Today’s Fall 2022 Preview highlights David Dowker’s new, multilayered poetry collection, Dissonance Engine. Amidst poems about loss, melancholy, love, connection, longing and the natural world, Dowker scours the dissonance engine of the media spectacle, to stare into gnostic estrangement and question the “time-sensitive material” of language. “Dissonance Engine is a fantastic machine: part gears, part […]
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For today’s Fall 2022 Preview, we are sharing an excerpt from Tree Abraham’s genre bending non-fiction work, Cyclettes! Part travelogue, part philosophical musing, Tree Abraham’s work probes the millennial experience, asking what a young life can be when unshackled from traditional role expectations yet still living in consistent economic and environmental uncertainty. Text is interspersed between […]
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Today’s Fall 2022 Preview features Participation by Anna Moschovakis! In this latest novel from Moschovakis, acclaimed writer, and winning translator of the 2020 International Booker Prize, two reading groups, Love and Anti-Love, convene digitally amidst political upheaval and undefined environmental catastrophe. Participation offers a prescient look at remote communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants […]
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Next in our Fall 2022 Preview Series is Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene by Alessandra Naccarato. This collection of lyrical essays—the latest addition to our Essais Series—traces the veins of harm, memory, and meaning amongst ecosystems, and invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. “A […]
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This week’s Fall 2022 Preview spotlights Learned by Carellin Brooks. Set in the 90s, alternating between the storied quads of Oxford University and the dank recesses of London pubs given over to public displays of queer BDSM, Learned chronicles poet and Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks’ extreme explorations of mind and body. In these poems, the speaker trembles on the verge of […]
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Today’s Fall 2022 Preview features River Halen’s Dream Rooms. Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, this newest addition to our Essais Series is about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Set in the years that led up to author River Halen coming out as […]
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Next up in our Fall 2022 Preview Series comes tend, a visceral and playful sophomore poetry collection from Kate Hargreaves which reflects the intimate awkwardness of modern life. tend explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to the things that fracture. These poems […]
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For this week’s Fall 2022 Fiction preview, we are featuring The Animals, a whimsical novel by award-winning author Cary Fagan. In a quaint tourist village, Dorn makes miniature scale models displayed in the local shops. Yet life is far from idyllic; he suffers under the thumb of a rich, philandering younger brother and an unloving […]
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Next up in our Fall 2022 Preview Series is Junie by Chelene Knight! 1930s, Hogan’s Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver’s East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. As Junie finds adulthood, exploring her artistic […]
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Today we are launching our Fall 2022 Preview Series with our season opener, Vox Humana by Adebe DeRango-Adem! Vox Humana (Latin for “human voice”) is driven by a sense of political urgency to probe the ethics of agency in a world that actively resists the participation of some voices over others. In and through literary […]
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