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Dan Burns, “Grace: Stories and a Novella” (Chicago Arts Press, 2019)
Dan Burns
Grace
Stories and a Novella
Chicago Arts Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books Network December 5, 2019 GP Gottlieb

Personal and insightful stories about our connections to each other and the world, our attempts to weave the past and present into a meaningful future, and our varying ways of seeking redemption. In Dan Burns’ latest book, Grace: Stories and a Novella (Chicago Arts Press, 2019), unforgettable characters encounter gorgeous... Read More
Mary Fleming, “The Art of Regret” (She Writes Press, 2019)
Mary Fleming
The Art of Regret

She Writes Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books Network December 3, 2019 GP Gottlieb

Trevor McFarquhar was traumatized by the silence following the deaths of his sister and father. He was again traumatized when his mother moved him and his brother to Paris, remarried, and expected him to treat her new husband as his new father. In his late thirties, he’s haphazardly running a... Read More
Olga Zilberbourg, “Like Water and Other Stories” (WTAW Press, 2019)
Olga Zilberbourg
Like Water and Other Stories

WTAW Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network November 25, 2019 Jennifer Eremeeva

The phenomenon of the Russian emigre writer is nothing new. Exile seems almost as necessary a commodity as ink to many of Russia’s most celebrated writers, including Alexander Herzen, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Nabokov, Ivan Bunin, Josef Brodsky, and Sergei Dovlatov. For these titans of Russian literature, leaving was a binary... Read More
Sarah Pinsker, “A Song for a New Day” (Berkley, 2019)
Sarah Pinsker
A Song for a New Day

Berkley, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Science Fiction November 21, 2019 Rob Wolf

Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day (Berkley, 2019) explores how society changes following two plausible disasters: a surge in terrorism and a deadly epidemic. In the Before, people brush against each other in crowded cities, gather in stadiums to watch baseball games, and hang out in clubs to... Read More
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, “Holding Onto Nothing” (Blair, 2019)
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne
Holding Onto Nothing

Blair, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books Network November 19, 2019 GP Gottlieb

Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents, Jeptha Taylor, who becomes the father of her child. Together, these two young people work to form a family, though... Read More
Emily Skaja, “Brute” (Graywolf Press, 2019)
Emily Skaja
Brute

Graywolf Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in PoetryNew Books Network November 15, 2019 Andrea Blythe

Winner of the Walt Whitman Award, Emily Skaja’s Brute (Graywolf Press, 2019) is a stunning collection of poetry that navigates the dark corridors of trauma found at the end of an abusive relationship. “Everyone if we’re going to talk about love please we have to talk about violence,” writes Skaja in... Read More
Craig DiLouie, “Our War” (Orbit, 2019)
Craig DiLouie
Our War

Orbit, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Science FictionNew Books Network November 7, 2019 Rob Wolf

In science fiction, “near future” usually refers to settings that are a few years to a few decades off. But Craig DiLouie’s Our War (Orbit, 2019)—about a second U.S. civil war that starts after the president is impeached and convicted but refuses to step down—feels as if it might be only weeks away.... Read More
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