Welcome to Our Press and Its Many Literary Vessels

"We are wide-eyed for continuities of Beauty. We are wide-eyed for continuities of Truth."

Wiseblood Books fosters works of fiction and non-fiction, poetry and philosophy that find redemption in uncanny places and people; wrestle us from the tyranny of noise and rescue us from the republic of boredom; articulate faith and doubt in their incarnate complexity; keep one eye on grandeur and the other on suffering; and engage this world's countless trials without forfeiting hope--all of this with an unflinching gaze, wide-eyed.

Our dock serves as harbor to diverse vessels of literature: minimalist or stream of consciousness; philosophical thriller or epistolary novel; collection of vignettes or thousand-page opus; formalist poetry or political memoir; journalistic essays or academic scholarship. We seek contemporary fiction and poetry that inherits and inhabits the veins of such epic works as Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Dante's Divine Comedy; of works as demanding as Joyce's Ulysses or Herman Broch's The Death of Virgil; of works as historically-conscious as Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago or Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter; of works as polyphonic as Dostoevsky's Demons; of verse devoted to the preservation of form in an age of unmaking; of works as complexly comic as David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest or Flannery O' Connor's Wise Blood. Our devotion to the life of the mind makes us watchful for works that reach the roots of fundamental questions, that turn to the almost three-thousand-year-long conversations committed to these questions, and that incite our hunger for the splendor of truth.

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The late James Laughlin’s publishing house, New Directions, is the standard at the moment for contemporary fiction. When you see ND on the spine, you know that you’re getting a solid work that is actively engaged with contemporary literary concerns. It is still too early to tell what will become of the upstart Wiseblood Books, but such a strong entry as this early on is a sign that it is heading in the right direction.
—From M.A. Peterson's review of Wiseblood Books' A Waste of Shame and Other Sad Tales of the Appalachian Foothills

"We are wide-eyed for continuities of Beauty. We are wide-eyed for continuities of Truth."

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