Novel

For this week’s Sunday list we asked Entropy contributors: What book did you read in high school that had the most impact on you? Ben Roylance The Book of During by…

The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gazdanov Translated by Bryan Karetnyk Pushkin Press, 2013 192 pages – Pushkin / Amazon   The genesis moment of stories has long interested me. A…

The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel St Martin’s Press, 2016 320 pages – Amazon   John Gardner said that there are only two main structures in novels: one in…

Underground Voices started as an online literary magazine showcasing writing that was hard-hitting and raw. I didn’t see any magazine that embraced that style of fiction and poetry so I wanted to fill the gap and offer a platform to those kinds of writers: a space where their work could be seen and read. I love books, though, so I slowly moved Underground Voices in the direction of a small press: first publishing annual short story collections and finally publishing novels, which is where it’s at now.

The mission is embodied in our tagline: “Publishing the Best Literature of the American Jewish Experience.” We’ve attempted to take the best practices observed throughout the book-publishing business and adapt them to our particular style. We only publish a small number of books so we’re highly selective in our acquisitions. We’re looking for manuscripts that tell a story (whether via fiction or non-fiction) in a compelling, unique way that all readers will learn from and enjoy.

Patricide by D. Foy Stalking Horse Press, 2016 398 pages – Stalking Horse / Amazon   D. Foy’s second novel, Patricide, is about fate, not in the sense of cosmic…

This past spring I came across Megan Kruse’s novel, Call Me Home (published last year by Hawthorne Books). I read its description online and thought it might be something I’d…

The Place That Didn’t Exist by Mark Watson Picador, 2016 400 pages – Picador / Amazon   Dubai. The name itself conjures up images of awe-inspiring skyscrapers, dazzling malls and all-around…

The Babysitter at Rest by Jen George Dorothy, October 2016 168 pages – Dorothy / Amazon   Reading the stories of Jen George’s debut collection The Babysitter at Rest was akin to…

The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam Flatiron Books (Macmillan), 2016 208 pages – Flatiron / Amazon   In his debut novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage,…

How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball Pantheon Books, 2016 308 pages – Pantheon Books / Amazon   Lucia Stanton is a teenage girl who would like nothing more than to…

Academy Gothic by James Tate Hill Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2015 248 pages – Southeast Missouri State / Amazon   James Tate Hill’s Academy Gothic is a contemporary murder mystery laden with…

Wanted: Elevator Man by Joseph G. Peterson Northern Illinois University Press (Switchgrass Books), 2012 188 pages – NIU / Amazon   Is a young man in our society a slacker if…

Between You and Me by Scott Nadelson Engine Books, 2016 256 pages – Engine / Amazon   In reading Scott Nadelson’s new novel of linked stories, Between You and Me, I had…