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Elizabeth Hazen’s dazzling first collection, Chaos Theories, seamlessly merges science with lyricism.

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The Last Girl by Rose Solari casts the spell of a held piano note on a dark key.

– Jim Daniels, Rowing Inland

In Roughnecks, Patterson paints an unforgettable picture of characters wrestling with their own gruff but complicated souls.

– James Mathews, Last Known Position

Grace Cavalieri’s Other Voices, Other Lives is an important and necessary collection.

– Linda Pastan, Insomia

Billy Christmas is a book destined to be battered, much thumbed, read and read again until its pages come loose. Pritchard is here to stay.

— James Clark, former Sunday Times journalist

A Secret Woman is sneaky serious in a way I particularly like. A very promising fiction debut.

– Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winner

Like a good absinthe, That Paris Year surrounds the reader in a cloud of voluptuous recollection.

– Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Dead Love

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The Latest

Listen to Grace Cavalieri on the Kojo Nnamdi Show

January 23, 2019

Grace Cavalieri’s recent stop at NPR’s The Kojo Nnamdi show is now streamable. Over a substantive 22 minutes, listen to Grace talk about poetry, inspiration, and her plans as the 10th Maryland Poet Laureate.

Featured Poetry: “That Paris Year” by Joanna Biggar

January 22, 2019

If you’ve come to this post there’s a likely chance you’ve come with some confusion, for you know That Paris Year is the wonderful debut novel of Joanna Biggar and that, while it is certainly poetic, you would not call it poetry because it lacks form. To start, I’ll cite that many people think the scene in The Brother’s Karamazov where Ivan and Alyosha sit in the cafe and discuss theology is one of the best short stories ever written. And, indeed, I’ve met a not insignificant number of people who will argue with you over which soliloquy in The Waves makes the best stand alone poem. So when I declare, and I do declare, that this section of That Paris Year’s prologue is not only succinct and a full and satisfying exploration of ideas by itself, but also absolutely sings you might understand why it would be represented in ASP featured poetry.

MLK Video: Reuben Jackson narrates “March” by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin

January 21, 2019

MLK Video: Reuben Jackson narrates “March” by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin Hear Reuben Jackson narrate from “March: Book One” in honor of MLK day. If the video is not working, you can follow THIS link to stream it. Happy MLK day! We are super excited to finally see Reuben Jackson’s long awaited narration of […]

Reuben Jackson Narrating Graphic Novel “March” for MLK inspired Concert

January 18, 2019

In-house ASP wordsmith and noted Jazz Scholar, Reuben Jackson, will be narrating March: Book One, written in part by sitting Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, for the Vermont Youth Orchestra’s celebratory performance of Duke Ellington’s Three Black Kings (which includes an ode to MLK) and Antonin Dvorak’s New World Symphony (which takes inspiration from African American spirituals).

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Book releases fall 2019

Linda Watanabe McFerrin

Joanna Biggar

Reuben Jackson

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ASP Podcast w/ Reuben Jackson

ASP Podcast w/Linda Watanabe McFerrin

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Alan Squire Publishing is an independent literary press founded in 2010 to publish books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that are beautifully written and beautifully made, with the avid reader and book-lover in mind. We are committed to bringing to the public books of great merit that deserve a wide readership, and to forging a new model of collaboration with other independent presses here and abroad.

Our collaborators on various projects include Left Coast Writers in San Francisco, California, Chris Andrews Publications, Ltd., in Oxford, England, and the Santa Fe Writers Project, now based in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2014, ASP officially became an imprint of SFWP.

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