Padgett Powell has been regarded as unique and one of the most exciting writers today. The New Yo...

Playful and profound, The Interrogative Mood is a bebop solo of a book in which every sentence is...

'The scholarship, analytical focus, and sheer energy of this work are nothing short of admirable....

In the sequel to Powell’s acclaimed debut, Edisto, Simons Manigault is older—if not particularly ...

Hailed by Time as an “extravagantly comic” novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journ...

Padgett Powell's first novel (1984) is about coming of age on Edisto, an undeveloped strip of coa...

'Gathering pieces written during the past three decades, Indigo ranges widely in subject matter a...

The idiosyncratic genius of Padgett Powell shines through in nine stories that bend the conventio...

Twenty-three surreal fictions—stories, character assassinations, and mini-travelogues—from one of...

A phantasmagoric dream of a novel, exploring the mind of a housewife enamored of historical perso...

Named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR and Vanity Fair 'Rifles through fear, identity, meaning, and cul...