Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators
GOLDEN SHRAPNEL by Almir Imširević (translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać)
At a remove from Sarajevo, on a writer’s residency in France, a playwright finds himself in the thrall of echoes from the past — in a labyrinth of siege-time references.
This is not an ordinary memoir, but an exploration of traumatic experience as revealed by remnants of association. It is also a mapping of otherness from the standpoint of the stranger, of near affinities that end in divergence, color as a point of contrast, of animosity like a bolt from the blue.
Then Flew My Caw Away by Mary Meriam
People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much by Sofi Stambo
A nervous dog takes flight over Manhattan. A woman soothes her neighbors with multilingual telepathy. A purse snatcher inherits her victim’s scribbled lists—and her worries. In these stories, immigrants to New York City work their way through absurd situations into even messier ones, communing with their fellow diners, officemates, and the local cemetery geese, and greeting chaos with a grin.
From Bulgaria to America, People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much pulls at the threads of daily life, unwinding the ordinary into scenes of hilarity, introspection, and surprising connection.
VAGABOND CITY 