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"Dixon’s collection succeeds by drawing in readers through threads into our own lives, from those pop-culture references to our darker desires.."
by Kelly Harrison
October 3, 2023
“Suneja’s novel is full of quiet, imperfect characters making hard choices in dire straits, who are aware of themselves as bigger than, and yet completely mired in, their circumstances.”
by Diane Josefowicz
September 19, 2023
“In these eleven stories, Ferrante utilizes elements of magical realism to draw attention to the universal struggles these women face, from abusive relationships, motherhood, and self-discovery separate from the needs of others.”
by Corinne Watson
September 12, 2023
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"The author doesn’t shy away from the sheer immensity of human existence pushed to the precipice, to include the shared complexity of communities and connections across histories and into the future. "
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“Everything from the weather to racial and ethnic compositions is tackled. And the form of these poems mirrors the diversity of themes because the sonnet is infinitely malleable.”
by Mikal Wix
August 29, 2023
POETRY REVIEW
“This book is not a reclamation of what has been haunted, but rather a testimony to what continues to live.”
by Clair Jussel
August 17, 2023
POETRY REVIEW
“The crux of I Hear You’re Rich lies within depersonalization, not entirely in the erasing of self, but in the idea of reaching for something higher than the self—generally the approval of other people and society—by reevaluating perspective.”
by Hannah Ryder
August 15, 2023
FICTION REVIEW
"Brinkley examines characters living the mundane struggles that define much of urban American life… crafts brief moments in the lives of working-class people, young and old, in engaging stories that immerse us in moods of their lived experiences."
by Kelly Harrison
August 3, 2023
FICTION REVIEW
“Binded is an authentic and fierce reproach of our human flaws, but it’s also a petition for our human bonds to reach out to one another without the injunction of fear.”
by Mikal Wix
August 2, 2023
POETRY REVIEW
“The Kingdom of Surfaces, is an example of how poetry at its best can set a historical record straight and hold its unreliable narrators accountable.”
by Allisa Cherry
August 1, 2023
POETRY REVIEW
by Thomas Johnson
September 6, 2023
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