Bomb

Aviya Kushner's debut poetry collection, Wolf Lamb Bomb, revives and reimagines the Book of Isaia...

This Distance We Call Love

These stories explore the complexities of contemporary family life with a fine balance of humor a...

A Husband and Wife Are One Satan

This new collection of linked short stories from award-winning author Jeff Fearnside explores the...

The Distortions

In The Distortions we glimpse a pageant of characters struggling to understand their lives after ...

The Last of the Light

One Wednesday evening, the governments of the world send out a mass text message announcing that ...