Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators
The Nothing, Lauren Davis’s debut fiction collection, exists on the whisper between reality and illusion. Think Shirley Jackson’s characters stuck in the damp Pacific Northwest or an Olympic Peninsula funhouse mirror held up to Karen Russell’s Florida. The worlds Davis creates acknowledge the terror and seek the gifts of solitude, grief, and the unrelenting thirst for certainty within us all.
The Immigrant Next Door: Collected Stories of the American Experience edited by James Kenyon
In this collection of thirty-one interviews and accounts, immigrants from all over the world share their exhilarating, excruciating, joyous, and invariably inspiring journeys. From survivors of World War II to young professionals who have achieved success in opportunities offered by the American Dream, the historical and cultural contributions of this book are a celebration of the perseverance and industry of the American spirit.
Unsex Me Here by Aurora Mattia
Unsex Me Here is a prayer book tied together by the strings of a corset. Glamorous ramblers, haunted by the sense of another world drawing near, wander in and out of its inexplicable twilight. From a West Texas town with a supernatural past to a stalactite cavern in the birthplace of Aphrodite, from hotel rooms to gardens to the far horizon of a thought, they seek the source of the disturbance in their minds. Heartbreak is not so far from rapture; holy babble is another kind of gossip. Every pilgrimage is as dense with symbolism as it is refined by desire.
VAGABOND CITY 