Close Reading
Slant Books, Dian Parker, John Tuttle, Morgan Meis, George Dardess, Richard Chess, Caroline Langston, William Cain, Peggy RosenthalThe official @slantbooks blog.
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The Healing Eloquence of Space
Yes, I know: a flat-out contradiction. How can space be eloquent? Or speak at all? Space is a nothing, isn’t it? An absence. A way of indicating a separation. The words around it speak, not the space itself.
Archeologists of Memory
Moving through time is a tricky business, whether you’re searching for the origins of porcelain, the evolution of a moth, or your memory. You follow ephemeral trails laid down in a grainy photograph, a frayed ticket stub, a piece of jewelry...
The Isle of the Dead
I’ve never actually seen Arnold Böcklin’s famous but now not really all that famous, let’s say once-famous and now fairly obscure painting known as Die Toteninsel, or The Isle of the Dead. I haven’t seen it in person. There is a version of ...
Suburban Noir: Q&A with Tom Howard
We recently spoke with author Tom Howard about his new Slant book, Invisibilia.
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Books grounded in a sense of "felt life" since 2013. Slant is an independent, not-for-profit literary press specializing in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, philosophy, theology, and belles lettres.
Writer, painter, arts writer, gardener
John has been published by Catholic World Report, University Bookman, Starting Points Journal, and other outlets. He has contributed to several books, including Tolkien & Faith. He, his wife Ellen, and their family live in Illinois.
writer living in Detroit
retired English teacher, Roman Catholic deacon, reader, writer, cartoonist
I am a poet, writer, and educator. I am an emeritus professor of English at UNC Asheville, where, among other things, I directed the Center for Jewish Studies for 30 years.
I'm a wife and mom outside DC. I also raise money for journalism and write nonfiction.
William E. Cain is the Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College.
I have a PhD in English Literature. My first published book was Words and Values, a close reading of popular language. Since then I've published widely on the spirituality of poetry in various journals and books.
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