Loitering: New & Collected Essays / Charles D'Ambrosio
Charles D’Ambrosio’s Loitering: New & Collected Essays In Loitering: New & Collected Essays, Charles D’Ambrosio’s first book in eight...
Romeo Bones / Ron Salutsky
Romeo Bones by Ron Salutsky The innocence and desire for love in a first book—I’ll never get over it. There is an intimacy in trusting...
A Wilderness of Monkeys / David Kirby
David Kirby, A Wilderness of Monkeys. The title of David Kirby’s collection appears to indict humankind. Is Kirby insulting the reader?...
Collier Nogues: Pushing your Material Around
Audre Lorde wrote, decades ago, that “there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.” I’ve always loved that quote,...
Katie Cortese: Flash Fiction: A World in the Palm of Your Hand
As a kid, I collected snow globes. As many as I could get my hands on. The weirder the better. One was a red kaleidoscope with the snowy...
Erica Dawson: Moses Moment
It’s the moment when you’re finishing up the first draft and you’re second-guessing every decision you’re made so far. Will readers...
Lisa Ampleman: The Self and Not / Not the Self: The Use of the Personal in Lyric Poetry
The Self and Not: As I wrote the poems in my first collection, Full Cry, over eight years or so, I often drew from the well of what I was...
The Lady from Tel Aviv / Raba'i al-Madhoun
The Lady from Tel Aviv by Raba’i al-Madhoun Raba’i al-Madhoun’s novel, The Lady from Tel Aviv (shortlisted for the International Prize...
Paris Twilight / Russ Rymer
Paris Twilight by Russ Rymer The allure of Paris for certain Americans is a phenomenon well-known-enough by now to be a kind of American...
Fourth City: Essays From the Prison in America / Ed. Doran Larson
Fourth City: Essays From the Prison in America by Doran Larson. If the mark of a democracy were determined by how a nation treats its...
