
09/27/2021
"This book is equal parts and celebration and as such this book is life." - Truong Tran on Tasha Keeble's CALL ME FREEDOM
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"This book is equal parts and celebration and as such this book is life." - Truong Tran on Tasha Keeble's CALL ME FREEDOM
“Jon walked over to the cathedral windows, happy hour brandy in hand, looking out upon the city his family helped carve into forty thousand parcels of death. Elliot watched him for a moment, dressed in the trappings of cigar-chewers, standing against the Venetian Gothic atmosphere in his burgundy velour smoking jacket cinched at the waist. His salt and pepper was more salty, but the Greek seemed a bit more fit since they last shared a drink, and a problem.”⠀
Looking for a great read with strong noir vibes? Look no further than ACE BOON COON by Danny Gardner
"Whether you like funny, self-aware poems, or stunning social commentary, there are many types of poetry contained in Stewart’s new work, and there’s something here for everyone" - Chicago Now on Keli Stewart's SMALL ALTARS
"You've given up everything but alcohol and cigarettes. A girl needs to have something to find solace in." - Nikki Dolson, LOVE AND OTHER CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
Congratulations to Davis Wright Tremaine for breaking those ceilings for the B!
Achieving gender parity is key to our culture at DWT. It’s the mission behind our Project W initiative, supporting women founders. And it drives our internal...
"I am drawn to write stories about girls and women living on the edge, in circumstances where getting by and surviving day to day is the main goal," Gale Massey told Patch in an interview.
"Hard Times is a literate, unadorned read, as harsh and sharp as an ice pick wound, but ultimately inspiring due to its heroine's strength and determination. Loved it."
- Joe R Lansdale
"Music. lights, laughter, and the stench of the Quarter hit him all at once. He rushed around the corner and left his dinner on someone's doorstep. But he wanted more.⠀
He had rarely let himself feel, and when he did it had been explosive. Now he felt it all. The abuse, the neglect, the killing." -- SPANISH MOSS by Eddy Cook, now available.⠀
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What are you reading this weekend?
“Maybe the Black Belt is mad at you for using your power, influence, and reefer to take over the black-and-tan party scene, just to go Miss Ann on ’em afterward. You know that’s the Negro underworld’s game, Margaret.” -- ACE BOON COON by Danny Gardner⠀
"I LOVE this memoir. This is important work and we must not look away.” - Paul Corman-Roberts, on Tasha Keeble's CALL ME FREEDOM
"I was captivated by each of the stories." Review for Gale Massey's RISING AND OTHER STORIES from A Haven For Book Lovers: Rising and Other Stories by @galemassey https://buff.ly/3Btw5qg
"Full of humor and sentiment, this book has layers of Stewart’s visceral thoughts and ideas about the world as it stands today, as well as her reflections on how this all came to be." - ChicagoNow on Keli Stewart's SMALL ALTARS
"A powerful and often haunting compilation." - Kirkus Reviews on Gale Massey's RISING AND OTHER STORIES
“I highly recommended Hard Times for readers who want to explore how the strange intimacy of danger, violence, and hopelessness affects fundamentally good people. It is clearly a morality play for our times.” --Libby Fischer Hellmann, author of A Bend in the River⠀⠀
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Nikki Dolson is the master of beautifully crafted tension. You don't need a bunch of ticking bombs or high-speed chases to create suspense; the threat of something menacing can often be enough.
Happy Pub Day to Keli Stewart 's SMALL ALTARS 💖 We can't wait for you to have these poems in your hand!
"Readers will cheer on Elliot as he tries, despite his cynicism, to do the right thing against almost impossible odds. Fans of socially conscious crime fiction will want to check Gardner out." - @publisherswkly
Nikki Dolson is the master of beautifully crafted tension. You don't need a bunch of ticking bombs or high-speed chases to create suspense; the threat of something menacing can often be enough.⠀
Mark your calendars! Keli Stewart will be in conversation with Andrea Change at Heaven Gallery on Saturday, August 28th. We hope to see you there!
"I know what I said next because, like that suffering White woman professor explained to the millions of cameras in her mouth, these mements are etched into the hippocampus." - Tasha Keeble, CALL ME FREEDOM
“Skillfully written, this book is enticing with gripping suspense and all too real shocking darkness. A captivating flow I lost myself inside of. It left me wanting to look inside the author's psyche. Brilliant.” - Michelle Cappel
Take a look at what Midwest Book Review is saying about Keli Stewart's SMALL ALTARS 👀
"Hard Times is the best country noir I've read in a long while. A knife-edged, cold-eyed story of love and hate at their most visceral, it's worthy of a place of pride on the shelf next to William Gay and Daniel Woodrell."
- Scott Phillips, author of Ice Harvest and That Left Turn at Albuquerque
Here's a little taste of Keli Stewart's SMALL ALTARS
Great buzz is already starting for @tashak3i 's CALL ME FREEDOM 😍
In the tradition of Gwendolyn Brooks’ A Street in Bronzeville, Small Altars by Keli Stewart renders this self-portrait in spirals and snapshots—sometimes with humor, sometimes with sentiment and memory—about the body, desire, motherhood and identitiy.
"She pulled out the knife, flicked its blade open and laid it against the man's neck."⠀
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Crime powerhouse writer, Nikki Dolson leaves nothing on page in her profound collection, LOVE AND OTHER CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR. Make sure you add this novel to your TBR list!⠀
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What's the best book you've read so far this summer?
"Music. lights, laughter, and the stench of the Quarter hit him all at once. He rushed around the corner and left his dinner on someone's doorstep. But he wanted more.⠀⠀
He had rarely let himself feel, and when he did it had been explosive. Now he felt it all. The abuse, the neglect, the killing." -- SPANISH MOSS by Eddy Cook
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Call Me Freedom: A Black American Woman Breaks from Empire, tracks two parallel journeys: one explores the narrator’s life and family relationships, and the second gauges and evaluates her interior life relative to the outside world – i.e., Empire—to free herself from a stultifying stoicism she describes as taught to American Black women—to stay quiet, as if their survival depends upon it.
"This book is a tour of racial division, scrambling for power, real or imaginary or transient, and the unfortunate results that stem from divisiveness." - NewCityLit
" Each story has an expressive prose poem quality to it, as no words are wasted and each sentence carries a wallop. These stories ring with authenticity, each has a gut-punch moment, and they will not easily leave your mind." - Southern Literary Review
" Those with a taste for Southern gothic will be satisfied. " [email protected]
Elliot in the Great Summer Reading Guide.
Summer Reading Recommendation: Ace Boon Coon (Tales of Elliot Caprice #2) by Danny Gardner (Bronzeville Books)
1950s Illinois and racial tensions among agricultural workers provide the backdrop to Elliot Caprice's further adventures to save the family homestead in Southville while solving a murder tied to organized crime in Chicago.
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Authors whose stories we’d love to publish include Dorothy Tillman, Adam Clayton Powell, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Octavia Butler, Ocean Vuong, Langston Hughes, and Carmen Maria Machado.
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