Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Hardcover/Bette Howland

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Description"This achingly beautiful book throbs with life, compassion, warmth, and humor."--Kirkus, starred review "This story collection reinstates a long-overlooked artist of live-wire incisiveness, shredding wit, and improbable beauty... Howland's intrepidly autobiographical stories feel brand-new."--Booklist, starred review A Buzz Feed Amazing New Book to Add to Your Spring Reading List A Publishers Weekly 2019 Summer Read Chosen for Vol1 Brooklyn's May Book Preview An AV Club New Book to Read in May 2019 One of Vanity Fair's Best Spring Launches A Dandelion Chandelier Best New Book, May 2019 One of Inside Hook's 7 Books You Should Read, May 2019 A Booklist Best New Book One of All the Books Podcast from Book Riot Best New Books of the Month A Contributing Editor pick for the Paris Review One of Bustle's 25 New Short Story Collections to Read this Summer A Vogue. com Best Book for Summer Chosen for Jewish Week's Summer Reading List A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2019 So Far A Chicago Public Library July 2019 Staff Pick Chosen for WTTW Chicago Tonight's Summer Reading List Chosen for Chicago Magazine's A Very Chicago Summer Reading List This spring, with the publication of Bette Howland's CALM SEA AND PROSPEROUS VOYAGE, A Public Space Books restores to the literary canon an extraordinarily gifted writer, who was recognized as a major talent, with Guggenheim and Mac Arthur "genius" fellowships, before all but disappearing from public view for decades, until nearly the end of her life when she was rediscovered. Bette Howland herself was an outsider--an intellectual from a Jewish working-class neighborhood in Chicago; a divorc e and single mother, to the disapproval of her family; an artist chipped away at by poverty and self-doubt. Each of these facets plays a central role in her work. Saul Bellow, Howland's mentor, champion, and (for a time) lover, urged her to mine her deepest emotions for her art. It was a model for writing she embraced. With direct and powe