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Editor Lynge

Editor Lynge
Knut Hamsun
Translated by Rick Schober
October 10, 2023

The Painter Gabriel

The Painter Gabriel
Donald Newlove
September 23, 2023

Invidicum

Invidicum
Michael Brodsky
Illustrations by Michael Hafftka
September 22, 2023

Invidicum

Two-Way Traffic
Joel Lieber
Afterword by Jack O'Connell
August 15, 2023

The Crazy Green of Second Avenue

The Crazy Green of Second Avenue
Erje Ayden
July 11, 2023

Trying to Fool Death

Trying to Fool Death
Marvin Cohen
July 6, 2023

Artists Who Kill & Other Essays on Art

Artists Who Kill & Other Essays on Art
Alexander Theroux
June 22, 2023

Terying to Fool Death

A More Goodly Country: A Personal History of America
John Sanford
Introduction by Jack Mearns
April 19, 2023

Oh, Gulliver!

Oh, Gulliver!: Mary Burton-Gulliver's Diary and Her Memoir of Gulliver's Travels
Erga Netz
April 4, 2023

Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia
Richard Horn
January 31, 2023

Latin Omnivore

Latin Omnivore
Naomi Tonlivre
January 13, 2023

Rain, Venom, Toil

Rain, Venom, Toil
Milo van Orient
January 13, 2023

Truisms

Truisms
Alexander Theroux
January 2, 2023

Yarborough

Yarborough
B. H. Friedman
November 14, 2022

The Segelfoss Novels

The Segelfoss Novels: Children of the Age & Segelfoss Town
Knut Hamsun
October 4, 2022

Give Me Your Answer, Do

Give Me Your Answer, Do
Peter Marchant
September 27, 2022

A Tale of Five Cities

A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs
Joyce Elbert
August 16, 2022

Hold Up the Head of Holofernes

Hold Up the Head of Holofernes
Carol Bonomo Albright
July 19, 2022

Of Streets and Stars

Of Streets and Stars
Alan Marcus
July 5, 2022

Creamy and Delicious

Creamy & Delicious: Eat My Words (in Other Words)
Steve Katz
May 24, 2022

Later Stories

Later Stories
Alexander Theroux
May 24, 2022

The Sweetmeat Saga

The Sweetmeat Saga
G. F. Gravenson
April 5, 2022

Those Drinking Days

Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers
Donald Newlove
March 1, 2022

Movieland

Movieland
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
January 17, 2022

Journey Not to End

Journey Not to End
Paul Herr
December 8, 2021

Fables

Fables
Alexander Theroux
December 1, 2021

The Secret Service

The Secret Service
Wendy Walker
Interview by George Salis
November 8, 2021

The Game

The Game
Izzy Abrahami
September 14, 2021

Early Stories

Early Stories
Alexander Theroux
August 10, 2021

The Land that Touches Mine

The Land that Touches Mine
John Sanford
Introduction by Jack Mearns
August 10, 2021

Questions to Ask Before Proceeding

Questions to Ask Before Proceeding
Marvin Cohen
July 6, 2021

Segelfoss Town

Segelfoss Town
Knut Hamsun
May 24, 2021

Mangled Hands

Mangled Hands
Johnny Stanton
Introduction and interview by George Salis
April 11, 2021

Slow Vision

Slow Vision
Maxwell Bodenheim
Introduction by Paul Maher Jr.
February 16, 2021

Speaking in an Empty Room

Speaking in an Empty Room: The Selected Letters of John Sanford
Introduction and edited by Dan Giancola
Afterword by Jack Mearns
January 4, 2021

Happiness Bastard

Collected Plays
Gregory Corso
Introduction by Rick Schober
January 4, 2021

Conversations and Versifications

Conversations and Versifications
Marvin Cohen
Edited by Colin Myers and Maggie Beale
January 4, 2021

The Flutter of an Eyelid

The Flutter of an Eyelid
Myron Brinig
Illustrations by Lynd Ward
November 9, 2020

Happiness Bastard

Happiness Bastard
Kirby Doyle
October 12, 2020

Romance & Revolution

Romance & Revolution
Vanessa Matic
August 4, 2020

Plays on Words

Plays on Words
Marvin Cohen
June 23, 2020

Yesterday's Burdens

Yesterday's Burdens
Robert M. Coates
Introduction by Mathilde Roza
Afterword by Malcolm Cowley
June 1, 2020

Ceremonies in Bachelor Space

Ceremonies in Bachelor Space
Russell Edson
May 1, 2020

Milkbottle H

Milkbottle H
Gil Orlovitz
May 1, 2020

Children of the Age

Children of the Age
Knut Hamsun
March 16, 2020

The Water Wheel

The Water Wheel
Julian L. Shapiro (a.k.a. John Sanford)
Introduction by Jack Mearns
March 16, 2020

