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New Book Editor’s Choice :: The Queer Allies Bible

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The Queer Allies Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Being an Empowering LGBTQIA+ Ally by NV Gay
Ig Publishing, March 2025

While the United States Federal Government continues to add to its growing list of banned/flagged words, including “gay,” “gender identity,” “hate speech,” “LGBTQ,” there are counter efforts to document and respectfully make space for the lives other work to erase. The Queer Allies Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Being an Empowering LGBTQIA+ Ally by author NV Gay offers a means to continue fighting for inclusivity in discussions surrounding gender and sexual identities.

Emphasis is placed on three main pillars: learning and understanding, being respectful, and advocating. The author uses various techniques to educate readers on all aspects of the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as provide personal narratives to help bring the material to life. There are chapters explaining how to apply the techniques of allyship, such as conversation starters, responding to anti-LGBTQIA+ remarks, supporting the coming out process, religion and the LGBTQIA+ community, creating inclusive spaces, and more.

Whether these conversations are happening in workplaces, legislatures, social media platforms, communities, schools, churches, and more; many are taking place without the voices of those within the community. The Queer Allies Bible, cuts through all the noise and provides a much needed guide for how to be an effective affirming ally.

New Books August 2025

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If you’re looking to fill out your final lazy days of beach reads and hammock chillin’, check out our monthly round-up of New Books. Each month we post the new and forthcoming titles NewPages selects from small, independent, university, and alternative presses as well as author-published titles and recent reviews.

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New Book :: The Thing About My Uncle

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The Thing About My Uncle by Peter J. Stavros
Young Adult Thriller, July 2025

Although ten years have passed, Rhett Littlefield has always blamed himself for his father abandoning him and his family. When the troubled fourteen-year-old gets kicked out of school for his latest run-in with the vice principal, his frazzled single mother sends him to the hollers of Eastern Kentucky to stay with his Uncle Theo, a man of few words who leads an isolated existence with his loyal dog, Chekhov.

Resigned to make the best of his situation while still longing for the day when Mama will allow him to return home, Rhett settles into his new life. Rhett barely remembers his uncle, but he’s determined to get to know him. As he does, Rhett discovers that he and Uncle Theo share a connection to the past, one that has altered both of their lives, a past that will soon come calling.

The Thing About My Uncle is an engaging and heartwarming coming-of-age story that explores the cost of family secrets, the strength of family bonds, and the importance of reconciling the two in order to move forward.

For more about Peter J. Stavros, visit his website, www.peterjstavros.com.

Holli Carrell’s Apostasies in Presale – Release Date: September 15

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Holli Carrell’s Apostasies, winner of the 2025 Perugia Press Prize, is now available for presale at Perugia Press and Asterism Books. The sale rate at Perugia is offered until 9/15/2025. This debut, hybrid collection explores Mormon girlhood, the American West, matriarchal lineage, indoctrination, estrangement, and the lingering ramifications of being raised within a repressive and patriarchal American religious ideology. View flyer and visit website for more information and to purchase.

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Editor’s Choice :: New Book :: Agrippina the Younger by Diana Arterian

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Agrippina the Younger: Poems by Diana Arterian
Northwestern University Press, June 2025

Agrippina the Younger follows one woman’s study of another, separated by thousands of miles and two millennia but bound by a shared sense of powerlessness. Agrippina was a daughter in a golden political family, destined for greatness — but she hungered for more power than women were allowed. Exhausted by the misogyny of the present, Diana Arterian reaches into the past to try to understand the patriarchal systems of today. In lyric verse and prose poems, she traces Agrippina’s rise, interrogating a life studded with intrigue, sex, murder, and manipulation. Arterian eagerly pursues Agrippina through texts, ruins, and films, exhuming the hidden details of the ancient noblewoman’s life. These poems consider the valences of patriarchy, power, and the archive to try to answer the question: How do we recover a woman erased by history?

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Editor’s Choice :: New Book :: The Obituary Cocktail

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The Obituary Cocktail by Sue Strachan
Louisiana State University Press, July 2025

In a city that celebrates life in the face of death, New Orleans’s bohemian past is honored with Sue Strachan’s The Obituary Cocktail. This drink, made with gin, vermouth, and absinthe, was a staple of mid-20th-century café society before it faded into obscurity. This book, much like a good obituary, recounts the drink’s history from its 1940s origins at Café Lafitte, a hub for New Orleans’s vibrant café society. Author Sue Strachan explores the ingredients, offers recipes, and resurrects tales of other morbidly named cocktails. By including detours into secret societies and parades, The Obituary Cocktail gives this unique beverage new life.

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New Book :: Raw Deal

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Raw Deal: The Indians of the Midwest and the Theft of Native Lands by Robert Downes
The Wandering Press, January 2024

In Raw Deal: The Indians of the Midwest and the Theft of Native Lands, Robert Downes offers a highly-readable dive into the history of the Native peoples of the Midwest and their 500-year struggle to defend their homeland. Raw Deal explores the theft of Native lands in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions, tracing how Indigenous peoples were dispossessed by squatters, speculators, and fraudulent treaties, which offered pennies per acre and were enforced by the threat of violence. Downes chronicles the heroic efforts of Native peoples to retain their homelands through centuries of warfare and exploitation, from the earliest inhabitants to their confrontation with a flood of European immigrants.

