An innovative work of speculative fiction, Jeff Alessandrelli’s AND YET interrogates contemporary shyness, selfhood and sexual mores, drawing out the particulars of each through personal history, cultural commentary and the author’s own restless ima...
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ELEGY FOR AN APPETITE is the story of a young cook’s tumultuous relationship with their body and eating. This short, poetic memoir, which mostly takes place in a series of professional kitchens, follows the author’s journey from voracious childhood ...
I WAS ONE OF MY MEMORIES is a collection of lyrical nonfiction that includes essays, poetry, prose, lists, postcards, and memoir. “I wasn’t always like this,” Laurie Blauner writes in her first creative nonfiction book. In this book houses fly, the ...
Kyle Carrero Lopez’s MUSCLE MEMORY covers money & work, Blackness & anti-blackness, the art world, queerness, & violence—governmental to interpersonal—as it swerves through its colorful landscape. Kyle Carrero Lopez’s MUSCLE MEMORY covers money & wo...
Fiction. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Short Stories. AN APPARENT HORIZON AND OTHER STORIES takes you to the turn of the 20th Century during the construction of the Panama Canal, the avant-garde theatre scene of New York in the...
Poetry. AN INSOMNIAC'S SLUMBER PARTY WITH MARILYN MONROE is a middle-of-the-night poetic conversation with Marilyn Monroe that explores obsessions, addictions, abuse, objectification, marriage, work, children, childlessness and death. Pressing on th...
Poetry. STILL LIFE is a fractured carnival of language, each poem casting a pedophile in a new setting under the inspirited control of objects and expectations as the assaulted speaker of these poems is vicariously vivified and muted by animated mem...
Poetry. What use is poetry in a world shaped by suffering? Set in an Italian castle during a time of global crisis, this sonnet sequence takes up age-old questions about the ethics of art and the risks of comfort. With lush images and deep urgency, ...
Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. THE YELLOW BOOK, a cross-genre meditation on what it means to be Korean/American and write, begins with a moment of doubt, in which the speaker, forced into speech by his interlocutor, is no longe...
Poetry. TIGERS is an exploration of a series of mutigenerational landscapes of the feminine—female adolescence, womanhood, motherhood, and personal revelation. Where the traditional coming of age story moves from "innocence to experience," TIGERS mo...
Literary Nonfiction. A DIFFERENT SHADE FOR EACH PERSON READING THE STORY is a disability-forward essay that melds memoir, neurology, chromopoetics, and literary criticism into an ecstatic embodiment of an illiterate girlhood. Shaped as an index, rat...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. ALL OUR FUTURES confronts a history of violence against bodies deemed disposable: sick and disabled queers and racialized people, who presently and historically faced state violence and genoci...
Poetry. Drama. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. In a country grappling with its bloody history and uncertain future, HOW TO EXTERMINATE THE BLACK WOMAN illuminates the struggle of the Black woman trying to thrive in a society see...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. Set just before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD is at once a condemnation of the world, a daydream of America, and an unsent love letter—written and rewritten over the course of ten yea...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Art. Music. Winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize. SISYPHUSINA is a cross-genre collection of prose, poetry, visual art, and improvisatory music, centered on female aging. Faced with linguistic and literary tradition...