II · The List
Catalogue
A complete record of titles in print and forthcoming from Silver Current Press.
In Production
Forthcoming titles from the pressThe Weight of Small Mercies: Selected Stories
A second volume of short fiction — selected stories drawn from twenty years of magazine and journal publication. Stories about small kindnesses, and about what people owe each other and seldom repay.
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A revised, expanded handbook for readers, drawn from twenty years in the classroom, with new chapters on contemporary short fiction, close reading, and the long sentence. Adopted in university courses, returning in a press edition.
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Projects of longer horizonCrossings: Selected Poems
A first volume of selected poems, to be set with original illustrations. Poems of the borders Mulhern keeps crossing: Boston and Philadelphia, the parlor and the page, this world and the next. It will be bound in cloth.
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A decade-by-decade history of a Philadelphia apartment building, the third-largest luxury apartment building at the time of its construction in 1939. Each chapter follows a single decade: the building’s tenants, its alterations, the city around it, and the small archival evidence of what changed and what did not. Nonfiction with a novelist’s ear.
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Selected WorksGive Them Unquiet Dreams
Boston, 1976: a boy with second sight wants his mother out of the psychiatric hospital where doctors have called her schizophrenic. “A luminous, beautifully told fairy tale grounded in history and elevated by spirit.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Buy on Amazon About the BookMolly Bonamici
A literary coming-of-age novel set in Italian American Boston, with a heroine who takes her name and some of her nerve from Defoe’s Moll Flanders. An excerpt, “Smoke Rings,” was an InkTears Short Story Award runner-up.
Buy on Amazon About the BookA Prayer for Home
A novella of Molly’s grandmother’s Boston household, praised by the Missouri Review for its “well-written, complex characters” and “fantastic voice.”
Buy on Amazon About the BookAssumptions and Other Stories
Stories about what people assume of one another, with the “storytelling prowess of the contemporary Irish masters” (Readers’ Favorite). The title story was a finalist for the Tuscany Prize in Catholic Fiction.
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