Sketchtasy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Arsenal Pulp Press, October 2018 256 pages / Amazon / Arsenal Sketchtasy is a fictional novel, but the main character’s primary conflict is the…
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Joy of Missing Out (JOMO) by Ana Božičević Birds LLC, June 2017 94 pages / Amazon / Birds (pdf version available) Ana Božičević’s third poetry collection, Joy of Missing…
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Anxious Attachments by Beth Alvarado Autumn House Press, March 2019 168 pages / Amazon Anxious Attachments by Beth Alvarado contains fourteen essays that, no matter where they take…
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Constraint by Delia Tramontina Dancing Girl Press, 2019 Delia Tramontina’s brilliantly constructed debut of warm, challenging, muscular maximalist statement poetry that appeals at least as much to the suggestive…
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The Boneyard, The Birth Manual, A Burial: Investigations into the Heartland by Julia Madsen Trembling Pillow Press, June 2018 104 pages / Amazon How does one know one’s own…
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The Book of the Last Word by Jesi Bender Whiskey Tit, May 2019 174 pages / buy from Whiskey Tit chi·me·ra /kīˈmirə,kəˈmirə/ noun 1 a: capitalized: a fire-breathing she-monster in…
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Gloss by Rebecca Hazelton University of Wisconsin Press, February 2019 104 pages / Amazon Gloss ventures darker than Rebecca Hazelton’s previous work. Dark as in sultry, of course—a trademark…
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Scarstruck by Violet LeVoit King Shot Press, February 2019 260 pages / Amazon Ron Dash, in-the-closet movie star of the late 1950s, finds himself about to be outed and…
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Who Is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins Faber & Faber, December 2018 112 pages / Amazon “Creation isn’t imagination, it’s taking the great risk of grasping reality” quotes Sophie…
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Fearn by Linda Dove Cooper Dillon Books, 2019 37 pages / CDB A quick search on the title of Fearn tells me we are going into a land of…
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Difficult Women by Roxane Gay Grove Press, January 2017 272 pages / Amazon What does it mean to be a difficult woman? How would someone be able to define such…
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Author’s Note: This essay originally published in Lana Turner Journal, January 2018. Thank you to Editor David Lau for permission to reprint. A People’s History of Chicago is 132 pages,…
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Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis Catapult Press, February 2019 224 pages / Amazon Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis captures the quiet slowness of adolescence. This is Aridjis’s third novel,…