Nonfiction. 304 pgs. Counterpoint. May 2021. ISBN: 978-1-640094-18-5. “Consciousness Razing,” the impeccably titled second entry in Barrett Swanson’s newly released essay collection, Lost In Summerland, centers on Evryman, a men’s retreat…
Nonfiction. 425 pgs. Tin House. April 2021. ISBN: 978-1-951142-39-1. “A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” – Carl Sagan “If you want to spot the trick in…
Nonfiction. 172 pgs. Ice Cube Press. October 2020. ISBN: 978-1-948509-20-6. I have a confession to make. I’ve lived in Iowa my whole life, and I’ve never been caucusing. Not once. Not…
Nonfiction. 165 pgs. Wolfman Books. October 2019. ISBN: 978-1-733276-11-5. Caren Beilin’s Blackfishing the IUD is a compact puzzle that draws into it everything from the works of Walter Benjamin to corporate medical…
Poetry. 72 pgs. Diode Editions. March 2020. ISBN: 978-1-939728-36-4. Nancy Chen Long’s Wider than the Sky centers around the idea of memory: how memory forms our identity, how it wounds as…
Non-fiction. 208 pgs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. November 2020. ISBN: 9780374115166. When you are living under extreme circumstances such as we might consider our current pandemic plight, it’s difficult to believe…
Poetry. 90 pgs. Black Lawrence Press. November 2020. ISBN: 978-1-62557-816-7. In a collection that is two parts feral eco-poetry, and one part stingingly personal reflection, New Jersey writer Shanna Compton uses…
Poetry. 39 pgs. Seven Kitchens Press. May 2020. ISBN: 97811949333695. Tourist hub, turning point of the Civil War and site of Lincoln’s iconic cemetery address, Gettysburg is also one more small town…
Fiction. 294 pgs. Tony Fox Press. May 2018. ISBN: 978-1-946501-06-6. “You can do anything for 28 days.” These are the words that Eli Ross hears from his mother just before being…
Fiction. 156 pgs. Kerpunkt Press. July 2020. ISBN: 978-1-732325-17-3. In 1922, James Joyce published Ulysses, a tome that is, among other things, known for its wild fluctuations in narrative style to…