The Lost Novel

James Shea’s first book Star in the Eye won the Fence Modern Poets Series, and garnered widespread acclaim with rave reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, Boston Review, Colorado Review, and the Chicago Sun-Times, which named it a “Favorite Book of the Year” (2008). His follow-up, The Lost Novel, comes on the heels of that praise and the anticipation that’s been building since his stunning debut.

“Equal parts deep trouble and heavy pleasure, The Lost Novel is make-up that gets its real o...