Your hold is ready! (12. 10. 21)

Hello, all, and happy December! It’s finally below 80º here in California –– we’re solidly in the 60s by now –– and I’m relieved to have gotten a little taste of fall (though I missed the New England foliage). In a few days, I’ll be heading home for break, and haven’t yet decided whether or not I’m looking forward to the snow!

Either way, 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, be sure to check out swallow::tale press, 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:

• Brandon Taylor, Filthy Animals.

• Claire Oshetsky, Chouette.

• Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle.

Podcasts:

• All My Relations

• White Picket Fence

Albums:

• The Amazing Devil, ruin (2021).

• Pamela Z, Echolocation (2021).

• Elori Saxl, The Blue of Distance (2021).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Rachel Salvini, Memorabilia (2021).

• Kit Riemer, Ned (2018; 2020).

• Kit Riemer, Unusual Destiny (2020).

• Liz Breen, Regarding the Highchair You’re Selling on Facebook (2021).

• Kolbe Riney, hospitable (2021).

• Luana; trans. Leah Whitman-Salkin, Dearest Ersild (2021).

• huiying b. chan, parrotfish tranifesto (2021).

• Diane Payne, Years (2021).

Essays and Articles:

• Christopher Gonzalez, Craft Capsule: On Writing Fat Characters (2021).

• Sarah Mullens, Authors Are Failing to Tell the Real Stories of West Virginia Women (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 + a note on which one(s) you want. 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.

• 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!