I Hate You, Please Read Me by Joshua Dalton House of Vlad, February 2021 Available for preorder Joshua Dalton’s first book is a collection of tweets, short stories, conversations…
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Convenient Amnesia by Donald Vincent Broadstone Books, July 2020 96 pages / Bookshop / B&N / Amazon Here are two things you need to know upfront: I’ve known Donald…
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You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat Catapult, June 2020 263 pages / Bookshop / B&N / Amazon “You exist too much,” complains a mother to her daughter, the…
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Wanting Radiance by Karen McElmurray The University Press of Kentucky, April 2020 272 pages / Bookshop / Amazon Wanting Radiance, Karen McElmurray’s powerful and lyrical new novel, is part…
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Rendang by Will Harris Granta (UK) & Wesleyen Poetry Series (U.S.), August 2020 80 pages / Bookshop / Amazon More than once while preparing this review, I found myself…
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I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara Harper, February 2018 352 pages / Bookshop / Amazon Michelle McNamara (April 14, 1970- April 21, 2016): writer, mother, wife,…
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After Denver: Poems & Prose by Big Bruiser Dope Boy 11:11 Press, October 2020 85 pages / Amazon Sam Pink, in his introduction to Big Bruiser Dope Boy’s debut…
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Want by Lynn Steger Strong Henry Holt & Company, July 2020 224 pages / Bookshop / B&N / Amazon I haven’t read anything quite as urgently powerful as Lynn…
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Random House, August 2020 496 pages / Amazon Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is the type of…
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In Deep by Maryna Ajaja Wild Ocean Press, May 2020 70 pages / SPD / Bookshop / Amazon Maryna Ajaja’s poetry volume In Deep is a gem. It is…
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Pandemic!: Covid-19 Shakes the World by Slavoj Žižek Polity Press, May 2020 140 pages / Bookshop / Amazon “Life,” according to Kierkegaard, “can only be understood backwards – but…
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Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey: A novel by Kathleen Rooney Penguin Random House, August 2020 336 pages / buy-link A series of thin, alternating layers held together by a social gloop…
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Apocalyptics by C. Derick Varn Unlikely Books, February 2018 102 pages / Amazon Apocalyptics follows a trail to the human heart, lined with broken oak, willow and orchids, to…
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Reaching Light: Selected Poems by Robert Adamson Flood Editions, August 2020 256 pages / SPD / Amazon Poet Robert Adamson was born and raised in the same locale where…