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What to Read When Walking Through a Graveyard

  • Emilio Carrero
  • February 14, 2025
What is lost so that a book may live? What is shoveled so that a memoir may memorialize?
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What to Read When You Need to Blaze a New Trail

  • Betty Shamieh
  • January 24, 2025
One wonders: doesn’t the cream always rise to the top? If not, whose responsibility is it to change that?
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  • January 24, 2025
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What to Read When You Don’t Want to Write

  • Weike Wang
  • December 6, 2024
Writing is a solitary venture that can get very lonely. I like having the presence of other writers around and just thinking about writing can generate a spark.
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Submissions open December 5, 2024, to March 2, 2025
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What to Read When You Want to be Stirred

  • Cebo Campbell
  • October 18, 2024
I like books that mean something in and outside of their own narratives, impacting my worldview. The stirring can be felt in beautiful writing, or powerful concepts, deep analysis, or emotion that resonates off the page.
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  • October 18, 2024
Letters in the mail from Nina Schuyler!
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What to Read When You Want to Get Lost

  • Mark Haber
  • October 4, 2024
I wanted my novel, Lesser Ruins, to feel at ease getting lost, to relish in its obsessions and procrastinations, from long descriptions of electronic music to digressions about coffee to the strange, suffocating world of academia.
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What to Read When You Need The Help of Mystical Forces to Combat Human Failure

  • Alex DiFrancesco
  • September 27, 2024
It takes a whole library to make a book...
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  • September 20, 2024
Letters in the mail from Aggeliki Pelekidis!
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