In addition to the featured hardcover and ebook releases, the Penn Press fall 2013 list includes many first-time paperbacks, among them: Lucretia Mott's Heresy; An Infinity of Nations; Why Don't American Cities Burn?; From Human Trafficking to Human Rights; "Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems; and Becoming the People of the Talmud.

Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction

Barone, Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster (hc 1995, pb 1995, eb 2011)

Bloom, The Literary Bent: In Search of High Art in Contemporary American Writing (hc 1997, pb 1997)

Chénetier/Houlding, Beyond Suspicion: New American Fiction Since 1960 (hc 1996)

Ferrari, Innocence, Power, and the Novels of John Hawkes (hc 1996)

Osteen, American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture (hc 2000)

Peterson, Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory (hc 2001)

Pifer, Saul Bellow Against the Grain (hc 1990, pb 1991)

Rainwater, Dreams of Fiery Stars: The Transformations of Native American Fiction (hc 1999, pb 1999, eb 2011)

Wilde, Middle Grounds: Studies in Contemporary American Fiction (hc 1987)