Praise for Junk Shop Window
"We trust him, as his writing lets us know we are in good hands." Diane Gottlieb's review of Junk Shop Window in Hippocampus Magazine sparkles with praise for Patterson's craft. Gottlieb joins Charles Rammelkamp of the Hopkins Review and Patricia Ann McNair of the Washington Independent Review of Books in the glowing conversation around ASP's latest publication. Make sure to order your copy of Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life, and Literature to see what the critics are raving about!
Launch party for Already Gone: Forty Stories of Running Away
Hannah Grieco hosts this reading and launch party, featuring contributors Matt Cantor, Lilly Dancyger, Aubrey Hirsch, Emily James, K.C. Mead-Brewer, and Kathleen McKitty Harris. Cocktails, book sales, and signings.
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Launch party for Already Gone: Forty Stories of Running Away
Hannah Grieco hosts this reading and launch party, featuring contributors Matt Barret, Demisty Bellinger, Deesha Philyaw, Zach Powers, Amber Sparks, and Michael B. Tager. Wine, snacks, book sales, and signings.
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Along the indifferent corridors / of space, angels could be hiding,” Linda Pastan wrote in her poem “Muse.” ASP honors the legacy of Linda Pastan (1932–2023), a former Poet Laureate of Maryland, who passed away last week. Pastan was the author of the 2018 poetry book A Dog Runs Through It, which won the Towson University Literary Award.
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2022 was a big year for ASP and our writers. In March, we had a booth at the annual AWP Conference, and our offsite reading, featuring authors Saida Agostini, Dave Housley, Elizabeth Hazen, and Richard Peabody, along with special guests Teri Ellen Cross Davis and Leslie Pietrzyk, had a standing-room-only audience packed with literary stars.
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ASP’s in-house literary journal nominates nine authors for the Best of the Net 2022
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The American book review magazine and cultural gatekeeper Kirkus Reviews raves about David Downie’s new thriller, Roman Roulette, calling it “a wonderfully detailed treat” all while praising it as not just a remarkable thriller but a loving tour of Rome and Italian culture.
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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.
All ASP titles are distributed internationally by Independent Publishers Group (IPG), the original independent book distributor in the United States. For bulk orders, visit them here: http://www.ipgbook.com/
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