Fiction. 18 pgs. Black Lawrence Press. September 2020. Veronica Montes was born in San Francisco and raised in the Filipino American enclave of Daly City, California. Winner of the Black…
Fiction. 24o pgs. Verso Books. October 2020. ISBN: 978-1-788738-95-8. “I hate God,” Jenny Hval’s narrator begins in her novel Girls Against God.“What a smug thing to say, but I’m pretty smug….
Nonfiction. 304 pgs. Counterpoint. May 2021. ISBN: 978-1-640094-18-5. “Consciousness Razing,” the impeccably titled second entry in Barrett Swanson’s newly released essay collection, Lost In Summerland, centers on Evryman, a men’s retreat…
Nonfiction. 425 pgs. Tin House. April 2021. ISBN: 978-1-951142-39-1. “A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” – Carl Sagan “If you want to spot the trick in…
Nonfiction. 172 pgs. Ice Cube Press. October 2020. ISBN: 978-1-948509-20-6. I have a confession to make. I’ve lived in Iowa my whole life, and I’ve never been caucusing. Not once. Not…
Nonfiction. 165 pgs. Wolfman Books. October 2019. ISBN: 978-1-733276-11-5. Caren Beilin’s Blackfishing the IUD is a compact puzzle that draws into it everything from the works of Walter Benjamin to corporate medical…
Poetry. 72 pgs. Diode Editions. March 2020. ISBN: 978-1-939728-36-4. Nancy Chen Long’s Wider than the Sky centers around the idea of memory: how memory forms our identity, how it wounds as…
Non-fiction. 208 pgs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. November 2020. ISBN: 9780374115166. When you are living under extreme circumstances such as we might consider our current pandemic plight, it’s difficult to believe…
Poetry. 90 pgs. Black Lawrence Press. November 2020. ISBN: 978-1-62557-816-7. In a collection that is two parts feral eco-poetry, and one part stingingly personal reflection, New Jersey writer Shanna Compton uses…
Poetry. 39 pgs. Seven Kitchens Press. May 2020. ISBN: 97811949333695. Tourist hub, turning point of the Civil War and site of Lincoln’s iconic cemetery address, Gettysburg is also one more small town…