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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

COVER REVEAL: A reckoning with the violent catastrophes of twentieth-century European Jewish history, a harrowing account of mental illness & addiction, and a mystical grappling with God, Invocation is a literary debut that is at once anguished & exquisitely wrought. slantbooks.org/books/invoca...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking forward to my visit with the Hypatia Scholars at Notre Dame.

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sam Ligon's novel "Miller Cane" began as a serial in a local paper: yep, just like Dickens. Read more about it in this Q&A about a novel that's been called "an absurdist romp, a comic neo-Western odyssey of rescue and redemption. slantbooks.substack.com/p/early-on-i...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rest in plenitude, Annie Dillard. You meant so much to me. And you gave me my one great literary anecdote, as recounted here: tinyurl.com/y7bee3ts

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Annie Spans the Gap

Herewith a short memoir I wrote about Annie Dillard a few years back. RIP, Annie. Love, from Gregory of Nyssa.

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rest in plenitude, Annie Dillard. You meant so much to me. And you gave me my one great literary anecdote, as recounted here: imagejournal.org/article/anni...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Jesuits, Mohawks and Puritans meet in Molly McNett’s historical fiction": read a new feature in America Magazine about Child of These Tears. And if you haven't read the novel yet, please do a kindness to yourself and pick up a copy. www.americamagazine.org/ideas/2026/0...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“What is the role of the poet in this age?” Read Michael Simms’s powerful interview with Robert Cording for Vox Populi: voxpopulisphere.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/m...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

COVER REVEAL! It is the summer of 1989—but not the summer you remember. Read more about Kevin Prufer’s new novel, The Summer of Shooting Stars, forthcoming from Slant in January 2027: slantbooks.org/books/the-su...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Reading such a story builds empathy and understanding in the reader.” Read Shemaiah Gonzalez’s review of Light in the Canyon by Darren Cools: shemaiahgonzalez.substack.com/p/light-in-t...

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Light in the Canyon

New YA Novel from Darren Cools

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Less than two weeks away! Register on Eventbrite to join us in Boston with Scott Cairns: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

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The Englewood Review of Books @erbks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We're excited to share this new poetry collection from Scott Cairns as our starred new release of the week! twp.ai/4htydv

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

True story. While still in college, this New York City boy subscribed to New Farmer magazine just so I could read Wendell Berry's column there. Memory eternal.

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

COMING SOON! Check out one of the late Nance Van Winckel’s striking collages that accompany a new, satirical road novel from Samuel Ligon: Miller Cane, forthcoming from Slant this month. Pre-order now: slantbooks.org/books/miller...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

George Dardess became a lifelong close reader because of the boys' books he and I father read out loud to each other. Of the lessons he learned, "The first and most important was how language can embody a voice." slantbooks.substack.com/p/thank-you-...

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Thank You, Dave Porter

I grew up in a house filled with books.

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Morgan Meis on composer Erik Satie's pursuit of "something simple, true, reliable, absolute." Today at Slant's Close Reading Substack. slantbooks.substack.com/p/erik-satie...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Susan Miller is the author of Communion of Saints.She is Art Editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family. slantbooks.org/authors/susa...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you don't subscribe to Slant's e-newsletter, you're missing out: all the latest about our new & forthcoming titles, Slant in the news, links to our Substack blog, sweet headnote reflections from Emily Starr Kwilinski -- all in one convenient place. Subscribe: slantbooks.org/subscribe/

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“It’s interesting that this initial poem on prayer begins by questioning prayer’s 'efficacy'—that all Cairns expects from saying God’s name is a 'sweet balm.'” Read Peggy Rosenthal on Scott Cairns’s new collection for today’s Close Reading: slantbooks.substack.com/p/the-puzzle...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

SAVE THE DATE (and register now) for the live online book launch for Sam Ligon's wild and wacky (and ultimately redemptive) road novel, Miller Cane. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In his Booknotes piece written after being on Slant's podcast, Hearts & Minds' Byron Borger says: "Slant is a small but important independent publisher of serious literature, poetry, and some theology & philosophy." He also says we are "pretty darn cool." www.heartsandmindsbooks.com/2026/08/a-tr...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“I suppose that my poetry has become my way to wrestle with that invisible and mostly unknowable God.” Read our Q&A with Scott Cairns for today’s Close Reading: slantbooks.org/close-readin...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We had a sweet live book launch last night. Will post the audio/video soon. Meanwhile, from Scott Cairns’s Against Certainty, new this week from Slant Books. Check out our website for an excerpt: slantbooks.org/news/read-an...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Congratulations to Mr. Scott Cairns on the publication of his latest collection, now available from Slant. ἄξιος!!!!

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Congratulations to Bonnie Naradzay and Molly McNett, both third-place winners in the Catholic Media Association Book Awards!

