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Whether it's to learn more about African American history or to imagine Black futures beyond the U.S., we've gathered a ...
06/19/2026

Whether it's to learn more about African American history or to imagine Black futures beyond the U.S., we've gathered a Juneteenth reading list to celebrate the art, history, culture, and contributions that've played a critical role in shaping liberation today!

📚 BALTIMORE’S BLACK ARTS THEN & NOW by Mary Rizzo (Nonfiction)

📚 THE FLEEING SEASON: AN AMERICAN MOTHER’S MIGRATION TOWARD SAFETY AND JUSTICE by Jamie D. Brooks (Nonfiction)

📚 AIR SPLIT OPEN: ODETTA, JOAN BAEZ, AND THE AMERICAN FOLK MOVEMENT by Addie Mahmassani (Nonfiction)

📚 CONTEMPORARY IMMIGRANT WRITING AND BLACK AMERICA by Emad Mirmotahari (Nonfiction)

📚 BEHIND THE BIG HOUSE by Jodi Skipper (Nonfiction)

📚 COLLUSIONS OF FACT AND FICTION by Ilka Saal (Nonfiction)

🎡 Cover reveal! THE FLEEING SEASON by Jamie D. Brooks, out 10/17/26! ✈️For generations, migration stories pointed toward...
06/18/2026

🎡 Cover reveal! THE FLEEING SEASON by Jamie D. Brooks, out 10/17/26! ✈️

For generations, migration stories pointed toward the American Dream. Now, that story is shifting—more people are leaving the U.S. than moving in.

In THE FLEEING SEASON, Jamie D. Brooks blends memoir and cultural reporting to tell the story of her family’s move to the United Kingdom, grappling with the realities many Americans face: school shootings, systemic racism, a strained health care system, and a fraying social safety net.

Intimate and clear-eyed, Brooks’s story isn’t a polemic—it’s a search for a better way to live and raise a family.

Find more about THE FLEEING SEASON on our website!

🛸 ☄️ Cover reveal for EVER NEW EARTHS by James Sallis, out 11/10/126! ☄️ 🛸“He’s right up there, one of the best. It is q...
06/12/2026

🛸 ☄️ Cover reveal for EVER NEW EARTHS by James Sallis, out 11/10/126! ☄️ 🛸

“He’s right up there, one of the best. It is quite possible that speaking of Jim Sallis in the same tone as Poe and Dostoevsky is not overblowing on my part. His early work indicates a mind and talent of uncommon dimensions.”—Harlan Ellison, author, “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”

EVER NEW EARTHS gathers twenty-five years of book columns by legendary writer James Sallis, published in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, to offer an exceptional overview of developments in contemporary science fiction, fully appreciating the genre’s traditions while recognizing its reach, its potential. This is a rare view of the genre from the inside, written toward outsiders with reason to learn and understand more: critics, historians, writers, editors.

Find more about EVER NEW EARTHS and other books on our website!

06/09/2026

🛰️🪐Revealing the cover for Gabriel Palacios’s LUNAR HILTON ELEGY 🎞️📽️

Defining what Gabriel Palacios terms the “vaporpoem,” LUNAR HILTON ELEGY moves through the artifacts of a boyhood suspended in the neon-noir dusk of 1989—home-taped Video Soul broadcasts, dead-mall architecture, late-night cable access—treating the past not as a home to return to, but as an improvised shelter against the present’s digital weather.

LUNAR HILTON ELEGY asks what remains of the American myth when its “freshly planted tracts” resolve into blue photonic mist. At once darkly comic and urgently elegiac, Palacios offers a report from the threshold of the still-buffering all-at-once—or, more precisely, a lost-and-found sunbaked cassette of that report, still playing.

Check out Gabriel Palacios’s accompanying soundscapes at Spanish Trail Motel on Bandcamp!

Tag yourself, Guadalupe Street Co-op edition 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
06/08/2026

Tag yourself, Guadalupe Street Co-op edition 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

📚 Happy pub day to CRITICAL FANDOM by Cara Marta Messina 📖What happens when fans push back?CRITICAL FANDOM explores how ...
06/05/2026

📚 Happy pub day to CRITICAL FANDOM by Cara Marta Messina 📖

What happens when fans push back?

CRITICAL FANDOM explores how fan fiction communities don’t just celebrate their favorite media—they challenge it. From THE LEGEND OF KORRA to BLACK PANTHER to OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH, fans are reimagining stories, expanding representation, and asking bigger questions about race, queerness, and power.

At once thoughtful and deeply rooted in fan culture, this book looks at how online communities create, critique, and reshape the stories they love.

06/04/2026

This past week, a sweet baby deer took up residence in our office backyard! To keep them entertained while mom was foraging, we left out a copy of Rennie Ament’s FULL-TIME MAMMAL. They called the poems “the most accurate depiction of mammal-ing [they’ve] ever read.”

Their mom returned shortly after to give them a bath.

(PS: Please don’t surprise or chase fawns! Our videos were shot from a distance. We got lucky this little guy has several favorite spots they regularly nap in. The stress of human interaction can cause fatal heart conditions, which, like, same 💔)

This past week, a sweet baby deer took up residence in our office backyard! To keep them entertained while mom was forag...
06/04/2026

This past week, a sweet baby deer took up residence in our office backyard! To keep them entertained while mom was foraging, we left out a copy of Rennie Ament’s FULL-TIME MAMMAL. They called the poems “the most accurate depiction of mammal-ing [they’ve] ever read."

Their mom returned shortly after to give them a bath.

(PS: Please don’t approach or chase fawns! Our videos were shot from a distance. We got lucky this little guy has several favorite spots they regularly nap in. The stress of human interaction can cause fatal heart conditions, which, like, same 💔)

🐦‍⬛ Happy Pub day to BIRDING ENGLISH by Jeremy Withers! 🐦‍⬛What do words like UNKINDNESS, HAGGARD, ASPARAGUS, J**Z, and ...
06/02/2026

🐦‍⬛ Happy Pub day to BIRDING ENGLISH by Jeremy Withers! 🐦‍⬛

What do words like UNKINDNESS, HAGGARD, ASPARAGUS, J**Z, and the singular THEY have to do with birds? Quite a lot, actually.

From Old English roots and Shakespearean idioms to Victorian slang and modern online lingo, BIRDING ENGLISH charts a dynamic course through English’s past, present, and future by admiring the plumage of falcons, the songs of sparrows, and the flight of ducks. With each of his fifty mini essays, Jeremy Withers uses birds as a point of entry into a key moment in the development of English: its origins in the Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic languages, the influence of writers like Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare, the creation of English’s first dictionaries and grammar books, and the arrival of rhyming slang and portmanteaus. Ideal for word nerds and bird nerds alike, this book will enchant anyone who’s ever been captivated by the song of a bird or the song of a word.

📝 New coverage for Paige Towers's WHAT THEY STOLE: A FAMILICIDE ROOTED IN INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION 📝Links to each feature i...
06/01/2026

📝 New coverage for Paige Towers's WHAT THEY STOLE: A FAMILICIDE ROOTED IN INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION 📝

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