II · The List
Catalogue
A complete record of titles in print and forthcoming from Silver Current Press.
In Production
The first three titles of the pressMia Bambina and Other Stories
Short fiction set among working-class Italian-American families. Daughters return to mothers’ kitchens. Brothers keep small inheritances and quieter secrets. Each story turns on a single uncomfortable knowledge — in the lineage of O’Connor, with a music of Mulhern’s own.
InquireThe Weight of Small Mercies: Selected Stories
A second volume of short fiction — selected stories drawn from twenty years of magazine and journal publication. The undertow of small kindnesses, the steady accumulation of what we owe each other and rarely repay. A companion to Mia Bambina and a quieter book by inches.
InquireHow to Analyze Literature, Second Edition
A revised and expanded handbook for serious readers, drawn from twenty years in the classroom. Newly augmented with chapters on contemporary short fiction, close reading, and the long sentence. Adopted in university courses, returning in a press edition.
InquireIn Research
Projects of longer horizonCrossings: Selected Poems
A first volume of selected poems, to be set with original illustrations. A slow walk along the borders Mulhern has spent a writing life crossing — between Boston and Philadelphia, between the parlour and the page, between the seen world and what waits beyond it. Conceived as an art object, to be bound in cloth.
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A decade-by-decade history of 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia — the third largest luxury apartment building at the time of its construction in 1939, where the author has long lived. 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
The Kirkus-starred novel that established Mulhern as a writer of unusual moral clarity. A working-class Boston childhood rendered in prose that critics have likened to Frank McCourt and Tobias Wolff — but with a sentence of its own.
OrderMolly Bonamici
A novel of friendship, grief, and the slow weather of an Italian-American neighborhood. A book about the courage of the unremarkable life. Praised for its quiet command of the long arc.
OrderUseless Things
Stories of small inheritances and quieter losses — the spoon left in the drawer, the unanswered letter, the photograph kept for no reason. A collection that earns its title by refusing it.
OrderAssumptions and Other Stories
Twelve stories on family, faith, and the slow work of being wrong about other people. Mulhern’s first collection, and the book that introduced his characteristic note of compassionate scrutiny.
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