Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. "Artress Bethany White has written a beautiful book that shimmers with bravery on every page. In tackling race, she interrogates and informs, startles and prods, and implicates us all—forcing ...
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Fiction. AMERICAN FICTION, an anthology of postmodern stories, explores the human experience and grapples with loss in its truest form. Within these stories are revelations of identity, childhood, faith, relationships, and innocence lost. American F...
Poetry. Women's Studies. In powerful, invigorating verse, Erin Slaughter relates the struggle of finding oneself in the modern day. In the span of a year, she falls deeply in love for the first time; establishes a strong, close-knit group of friends...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. California Interest. "In NIGHTTIME ON THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING, Sarah Kobrinsky opens with a brief meditation on impostor syndrome that also speaks to where all poems come from, anyway. Elsewhere we read ...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Figg's is a collection that embraces and experiments with the multiple meanings of the title: without a trace, tracing, trace elements, etc., and with multiple female figures: mother, sister, girl, woman in an insane asylum,...
Fiction. Native American Studies. Women's Studies. Experimenting with voice, form, and genre, Natanya Ann Pulley crafts a chorus of women voices who are in the process of reclaiming and telling their own stories as they slip through the cracks of ou...
Literary Nonfiction. "The strings of a violin have to be held in place on both ends, and the two poles of Elizabeth Mosier's book are memory (as archaeology) and forgetting (in the very moving passages about the author's mother and her descent into ...
Literary Nonfiction. "There are many ways I might describe Jehanne Dubrow's riveting new project, THROUGHSMOKE: 'a capacious lyric essay that distills many voices into one' (true!), or 'a stirring meditation on the olfactory sensibility' (yes!), or ...
Fiction. Winner of the Fairfield Book Prize, THE GENUINE STORIES is a collection of linked short stories centered around Genevieve "Genuine" Eriksson, who at the tender age of eight years old, discovers her uncanny ability to heal the sick and mend ...
Fiction. Short Stories. "Vincent Reusch is a magician, and the stories in THE MERCURIAL SCIENCE OF THE HUMAN HEART are like so many rabbits pulled from a hat. At once gorgeously written and enormously felt, they're the kind of stories that remind us...
Fiction. Short Stories. Bruce Pratt's THE TRASH DETAIL collects a series of short stories that feature unique characters, each on a quest to discover their place in the greater world: a concerned wife waiting for her husband, an aging couple's strug...
Poetry. Music. 100 poems by 100 poets inspired by the life and works of Bob Dylan. Contributors include Robert Bly, Charles Bukowski, Johnny Cash, Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Tony Hoagland, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux,...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Tara Ballard's opulently beautiful book guides her readers through the glories and tragedies of the people of the Middle East with such vivid language that we profoundly feel sensations; we can 'taste each / syllable' on th...
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. "ORANGES is a book of quiet, enormous strength, a collection of slow-gathering moments that add up to the story of Michael Dolin, a gay man whose life and loves are shaped by the AIDS crisis, Midwestern social strictures an...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Every poem in Diane Jarvenpa's new collection, THE WAY SHE TOLD HER STORY, has about it a molten rightness, a breathtaking beauty. Based on the voices and histories of Finnish women immigrants and their descendants, these w...