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Invidicum
Michael Brodsky
Illustrations by Michael Hafftka
September 22, 2023
Two-Way Traffic
Joel Lieber
Afterword by Jack O'Connell
August 15, 2023
The Crazy Green of Second Avenue
Erje Ayden
July 11, 2023
Trying to Fool Death
Marvin Cohen
July 6, 2023
Artists Who Kill & Other Essays on Art
Alexander Theroux
June 22, 2023
A More Goodly Country: A Personal History of America
John Sanford
Introduction by Jack Mearns
April 19, 2023
Oh, Gulliver!: Mary Burton-Gulliver's Diary and Her Memoir of Gulliver's Travels
Erga Netz
April 4, 2023
Encyclopedia
Richard Horn
January 31, 2023
Latin Omnivore
Naomi Tonlivre
January 13, 2023
Rain, Venom, Toil
Milo van Orient
January 13, 2023
Truisms
Alexander Theroux
January 2, 2023
Yarborough
B. H. Friedman
November 14, 2022
The Segelfoss Novels: Children of the Age & Segelfoss Town
Knut Hamsun
October 4, 2022
Give Me Your Answer, Do
Peter Marchant
September 27, 2022
A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs
Joyce Elbert
August 16, 2022
Hold Up the Head of Holofernes
Carol Bonomo Albright
July 19, 2022
Of Streets and Stars
Alan Marcus
July 5, 2022
Creamy & Delicious: Eat My Words (in Other Words)
Steve Katz
May 24, 2022
Later Stories
Alexander Theroux
May 24, 2022
The Sweetmeat Saga
G. F. Gravenson
April 5, 2022
Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers
Donald Newlove
March 1, 2022
Movieland
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
January 17, 2022
Journey Not to End
Paul Herr
December 8, 2021
Fables
Alexander Theroux
December 1, 2021
The Secret Service
Wendy Walker
Interview by George Salis
November 8, 2021
The Game
Izzy Abrahami
September 14, 2021
Early Stories
Alexander Theroux
August 10, 2021
The Land that Touches Mine
John Sanford
Introduction by Jack Mearns
August 10, 2021
Questions to Ask Before Proceeding
Marvin Cohen
July 6, 2021
Segelfoss Town
Knut Hamsun
May 24, 2021
Mangled Hands
Johnny Stanton
Introduction and interview by George Salis
April 11, 2021
Slow Vision
Maxwell Bodenheim
Introduction by Paul Maher Jr.
February 16, 2021
Speaking in an Empty Room: The Selected Letters of John Sanford
Introduction and edited by Dan Giancola
Afterword by Jack Mearns
January 4, 2021
Collected Plays
Gregory Corso
Introduction by Rick Schober
January 4, 2021
Conversations and Versifications
Marvin Cohen
Edited by Colin Myers and Maggie Beale
January 4, 2021
The Flutter of an Eyelid
Myron Brinig
Illustrations by Lynd Ward
November 9, 2020
Happiness Bastard
Kirby Doyle
October 12, 2020
Romance & Revolution
Vanessa Matic
August 4, 2020
Plays on Words
Marvin Cohen
June 23, 2020
Yesterday's Burdens
Robert M. Coates
Introduction by Mathilde Roza
Afterword by Malcolm Cowley
June 1, 2020
Ceremonies in Bachelor Space
Russell Edson
May 1, 2020
Milkbottle H
Gil Orlovitz
May 1, 2020
Children of the Age
Knut Hamsun
March 16, 2020
The Water Wheel
Julian L. Shapiro (a.k.a. John Sanford)
Introduction by Jack Mearns
March 16, 2020
The Hungry Girls and Other Stories
Patricia Eakins
Interview by Françoise Palleau-Papin
December 16, 2019
Gulping's Recital
Russell Edson
Afterword by Mark Tursi
September 30, 2019
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: 75th-anniversary edition
Alan Kapelner
Interview by Seymour Krim
June 1, 2019
Ice Never F
Gil Orlovitz
April 24, 2019
Sweet Adversity
Donald Newlove
January 28, 2019
Demolition Night
Ross Barkan
October 15, 2018
Confessions of a Nowaday Child
Erje Ayden
September 15, 2018
What Are They All Waiting For? Stories, Poems & Essays: 1944–1962
Gil Orlovitz
Compiled by Rick Schober
June 7, 2018
Five Fictions
Marvin Cohen
May 1, 2018
Baseball as Metaphysics
Marvin Cohen
Introduction by Jim Bouton
November 15, 2017
The Self-Devoted Friend: 50th-anniversary edition
Marvin Cohen
June 1, 2017
Others, Including Morstive Sternbump: 40th-anniversary edition
Marvin Cohen
Interview by Walter James Miller
November 1, 2016
Sarpedon
Gregory Corso
Introduction by Rick Schober
July 1, 2016
The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory Corso
Edited by Rick Schober
Foreword by Dick Brukenfeld
May 1, 2015
Forthcoming
The Painter Gabriel
Donald Newlove
2023
Editor Lynge
Knut Hamsun
Translated by Rick Schober
2023
Goldfather Drosselmeier's Tears & Other Poems
Alexander Theroux
2023
News & Reviews
2023
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
About Tough Poets Press
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.