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  • 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
  • Woodworm

    Woodworm

    By Layla Martínez

    Two Lines Press, the award-winning San Francisco-based publisher renowned for its focus on original literature...

    $21.95
  • Bingo Bango Boingo

    Bingo Bango Boingo

    By Alan Michael Parker

    This is not your grandma’s bingo. Dzanc Books published Bingo Bango Boingo, Alan Michael Parker’s...

    $20.00
  • Rodeo

    Rodeo

    By Sunni Brown Wilkinson

    What this book cares about most: Rodeo embeds the grief over the stillbirth of Wilkinson’s...

    $17.95
  • Water Guest

    Water Guest

    By Caroline M. Mar

    What this book cares about most: Conversations with a community that cannot speak back; namely,...

    $17.95
  • Cue

    Cue

    By Siwar Masannat

    Jordanian poet Siwar Masannat’s Cue (University of Georgia Press, 2024) is a finely wrought and...

    $20.95
  • Diversity Quota

    Diversity Quota

    By Ranjan Adiga

    The characters in Ranjan Adiga’s collection Diversity Quota desperately need help. Their plight is perfectly...

    $17.95