Bob Downes of The Wandering Press is author of eight books, most of which have a Northern Michigan connection. His best-selling Biking Northern Michigan guidebook offers cycling routes throughout Leelanau County and beyond, while his historical novels, Windigo Moon and The Wolf and The Willow celebrate the culture of the prehistoric Anishinaabek.

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Sponsor :: New Book :: What She Saw in the Lotería Cards

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What She Saw in the Lotería Cards, Poetry by M. Garcia Teutsch

Bottlecap Press, July 2025

What She Saw in the Lotería Cards by M. Garcia Teutsch is a poetry collection that can be understood as a cartography of identity—mapping emotional, cultural, familial, and bodily terrains. The use of Lotería cards is more than decorative—it offers a mythopoetic framework that grounds intimate, raw stories in universal symbols. For more on the author go here: www.poetrepublik.com.

July 2025 Releases from Colorado Authors League Members

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The Colorado Authors League (CAL) supports and promotes its community of published writers while connecting with and adding value to the reading world. Formed in 1931, authors become members to: keep up with changes in the craft of writing, publishing, and marketing, gain greater visibility for their writing, join a group of like-minded people who love writing. View our flyer to see new releases by members and learn more at our website.

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Sponsored :: New Book :: Borderlines: An Astral Experience in Poems

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Borderlines: An Astral Experience in Poems by Alan Botsford
Cyberwit.com, April 2025

“A wonderful gang of talkative alter egos meets the ego in a cosmic expatriate bar and the ego tells their story, which is the intriguing inner and outer story of the poet Alan Botsford himself.” — Sarah Arvio, author of Cry Back My Sea: 48 Poems in 6 Waves

“In these poems of self and world, an American abroad, living in Japan, with a copy of Walt Whitman under his arm, sets out on the open road of the imagination, absorbing and transcending cultural constructions of that very self and world, ventriloquizing voices that speak back frequently at and to the author, as they embody multitudes, exemplifying the interconnectedness and contingency of identity, language, place, and emotion. Borderlines offers a new vision, looking both ways, inward and outward, ahead and behind, crossing borders, in an embrace centered ultimately in love.” — Michael Sowder, author of Sacred Letters: Sanskrit, Yoga, and Awakening the Divine

Alan Botsford is an American poet, author, and professor born in Connecticut and living in Japan for many years, where he teaches in university. His poetry collections include Possessions: Poems in American Poetry and Dreamer: Poems in Culture, and the hybrid Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore.

Sponsored :: New Book :: Feller

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Feller: Poems by Denton Loving
Mercer University Press, August 2025

Using the natural world as both mirror and lens, the poems in Denton Loving’s third collection of poetry explore themes of connection, longing, and the pursuit of a fully lived life. They celebrate “the light that enters the woods and cleanses the wound.” They seek the sacred order in everything, from the phases of the moon down to the delicate colors of a moth’s wings. And yet, they are not cloistered away from the human struggle — whether with nature, with each other, or with the self. Feller envisions our environment and landscape, not as backdrop or ornament but as revelatory forces illuminating the hidden chambers of the self. At once deeply rooted in his Appalachian soil and universally resonant, Feller confirms Loving’s position among those rare poets who transmute a sense of place into profound human truth.

“Loving makes lyric sense of complex issues in poem after poem in Feller, with his special blend of eco-poetics and earthly reason.” — Elaine Sexton, Site Specific

“At once timely and timeless, Feller is a superbly striking and essential book.” — Matt W. Miller, Tender the River

“Reading Feller is a transformative, joyful, loneliness-alleviating experience.” — Annie Woodford, Where You Come From Is Gone

Sponsored :: New Book :: Fragments of Cerulean

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Fragments of Cerulean, Short Stoires by Neal H. Paris
Revelation House Works, May 2025

Fragments of Cerulean is a surreal and emotionally resonant collection of short stories that blurs the boundaries between horror, memory, and myth. Structured in five evocative phases, this book invites readers into a world where the familiar becomes uncanny and the subconscious takes center stage. Each story is a journey through eerie landscapes — abandoned highways, sentient motel rooms, and cryptic machines that trade in secrets — crafted with immersive, cinematic prose.

This collection explores the fragile nature of identity and the haunting echoes of loss, transformation, and fear. With a tone that shifts between dreamlike introspection and psychological unease, the stories challenge perceptions of reality and self. Readers will encounter narratives that tug at the heart while unsettling the mind, offering a reading experience that is both emotionally raw and intellectually provocative.

Ideal for fans of atmospheric, genre-defying fiction, Fragments of Cerulean delivers a powerful blend of dark beauty and symbolic depth. It doesn’t offer easy resolutions — instead, it invites introspection and lingers long after the final page. Perfect for those drawn to the liminal, the strange, and the deeply human, this collection is a haunting exploration of what lies beneath the surface of our stories — and ourselves.

Sponsored :: New Book :: The Cobbler’s Crusaders

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The Cobbler’s Crusaders by Rick Steigelman
Author Published, May 2025

Jacquelyn Pajot, a nine-year-old American visiting her sanctimonious grandmother in Paris, falls in with a pair of young French girls whose carefree grasp of ‘right and wrong’ has the wide-eyed American narrowly averting prison, purgatory and, most perilously, her grandmother’s righteous indignation.

