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"In his debut collection, A Purpose to Our Savagery, Tomás Hulick Baiza explores identity, family, and the mythology of power, placing his characters keenly in the eye of subjugation while each attempts defiance."
by Jessica Denzer
July 11, 2023
"Kobayashi boldly equates babies to bombs, waiting to darkness, and lack of eye contact with death."
by Max Parker
July 11, 2023
"In Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s masterful fourth collection, Negative Money, we encounter a wide range of poetic stretches, from the syntactically disruptive to the academically metacognitive to the playfully visual."
by Nancy Woo
June 27, 2023
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"Following her novel Tender is the Flesh, Augustina Bazterrica returns with a gripping collection of short stories, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird. These unsettling stories explore surreal horrors and the darkness of the human psyche."
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"Whether told from the perspective of a woman discovering the world or a woman who has lived a long life, each story in this collection is told with precise voices that demand to be heard."
by Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez
June 13, 2023
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"Although Fuller’s narrative takes a much darker turn than our experience with the Covid-19 pandemic, the parallels are clear as the narrative explores quarantine and isolation. Rather than focusing on the world-wide ramifications of the collapse of society as we know it, Fuller illustrates the nuances of survival as well as the pitfalls of remembrance as a form of escapism."
by Corrine Watson
June 6, 2023
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"Taken together, these seemingly playful case studies of one queer boy’s obsession with popular culture and appreciation of the male form constitute powerful political acts."
by R.J. Lambert
May 30, 2023
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"Each of the seventeen essays in the collection is complicated, funny, tragic, and honest in its own way. Whether readers find themselves driving with Samantha Irby down a deserted highway at the height of the Covid pandemic or learning how to look cool in front of teenagers, they can trust they are in good hands. Hands that give permission to examine their own embarrassments, tragedies, and desires in a safe and shame-free space, with a reminder to laugh sometimes, because everyone figures out how to cope, one way or another."
by Melissa Goodnight
May 16, 2023
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"Weaving together a strong sense of place, Choundas uses the thirteen essays in Until All You See Is Sky to write about perseverance, deftly magnifying the small moments in life to explore shifting identities and what it means to belong as a first generation American."
by Kelly Pedro
April 26, 2023
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““If Cariño’s intent for this book was to remind us of the boundlessness within us all, then Feast succeeds as both an offering and a ravishing début from a young poet.””
by Mary Sutton
April 21, 2023
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by Corrine Watson
June 20, 2023
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