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The Richard Peabody Reader
The Richard Peabody Reader

The Richard Peabody Reader

By Richard Peabody, Edited by Lucinda Ebersole, Introduction by Michael Dirda

Legacy series

LITERARY COLLECTIONS

500 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: Trade Paper, PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket

Trade Paper, $24.95 (US $24.95) (CA $29.95)

Publication Date: April 2015

ISBN 9780984832989

Rights: WOR

Santa Fe Writer's Project (Apr 2015)

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Overview

Filling an important gap in the literary world, The Richard Peabody Reader is a wide-ranging selection of this great writer#&8217;s poetry and prose. As a publisher, Peabody#&8217;s steadfast dedication to that which is new, challenging, innovative, and dynamic has won him a wide reputation among writers whose work he has championed. This volume demonstrates those same values, embodied in nearly four decades of fiercely smart, sophisticated, and often very funny writing. From his first collection of poems, I#&8217;m in Love with the Morton Salt Girl, to his most recent collection of short stories, Blue Suburban Skies, Peabody has established and developed a thoroughly unique voice, both warm and piercing, to deliver content that ranges from the hilarious, as in the short story #&8220;Flea Wars,#&8221; to the bittersweet, as in the poem #&8220;The Other Man is Always French,#&8221; to the elegiac, as in the poem in #&8220;Civil War Pieta,#&8221; to the absurd, as in the rollicking farce of the short story, #&8220;Bad Day at Ikea.#&8221; Peabody#&8217;s aesthetic is all-embracing#&8212;strands of punk, beat, experimental, feminist, and political protest literary influences blend with the purely romantic to create a body of work that is both profound and pleasing.

Reviews

"Peabody shows it all here, tragedy, humor, joy,wit, and compassion, and speaks for a generation of adults who are still trying to figure it out in our age of decadence." —Scott Whitaker, the Broadkill Review


"The life work of this proud, bitter, principled, generous man and the immeasurable service he has done on behalf of literature command respect and deserve attention." —Michael Lindgren, the Washington Post


"This is a top-notch production . . . terrific and eclectic." —Nathan Leslie, the Pedestal magazine

Author Biography

Richard Peabody is the author of a novella, three short story collections, and seven books of poetry. He is the founder and current editor of Gargoyle Magazine and the editor or coeditor of 22 anthologies, including Conversations with Gore Vidal, A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation, and Mondo Barbie. He has taught fiction writing workshops at the Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies Program since 1995. Lucinda Ebersole is a critic, an editor, and a fiction writer best known for her association with the literary journal Gargoyle Magazine, for which she has been coeditor along with Richard Peabody since 1997. She has also edited various anthologies with Peabody, most notably the various books in their Mondo series. Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist for the Washington Post Book World and the author of the memoir An Open Book and four collections of essays: Book by Book, Bound to Please, Classics for Pleasure, and Readings. They all live in Washington, DC.