“A charmingly whimsical, whip-smart slice of Parisian life wrapped in equal parts heart and humor…Rick Steigelman’s prose is wry, warm, and beautifully descriptive, capturing the magic of Montmartre through the curious, wide eyes of young Jacquelyn Pajot.” — Alex Norton, Likely Story

“Dialogue sparkles with life, especially as Jacquelyn navigates the humorous pitfalls of being an American tween in a French-speaking world.” — Swapna Peri, Book Reviews Cafe

“Beneath all the comedic mishaps, there’s a beautiful sense of intergenerational connection. The dynamic between Jacquelyn and her grandmother, Catherine, is particularly touching as it anchors the story in emotional truth while allowing the young cast to explore their own emerging identities and moral boundaries. I’d easily recommend it to readers who enjoy novels like A Man Called Ove or The Elegance of the Hedgehog, stories that offer laughter, but also invite you to pause and feel something deeper.” — Heena Pardeshi, The Reading Bud

Editor’s Choice :: Arcana: The Lost Heirs

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Arcana: The Lost Heirs by Author/Illustrator Sam Prentice-Jones
Feiwel & Friends, June 2024

Debut author/illustrator Sam Prentice-Jones explores fighting against destiny and reconciling the actions of ancestors in Arcana: The Lost Heirs, a tarot-inspired fantasy YA graphic novel.

James, Daphne, Koko, and Sonny have all grown up surrounded by magic in the Arcana, an organization of witches that protects the magical world, run by the mysterious and secretive Majors. Eli Jones, however, hadn’t even known other witches existed, until he stumbled into James. As James introduces him to the world of the Arcana, Eli finds the family he never had and a blossoming romance with James.

The five new friends soon realize that sinister influences are afoot, and everything may not be what it seems at the Arcana. When the group delves deeper into the mystery surrounding the deaths of their parents and the Majors’ rise to power, they discover that they’re at the center of a curse — one they’ve just unwittingly set into motion. As the friends search for answers, they’ll have to confront the cursed legacy that links them in hopes of freeing their futures.

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Now Out from #Ranger Press: Noetic Variations, v1 and v2

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Noetic Variations, v1 and v2 are experiments in extreme poetic abstraction, eschewing the appearance of formal narrative and mainstream convention. The NV project is an exciting postmodern exercise in pure language, stripped of all meaning and impervious to literary interpretation. Download free copies here: V1 V2 or purchase here: V1 V2. View flyer for more information.

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Sponsored :: New Book :: If I Had Said Beauty

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If I had Said Beauty, Poetry by Tami Haaland
Lost Horse Press, March 2025

If I Had Said Beauty, Tami Haaland’s fourth collection of poetry, is dedicated to known and unknown ancestors. It explores the possible narratives and distant origins of what lies behind a sense of self — including recent and ancient DNA, recessive and dominant traits, mitochondrial underpinnings, and an intricate microbiome. Luminous and spare, the poems seek to unravel and speculate, document and lament what happens in a life and what might have been. While probing for definition in the mysteries of deep time, the poems are nevertheless grounded in encounters with wild and domestic life, intimate moments of loss and family connection, all of which intertwine to expand the meaning of “autobiography.” According to poet Connie Voisine, “In these poems, all the spirits are welcome members of [Haaland’s] community, an atom, a spruce, a fly, and the ghosts of her ancestors who are suddenly near, and alive. These poems show me how to remain open to the influx of beings, and how we might allow their various beauties to aid in our survival.”

Editor’s Choice :: Remember Us to Life

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Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir by Joanna Rubin Dranger
Ten Speed Graphic, April 2025

Told through a genre-defying blend of illustrations, photography, and found objects, Remember Us to Life chronicles Joanna Rubin Dranger’s investigation into her Jewish family’s history, spanning time, space, and three continents in search of her lost relatives. As discolored photos are retrieved from half-forgotten moth-eaten boxes, Joanna discovers the startling modernity and vibrancy of the lives her family never spoke about — and the devastating violence that led to their senseless murders.

Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize, Remember Us to Life recounts Joanna’s family’s immigration from Poland and Russia to Sweden and Israel, where her relatives found work, marriage, and community, blissfully unaware of the horrors to come. Interweaving these anecdotes and stories are historical accounts of the persecution of Jewish people in Germany, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia prior to and during World War II, as well as the antisemitic policies and actions of the supposedly neutral government of Sweden, Joanna’s home country. Joanna’s unflinchingly brave and intimate portrayal of one of history’s greatest tragedies will capture and break readers’ hearts.

[Editor’s Choice posts are not paid promotions. These are selected by NewPages to spotlight titles we want to share with our readers.]

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New Book :: Poppy and Mary Ellen All Fed Up

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Poppy and Mary Ellen All Fed Up: Book Two of the Frankenmuth Murder Mysteries by Roz Weedman and Susan Todd, Illustrations by Lane Trabalka
Mission Point Press, October 2024

In Poppy and Mary Ellen All Fed Up, the punchy writer duo of Roz Weedman and Susan Todd welcome readers back to Frankenmuth, one of Michigan’s most famous and popular tourist towns. With a year-round population of only 5,000 residents, this Bavarian-themed town with its famous chicken dinners and year-round Christmas village draws more than three million visitors each year, making it the perfect setting to slink in and out unnoticed.

