For the final installment of our “Poetic Inspiration” series, we’re interviewing Laila Malik, author of archipelago! B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the writing of archipelago. Please also share how they influenced your book. LM: Audre Lorde’s “A Litany for Survival.” Before the era of smartphones, […]
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Today, we’re celebrating the release of Play by Jess Taylor. Happy Book Birthday to Play by Jess Taylor! This marks our third book with Taylor; she is also the author of the highly acclaimed short story collections Pauls and Just Pervs, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. Unsurprisingly, her first novel has generated much pre-publication […]
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Next up in our “Poetic Inspiration” series is Hana Shafi, author of People You Know, Places You’ve Been! B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the writing of People You Know, Places You’ve Been. Please also share how they influenced your book. HS: The books Sex […]
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Today, we’re sharing another Author Spotlight Q&A. Our featured author is Jess Taylor, author of Pauls, Just Pervs, and Play. B*: What does being part of the Book*hug author family mean to you? JT: When I first signed with Book*hug for Pauls, I remember thinking: This press wants to grow. I could tell in our initial conversation […]
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Today, we’re sharing Jess Taylor’s playlist for her debut novel Play! Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can escape a childhood that seems both too sad and too grown-up. But The Lighted City isn’t […]
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Next up in our “Poetic Inspiration” series is Shani Mootoo, author of Oh Witness Dey! B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the writing of Oh Witness Dey! Please also share how they influenced your book. SM: Amongst the several poets whose shoulders I have climbed and […]
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Today, Kate Cayley is taking us behind “The Summer the Neighbours Were Nazis,” a story from How You Were Born! I’m fond of the background of this story because I think it illustrates how most stories are cobbled together, a weird mixture of overheard conversations, small scraps, memories and of course pure imagination. But I’m […]
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The final title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview is Elevator in Saigon by Thuận, translated by Nguyễn An Lý! From the author of Chinatown comes a personal and political, tragic and bitingly satirical, ethereal journey through Hanoi, Saigon, Paris, Pyongyang, and Seoul. A Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Saigon for her estranged mother’s […]
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Next up in our “Poetic Inspiration” series is Kate Hargreaves, author of tend! B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the writing of tend. Please also share how they influenced your book. KH: Brute by Emily Skaja – I picked this collection up on a whim […]
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We’re back with another “Poetic Inspiration” feature! Joining us today is Sandra Ridley, author of Vixen! B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the writing of Vixen. Please also share how they influenced your book. SR: Christine McNair’s Charm (Book*hug Press). I always go to McNair’s books […]
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