Read Indies: Freehand Books

2022-02-03T09:09:40-05:00

Who? Where? "Our list is an aesthetically diverse, award-winning collection of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by both established authors and exciting new voices. We pride ourselves on our careful attention to detail throughout the editorial process, the high production quality and innovative design of our titles, and our creativity

Read Indies: Freehand Books2022-02-03T09:09:40-05:00

Read Indies: Fish Gotta Swim Editions

2022-02-01T19:45:34-05:00

Who? Where? “Fish Gotta Swim Editions is a small, international press overseen by Theresa Kishkan in Canada, and Anik See in The Netherlands. It specializes in novellas and other innovative prose forms, published in visually attractive, limited print runs. We believe these forms should be well-represented, and not ignored

Read Indies: Fish Gotta Swim Editions2022-02-01T19:45:34-05:00

Winter 2022: In My Bookbag (What Bookbag?)

2022-01-14T13:30:36-05:00

Here’s a glimpse of some recent reads which lend themselves more to sampling, in a handful of reading sessions, than gobbling in longer periods of time. Not the books which require a sink-into-your-seat focus, rather the ones which afford the opportunity to window-gaze between pages or single-sitting reads. Like

Winter 2022: In My Bookbag (What Bookbag?)2022-01-14T13:30:36-05:00

Connecting Thread: From Revolution to Secrecy (2 of 5)

2021-12-27T14:57:43-05:00

Picking up yesterday's thread, the balance in Seçkin’s novel sways toward the personal, whereas the political scene in Alaa Al-Aswany’s The Republic of False Truths (2021) is more prominent, despite all the attention paid to characterization—a network that grows increasingly complex as readers turn the pages. (And there’s at

Connecting Thread: From Revolution to Secrecy (2 of 5)2021-12-27T14:57:43-05:00

Here and Elsewhere: Between Places (4 of 4)

2021-12-08T21:29:25-05:00

Last year, I was inspired by a local artist’s desk calendar to explore a series of cities in my reading. This year I’ve been exploring migration and lives in motion: often involuntary, frequently devastating, sometimes inspiring. This sense of between-ness reminds me of this passage in a 2021 debut

Here and Elsewhere: Between Places (4 of 4)2021-12-08T21:29:25-05:00
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