Splendor imprint: 37 books

May We Shed These Human Bodies peers through vast spaces and skies with the world's most powerful telescope to find humanity: wild and bright and hard as diamonds. Here is humanity building: families reconstruct themselves, mothers fashion babies from two-by-fours and nails, boys make a mother out...

Due to his extensive publication credits, Barry Gifford has a built in audience and could be considered a household name A native to Chicago, Barry Gifford's first publication with a Chicago press will act as a sort of "coming home" after his decades-long writing & publishing...

These flash fiction stories from one of today’s emerging literary stars grasp to determine whether life can "come with fewer qualifications and be less equivocal,” a world where friendships are negotiated, love is one-sided, imagined, absent, or discovered, and where “going crazy is more subtle than you'd think."

Strong candidate to garner attention as a 'Debut Author' due to Lanier's capacity for crafting mature, morally complex narratives with palpable narrative pull. Her complex world-view is shocking given her young age. Capable of blending gut-wrenching, dirty realism with the savvy wit of a Jezebel.com...

Heartfelt, earnest, and humorous, the essays in Everything We Don't Know examine the journey of growing up in contemporary America. Aaron Gilbreath contemplates the ocean-bound debris from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, his nostalgia for the demolished buildings of his youth, quitting smoking,...

Laurie Bird appeared in three films: Two Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, and Annie Hall. Her fiancé, Art Garfunkel, was away shooting another film, Bad Timing, when she committed suicide at the age of 26. Let Go and Go On and On blurs what little is actually known of her with her roles in these films. Guided by constraints, it is a collage and a loving tribute.

A striking debut from an African American author who teaches writing and theatre to juvenile inmates in Chicago. Confirmed blurbs already in from Adam Mansbach,Audrey Niffenegger, Don De Grazia. This first-person teen narrative uses humor to address: homophobia in the African-American...

Cris Mazza's work has often been regarded as "disturbing" for its exploration of sexual politics, victimhood, personal accountability, and acts of sexual violence. With an introduction by Gina Frangello and a foreword by Rick Moody, Charlatan charts the development of a dynamic body of fiction...

Utilize ties to Guided by Voices fans by promoting the art of Robert Pollard. James' debut short story collection. Highly experimental.

"Bill Hill is the Rill Dill."—Kent and Keith Zimmerman, authors of Hell's Angels, Rotten, and Operation Family Secrets "Hillmann knows the streets, and he also knows how to tell stories—you might know his work from the Chicago Tribune, Salon.com, and NPR. So it's not surprising...

This comedic slacker novel tracks a community of stoners, musicians, and regular dudes losing in every sense of the word.

In her debut essay collection, New Zealand native Toni Nealie examines journeys, homelands, family, and motherhood. She details humiliating confrontations with airport security, muses on the color brown, and intimately investigates her grandfather's complicated and criminal past, all while hearkening...

Set in an archly comedic, alternate-reality Indianapolis that is completely overrun by Big Pharma, James Tadd Adcox's debut novel chronicles Robert and Viola's attempts to overcome loss through the miracles of modern pharmaceuticals. Their marriage crumbling after a series of miscarriages, Viola finds...

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, author of Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, a bestselling book on bipolar disorder, has agreed to blurb the book. This frank and honest memoir charts Charita's personal struggle with bipolar disorder. Readers will appreciate...