Gregory Wolfe
@gregorywolfe.bsky.social
Publisher & editor of Slant Books. Founder of IMAGE journal & the SPU MFA in Creative Writing. Author of Beauty Will Save the World, The Operation of Grace, etc.
Check out this wonderfully rich podcast conversation with poet Robert Cording. The discussion is based on Bob's "Finding the World's Fullness," published by Slant Books. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiD8...
Ep. 62 | Robert Cording - Finding the World’s Fullness
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November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Check out this wonderfully rich podcast conversation with poet Robert Cording. The discussion is based on Bob's "Finding the World's Fullness," published by Slant Books. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiD8...
Can you "close read" the life of a mysterious animal? Find out on today's Close Reading blog. slantbooks.substack.com/p/close-read...
Close Reading an Octopus
A sketch of the particular Umwelt which shapes each life
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Can you "close read" the life of a mysterious animal? Find out on today's Close Reading blog. slantbooks.substack.com/p/close-read...
"Parents cannot help this longing for their beloved children—a longing to keep them nearby, with us, always, or at least for as long as they are so small and fragile. But like Monica, we are not in control." Read Nadya Williams's review of "Child of These Tears." mereorthodoxy.com/child-of-the...
Child of These Tears
Suffering—bodily and spiritual—is the thread connecting all persons and events in this book. How do we face great suffering that upheaves our lives?
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November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Parents cannot help this longing for their beloved children—a longing to keep them nearby, with us, always, or at least for as long as they are so small and fragile. But like Monica, we are not in control." Read Nadya Williams's review of "Child of These Tears." mereorthodoxy.com/child-of-the...
"Pessoa’s writing can be read as a kind of lived cosmology." Morgan Meis on a Modernist who may have more traditional than previously thought. Today at Slant's Close Reading blog. slantbooks.substack.com/p/the-mouth-...
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"Pessoa’s writing can be read as a kind of lived cosmology." Morgan Meis on a Modernist who may have more traditional than previously thought. Today at Slant's Close Reading blog. slantbooks.substack.com/p/the-mouth-...
"Haven requires the particularity of relationships to provide perspective, color, and value, by which his poetic vision is completed." Read Brad Crenshaw's thoughtful review of Stephen Haven's The Flight From Meaning for North American Review. northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"Haven requires the particularity of relationships to provide perspective, color, and value, by which his poetic vision is completed." Read Brad Crenshaw's thoughtful review of Stephen Haven's The Flight From Meaning for North American Review. northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
"Each of Fincke’s poems tells an immersive story in which readers are invited to accompany characters through moments of great love, loss and longing." Great review of "For Now, We Have Been Spared" in America magazine. www.americamagazine.org/poetry/2025/...
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"Each of Fincke’s poems tells an immersive story in which readers are invited to accompany characters through moments of great love, loss and longing." Great review of "For Now, We Have Been Spared" in America magazine. www.americamagazine.org/poetry/2025/...
Peggy Rosenthal counts out coffee spoons and dares to eat a peach (after returning to Eliot's Prufrock. Today at Slant's Close Reading blog. slantbooks.substack.com/p/revisiting...
Revisiting T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock”
How many coffee spoons = a life?
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November 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Peggy Rosenthal counts out coffee spoons and dares to eat a peach (after returning to Eliot's Prufrock. Today at Slant's Close Reading blog. slantbooks.substack.com/p/revisiting...
If you missed it, a reading and Q&A with Bonnie Naradzay—author of this week's release, "Invited to the Feast"—is now available as an episode of SlantCast on YouTube! Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9eu...
SLANTCAST Episode #34: Book Launch for "Invited to the Feast"
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October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If you missed it, a reading and Q&A with Bonnie Naradzay—author of this week's release, "Invited to the Feast"—is now available as an episode of SlantCast on YouTube! Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9eu...
"I myself feel it’s the poet’s job to write of the larger problems in our society. Otherwise I might feel as if I must put on blinders to write, the way a horse is made to wear blinders to work." Read Slant's Q&A with Bonnie Naradzay for today's Close Reading slantbooks.substack.com/p/from-the-h...
From the Homeless to Prisons and Beyond: Q&A with Bonnie Naradzay
“What I constantly wrestle with is how to write these poems.”
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October 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"I myself feel it’s the poet’s job to write of the larger problems in our society. Otherwise I might feel as if I must put on blinders to write, the way a horse is made to wear blinders to work." Read Slant's Q&A with Bonnie Naradzay for today's Close Reading slantbooks.substack.com/p/from-the-h...
READ AN EXCERPT from Bonnie Naradzay's just-published debut collection, "Invited to the Feast." slantbooks.org/news/read-an...
Read an Excerpt from Invited to the Feast - Slant Books
“Do not hurry your journey,” the poet says midway through this stunning collection. “Better if it lasts for years, so you arrive / laden with all you’ve lost along the way.” Bonnie Naradzay’s journey—...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
READ AN EXCERPT from Bonnie Naradzay's just-published debut collection, "Invited to the Feast." slantbooks.org/news/read-an...
TOMORROW! You're invited to the launch event for Bonnie Naradzay's debut poetry collection, Invited to the Feast. Registration required Link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
TOMORROW! You're invited to the launch event for Bonnie Naradzay's debut poetry collection, Invited to the Feast. Registration required Link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
"The key to hacking your way through the current thicket of literary noise ... is the same as the cultivation of other kinds of wisdom: paying attention to the disciplines of truthful friends, the embodied motions of prayer, the humility of the unexpected." slantbooks.substack.com/p/a-way-thro...
A Way Through the Literary Forest
How does one discern what’s actually worthwhile?
