We do a lot of work behind the scenes, but the writers create the work so they deserve the most credit and profit for it. They are the reason we even have a project to work on in the first place.
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I’d like to see a return to the traditional handsell of bookselling that was the mainstay of the likes of the afore-mentioned J. Laughlin. There is nothing more exciting and satisfyingly rewarding than publishing a good book and getting it into the hands of truly engaged, concerned and discerning readers, regardless of what format they choose.
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For this week’s Sunday list we asked Entropy contributors: What book did you read in high school that had the most impact on you? Ben Roylance The Book of During by…
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We’re interested in literature that is visionary—embracing or interrogating Mystery as it enacts a sense of ecstasy or otherworldly consciousness/experience. But I think that, in terms of aesthetics, there’s such a wide variety of ways to render that, and so many different topics or perspectives could lend themselves to that work. We are also interested in work that promotes interfaith and/or intercultural exchange.
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Mega Man 3 by Salvatore Pane Boss Fight Books, 2016 168 pages – Boss Fight / Amazon Salvatore Pane’s Mega Man 3 warps its reader into a shared past, where the flickering…
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Written Lives by Javier Marías Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Penguin Modern Classics, 2016 (First published in English by New Directions in 2006) 208 pages – Penguin /Amazon The great figures in…
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FeaturedLiteratureReviewFear of Failure and Other Reasons to Stay Alive: Some Thoughts about Fake Missed Connections by Brett Fletcher Lauer
Fake Missed Connections by Brett Fletcher Lauer Softskull Press, 2016 225 pages – Softskull / Amazon It’s not so much that I have thought of committing suicide in a really real…
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Proxies: Essays Near Knowing by Brian Blanchfield Nightboat Books, 2016 200 pages – Nightboat / Amazon I have not read Brian Blanchfield’s new collection of essays, Proxies: Essays Near Knowing. The book,…
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VHS and Why It’s Hard to Live by Tatiana Ryckman Zoo Cake Press, 2016 Zoo Cake Confession: I often judge books by their covers. Hey, aesthetics matter, right? Or, if…
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Pretentiousness: Why It Matters by Dan Fox Coffee House Press, 2016 144 pages – Coffee House / Amazon Some might take a book about pretentiousness as a bit, well, pretentious—especially if…
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Currently, the topics of race and racism dominate the US media, with Claudia Rankine and Ta-Nehisi Coates as central figures in the conversation. Rankine’s collection of non-traditional poems, Citizen: An…
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Utopia Parkway: The Life and Times of Joseph Cornell Other Press, 2015 – reprint (originally published in 1997) 592 pages – Other Press / Amazon What do we make…
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Now and At the Hour of our Death by Susan Moreira Marques Translated by Julia Sanches And Other Stories, 2015 128 pages – And Other Stories / Amazon Portuguese journalist Susana…
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The Other Serious: Essays For The New American Generation by Christy Wampole HarperCollins, 2015 256 pages – Harper / Amazon Essayist Christy Wampole puts herself in the grand tradition of…
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