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  • The Sweating Sickness

    The Sweating Sickness

    By Rebecca Lehmann

    What this book cares about most: Overcoming Being heard Being listened to How to recover...

    $20.00
  • No Rhododendron

    No Rhododendron

    By Samyak Shertok

    No Rhododendron (a reference to his country’s national flower) is an intoxicating mix of ancestry,...

    $20.00
  • The Flat Woman

    The Flat Woman

    By Vanessa Saunders

    Vanessa Saunders’ The Flat Woman, an experimental novel and winner of the 2025 FC2 Ronald...

    $18.95
  • SOFAR

    SOFAR

    By Elizabeth Bradfield

    SOFAR is an acronym for the Sound Fixing and Ranging layers of ocean waters, where...

    $18.00
  • SISSY

    SISSY

    By Canese Jarboe

    In the advanced blurbs for Canese Jarboe’s SISSY, renowned poet CA Conrad ended their blurb...

    $17.00
  • Civilians

    Civilians

    By Jehanne Dubrow

    In the disturbance we call America, we must navigate the tension between job and home,...

    $20.95
  • Asterism

    Asterism

    By Ae Hee Lee

    In her debut poetry collection, Asterism, Ae Hee Lee writes, “The Napa cabbages inside are...

    $21.95
  • Mothersalt

    Mothersalt

    By Mia Ayumi Malhotra

    Mothersalt, Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s second collection, stretches the limits of genre just as the speaker’s...

    $24.95
  • The Last Way

    The Last Way

    By Cameron L. Mitchell

    There are only three characters in The Last Way, Cameron L. Mitchell’s debut novella: the...

    $14.50
  • Make Your Way Home

    Make Your Way Home

    By Carrie R. Moore

    In the riveting opening story of Carrie R. Moore’s debut collection, a young couple attending...

    $17.99
  • The Shadow of the Mammoth

    The Shadow of the Mammoth

    By Pablo Morábito

    “Landing on the Moon,” the third story of Pablo Morábito’s newly translated collection The Shadow...

    $17.99
  • Chaotic Good

    Chaotic Good

    By Isabelle Baafi

    “I choose right. I choose what’s right. / I choose left. I choose what’s left....

    $16.95
  • Scream / Queen

    Scream / Queen

    By CD Eskilson

    CD Eskilson’s debut, Scream / Queen, is full of slashes. The punctuation mark divides the...

    $17.00
  • Go Figure

    Go Figure

    By Rae Armantrout

    In the twenty-four years since the publication of Veil: New and Selected Poems in 2001, Rae...

    $16.95
  • Archipelago

    Archipelago

    By Natalie Bakopoulos

    In The Odyssey, Odysseus tricks the cyclops, Polyphemus, by lying when asked his name— Odysseus...

    $17.99
  • Hellions

    Hellions

    By Julia Elliott

    In “The Mothers,” a story in Julia Elliott’s excellent new collection, Kate is a screenwriter...

    $17.95
  • The Lost Nostalgias

    The Lost Nostalgias

    By Esteban Rodríguez

    With just a few exceptions, Esteban Rodríguez uses one-word titles for the poems in The...

    $18.00
  • Where I Went Wrong

    Where I Went Wrong

    By David Galef

    There’s no easy or obvious way to portray the trauma of loss and the spiraling...

    $19.95