Kitsune Books Publications

“Life and death in a cemetery: This is a charming, brave, and funny book, with a sad heart.” —Bailey White, NPR commentator, Sleeping at the Starlite Motel, Mama Makes Up Her Mind, Quite a Year for Plums

“This book about a cemetery seduces with delight—by turns moving, funny, bitter, inventive, melancholy, playful—until it delivers its last wrenching blow.”—Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction, Raw Silk, Cutting Stone, Opening Nights, and forthcoming Bridge of Sand

LIVING BY THE DEAD, coming Sept. 1, 2008!

Kitsune Books is pleased to announce that prolific, award-winning writer Randall Silvis has signed with us for the publication of his literary novel Hangtime. Check back with us for more details in the near future!

Novelist, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter Randall Silvis is the author of numerous books of fiction. A Senior Fulbright Fellow and Thurber House writer-in-residence, his many awards include the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, three National Playwrights Showcase Awards, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been translated into eight languages. Also a prolific short story writer and essayist, Randall Silvis has taught creative writing at numerous universities and conferences throughout the United States. He lives and works in western Pennsylvania and is an associate professor in Chatham University’s innovative MFA in Creative Writing Program.

It’s coming….

Look for it at Hook’s Journal.

Who’s Hook? Look for her in Jesus Swept, James Protzman’s laugh-out-loud, cryin’ inside novel of salvation lost and gained and lost again in the paradise sands of Myrtle Beach, North Carolina.

Coming December 1, 2008, just in time for Christmas!