Lettersat3Ampress imprint: 4 books

SLAP NOIR is a novel by James BigBoy Medlin that engages the principles of slapstick and noir and melds them into a single instrument to tell the story of a chaos that is no one's and everyone's fault, in a West Texas oil town where no one's all good, no one's all bad, everyone is serious, everyone is funny, everyone knows something and nobody knows it all.

The poetry of Peggy Aylsworth happens in the everyday, in which “rent has been paid, breakfast dishes washed,” and shall she take a bath or “read the sorry news” or sit down with Wittgenstein—or is this the day a daughter dies? Is this the day she herself may “die with questions/ slipping,...

The Legend of La Diosa is Chuck Rosenthal’s rollicking paean to love, love, love. His story tells us why, when you meet someone you love, you feel as though you’ve known her/him forever. It’s because that’s exactly what’s happening, you have known that person forever, and journeyed headlong...

When Brooklyn was REALLY Brooklyn, the dangerous Brooklyn of the 1950s and 1960s, where life was iffy and you never shook the sense that fate's next blow might finally be the one you couldn't take -- that is the Brooklyn of Rocco Lo Bosco's NINETY NINE.