Poppy and Mary Ellen earned a reputation for themselves in the first book in the series when they (and a few canine friends) helped the police solve a double homicide, even beating the police to the capture. This time, though, Poppy finds herself topping the suspect list of the murder of a Mah Jongg-playing tourist.

Some familiar characters are back, both canine and human, there’s a titch of romance in the air with its own mystique, and Lane Trabalka’s chapter heading line drawings add to the intrigue and charm. Those who play Mah Jongg and follow conversations about “friendly games” will find themselves laughing out loud as the story centers around planning an upcoming Mah Jongg tournament. Weedman and Todd weave the elements of the game through the story with enough explanation that even non-players may be encouraged to pick up the game.

Although most of the story takes place in the popular and quirky confines of Frankenmuth, readers get to travel all the way to Nairobi in Book Two, but with Weedman and Todd crafting the twists and turns, everyone will need their seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

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Clarity Press Titles Address the Urgent Issues of Our Time

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Clarity Press titles have appeared on university course lists, won major human rights awards, been endorsed by high UN and government officials, Pulitzer and Nobel Peace Prize winners, and Hollywood and other activist icons. Over 100 have been translated into 16 different languages. See flyer for new releases and visit our website to find out more.

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New Releases from Hidden Timber Books!

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Hidden Timber Books publishes stories that speak to historical, and cultural, experiences of past and present. Check out our new releases: books that tap into life in rural Wisconsin, loss and resilience as seen through “candor, humor, and clarity,” and a novel about a family navigating the racism of past and present St. Louis. View flyer & visit our website for more information.

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Colorado Authors League May 2025 Releases by Members

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The Colorado Authors League (CAL) supports and promotes its community of published writers while connecting with and adding value to the reading world. Formed in 1931, authors become members to: keep up with changes in the craft of writing, publishing, and marketing, gain greater visibility for their writing, join a group of like-minded people who love writing. View our flyer to see new releases by members and a link to our website.

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Editor’s Choice :: Where do you live?

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Where do you live?, Poetry by Dr. Hanaa Ahmad and Jennifer Jean
Arrowsmith Press, May 2025

In Where do you live?, Jennifer Jean and Hanaa Ahmad Jabr follow the great tradition of epistolary poetry. The poets, in different cultural circumstances, inflected over a great planetary arch from Mosul to Massachusetts, speak to each other, and us, about the stories that nurture, and the damage caused by the fantasts of power; of the pincered peril and the anxious peace of empire; of the hoped-for serenity and call to duty of neighborhoods, children and apricot trees; of myths and movies. In Jean’s words, “like love, music is perfectly untranslatable — / it gathers us together.” And in Jabr’s words, since poetry “introduced me to myself,” in these poems readers can be gathered and introduced to their widest selves. A beautiful rumination, with exquisite translations by Wadaq Qais and Tamara Al-Attiya, on soft and hard power, and on what it’s like to live with the yearning for home, whether you’re there or not.

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Editor’s Choice :: It All Felt Impossible by Tom McAllister

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It All Felt Impossible: 42 Years in 42 Essays by Tom McAllister
Rose Metal Press, May 2025

In this meditative and lyrical collection, Tom McAllister challenges himself to write a short essay for every year he’s been alive. With each piece strictly limited to a maximum of 1,500 words, these 42 essays move fluidly through time, taking poetic leaps and ending up in places the reader does not expect. Funny, insightful, and open-hearted, It All Felt Impossible aims to tell the story of McAllister’s life through brief glimpses, anecdotes, and fragments that radiate outward and grapple with his place in the culture at large.

In the span of these essays, McAllister witnesses a monorail crash at a zoo, survives a tornado, plays youth sports for tyrannical coaches, grieves for dead parents, learns how to ride a bike as an adult, works long shifts making cheesesteaks, and more. Each annual offering is a search for meaning and connection, chronicled by an engaging and honest voice.

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Sponsored :: New Book :: The Murmur of Everything Moving

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The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir, Nonfiction by Maureen Stanton

University of Georgia Press, March 2025

When Maureen Stanton’s boyfriend, Steve, at 29, was diagnosed with cancer, they embarked on an all-out effort to save his life. Meanwhile, Steve’s childhood friend, Joey, a drug addict, sold Steve’s pain medication to pay for Steve’s experimental treatments. This beautiful and aching memoir is an odyssey through the difficult but exquisite terrain of love—romantic, brotherly, spiritual—in the face of mortality.

Winner of the Donald Jordan prize for Literary Excellence, the Sewanee Review nonfiction prize, and featured in New York Times “Modern Love” column, The Murmur of Everything Moving is a riveting memoir of love, loss, and longing. Novelist, Stephen Kiernan, who judged the DLJ contest, called it “beguiling, vivid, rich with loving devotion… a wonder of a book.” Andre Dubus III called it “a love song and tribute, a hymn of praise for each sacred moment given us … heartbreakingly beautiful.”

Publisher’s Weekly Booklife “Editor’s Pick” — “a stunning, true romance … a cinematic, powerful memoir of caregiving.”

Kirkus Reviews — “A poignant, evocative story of love, death, and survival. Stanton is a skilled writer whose prose sparkles with literary panache.”

