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I want to leave the party through the window and find my uncle standing on a piece of iron shaped into visible desperation, which must also be (how can it not?) the beginning of visible hope.
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When I’m reading books that work within fantastic traditions, I find they’re able to hold more truths simultaneously and give me, as a reader, room to contemplate social justice and political issues and come to my own understanding of what’s what.
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If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.
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“What do we do about the new build?” I ask. “Do we finish it? Sell it? Finish it, then sell it?”
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In this book we are taken by all three: language, plot, character.
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Her name was Ing Hua. Literal translation: Cherry Blossom.
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The frame expands. The structure collapses. The pieces are still speaking.
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With so much to hear in every moment, for Sante, the page is a score, the world a song.
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There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
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There is nothing I want more than a happy ending.
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To be a woman in this world is to be adopted by other women.
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Angie Cruz discusses her newest novel, DOMINICANA.
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Rebecca McClanahan discusses her new memoir-in-essays, IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY.
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“I like to tell my secrets.”
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Greg Mania discusses his debut memoir, BORN TO BE PUBLIC.
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I surprised myself by reading Memory in an afternoon.
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Enzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.
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But in that same instant, as she turned, his smile froze.
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More than a longing for an origin story, Hernandez Castillo’s memoir is an attempt to bring the invisible to light.
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Fear is real. Pain is real. Loss is real. Suffering is real.
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I’m not writing confessionals; I’m trying to write hooks.
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We met in a dorm hallway, half past midnight.
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Megan Fernandes discusses her new collection of poetry, GOOD BOYS.
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Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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A former editor at V, Stagg is no stranger to the slippage between life and editorial.
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Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Saturday 12/14: Sade Lanay and Uche Nduka join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 12/15: Kareem Rahma launches We Were Promised Flying Cars: 100 Haiku from the Future with Jennifer Baker. Bluestockings, 7 p.m., free. Mateo Díaz, Claudia Becerr, and others celebrate issue 4 of América Invertida. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 2 p.m., free.
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