THE APPLE'S BRUISE
197 pp., paperback
ISBN 0-7432-7052-5

"Dazzling, thrilling, and as full of shocking wonder as a snowstorm in the Sahara, Glatt's stories don't just push the literary envelope, they transform it in dangerously inventive ways. The things we can, can't or won't do for love, the way desire turns us into outlaws, and the steep cost of connection—it's all here, all hauntingly real, disturbingly funny, and in a word: brilliant."
—Caroline Leavitt, author of Girls in Trouble and Coming Back To Me

"Lisa Glatt's stories are brave and ruthless and blessedly tender when they need to be. She writes about the mortifications of desire without playing to the balconies. Instead, she reveals shame and lust that bubble hopefully inside all of us." —Steve Almond, author of Candyfreak, My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow

"Glatt knows that life is strange enough as it is, and she prefers to mesmerize simply by paying almost prayerful attention to the danger
and sorrow that seep through the cracks made by loss and betrayal;
she can make even the most wordless, seemingly throwaway moments thrilling." —Elle

"Glatt has a sharp eye for catching the incongruous detail that nicely derails her characters' tidy sense of themselves . . . . Polished, taut writing we want more of." —Kirkus Reviews

 

A GIRL BECOMES A COMMA LIKE THAT
290 pp., paperback
ISBN 0-7432-5775-8

"Lisa Glatt's novel is razor sharp and exceedingly funny. Reading it is sort of like acupuncture for the sexual organs—thrilling and very very dangerous. A heartfelt and troubling book about how things go wrong, time after time, and how we manage in spite of it."
—Frederick Barthelme

"Lisa Glatt's novel, with its brilliant array of female characters, does the near impossible—it says something true about all women. This is the most honest book I've ever read about the complex relationship between women and their own bodies—how they use them, and how they are betrayed by them." —Susan Perabo

"A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That is about everything that matters: love, lust, death, failure, the wish to stay in place, the ability to let go, the abiding connection between mothers and daughters. It is written with sly humor and a tender heart. This is a first novel that feels both rueful and hopeful and suggests that its author might be as endearing as she is smart." —Daphne Merkin

"Glatt had me at the title. And A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That only gets more impressive from there. A brilliant debut." —Dany Levy

 

SHELTER
64 pp., perfect-bound
ISBN 1-888219-13-0

"Lisa Glatt is the best kind of bad girl: brave and vulnerable, grieving and tough. These poems hold up the female experience to a shard of mirror; look closely and take heart from the searing tenderness of her knowing, sensuous work." —Kim Addonizio

"By turns hilarious, wise, sad, horrifying, these poems are the real thing. If you think that we're living in the puritanical 50's, a time when politics, religion and most public art are tailor-made by and for fools: you need this book." —Ed Ochester

 

MONSTERS & OTHER LOVERS
96 pp., perfect-bound
ISBN 1-888219-00-9

"Lisa Glatt's poems are fierce, funny, and frank. Distinctively yin in their terrain, they are boisterously yang in their approach. Glatt's poems are uncensored soul-kisses into the darkness of injured bodies, the psyche of illness, and the raw stumblings of sexual relationships. Monsters and Other Lovers is a provocative first collection, as entertaining and dangerous and enlightening as a game of Truth or Dare. —Denise Duhamel

"I love these bold, intense, funny, and deadly serious poems by Lisa Glatt. Monsters and Other Lovers is a brilliant debut, which you will not soon forget. —Thomas Lux