The Hungry Girls and Other Stories

The Hungry Girls and Other Stories
Patricia Eakins
Interview by Françoise Palleau-Papin
December 16, 2019

Gulping's Recital

Gulping's Recital
Russell Edson
Afterword by Mark Tursi
September 30, 2019

The Wolf Who Swallowed the Sun

The Wolf Who Swallowed the Sun: A Jungian Fable of Family and Finance Across the Twentieth Century
Donald Newlove
July 15, 2019

Lonely Boy Blues

Lonely Boy Blues: 75th-anniversary edition
Alan Kapelner
Interview by Seymour Krim
June 1, 2019

Ice Never F

Ice Never F
Gil Orlovitz
April 24, 2019

Sweet Adversity

Sweet Adversity
Donald Newlove
January 28, 2019

Demolition Night

Demolition Night
Ross Barkan
October 15, 2018

Confessions of a Nowaday Child

Confessions of a Nowaday Child
Erje Ayden
September 15, 2018

What Are They All Waiting For?

What Are They All Waiting For? Stories, Poems & Essays: 1944–1962
Gil Orlovitz
Compiled by Rick Schober
June 7, 2018

Four Fictions

Five Fictions
Marvin Cohen
May 1, 2018

Baseball as Metaphysics

Baseball as Metaphysics
Marvin Cohen
Introduction by Jim Bouton
November 15, 2017

The Self-Devoted Friend

The Self-Devoted Friend: 50th-anniversary edition
Marvin Cohen
June 1, 2017

Others, Including Morstive Sternbump

Others, Including Morstive Sternbump: 40th-anniversary edition
Marvin Cohen
Interview by Walter James Miller
November 1, 2016

Sarpedon: A Play by Gregory Corso

Sarpedon
Gregory Corso
Introduction by Rick Schober
July 1, 2016

The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory Corso

The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory Corso
Edited by Rick Schober
Foreword by Dick Brukenfeld
May 1, 2015

Forthcoming

Godfather Drosselmeier's Tears

Godfather Drosselmeier's Tears & Other Poems
Alexander Theroux
2023

Incredible Revelations of an Earthworm

Incredible Revelations of an Earthworm
Domício Coutinho
Translated by Clifford E. Landers
Introduction and interview by George Salis
2024

The Dixie Dugan Trilogy

The Dixie Dugan Trilogy:
Show Girl / Hollywood Girl / Society

J. P. McEvoy
2024

Son of the Great American Novel

Son of the Great American Novel
James Fritzhand
Introduction by Jack O'Connell
With a new afterword by the author
2024

News & Reviews

2023

September 24, 2023 / The Collidescope
Review: Movieland by Ramón Gómez de la Serna

June 2, 2023 / Publishers Weekly
Review: A Tale of Five Cities and Other Memoirs by Joyce Elbert

May 30, 2023 / The Complete Review
Review: Encyclopedia by Richard Horn

April 20, 2023 / Jokopost.com
Following Virginia Woolf: Gulliver's wife's diary (Review of Oh, Gulliver!)

April 7, 2023 / Big Other
Announcing the Finalists for the 2022 Big Other Readers' Choice Award (Honorable Mention)

March 6, 2023 / Exacting Clam
Reviews in Brief: Early Stories and Fables by Alexander Theroux

March 1, 2023 / The Collidescope
Stigmata of the Intrinsic Lesion: A Rare Interview with Michael Brodsky

February 28, 2023 / Neglected Books Publisher Spotlight
The Flutter of an Eyelid (Tough Poets)

February 5, 2023 / The Collidescope
Review: The Sweetmeat Saga by G. F. Gravenson

2022

November 17, 2022 / yourArlington.com
Arlington Micro Press Announces Release of 50th Book

September 27, 2022 / Rain Taxi Review of Books
Review: Movieland by Ramón Gómez de la Serna (Reviewer: Richard Kostalanetz)

August 21, 2022 / Books of Some Substance Podcast
Review: Alexander Theroux's Fables (Guest: George Salis)

August 12, 2022 / Minneapolis Star Tribune
Review: A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs — The unjustly neglected Joyce Elbert reminiscences about being a woman novelist in a man's world. (Reviewer: Kathleen Rooney)

April 30, 2022 / The Collidescope
Without a Phartsmone: An Interview with G. F. Gravenson

April 29, 2022 / Lost Modernists
Interview: Dr. Jack Mearns on John Sanford

March 2, 2022 / The Artifa[ctuals]
Yesterday's Burdens: America's Forgotten Ulysses

2021

December 31, 2021 / Travel Through Stories
Review: The Secret Service by Wendy Walker

December 27, 2021 / The Review of Uncontemporary Fiction
No Apology or Cuteness: On Gil Orlovitz