Maureen Stanton is the author of three award-winning nonfiction books. Recognition for her writing includes the Iowa Review Award, The American Literary Review Award, The Sewanee Review award, Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony.

Sponsored :: New Book :: Crunchwrap Truth

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Crunchwrap Truth, Poetry by Kevin J.B. O’Connor
Bottlecap Press, May 2025

Crunchwrap Truth by Kevin J.B. O’Connor is a chapbook of absurdist political-food poems, inspired by the regal concoction from which it borrows its title. In existential poetry that probes the meaning of American citizenship in a post-capitalist and post-truth society, O’Connor constructs and conveys a peculiar moment in Western history. Inspired by the New York School and confessional/post-confessional approaches to narrating post-modernity, the author romps through a series of linked verse that is a delightful, page-turning experience to read. The book is available now from Bottlecap Press.

Editor’s Choice :: Meditations: The Assorted Prose of Barbara Guest

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Meditations: The Assorted Prose of Barbara Guest, Edited by Joseph Shafer
Wesleyan University Press, May 2025

Meditations gathers together in one volume for the first time an extensive collection of the prose work of Barbara Guest (1920–2006), one of the major voices of twentieth century American literature. Known primarily as a poet, Guest worked in many styles, all represented herein: essays, lectures, art criticism, literary and art reviews, as well as forms of fiction, biography, poetic prose, drama, comics, and other mixed-genre pieces. This collection of the poet’s prose illuminates Guest’s singular genius, highlighting her structural awareness of language and placing her within the vanguard of American poetry. Much of her writing initially appeared in special editions, often through collaborations with visual artists. Lyrical and intellectually soaring, this collection is a treasure of insights into the relationship between language, image, and imagination. Joseph Shafer’s introduction provides a meaningful context for sixty years’ worth of critical and creative prose by one of America’s finest poets.

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Sponsored :: New Book :: Wrongful

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Wrongful, Fiction by Lee Upton

Sagging Meniscus Press, May 2025

When the famous novelist Mira Wallacz goes missing at the festival devoted to celebrating her work, the attendees assume the worst—and some hope for the worst. Ten years after the festival, Geneva Finch, an ideal reader, sets out to discover the truth about what happened to Mira Wallacz. A twisty literary mystery dealing with duplicity, envy, betrayal, and love between an entertainment agent and a self-deprecating former priest, Wrongful explores the many ways we can get everything wrong, time and again, even after we’re certain we discovered the truth.

Welcome to Strangelove Country

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“I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I’ve always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories, supernatural stories, ghost stories, surrealistic and allegorical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized ‘realistic’ story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its ‘realistic’ style.”—STANLEY KUBRICK, “Kubrick Country”

View flyer to learn more. Get your copy of D. Harlan Wilson’s Strangelove Country: Science Fiction, Filmosophy, and the Kubrickian Consciousness here.

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Editor’s Choice :: Too Poor to Die

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Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins by Amy Shea
Rutgers University Press, September 2025

Death is the great equalizer, but not all deaths are created equal. In recent years, there has been an increased interest and advocacy concerning end-of-life and after-death care. An increasing number of individuals and organizations from health care to the funeral and death care industries are working to promote and encourage people to consider their end-of-life wishes. Yet, there are limits to who these efforts reach and who can access such resources. These conversations come from a place of good intentions, but also from a place of privilege.

Amy Shea’s Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins is a collection of closely connected essays, taking the reader on a journey into what happens to those who die while experiencing homelessness or who end up indigent or unclaimed at the end of life. Too Poor to Die bears witness to the disparities in death and dying faced by some of society’s most vulnerable and marginalized and asks the reader to consider their own end-of-life and disposition plans within the larger context of how privilege and access plays a role in what we want versus what we get in death.

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Colorado Authors League March 2025 Member Releases

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The Colorado Authors League (CAL) supports and promotes its community of published writers while connecting with and adding value to the reading world. Formed in 1931, authors become members to: keep up with changes in the craft of writing, publishing, and marketing, gain greater visibility for their writing, join a group of like-minded people who love writing. View our flyer to see new releases by members and a link to our website.

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Editor’s Choice :: Notes by John Murphy

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Notes by John Murphy
The Lake, February 2025

The poems in this John Murphy’s newest poetry collection, Notes, focus on artists and producers in the popular music industry, covering all major genres: rock, jazz, and blues, as well as influential record producers.

Artists featured in the poems include Joni Mitchell, John Mayall, Cleo Laine, Chuck Berry, Brian Wilson, Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Paul McCartney, Tubby Hayes, Phil Spector, Blossom Dearie, Graham Nash, Bob Harris, and more.

“Notes takes us on a journey of appreciation of some of the key figures who made significant contributions to popular music in the 20th century… he writes not only as a poet but also as a seasoned musician of many years standing.” —David Mark Williams, author of The Odd Sock Exchange and Papaya Fantasia

“Notes interweaves two of John Murphy’s loves drawn from a lifetime as a poet and musician… Choosing exemplars from Doris Day to Dylan his writing honours its massive contribution to contemporary culture.” —Pippa Little, author of Time Begins to Hurt

“Murphy’s ear is true…he re-animates the great singers and songwriters, in his own affectionate tributes.” —Hannah Stone, editor of Dream Catcher.

