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Gregory Wolfe, the founder and editor of the quarterly journal Image, has launched a new literary imprint with Wipf and Stock Publishers called Slant. According to Wolfe, the focus of Slant will be fiction “that explores the mysteries of the human heart, fiction that understands that the truth of the human condition can only be approached indirectly, through metaphor and character.” He continues:

“The novels published under this imprint will be marked by the kind of meticulous craft and love for language that are harder and harder to come by in our age of instant publishing and literary gimmickry. These are books that will lodge themselves in readers’ lives.”

Five new fiction titles are slated for release this fall and next year, but Slant will not be reviewing or selecting any unsolicited manuscripts at this time. For more information and to sign up for the Slant newsletter, please visit www.slantbooks.com

01/07/2025

"Every time you return to a text you have already read, it will reveal more of itself to you. Or, more accurately, perhaps, with each rereading more of yourself may be revealed to you." Rick Chess, today at Slant's Close Reading blog.

I’m rereading Paradise, Victoria Redel’s most recent collection of poems. Beginning with some midrashic poems, retellings of the story of the Garden of Eden, the book moves on to poems about family, childhood, adolescence, parenting, desire, aging, memory, menstruation, and more. Poems that, at ...

30/06/2025

The Autobiography of a Close Reader, today at Slant's Close Reading blog.

In this post, I’d like to share with you the story of my career as a close reader. I wonder whether your experience is anything like it. I wonder, too, whether this kind of career is possible today, in an era dominated by social media and full of suspicion and doubt about the value of the humaniti...

18/06/2025

In part 2 of George Dardess's essay on artists who depicted Hi**er & his circle, he argues that these artists sought "to puncture the complacency of those who insist that murderous despots like Hi**er are not members of the human race." Link you know where.

14/06/2025

In the last 12 months Slant has lost 3 submissions because the MSS submitted won major national literary prizes. So we must be doing something right....

13/06/2025

Dust jacket copy about this fabulous forthcoming novel now up on our website. Link below.

12/06/2025

"We go forward by looking back. The new literary experience is founded in literary memory. Originality is imitative, and writing is most of the moment when it remembers the past." Amit Majmudar, today at Slant's Close Reading blog. Link you know where....

11/06/2025

COVER REVEAL: Friends, I cannot convey to you how enthused I am about this utterly haunting, profound, heart-smasher of a historical novel, coming this fall from Slant. More info to come soon.

10/06/2025

"With a bit of language, I attempt to give shape to the ineffable, that which is beyond words.” -- Eric Pankey. Peggy Rosenthal shows how Pankey does this in his new collection, "Vanishments," today at Slant's Close Reading blog. Link in comment.

09/06/2025

Morgan Meis is troubled by the story of Cain & Abel, which he views through the lens of a heroin-addicted writer once called "cosmopolitan scum." Today at Slant's Close Reading blog. Link below.

05/06/2025

A Soupçon of Poetry: over at Disquieting Muses Quarterly (great name!), poet Stephen Haven reads from "The Flight from Meaning" (Slant) for a mere eight minutes.

A short reading from THE FLIGHT FROM MEANING (Slant Books, 2025).

04/06/2025

BREAKING: Slant Books welcomes Emily Starr Kwilinski as Managing Editor. To learn more, follow the link in first comment. Congratulations, Emily!

03/06/2025

Come for the wonderful poetry reading, stay on for the incredibly lively Q&A session. Eric Pankey's book launch for "Vanishments."

SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by poet Eric Pankey for the book launch of "Vanishments," recently published by Slant Books.

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Gregory Wolfe, the founder of the quarterly journal Image, has launched a new literary imprint with Wipf and Stock Publishers called Slant. According to Wolfe, the focus of Slant will be fiction “that explores the mysteries of the human heart, fiction that understands that the truth of the human condition can only be approached indirectly, through metaphor and character.” He continues: “The novels published under this imprint will be marked by the kind of meticulous craft and love for language that are harder and harder to come by in our age of instant publishing and literary gimmickry. These are books that will lodge themselves in readers’ lives.” For more information and to sign up for the Slant newsletter, please visit www.slantbooks.com