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“How can I tell you what I heard, my friend? / With words. Yes. But these were more than words.” Read an excerpt from Paul Mariani’s new collection Sing Me a Song, She Said, available now on Slant’s website: slantbooks.org/news/read-an...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“It was a hot Thursday evening in New York, and I did not have a book.” Caroline Langston experiences a happy ending to every reader’s worst-case scenario in today’s Close Reading: slantbooks.substack.com/p/the-elemen...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

BOSTON-AREA PEEPS! On September 15, in Cambridge, MA, Slant will host “An Evening of Poetry with Scott Cairns.” I'll be there, too! The event will include a musical prelude, reading, book signing, and dessert reception—we hope to see you there! Registration link: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“A superlative and varied collection from a master poet still in his prime”: Orlando Menes reviews Paul Mariani’s new book, Sing Me a Song, She Said, for today’s Close Reading. slantbooks.substack.com/p/paul-maria...

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Paul Mariani’s New Poems

A collection from a master poet still in his prime.

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

“So yes, the poet does struggle day by day to get that elusive, previous something down on the page, and so share it with you, dear reader.” Read Paul Mariani on his poetic journey for Church Life Journal as we anticipate Tuesday’s live launch event. churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/poe...

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Call and Response: Poetry’s Secret Sources

Paul Mariani on prayer.

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Each close reading is part of the ongoing story we tell about ourselves: it reveals who we are, what we believe, what we care about.” Read William Cain on Rupert Brooke’s “Mutability” and the art of close reading in community: slantbooks.substack.com/p/close-read...

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Close Reading Rupert Brooke’s “Mutability”

What’s valuable doesn’t have to be permanent.

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“This may be Mariani’s best volume of poetry.” Congratulations to Paul Mariani on the publication of his tenth poetry collection, available today from Slant Books. Read the review from Micah Mattix for WORLD: wng.org/articles/a-l...

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Paul Mariani’s life in poetry

New volume of poems examine brokenness and hope

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You've read all the hot takes. Now you come to Slant Books for what you need more of in your life: an actual close reading of an important text.... slantbooks.substack.com/p/humanity-w...

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Humanity: What’s “Magnificent” about It—or Us?

Reading Pope Leo’s recent encyclical

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“I think my poetry saved me from abandoning my faith”: Scott Cairns joined Greg Garrett on the Good Trouble podcast to discuss his upcoming book, Against Certainty, and the role of poetry in our troubled times. Check it out: greggarrett.substack.com/p/against-ce...

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Against Certainty

Scott Cairns on Faith, Prayer, Politics, and Writing

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

TWO WEEKS AWAY: Join us at the live launch event for Paul Mariani’s Sing Me a Song, She Said on Tuesday, July 28! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/.../register...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

SLANT IN POETS & WRITERS! Slant was thrilled to be featured in the latest edition of Small Press Points, a corner of the famed magazine dedicated to up-and-coming literary presses. Check it out here or in your print copy: www.pw.org/content/smal...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Slant Books: Doing our literary dooty since 2013. Oh, and Gil Allen's hilarious short stories are coming this Fall. Be sure to pick them up after you read them.

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The joy of a debut—if you couldn’t join us for the Light in the Canyon launch party, the recording is now available on YouTube! youtu.be/r39skZvaT7c?...

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SLANTCAST Episode #46: Book Launch for "Light in the Canyon" by Darren Cools

YouTube video by Slant Books

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Since we have it on the highest authority that the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" is 42, then I suppose our 42nd wedding anniversary ought to be the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Why Suzanne Married Me (other than temporary insanity)....

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

“I expect interiority in a portrait. But I’m not sure how much there is in this one.” Read William E. Cain on Paul Cézanne for today’s Close Reading: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

From “Against Certainty” by Scott Cairns: new from Slant in August. Pre-order your copy now.

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Congratulations to Darren Cools -- it is publication day for his debut novel! And you know I consider an author's debut to be the eighth sacrament. Seriously, stop your scrolling and consider how big a deal this is! You know what to do! slantbooks.org/books/light-...

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"If you can tinker with the 'no dog poop' sign, that would be worth trying." Actual sentence I just wrote to our Slant Books cover designer. This is why they pay me the big bucks....

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"When I can see creation this way, I can stop seeing myself as a grasshopper in the eyes of others. Like them, I, too, am part of creation." Read Richard Chess for today's Close Reading: slantbooks.substack.com/p/am-i-a-gra...

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Am I a Grasshopper?

A meditation on Hayim Nahman Bialik and Torah

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

So glad that Graham Greene managed third place in the Association of Catholic Publishers’ book awards. He ought to be encouraged by this.

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Suzanne: I asked for a sign from God. Me: Turn around.

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