All the Question Marks | John Skoyles | Fiction

Forthcoming in October 2026: All the Question Marks by John Skoyles

In this darkly comic novel of marriage and betrayal, John Skoyles constructs an ingenious dual narrative: a man confronting his wife’s memoir while his own shadow self — the “quashed devil” he struggles to restrain — takes over the telling.

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All the Question Marks, John Skoyles

$28.00

ISBN: 978-1-968274-12-2

Fine Softcover; 350+ pages; 6″x9″

Publication Date: October 13, 2026

Summary

In this darkly comic novel of marriage and betrayal, John Skoyles constructs an ingenious dual narrative: a man confronting his wife’s memoir while his own shadow self — the “quashed devil” he struggles to restrain — takes over the telling. Set among academics, poets and neighbors on Cape Cod and New York City, All the Question Marks explores what happens when one writer’s truth becomes another’s reckoning. With sharp wit and devastating honesty, Skoyles examines the stories we tell ourselves, the words we commit to the page, and the difference between the life we’ve led and the one we did not live. A masterful meditation on marriage, infidelity, and the dangerous intimacy between writer and reader.

 

Author

John Skoyles has published seven books of poems, most recently, Yes & No. His books of prose include A Moveable Famine, The Nut File, and Driven.  He has taught at Southern Methodist University, Sarah Lawrence College, Warren Wilson College (where he directed the MFA program) and Emerson College. He has also served as the Executive Director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Atlantic, among others. He has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as fellowships from the New York and North Carolina Arts Councils. He lives in New York City.

 

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