Debut Books

The High Heaven – Joshua Wheeler

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The High Heaven strays far from southern New Mexico. And yet, part of its power derives from the ways in which the region remains present.

Tamangur – Leta Semadeni

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The novel is a portrait of growing up and growing old, twin phenomena that run in the same direction yet seem somehow opposed

Madeline McDonnell

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I’d love to think that Lonesome Ballroom…might prove one of many “weird” books that make our broader tradition stranger and therefore stronger, more strapping.

On The Clock – Claire Baglin

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Baglin catalogues those small psychological adjustments that are as important to learn as Point-of-Sale technology or managerial abbreviations if one wants to stay afloat in the modern workplace.

I Hope You’re Happy – Marni Appleton

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[The Indigo Press; 2025] Things sure have gotten weird, haven’t they? Younger generations, contextualized by the internet since birth, face the breakdown of their relationships to art. This breakdown reflects the jumbled, murky, often irretrievably frayed relationships they try to form with each other in a time when it’s difficult to identify the purpose of […]

The Surrender of Man – Naomi Falk

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How do you articulate with the limited construct of language something as rich and malleable as an emotional response to art?

Sad Tiger – Neige Sinno

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The book is organized around the person of Sinno’s stepfather. She renders his presence and domination as suffocating. I shudder to acknowledge: that is not a metaphor.

When The Horses – Mary Helen Callier

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In this collection, light is less revealing than it is blinding, distortive and receding.

Howling Women – Shelby Hinte

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Shelby Hinte’s debut novel HOWLING WOMEN investigates curiosity over blame, looking at the story beneath action.

An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance – Diana Oropeza

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Oropeza coaxes you to lean in closer, embrace the precarity of invisibility, death, and all other forms of disappearance