The essay is rhizomatic: it builds off and shoots out conversations between us every time we read, reread, or write. When we speak back to others we amplify ourselves and get a foothold in an ongoing
What happens when television is part of your cultural DNA? Twelve writers talk about their influences, and they're more Magnum PI that Marcel Proust. This is cultural criticism from an enthusiast's po
“I see [Hilton] fighting battles of bardic futility against a cloud of arrows from his own mythical past. Each arrow is a story, each line turns into song. A tough guy, actually, brave to the end, and
Praise for Cynan Jones:?[A] piercing novella . . . Like Cormac McCarthy, Jones can make the everyday sound fraught and biblical.”?Kirkus, starred review?Jones’ prose clips along at an unnerving pace,
Praise for Barbara Browning:?A provocative novel . . . that blurs the boundaries between life and performance, dance, art, and viral video.”?Slate?Deftly blending highbrow intellectual concerns with t
?In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he’s
Hewett is among our most experiential and painstakingly careful poetsdrawing inspiration from the grand and the mundanebut he's really writing about transitions. In poems that are witty, touching, and
Praise for Marjorie Welish:"[Welish] challenges 'prettiness' at an almost feverish pitch, working against a poem's anticipated flow even as she moves it along with jazzy verve." ?BookforumWelish uses
Praise for Chloe Caldwell:"I read it a couple of months ago in one can't-put-it-down-even-though-it's-the-middle-of-the-night sitting. It's as intense and interesting and clear-hearted as they co
Jack Marshall draws linkages between past, present, and future to advocate for appreciating what we have, and being better stewards of it.From ?Birth took the bait”:Beaks of birds who earthward breakt
In a harrowing but ultimately triumphant affirmation of the human spirit, celebrated Cambodian poet U Sam Oeur narrates his incredible life story, testifies to the horrors of genocide and shares his f
From "Meet Me in the Solitude of a Poem"The heart sees all.It's the brain that dressesEveryone in clothesAnd moodsLike fingerprints.Ed Bok Lee is the author of Whorled, a recipient of the 2012 America
"The voice in these prose essays is window-pane clear, but with the power of sun through a magnifying glass. . . . This book is a treasurehouse."—Maxine KuminLyrical, affecting, and blended with
"Housekeeping"Tepid blow cools the liquid to hunch and wind. A box arrives and loaded spills order across the Jloor. Living room, dining room, room of tinder and kindling. The joints grindto aspirin u
Praise for Bill Berkson:"Wonderful. . . . Fifty years of slow-dawning epiphany." —San Francisco Bay Guardian"I'd like to thank Bill Berkson for: epitomizing objectivity & subjectivity; amusedly living
Praise for Guadalupe Nettel:"Nettel offers her keen attention and sympathy to any living thing struggling to get by." —The New York Times"Nettel has brilliantly found a form to contain the multitudes
"There's plenty of darkness and a sprinkling of magic, and these strange, flinty, cigarette-stained narratives speed by, offering lots of surface tension and compel- ling deeper passions." —James Smar
Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book.