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Sponsored :: New Book :: Poetry Dust

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Poetry Dust: In the Middle of My Before and After, Poetry by Alyssa Skyes

Self-Published, January 2025

Poetry Dust is more than a poetry collection—it’s an immersive experience which blends over 60 never-before-published poems with over 60 bold, vibrant art pieces, each carefully designed to complement the text. This book was created in the hopes of igniting inspiration, for art lovers, seekers, and those drawn to the unseen emotions that connect us all. It journeys through themes of life, change, time, truth, loss, resilience, and the extraordinary beauty found in the often difficult contrasts of life.

My early years were spent traveling with nomadic parents across Central and South America and beyond. This constant movement shaped my creative spirit and deepened my awareness of impermanence—the fleeting nature our lives, of time, and experience. I am forever drawn to the exchange and connection between the physical and the unseen, the tangible and the metaphysical.

This book marks my first published collection, and I invite readers to pause, reflect, and allow inspiration to grow. Whether you are a lifelong poetry reader or new to the genre, my hope is that it will stir the soul, and remind us that art is a living thing, passing from contact to contact, ever growing and reshaping itself in new creations.

New Books January 2025

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Turning the calendar to a new year is also a great time to be turning the pages on some new books! To help you achieve that goal, check out our monthly round-up of New Books. Each month we post the new and forthcoming titles NewPages selects from small, independent, university, and alternative presses as well as author-published titles and recent reviews.

If you are a follower of our blog or a subscriber to our weekly newsletter, you can see several of the titles we received featured. For publishers or authors looking to be featured on our blog and social media, please visit our FAQ page.

Editor’s Choice :: Why We Eat Fried Peanuts

Why We Eat Fried Peanuts: A Celebration of Family and Lunar New Year Traditions by Zed Zha, illustrated by Sian James book cover image

Why We Eat Fried Peanuts: A Celebration of Family and Lunar New Year Traditions by Zed Zha, illustrated by Sian James
becker&mayer! kids (Quarto), January 2025

Readers are invited to join Mèng, a Chinese American girl, as she prepares for the Lunar New Year with her family. Through Mèng’s conversation with her father, readers will learn about the rich significance of ancestral stories, the history of the Mandarin language, and the traditional foods that make the holiday so special. Mèng’s father shares the inspiring tale of Tài Nǎi Nai, Mèng’s great-grandmother, whose act of bravery a century ago left a lasting legacy and offers timeless lessons for today’s generation. As Mèng learns, food plays a vital role in the celebration, with fried peanuts serving as a special snack tied to the family’s traditions. The story concludes with a simple, fun recipe for fried peanuts, offering a hands-on way for readers to bring the spirit of the Lunar New Year into their own homes.

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New Book :: Worlds End

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Worlds End by George Myers Jr.
Paycock Press, January 2025

Richly illustrated in color, George Myers Jr.’s novel Worlds End is a singular achievement, a one-of-a-kind tale about a time-obsessed historian and naturalist who’s trying to have his ephemeral life’s work included in his town’s time capsule. The illustrated Worlds End is told episodically through the items in the narrator’s map cabinet, where he has stored his research and memories about vanishing species, Mary Shelley, a beekeeper’s wife, a World War I ambulance driver, Marco Polo, and a woman with a prehensile ponytail. Myers blends the real and remembered in a haunting story about all that slips away. Myers also the author of Fast Talk with Writers and Mixers: On Hybrid Writing.

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New Book :: The Canine Collection

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The Canine Collection: Horror Stories Spotlighting Man’s Best Friend by Laura Shell
Black Bed Sheet Books, March 2024

From veterinary assistant and exciting rising author, Laura Shell, comes Canine Collection, a fast-paced selection of four horror/paranormal stories featuring our beloved canines. In “My Sister’s Keeper,” a lonely woman worries that her vampire sister will turn on her new best friend, that just happens to be a dog. Will the vampire sister accept the canine as a pet or as a source of nourishment? In “The Shape of the Shift,” a shapeshifter is surprised to learn that the people around him aren’t what they appear to be, including the love of his life. In “Jinn or Jinx?,” the wishes granted by an ancient Jinn not only come with bizarre consequences but also reveal dark family secrets. In “Immortal Me,” a woman discovers she is immortal after surviving a brutal beating. While she tries to keep her newfound persona a secret, her attacker learns the truth and comes after her for a second time, but she has a few surprises for him.

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Colorado Authors League January 2025 Member Releases

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New Book :: The Muslims of Darürrahat

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The Muslims of Darürrahat, trans. by Çiğdem Pala Mull, ed. by Sharon Carson
The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, October 2024

In Ismail Gaspirali’s 1890s story The Muslims of Darürrahat (the Peaceful Country), the not entirely intrepid narrator, Mullah Abbas Efendi, arrives in the imaginary land of Darürrahat. He has been led there by mysteriously appearing guides, who take him from Alhambra palace in Andalusia through an underground tunnel, where he emerges in Darürrahat to find a Muslim utopian country filled with progressive people and dotted with beautiful Islamic architecture and technologically advanced cities. As in most works of utopian imagination which are also aimed squarely at social critique of the author’s present day, there is nothing simple about this world or this literary work.