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October 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"The key to hacking your way through the current thicket of literary noise ... is the same as the cultivation of other kinds of wisdom: paying attention to the disciplines of truthful friends, the embodied motions of prayer, the humility of the unexpected." slantbooks.substack.com/p/a-way-thro...
ONE WEEK AWAY! A debut collection of poems that "burn with a radical empathy." Join us for the launch of Bonnie Naradzay's Invited to the Feast on Tuesday, October 28. Registration required: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
ONE WEEK AWAY! A debut collection of poems that "burn with a radical empathy." Join us for the launch of Bonnie Naradzay's Invited to the Feast on Tuesday, October 28. Registration required: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
“Oh yes, that’s the road map, that’s what life is, it’s all about eternal recurrence, that’s something everybody should be thinking about.” William Cain on discussing Nietzsche with his Uber drivers for today's Close Reading: slantbooks.substack.com/p/nietzsche-...
Nietzsche in the Car
Close reading with my Uber drivers
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October 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“Oh yes, that’s the road map, that’s what life is, it’s all about eternal recurrence, that’s something everybody should be thinking about.” William Cain on discussing Nietzsche with his Uber drivers for today's Close Reading: slantbooks.substack.com/p/nietzsche-...
"You will find Child of These Tears gripping, stirring, and ... 'most delightful.'” John Tuttle reviews Molly McNett's historical novel, now available from Slant or wherever books are sold. catholicinsight.com/2025/10/14/t...
The Beauty and Unity of Child of These Tears - Catholic Insight
Child of These Tears by Molly McNett Slant Books, October 1st, 2025 For an excerpt, see the Slant webpage here Being human is being peculiar to all of creation. We have a body that tends toward the wa...
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October 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"You will find Child of These Tears gripping, stirring, and ... 'most delightful.'” John Tuttle reviews Molly McNett's historical novel, now available from Slant or wherever books are sold. catholicinsight.com/2025/10/14/t...
From Bonnie Naradzay's masterful debut collection, Invited to the Feast. Available for pre-order now. Out 10/28. slantbooks.org/books/invite...
October 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
From Bonnie Naradzay's masterful debut collection, Invited to the Feast. Available for pre-order now. Out 10/28. slantbooks.org/books/invite...
"Maybe this is why Halevi calls upon the Lord to heal him. He sees that his own medicine doesn’t work." Read Richard Chess on "The Poetry Cure" for today's Close Reading. slantbooks.substack.com/p/the-poetry...
The Poetry Cure
Relax and let the medicine work.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"Maybe this is why Halevi calls upon the Lord to heal him. He sees that his own medicine doesn’t work." Read Richard Chess on "The Poetry Cure" for today's Close Reading. slantbooks.substack.com/p/the-poetry...
Praise for Slant's next release, Invited to the Feast—out October 28. slantbooks.org/books/invite...
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Praise for Slant's next release, Invited to the Feast—out October 28. slantbooks.org/books/invite...
I'm a little heartbroken that we lost Baron Wormser before publication day (1/13/26) but he was able to go through the proofs and expressed "delight" with the cover. A huge honor that he was so passionate about wanting to be published by
Slant Books. slantbooks.org/books/james-...
Slant Books. slantbooks.org/books/james-...
October 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I'm a little heartbroken that we lost Baron Wormser before publication day (1/13/26) but he was able to go through the proofs and expressed "delight" with the cover. A huge honor that he was so passionate about wanting to be published by
Slant Books. slantbooks.org/books/james-...
Slant Books. slantbooks.org/books/james-...
Don’t miss the new release that Rowan Williams called “One of the best novels I’ve read in the past couple of years.” Child of These Tears is available now! slantbooks.org/books/child-...
October 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Don’t miss the new release that Rowan Williams called “One of the best novels I’ve read in the past couple of years.” Child of These Tears is available now! slantbooks.org/books/child-...
"I wanted it to be shamelessly intellectual at times and shamelessly crude at others." George Dardess on Morgan Meis's trilogy of books, now complete with the publication of "The Grand Valley." Today at Slant's Close Reading blog. slantbooks.substack.com/p/working-on...
Working on a Style
“I wanted to create a style that would unfold in spirals rather than in lines.”
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October 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"I wanted it to be shamelessly intellectual at times and shamelessly crude at others." George Dardess on Morgan Meis's trilogy of books, now complete with the publication of "The Grand Valley." Today at Slant's Close Reading blog. slantbooks.substack.com/p/working-on...
“This is what I love about historical pieces—trying to find a voice.” Read Slant's wide-ranging Q&A with Molly McNett, author of new historical novel Child of These Tears, for today's Close Reading blog post. slantbooks.substack.com/p/captivity-...
Captivity Narrative: Q&A with Molly McNett
“This is what I love about historical pieces—trying to find a voice.”
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October 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“This is what I love about historical pieces—trying to find a voice.” Read Slant's wide-ranging Q&A with Molly McNett, author of new historical novel Child of These Tears, for today's Close Reading blog post. slantbooks.substack.com/p/captivity-...
The other source of color (or off-color) in my life.
October 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The other source of color (or off-color) in my life.
CONGRATULATIONS to Molly McNett on the publication day for her beautiful, harrowing, transformative novel. slantbooks.org/books/child-...
September 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
CONGRATULATIONS to Molly McNett on the publication day for her beautiful, harrowing, transformative novel. slantbooks.org/books/child-...
ONE WEEK AWAY: Molly McNett’s new, polyphonic novel that Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Harding calls “as artful as it is unnerving, as beautiful as it is strange.” Join Slant and author Molly McNett for our live launch event on September 30. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
ONE WEEK AWAY: Molly McNett’s new, polyphonic novel that Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Harding calls “as artful as it is unnerving, as beautiful as it is strange.” Join Slant and author Molly McNett for our live launch event on September 30. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...