Article Archive: News and Trends

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit and Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong.

The small press annually publishes four chapbooks of “formally strange or conceptually bizarre” prose. 

An author tells a fantastical story by writing it a word at a time in the snow.

The fiction writer on the twentieth anniversary of Small Beer Press and the opening of Book Moon, a bookstore in Massachusetts that she co-owns with her husband, Gavin J. Grant.

An author recommends five journals that published essays from her debut collection, Dispatches From the End of Ice.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books including Cleanness by Garth Greenwell and Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. 

A round-up of four new anthologies, including Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger edited by Lilly Dancyger.

Carl Phillips, the longtime judge of the Yale Younger Poets prize and the editor of the anthology Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets, on how the prize has evolved during the past century.

Unnamed Press, an L.A.–based press, aims to publish story-driven books by underrepresented or marginalized voices.

Heaven’s Vault, a video game by inkle, requires players to translate the runes of an ancient language.