Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer

Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life

Alberto Ledesma

“Affecting, highly charged, and deserving of broad attention.” —Kirkus Reviews

“This is a powerful document.” —Publishers Weekly

“Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer is an eye-opening glimpse into a mostly hidden way of life.” —Foreword Reviews

Community In-Between /
Urur Dhex-Dhexaad Ah

“This project—a collaboration of the Somali community, Somali artists and local arts organizations, and the authors and young Somali photographers—has produced a fascinating portrait of Columbus’s Somali community as seen through the eyes of its young people.”
—Michael Coleman, former mayor of Columbus

A Mother's Tale

“In some matters new judgments are reached, on others old ones are confirmed, and on occasion he remains as confounded as ever. But ultimately, like Peter Andreas — like all of us, if we're fortunate — he has cause to proclaim a redeeming truth: ‘I owe an enormous debt to my mother and her love for us as children, which was never in dispute.’” —Jerald Walker, New York Times Book Review

Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs, Revised Edition

“Everything Lost was written during the same period as Junky, Queer, and The Yage Letters, and it sheds light on all of them, as well as on Burroughs’s methods of composition, the way he worked his material out in letters or journal entries before incorporating it into his books. Here we have a portrait of the artist in the act of becoming, a glimpse beneath the icon and its aftermath.” —David L. Ulin, The Los Angeles Times

Don't Come Back

“Lina Ferreira is a shape-shifter of an essayist, never predictable. The worlds she inhabits are as big as legend and as small as a family in Colombia navigating the large and small cruelties of life. To try to define this book would be to kill it—the essays leap over formal boundaries in prose (by turns, moving, hilarious, and brutal) that can only ignite and inspire the imagination and intellect of the sympathetic reader.” —Robin Hemley, author of Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness

Every Species of Hope

“These tender, strange, and beautiful glimpses of nature contain a delightful blend of artistry and dappled light.” —Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses

“The poems of a man who has assembled his own house from the matter that lies beyond enclosure. And then, through language and observation, learned to live and thrive in it.” —Daniel Halpern, founder of Ecco and Antaeus, and author of Something Shiny