Potted Meat 107 pages, 2016 Water & Power 174 pages, 2018 Both titles available from Tarpaulin Sky Press I saw Steven Dunn read from his first novel, Potted Meat,…
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where bells begin by tessa micaela Rescue Press, November 2019 86 pages / SPD / Amazon / That there’s not a single upper-case letter to be found in tessa…
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Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette New Directions Publishing, May 2020 144 pages / Bookshop / Amazon “The borders imposed between things here are many and…
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Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes BOA Editions, September 2020 72 pages / preorder: Bookshop / Amazon “After all this, you still ask me how…
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The In-Betweens by Davon Loeb Everytime Press, December 2018 200 pages / Amazon / other retailers To belong is a basic human need, something we can all relate to…
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I’ll Tell You A Love Story by Couri Johnson Bridge Eight Press, April 2020 188 pages / Bookshop / Amazon In Couri Johnson’s debut collection I’ll Tell You A…
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CultureLiteratureReview“To feel that close, when you’re not really close”: Notes on reading during a pandemic, reading as friendship, and reading as survival in Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Sketchtasy
In the beginning of Hervé Guibert’s autofictional novel To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, he describes the book he’s writing as a “companion […] someone with whom…
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Sisyphusina by Shira Dentz [PANK] Books, April 2020 92 pages / SPD In Greek myth, the gods punish Sisyphus by making him roll a boulder up a hill, which…
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Rob’s Word Shop by Robert Fitterman Ugly Duckling Presse, April 2109 For a few weeks during the spring of 2010, Robert Fitterman sold individual letters, words, and phrases from…
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The Low Passions: Poems by Anders Carlson-Wee Norton, March 2019 80 pages / Amazon / Bookshop In The Low Passions, poet Anders Carlson-Wee thumbs his way through the new…
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Review‘Unavowable’ Communities – On Matt Colquhoun’s Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher
Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher by Matt Colquhoun Repeater, March 2020 301 pages / Bookshop / Amazon The past few months have seen much speculation on what…
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Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz Algonquin Books, October 2019 336 pages / Bookshop / B&N / Amazon “All my life I’d been waiting for this book.” Ashley Perez from…
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On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney Two Lines Press, May 2020 174 pages / Bookshop / Amazon I wanted to know the lighthouse to its very…
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Whiteout Conditions by Tariq Shah Two Dollar Radio, March 2020 114 pages / Bookshop / Amazon Tariq Shah’s spare debut novel, Whiteout Conditions, finds itself at the intersection of…
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