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.

John Skoyles has published eight books of poems, most recently, That's Where You Come In. 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 and as the Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor (2007-2025) of Ploughshares. 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.

"I'll state it plainly: This is a masterpiece, and, as such, the hand of providence had its say." — Jerald Walker, National Book Award Finalist

"Skoyles writes with candor, energy, irreverance, and high spirits." — Stuart Dybek, Author & MacArthur Fellow