Your hold is ready! (11. 07. 21)

Hello, all, and happy November! It’s finally below 80º here in California, and I’m relieved to be getting a little taste of fall –– though I’m sincerely missing New England foliage. Still, I hope you can find the time to get cozy wherever you are, even if just for a few minutes…and maybe even check out some of these links at the same time!

Also: As I mentioned last newsletter, I have a small press! swallow::tale press is a Mad press for Mad manuscripts, co-run by myself and my co-conspirator and fellow Mad creator, Feyxuan. We have a bookstore and, of course, everything on there is highly recommended –– I chose and edited them, after all! Message for free ecopies if you’re in financial need.

Okay, now to the recommendations.

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• Sara Flannery Murphy, Girl One.

• Clint Smith, How the Word is Passed.

• Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman.

• Samuel R Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.

• Kai Cheng Thom, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars.

Art/Media

• James T. Green, Notes on Muxture (2021).

Albums

• Warsaw Village Band, Uprooting (2004).

• Uboa, The Origin of My Depression (2019).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Huan He, screensaver (2021).

• Krista Eastman, On Leave (2021).

• Hazem Fahmy, Against Adjudication [I-II] (2021).

• April Freely, Get Your Little Narrow Behind Up That Hill, Or –– I Am My Mother’s Very Own Black Girl Magic (2021).

• Matthias Kodat, Excerpts From “Implosive Strait” (2020).

Essays and Articles:

• Olga Khazan, The New Question Haunting Adoption (2021).

My Recent Work:

• Chapbooks! Buy The Dream Journals and A Hole Walked In( link is to my PayPal –– pay what you can, $3-6 recommended, and include your email for a PDF copy. Yes, you are “friends and family.”) And add them on Goodreads! [x] [x]

• Two Flash Fictions [1] [2] in Bodega Magazine

• Xenogenders, Neopronouns, and the transMad Toolbox in the Queer Disability Studies Network

• Two poems in Delicate Friend.

• Set Shit Diapers On Fire / Call That Nightmare Fuel! in Pink Plastic House.

• The wrong body in Whale Road Review.

• Salvation in Santa Fe Writer’s Workshop.

• Again Soon in Flypaper Lit.

• Review: Minerva A Miscarriage of the Brain by Johanna Hedva in Carousel.

• Making a madwoman in Lavender Review.

• affective turn and Mealtime Scene in Hooligan Magazine.

• Butch flight in you are here: the journal of creative geography.

• THIS IS NOT A MEAL. in New Delta Review.

• Narrow Flights in Superstition Review.

That’s all for now –– again, feel free to let me know what you think, what you’d like to see more of, and if you have any recommendations of your own!