The Muslims of Darürrahat first appeared in serialized form in the widely circulated Central Asian newspaper Tercüman, which was edited and largely written by Crimean Tatar educator, journalist and Muslim reformer Ismail Gaspirali. This is the full story’s first appearance in English, translated by Çiğdem Pala Mull and the centerpiece of a book edited by Sharon Carson to include introductory materials, a contextual timeline, and three interpretive essays exploring the story as a work of nineteenth century utopian imagination which has some compelling resonance in our time.

Published in collaboration with North Dakota Review, The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota offers readers free digital downloads of titles which can also be purchased as low-cost paperbacks.

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Editor’s Choice :: Meet Me at the Library

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Meet Me at the Library: A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy by Shamichael Hallman
Island Press, October 2024

Libraries have a unique opportunity to bridge socioeconomic divides and rebuild trust. But in order to do so, they must be truly welcoming to all. They and their communities must work collaboratively to bridge socioeconomic divides through innovative and productive partnerships.

Shamichael Hallman argues that the public library may be our best hope for bridging divides and creating strong, inclusive communities. While public libraries have long been thought of as a place for a select few, increasingly they are playing an essential role in building social cohesion, promoting civic renewal, and advancing the ideals of a healthy democracy. Many are reimagining themselves in new and innovative ways, actively reaching out to the communities they serve. Today, libraries are becoming essential institutions for repairing society.

Drawing from his experience at the Memphis Public Library and his extensive research and interviews across the country, Hallman presents a rich argument for seeing libraries as one of the nation’s greatest assets. As an institution that is increasingly under attack for creating a place where diverse audiences can see themselves, public libraries are under more scrutiny than ever. Meet Me at the Library offers a revealing look at one of our most important civic institutions and the social and civic impact they must play if we are to heal our divided nation.

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Sponsored :: New Book :: Language Like Water

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Language Like Water: Poems, Poetry by Nancy Gerber

Finishing Line Press, December 2024

Language Like Water explores the conflicts, challenges, and connections in a daughter’s relationship with her mother over the span of a lifetime. The poems resonate with longing and struggle as the daughter seeks to understand and restore her complicated mother, an enigmatic figure who struggles with depression. Ultimately the daughter recognizes her own strengths as she acknowledges and inscribes moments and memories of sharing and connection.

Bisbing Books has this to say: “Language Like Water is a moving, deeply personal glimpse into the mother-daughter relationship. The complexity of this bond is explored through sharp, evocative imagery that digs deep into the emotional terrain of love, guilt, memory, and loss. There’s a sense that words carry weight far beyond their surface meaning. Read these poems.”

Sponsored :: New Book :: The Silver Squad

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The Silver Squad: Rebels with Wrinkles, Fiction by Marty Essen

Encante Press LLC, January 2025

The Bold, the Brave, and the Wrinkled: Retirement Just Got Rowdy!

Barry and Beth, high school sweethearts separated by time and circumstance, find themselves reunited at the Blue Loon Village senior living center in Minneapolis. Unwilling to settle into lives of boredom, the two become Silver Squad vigilantes and embark on an epic road trip across America. No one they meet will ever be the same!

“A smart, funny tale of a Good Samaritan crime spree.”—Kirkus Reviews (Recommended)

“[A] sparkling road-trip comedy of retiree crimefighters taking the U.S. by storm.”—BookLife by Publisher’s Weekly (Editor’s Pick)

“An original and fun read (think senior citizen versions of Thelma & Louise) from start to finish, The Silver Squad: Rebels With Wrinkles by author Marty Essen is a deftly crafted and extraordinary story that will have a very special appeal to readers with an interest in inherently fascinating novels that imaginatively blend later-in-life romances with elements of an action/adventure.”—Midwest Book Review

“A delightful mix of observational humor, introspection, and respectful affection for the older generation, The Silver Squad: Rebels With Wrinkles is a scenic road trip through the country with a gratifying destination.”—Indies Today (5 Stars)

Editor’s Choice :: Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine

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Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine by Loretta Barrett Oden with Beth Dooley
The University of Oklahoma Press, October 2023

Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine tells the story of Loretta’s journey and of the dishes she created along the way. Alongside recipes that combine the flavors of her Oklahoma upbringing and Indigenous heritage with the Southwest flair of her Santa Fe restaurant, Loretta offers entertaining and edifying observations about ingredients and cooking culture. What kind of quail might turn up in your vicinity, for instance; what to do with piñon nuts, sumac, or nopales (cactus paddles); when to add a bundle of pine needles or a small branch of cedar to a braise: these and many practical words of wisdom about using the fruits of the forest, stream, or plain, accompany Loretta’s insights on everything from the dubious provenance of fry bread to the Potawatomi legend behind the Three Sisters—corn, beans, and squash, the namesake ingredients of Three Sisters and Friends Salad, served at Corn Dance Café and now at Thirty Nine Restaurant at First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City, where Oden is the Chef Consultant.

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New Books December 2024

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Turning the calendar to a new year is also a great time to be turning the pages on some new books! To help you achieve that goal, check out our monthly round-up of New Books. Each month we post the new and forthcoming titles NewPages selects from small, independent, university, and alternative presses as well as author-published titles and recent reviews.

If you are a follower of our blog or a subscriber to our weekly newsletter, you can see several of the titles we received featured. For publishers or authors looking to be featured on our blog and social media, please visit our FAQ page.

