Katie Chase (Safety Book #33)
1. Could you tell us the name of a book that you love, and why? We Have Always Lived In the Castle, by Shirley Jackson. I normally might have chosen a collection of stories, as I’ve fallen in love with...
View Article2013 Black Box Poetry Prize Results
Dear Readers, Rescue Press is excited to announce Bridgette Bates of Los Angeles, CA as the winner of this year’s Black Box Poetry Prize. Bridgette’s manuscript, What Is Not Missing Is Light, was...
View ArticleNiki Neems (Safety Book #34)
1. Could you tell us the name of a book that you love, and why? Tremble by C.D. Wright. The poems mimic the absurdity and humiliation found within moments of intimacy and illuminate the blurred shape...
View ArticleRescue Press Fall Catalog:
Dear Friends, We’re pleased to announce the Rescue Press fall catalog which includes Jonathan Blum’s dark and hilarious novella, Last Word, as well as The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary...
View Article2013 Hanukkah Sale
Dear Friends, Hanukkah arrived early (with the turkey) this year and as 2013 comes to a close we’d like to thank you for the support and enthusiasm you’ve shown for Rescue Press’ books and authors....
View ArticleTodd Melicker’s rendezvous
NOW AVAILABLE!! Purchase from our website or SPD. In Todd Melicker’s remarkable debut collection, rendezvous, the reader finds lines that join, converse, and split apart so completely that at times...
View ArticleCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: OPEN PROSE SERIES
This winter Rescue Press will consider book-length prose submissions for our Open Prose Series, which publishes one work a year of nonfiction, fiction, or sui generis prose. The series aims to support...
View ArticleStephen Lovely (Safety Book #35)
Could you tell us the name of a book that you love, and why? To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. I’m just as crazy for Mrs. Dalloway, and I’ve always thought of the two novels as a set, as companion...
View ArticleLuke Bloomfield (Safety Book #36)
1. Could you tell us the name of a book that you love, and why? The Four Questions of Melancholy by Tomaz Salamun, an anthology of his poems that goes all the way back to Poker. There are certain books...
View ArticleDenise Jarrott (Safety Book #37)
Carson + Jarrott 1. Could you tell us the name of a book you love, and why? Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson. I love that this book challenges the expectations of the reader. It is academic, yet...
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