December 10, 2021 / LitReactor
Small Press Xmas Lit Tour

December 3, 2021 / A Brief Chat podcast
Rick Schober of Tough Poets Press

November 19, 2021 / Los Angeles Review of Books
The Long Half-Life of Proletarian Prose: On Michael Gold and Maxwell Bodenheim

November 5, 2021 / Genealogies of Modernity
Stories on the Side of Grace: Review of Alexander Theroux's Early Stories

September 22, 2021 / Los Angeles Review of Books
The Burden of History in John Sanford's Make My Bed in Hell and The Land that Touches Mine

September 2, 2021 / ArtsJournal
In Praise of Donald Newlove

August 27, 2021 / The New York Times
Donald Newlove, 93, Dies; Novelist Explored the Depths of Drink

August 20, 2021 / Publishers Weekly
Author Donald Newlove Dies at 93

June 4, 2021 / Los Angeles Review of Books
Prisoners of the Page: On Myron Brinig's The Flutter of an Eyelid

June 1, 2021 / The Collidescope
Fame and Famine: A Conversation with Marvin Cohen

May 21, 2021 / Boog City
Discovered Treasure: Gregory Corso’s Collected Plays are the Thing

April 22, 2021 / The East Hampton Star
Splenetically Yours: Review of Speaking in an Empty Room: The Selected Letters of John Sanford

April 18, 2021 / The Collidescope
What Heartbreak the Wind Will Bring: An Interview with Donald Newlove

April 11, 2021 / The Neglected Books Page
Review: The Flutter of an Eyelid by Myron Brinig

April 5, 2021 / Glenn Cole Russell
Review: Gulping's Recital by Russell Edson

January 18, 2021 / European Literature Network
#RivetingReviews: Johanne Elster Hanson reviews Children of the Age by Knut Hamsun

January 7, 2021 / Boston Globe
New England Literary News: A new book of plays by the Beat poet Gregory Corso

January 7, 2021 / Eclectica Magazine
Corso But Even More So (Review of Collected Plays)

January 6, 2021 / Please Kill Me
Gregory Corso: Street Punk & Beat Turned Poet & Playwright

January 4, 2021 / Alta Journal
The Pleasure-Seekers: Myron Brinig's The Flutter of an Eyelid is the great lost classic of Los Angeles literature.

2020

November 21, 2020 / inchoatia
Review: The Flutter of an Eyelid by Myron Brinig

July 6, 2020 / Midwest Book Review
Review: Romance & Revolution by Vanessa Matic

June 17, 2020 / The Book Beat
Review: Ceremonies in Bachelor Space by Russell Edson

May 10, 2020 / inchoatia
Review: The Hungry Girls and Other Stories by Patricia Eakins

March 5, 2020 / yourArlington.com
Arlington press to publish Nobel Prize winner's novel

2019

December 11, 2019 / Making Book
This is what I'm talking about

December 2, 2019 / The Collidescope
Review: Gulping's Recital by Russell Edson

November 22, 2019 / Publishers Weekly
The One-Man Press Resuscitating Forgotten Classics

October 18, 2019 / The Collidescope
Imaginary Beings: An Interview with Patricia Eakins

July 28, 2019 / The Collidescope
Thrill of the Hunt: An Interview with the Founder of Tough Poets Press

February 26, 2019 / Please Kill Me
Overcoming Adversity: A Drunk's Redemption

January 26, 2019 / inchoatia
Review: Sweet Adversity by Donald Newlove

January 21, 2019 / Fiction Writers Review
Dystopias Future and Past: Demolition Night by Ross Barkan

2018

November 2, 2018 / inchoatia
Review: Confessions of a Nowaday Child by Erje Ayden

October 10, 2018 / Medium
The Long Winding Road to Publishing a Novel - Ross Barkan

2017

December 7, 2017 / Varsity
Review: Baseball as Metaphysics by Marvin Cohen

October 17, 2017 / Entropy
Small Press: Interview with Rick Schober of Tough Poets Press

June 12, 2017 / Fiction Writers Review
The Drumbeat of Society: An Interview with Marvin Cohen

2016

November 23, 2016 / The Village Voice
Surreal Genius: Why Onetime Literary Hotshot Marvin Cohen Deserves Another Look

May 11, 2016 / Jared A. Carnie Blog
5 Questions With Rick Schober

2015

August 1, 2015 / The Allen Ginsberg Project
Gregory Corso Interviews: Another of the summer's essential books

July 30, 2015 / i-Italy
Meeting a Beat in Paris: Fred Misurella recalls his 1976 interview with Gregory Corso, newly republished in The Whole Shot

March 12, 2015 / Best American Poetry
An Interview with Richard Schober, Editor of The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory Corso

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Tough Poets Press, founded in 2015 and based in Arlington, Massachusetts, is a small independent publisher of new and rediscovered unconventional and neglected literary fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.


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