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Editor’s Choice :: Teach Truth

Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education by Jesse Hagopain book cover image

Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education by Jesse Hagopain
Haymarket Books, January 2025

In just the last few years, scores of states have introduced or passed legislation that would require teachers to lie to students about structural racism and other forms of oppression. Books have been cut from curricula and pulled from school library shelves. Teachers have been fired and threatened with discipline.

Long-time organizer, writer, and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian argues in Teach Truth that our democracy is at stake, not to mention the annihilation of entire systems of knowledge that challenge the status quo. Hagopian explores the origins, philosophy, and manifestations of these attacks, and the Right’s effort to regulate knowledge as an attempt to maintain its power over the American capitalist system, now and into the future.

Yet the struggle for a liberatory education has a long history in the United States, from the days when it was illegal for Black people to be literate, to the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, to Black Lives Matter at School today. Teachers, students, and their allies are already building a movement – in the classroom, on campus, and in the streets – to defend antiracist education.

New Book :: Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison

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Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison
VOX Press, December 2024

Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison is a collection of writings from Mississippi inmates housed in the infamously brutal Unit 29 at Mississippi State Penitentiary, known as Parchman Farm. The book is the culmination of three years of working with incarcerated students through VOX’s prison outreach program, Prison Writes Initiative. Comprised of writings from over thirty inmates, this collection delves into the after effects of the infamous December 2019 riots through April of 2020, and how the humans housed there deal with the conditions as they try to survive one of the country’s most notorious prison facilities. The collection is not a comfortable literary work but rather a cry for help from deep within a monstrous and insatiable beast known as Unit 29, Parchman.

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New Books November 2024

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No matter where you are, no matter the weather, the idea of hibernating with a stack of good books to read sounds enticing right about now. To help you achieve that goal, check out the November 2024 New Books Received.

Each month we post the new and forthcoming titles NewPages has received from small, independent, university, and alternative presses as well as author-published titles. If you follow our blog or a subscribe to our weekly newsletter, you can see featured titles with descriptions and links to their blog posts.

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Sponsored :: New Book :: the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless

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the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless, Poetry by Matthew Cooperman

Free Verse Editions / Parlor Press, June 2024

Bloodied, embattled, but still singing, Matthew Cooperman’s the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless addresses us: “America, aren’t you tired of being a gun ode?” In one register, a chromapoetics that examines the “red, white and blue” as an embodied, if problematic nationalism, in another, an extended ode project that conjures our troubling emblems of Empire, the poems in atmosphere—in their various configurations of apostrophe, atomization, song, dialectic, citation & eucharism—attempt to neutralize the personal, cultural and environmental dis-ease of 21st century America. Whitman, who provides the title, hovers near, reminding us of the dreams and responsibilities of freedom: “…absence, inspiration / it’s everyone’s problem.”

A durational project written over twenty years, Cooperman’s collection feels uncannily pointed at NOW. And the ode’s the hour’s vehicle. And what of the ode? An ancient three-part Greek lyric form, or could be. It could be sung, or danced, depending on the occasion, joy or lamentation. The ode is also a plea for what’s missing, a supplication through the mouth to what might deliver us from harm. Cooperman’s eighth book sings anodyne into a darkening wind.

Unsolicited Press Declares 2025 the “Year of Womxn”

Celebrating Women’s Voices in Literature

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In a time when women’s rights and autonomy are under siege, Unsolicited Press is dedicating 2025 to amplifying womxn’s voices in literature. Through its “Year of Womxn” initiative, the press will release a catalog exclusively featuring works by womxn writers, all marked by bold red covers. This striking color, inspired by historic feminists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, symbolizes liberation and rebellion, making each cover a powerful protest and a testament to womxn’s voices. “Womxn are the backbone of publishing. They create, they support, they elevate the industry but are too often sidelined. Our 2025 Year of Womxn catalog is our way of championing their unparalleled creativity and storytelling,” said the team at Unsolicited Press.

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The Colorado Authors League November 2024 Releases by Members

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The Colorado Authors League (CAL) supports and promotes its community of published writers while connecting with and adding value to the reading world. Formed in 1931, authors become members to: keep up with changes in the craft of writing, publishing, and marketing, gain greater visibility for their writing, join a group of like-minded people who love writing. View our flyer to see November 2024 releases by members and a link to our website.

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Magazine Stand :: Booth – 19

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The 19th print issue of Booth includes interviews with Jo Ann Beard and Viet Thanh Nguyen; a comic by Jesse Lee Kercheval; nonfiction by Jerilynn Aquino, and K.S. Dyal; fiction by Mialise Carney, Courtney Craggett, Sam Fouts, Rachel Salguero Kowalsky, Justin Noga, Adrian Perez, Tim Raymond, Dan Reiter, Claire Stanford; and poetry by nicole v basta, Michael Beard , Willow James Claire, Hannah Cohen, Fee Griffin, Naomi Leimsider, Hannah Marshall, Calgary Martin, Erin Pinkham, Maggie Yang, and Mimi Yang.

Included with this issue is Table Talk &. Second Thoughts a new memoir in prose poems by Michael Martone, serving up toothsome anecdotes of brief encounters with other writers. Each impromptu sketch, spanning 1976 to 2016, traces a memory menu of quotidian details, slightly seasoned, glimpses of the daily downtime between all the bon mots.