The Manningtree Witches – A.K. Blakemore
The past breathes whether Blakemore brings it to life or not.
A Land Like You – Tobie Nathan
All of these different threads, some historical, some religious, some mystical, some economic — they all intertwine to create a richly layered look at a fascinating time in Cairo’s modern history.
FOCAL POINT, like the Greek epics it frequently references, is thus an inner odyssey through illness and loss that imparts the difficult lesson that to live is to grieve.
No One is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood
Its voice is powerful but unrelieved by other voices, by a readiness to put into question its own articulateness.
While U UP? is a love letter to Los Angeles, it’s more of a love letter to the future of romantic friendship.
To Write as if Already Dead – Kate Zambreno
The forms Zambreno adopts are responses to the questions being posed.
If the abandoned luxury hotel is now occupied by poor, disenfranchised bodies, it could be said that Sebastián’s (and in turn, Julián’s) writing is occupied by their narratives.
Isn’t a life sentence without parole like a wrong word in a sentence that is impossible to correct, condemned to exist outside of grammar and syntax?
A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet’s Novel – ed. Laynie Browne
A collection that will be a valuable light for writers who want to explore the worlds and works of their literary ancestors, particularly those who refused to settle for a culture and a form that didn’t satisfy their needs and desires.
Takeaway: Black Death Edition – Tommy Hazard
“If you were to take eighty pages and divide them with comedic spleen, which is equaled only by brutality, and one grand finale of etheric transcendence to boot . . . you’d have Tommy Hazard’s story collection, TAKEAWAY.”