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- All of Us Together in the EndVollmer, Matthew (Hub City Press, 2023-04-01)
- A Book of Uncommon PrayerVollmer, Matthew (Outpost19, 2015-05-01)A Book of Uncommon Prayer collects everyday invocations from 60 acclaimed and emerging authors. Edited by Matthew Vollmer, and inspired by the Anglican original, the anthology spans a remarkable range of beliefs and inclinations, producing a kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary concerns, from the heart-wrenching to the irreverent. All proceeds will benefit 826 Valencia, which is “dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their writing skills, and to helping teachers get excited about the literary arts.” (I conceived the idea, solicited work, made selections, arranged the pieces, edited and copy edited them, created indexes, wrote a preface, and contributed 9 selections to the manuscript.)
- ConduitQueen, Khadijah (Akashic Books, 2008)Chris Abani's Black Goat series presents the debut poetry collection from one of America's most promising young writers.
- Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Quasi-Letters, Faux-Lectures, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent ArtifactsVollmer, Matthew; Shields, D. (W. W. Norton, 2012-10-14)In our bureaucratized culture, we’re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered forty short fictions that they’ve found to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit texts that capture the barely suppressed frustration and yearning that percolate just below the surface of most official documents. The innovative stories collected in Fakes—including ones by Ron Carlson (a personal ad), Amy Hempel (a complaint to the parking department), Rick Moody (Works Cited), and Lydia Davis (a letter to a funeral parlor)—trace the increasingly blurry line between fact and fiction and exemplify a crucial form for the twenty-first century.
- Future Missionaries of America StoriesVollmer, Matthew (Macadam Cage Pub, 2008)Offers a collection of twelve short stories offering insights about sex, love, and loss.
- Gateway to ParadiseVollmer, Matthew (Persea Books, 2015-10-01)From the publisher: In these bold stories set in the mountains and small towns of the South, men and women looking for escape from dull routines and a culture of hype (whether of consumerism, sex, or religion) are led to places of danger and self-reckoning. A dentist on a tryst is seduced by and impregnates an impetuous ghost. A beleaguered young writing professor follows his imagination one step too far while escorting a famous writer he finds darkly alluring. Provoked by a radio talk show, a woman tests who is more intimate, her husband or her dog. In the novella-length title story, a young McDonald’s cashier sets off alone on a harrowing, surreal journey after her domineering boyfriend commits a murder in her name—a journey from nowhere and nothing to an epiphany in Gatlinburg, at the edge of the Smoky Mountains wilderness. Gateway to Paradise surpasses the promise of Vollmer’s first collection, Future Missionaries of America, acclaimed as “irresistible . . . . utterly convincing . . . . the arrival of a strong new voice” (New York Times Book Review); “a rare and gratifying achievement” (Library Journal, starred).
- Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century AmericaReed, Ashley (Cornell University Press, 2020-09-15)In Heaven's Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious identity and agency. Women writers of the antebellum period, Reed contends, embraced theological concepts to gain access to the literary sphere, challenging the notion that theological discourse was exclusively oppressive and served to deny women their own voice. Attending to modes of being and believing in works by Augusta Jane Evans, Harriet Jacobs, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Elizabeth Stoddard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner, Reed illuminates how these writers infused the secular space of fiction with religious ideas and debates, imagining new possibilities for women's individual agency and collective action.
- inscriptions for headstonesVollmer, Matthew (Outpost19, 2012-10-01)Thirty short essays, each crafted as an epitaph, each unfolding in a single sentence.
- Irregular Unions: Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English LiteratureCleland, Katharine (Cornell University Press, 2021-03)Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, she argues that early modern authors used clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England. The ways in which authors grappled with the political and social complexities of clandestine marriage, Cleland finds, suggest that these narratives were far more than interesting plot devices or scandalous stories ripped from the headlines. Instead, after the Reformation, fictions of clandestine marriage allowed early modern authors to explore topics of identity formation in new and different ways.
- Permanent ExhibitVollmer, Matthew (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2018-09-11)
- This World Is Not Your Home: Essays, Stories, and ReportsVollmer, Matthew (EastOver Press, 2022-03-01)